Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 18th
April 18th 2007 00:40
1676 - Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians.
1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that "the British are coming."
1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1861 - Battle of Harpers Ferry WV
1862 - Battles of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orleans LA
1902 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1906 - San Francisco earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city
1923 - 74,000 on hand for opening of "The House that Ruth Built" Yankee Stadium
1925 - World's fair opens in Chicago
1942 - "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1942 - James Doolittle and his squadron, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1945 - World War II: Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany, leaving nothing standing.
1946 - The League of Nations was dissolved.
1951 - New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco were married.
1964 - Geraldine Mock of US becomes 1st woman to fly solo round the world
1964 - Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches
1968 - 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 - London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1977 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 - Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray hits his 1st homerun
1978 - The U.S. Senate approved the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999.
1981 - Pawtucket & Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game
1983 - The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide car-bomber. 63 people were killed including 17 Americans.
1986 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1987 - An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
1990 - Supreme Court rules that states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1994 - Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke & dies 4 days later
1995 - Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1999 - Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the NHL. He retired as the NHL's all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records.
2002 - Actor Robert Blake and his bodyguard were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Blake's wife about a year before.
2003 - Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim (4 of clubs), a senior leader of the shattered Baath party, was handed over to US forces overnight by Iraqi Kurds. US troops in Baghdad uncovered numerous boxes of UC currency estimated at $650 million.
Famous Birthday’s
1925 - Bob Hastings Brooklyn NY, actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)
1947 - Dorothy Lyman Minneapolis MN, (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family)
1947 - James Woods Warwick RI, actor (John Carpenters Vampires, John Q, Be Cool)
1956 - Eric Roberts Biloxi MS, actor (Pope of Greenwich Village, The Cable Guy)
1963 - Conan [Christopher] O'Brien Brookline MA, TV host (Late Night)
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
Famous Death’s
1943 - I Yamamoto Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese sniper on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.
1955 - Albert Einstein German/US physicist (E=MC²), dies (born 1879)
Joke of the Day
You Know It's Time To Diet When....
1. You dance and it makes the band skip.
2. You are diagnosed with the flesh eating virus, and the doctor gives you 22 more years to live.
3. You put mayonnaise on an aspirin.
4. You go to the zoo and the elephants throw you peanuts.
5. Your driver's license says, "Picture continued on other side."
6. You ran away and they had to use all four sides of the milk carton for your picture.
7. You learn you were born with a silver shovel in your mouth.
8. You could sell shade.
9. Your blood type is Ragu.
10. You need an appointment to attend an 'open house'.
She Was So Blonde That
- She tripped over a cordless phone.
- She thought she needed a token to get on "Soul Train."
- She spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice can because it said "concentrate."
- She told me to meet her at the corner of "WALK" and "DON'T WALK."
- She asked for a price check at the Dollar Store.
- She studied for a blood test.
- When she missed the 44 bus, she took the 22 bus twice instead.
- When she went to the airport and saw a sign that said "Airport Left," she turned around and went home.
- She sold the car for gas money!
World Records
Longest lightning flash
At any time around 100 lightning bolts per second hit the Earth. Typically, that actual length of these bolts can be around 5.5 miles(9 km). In 1956 meteorologist Myron Ligda(USA) observed and recorded a lightning flash, using radar, that covered a horizontal distance of 93 miles.
Greatest annual rainfall
By average annual rainfall, the world’s why this place is Mawsynram, Meghalaya, India, with 4,678 inches(11,873 mm) of rain per year.
Oldest fossilized raindrops
On December 15, 2001, Chirananda De(India) discovered the fossilized imprints of raindrops that fell on earth at least 1.6 billion years ago.
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