Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 27th
April 26th 2007 23:54
1805 - A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union.
1865 - In the U.S. the Sultana exploded while carrying 2,300 paroled Union POWs. Between 1,400 - 2,000 were killed.
1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1897 - Grant's Tomb was dedicated.
1918 - Brooklyn Dodgers get 1st victory after worst major league start (0-9)
1937 - US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1940 - Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 - German troops occupy Athens Greece
1942 - Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
1945 - World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finland.
1945 - Italian partisans captured Mussolini.
1946 - 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship(SS African Star) was installed.
1947 - "Babe Ruth Day" was celebrated at Yankee Stadium.
1950 - South Africa passed the Group Areas Act, which formally segregated races.
1956 - Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1960 - The first atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1963 - Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1965 - RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
1975 - Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops.
1978 - Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV, kills 51
1982 - Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins
1983 - Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing a 55 year old record held by Walter Johnson
1984 - Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
1987 - US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII
1994 - President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
1994 - Minnesota Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
1999 - The US Pentagon called for 33,102 reservists for active duty in Kosovo.
2002 - South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth arrived at the international space station for an eight-day, seven-night cruise that cost him $20 million.
2003 - Lt. Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin al-Yasin (6 of clubs), chief Iraqi liaison with UN weapons inspectors, surrendered to US forces.
2005 - The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its maiden flight. The passenger capability was 840.
2006 - In New York, NY, construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower on the site of former World Trade Center.
Famous Birthday’s
1822 - [Hiram] Ulysses S[impson] 18th US President (1869-77, Republican)Died 1885
1922 - Jack Klugman, actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus)
1931 - Robert Donner New York, actor (Yancy-The Waltons, Exidor-Mork & Mindy)
1932 - Casey Kasem Detroit MI, radio personality (American Top 40)
1939 - Judy Carne Northhampton England, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange)
1944 - Cuba Gooding US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool)Cuba Gooding Jr’s Dad.
1951 - Ace Frehley Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Comet)
1959 - Sheena Easton Belshill Scotland, singer (Morning Train, For Your Eyes Only)
Joke of the Day
Period?
Timmy is seven. He's sitting in class one day and the teacher asks if anyone wants to come to the board and draw a picture of something they thought was exciting. Timmy raised his hand, went up to the board, and drew a dot. Confused, the teacher asks, "What is that?" and Timmy says, "It's a period". "Why is that exciting?" asks the teacher."Well...I don't know. My sister said she missed hers, my mom fainted, my dad started throwing things around the room, and the neighbor boy joined the army".
Ten-Mile Hike
An old man saw a very tired infantryman resting after a hard foot march. The man said with disdain: "When I was of your age I thought nothing of a ten-mile hike."
"Well, I don't think much of it either," replied the GI.
World Records
Oldest known Marsupial
The Deltatheridum found in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in November 1988 has been estimated by scientists to be 80 million years old. This means that live among dinosaurs and that marsupials possibly originated here.
Oldest fossilized embryos
Around 100 embryos of Markuelia hunanenis -an extinct species of worm were discovered in Hunan, southern China. They date back around 500 million years. They were discovered in January 2004.
Longest prehistoric tusks
The average length for the tusks of the straight tusked elephant which lived about 2 million years ago in what is now Germany, was 16 feet 4.75 inches(5m).
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Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
excellent history lesson and some outrageously funny pictures!!!
Great post!
Take care,
Nick