Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 19th
April 19th 2007 00:41
1775 - Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1861 - Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States.
1897 - 1st Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10
1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
1909 - Joan of Arc, declared a saint
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1933 - F.D.R. announces that the United States will be abandoning the gold standard.
1934 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.
1938 - RCA-NBC begins regular television broadcasts.
1939 - Connecticut approved the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution after 148 years.
1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1945 - US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1948 - ABC-TV network begins
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur gave his retirement speech before the U.S. Congress General MacArthur said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
1951 - Shigeki Tanaka won the Boston Marathon. Tanaka had survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.
1958 - The Giants and the Dodgers played the first MLB game on the West Coast.
1960 - Baseball uniforms began displaying player's names on their backs.
1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure.
1967 - Surveyor 3 landed on the moon and began sending photos back to the U.S.
1971 - Russia launched the Salyut into orbit around Earth. It was the first space station.
1971 - Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1977 - Alex Haley received a special Pulitzer Prize for his book "Roots."
1981 - Red Wings & Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM
1982 - NASA named Sally Ride to be first woman astronaut.
1987 - In Phoenix, AZ, skydiver Gregory Robertson went into a 200-mph free-fall to save an unconscious colleague 3,500 feet from the ground.
1989 - A gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa. 47 sailors were killed.
1989 - A giant asteroid passed within 500,000 miles of Earth.
1993 - The Branch-Davidian's compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground, 86 people died.
1994 - An LA jury awarded $3.8 million to Rodney King for violation of his civil rights.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. It was the worst bombing on US territory.
2002 - The USS Cole was relaunched. In Yemen, 17 sailors were killed when the ship was attacked by terrorists on Oct. 12, 2000. The attack was blamed on Osama bin Laden
2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
Famous Birthday’s
1903 - Eliot Ness Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury/Chicago, Untouchables
1933 - Dick Sargent Carmel CA, actor (Darrin-Bewitched)Died 1994
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Guide for the Married Man, Too Hot to Handle)d.1967
1935 - Dudley Moore, London England, actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks)d. 2002
1946 - Tim Curry Cheshire England, actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
1962 - Al Unser Jr Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1969 - Jesse James, Television personality, Custom motorcycle builder(Monster Garage)
1979 - Kate Hudson, actress(How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, You, Me, and Dupree)
Famous Death’s
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1980 - Alfred [Joseph] Hitchcock dies in Los Angeles CA from renal failure at 80
Joke of the Day
Embarrassing Traffic Stop
A police car pulled me over near the high school where I teach. As the officer asked for my license and registration, my students began to drive past. Some honked their horns, others hooted, and still others stopped to admonish me for speeding.
Finally the officer asked me if I was a teacher at the school, and I told him I was.
"I think you've paid your debt to society," he said with a smile, and left without giving me a ticket.
Nobel Prize
A man is driving down a country road, when he spots a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of grass. He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that the farmer is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing.
The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to the farmer and asks him, "Ah excuse me mister, but what are you doing?"
The farmer replies, "I'm trying to win a Nobel Prize."
"How?" asks the man, puzzled.
"Well I heard they give the Nobel Prize to people who are out standing in their field."
World Records
Largest land gorge
The largest land gorge in the world is the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River in north central Arizona. It extends over a distance of 277 miles(446km). It averages 10 miles in width and 1 mile in depth.
Highest continent
Excluding its ice shelves Antarctica has an elevation of 7,190 feet(2,194M) above sea level.
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