Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 16th
April 16th 2007 00:44
Rabbog, Frabbitt or just plain Weird??
This Day in History
1724 - 1st Easter observed
1789 - George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1900 - The first book of postage stamps was issued. The two-cent stamps were available in books of 12, 24 and 48 stamps.
1922 - Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record.
1929 - New York Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
1935 - Babe Ruth's 1st National League game, for Boston Braves, included a homerun
1941 - The Italian convoy Duisburg is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 - The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
1945 - The US Army liberates Nazi (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IVc .
1945 - German ship Goya, overfilled with refugees, sinks after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 7,000 people.
1958 - 22nd Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
1959 - New York Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
1962 - Walter Cronkite began anchoring "The CBS Evening News".
1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole 5.1 million dollars (£2.6m) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery.
1968 - The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming home from Vietnam.
1968 - Major league baseball's longest night game was played. The 24 innings took six hours, six minutes to play.
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off to the moon. It was the fifth manned moon landing.
1972 - 2 giants pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) arrive in the US, from China
1972 - 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock
1977 - The ban on women attending West Point was lifted.
1983 - Steve Garvey sets National League record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves.
1990 - Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1992 - 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1993 - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King
1999 - Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from the National Hockey League
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned major parts of a 1996 child pornography law based on rights to free speech.
Famous Birthday’s
1889 - Charlie Chaplin [The Little Tramp]London England, comedian/actor/director
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers)
1963 - Jimmy Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Donnie & Marie, All Star Family Fortunes)
1965 - Martin Lawrence comedian (Bad Boys 1&2, Big Mama’s House, Wild Hogs)
Famous Death’s
1948 - Babe Ruth("The Great Bambino", "The Sultan of Swat") baseball legend, dies of cancer at age 53,(Boston Red Sox, Yankees, Boston Braves)714 hr’s, 2217 RBI’s
1995 - Cheyenne Brando daughter of Marlon, commits suicide
Joke of the Day
Brooklyn Lawyer
A Brooklyn lawyer named Ernie successfully defends a major crime lord from charges of dealing drugs, racketeering, murder, kidnapping, and selling arms. As he is leaving the courtroom, an indignant old woman grabs him by the arm and says, "Young man, where are your scruples? Isn't there anyone too low for you to defend?"
"I don't know," Ernie replies, "What have you done?"
Physical Problems
A gentleman was having some physical problems and his doctor told him that he had to drink warm water with Epsom Salts one hour before breakfast. At the end of a week he returned and the doctor asked if he was feeling better.
The man said that he actually felt worse. "Did you drink warm salt water an hour before breakfast each day?" the Doc asked.
"No," replied the man somberly, letting out a sigh. "I could only do about 15 minutes!"
World Records
The Lowest temperature in an inhabited area
The coldest permanently inhabited place in the world is the Siberian village of Oymyakon(pop. 4,000) in Russia where the temperature reached -98F (-72C) in 1933
Lowest temperature on Earth
A low of -128.6F(-89.2C) was registered at Vostok, Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
Largest hole in the ozone layer
Scientists at the NASA’s Goddard space flight Center, Maryland, detected the largest hole so far seen in the ozone layer in September 2000. With an area of around 11,000,000 miles, this hole above Antarctica is roughly 3 times the size of the USA. The ozone layer in the stratosphere(about 7 to 28 miles above the ground) shields the Earth’s surface from the sun’s damaging ultraviolet rays.
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