Trevor WholohanThis Day in History May 8th
May 8th 2007 01:21
1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
1847 - Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
1861 - Richmond VA, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1877 - 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1879 - George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1886 - Atlanta pharmacist Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained Coccaine)
1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
1914 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
1919 - The first transatlantic flight took-off by a navy seaplane.
1926 - 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
1933 - Gandhi began a 21 day hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1942 - 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack
1945 - World War II: VE Day. German forces agree to an unconditional surrender.
1952 - Mad Magazine debuts
1958 - President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
1958 - Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
1961 - Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1961 - New Yorkers selected a new name for their new baseball team. They chose the Mets.
1963 - The 007 movie "Dr No" premieres in US
1967 - Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1970 - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1973 - A 71-day standoff, between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
1978 - David R. Berkowitz, known as the "Son of Sam," pled guilty to six murder charges.
1984 - Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in L.A., Calf.
1984 - Joanie (Erin Moran) and Chachi (Scott Baio) got married on ABC-TV's "Happy Days."
1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
1986 - Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.
1990 - One crewman was killed, 18 others injured in a fire aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Conyngham in the Atlantic, about 100 miles southeast of Norfolk, Va.
1993 - 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1994 - 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
2001 - China rejected a US plan to repair the EP-3 spy plane and fly it out of China.
2003 - A federal grand jury indicted Katrina Leung on charges that she'd illegally taken, copied and kept secret documents obtained from an FBI agent.
Famous Birthday’s
1884 - Harry S Truman Lamar MO, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953)Died 1972
1926 - Don Rickles Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
1934 - Sonny Liston US heavyweight boxing champ (1962-64) Died 1970
1935 - Salome Jens, Milwaukee WI, actress (From Here to Eternity)
1940 - Ricky Nelson, singer/actor ( The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)Died 1985
1943 - Toni Tennille Montgomery AL, female Beachboy (Captain & Tennille)
1955 - Alex Van Halen Nijmegen Netherlands, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
1964 - Melissa Gilbert Los Angeles CA, actress (Laura on Little House on the Prairie)
1964 - Bobby Labonte, Nextel Cup race car driver, #43 Cheerios with 21 Wins.
Joke of the Day
Dinosaur Plumbing
Because I couldn't unplug the toilet with a plunger, I had to dismantle the entire fixture, no small feat for a non-plumber. Jammed inside the drain was a purple rubber dinosaur, which belonged to my five-year-old son. I painstakingly got all the toilet parts together again, the tank filled, and I flushed it.
However, it didn't work much better than before! As I pondered what to do next, my son walked into the bathroom. I pointed to the purple dinosaur I had just dislodged and told him that the toilet still wasn't working.
"Did you get the green one, too?" he asked.
Thanks for the Pies?
Delighted by the gift she had received, the lady spoke warmly to the boy, "At church tomorrow, I'll thank your mother for this lovely pie."
"If you don't mind, ma'am," the boy suggested nervously, "would you thank her for two pies?"
World Records
Largest elephant seal
The largest elephant seal was a bull killed at Possession Bay, Georgia, on February 28, 1913, it weighed at least 8,800lb(4 tons and measured 21ft 4in(6.5m)
Largest Frog
A specimen of the African goliath frog captured in April 1889 on the Sanaga River, Cameroon had a snarled to vent length of 14.5in(36.8cm) and in over all length of 34.5in(87.6cm) with its legs extended.
Highest jump by a dolphin
Some bottlenose dolphins have been trained to jump as high as 26ft(7.92m) from the surface of the water.
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