Trevor WholohanThis Day in History September 17th
September 16th 2007 23:56
This Day in History
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1778 - The US signed its first treaty with a Native American tribe, the Delaware Nation.
1787 - The Constitution of the United States of America was signed in Philadelphia, Pa.
1796 - President George Washington's Farewell Address was read before the U.S. Congress.
1862 - The Battle of Antietam took place during the American Civil War. More than 23,000 men were killed or wounded. It was the bloodiest day in American military history.
1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1920 - National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history.
1930 - Construction on Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam, began in Black Canyon.
1934 - 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th)
1937 - 1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3
1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland.
1943 - American land-based Liberator bombers attack the island of Tarawa.
1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland in Operation Market Garden.
1950 - San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17
1950 - North Korean Air Force aircraft slightly damaged the USS Rochester at Inchon during the first enemy air attack of the war on a U.S. ship.
1953 - Ernie Banks became the first black baseball player to wear a Chicago Cubs uniform.
1961 - Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
1964 - "Bewitched" premiered on ABC-TV.
1965 - "Hogan's Heroes" debuted on CBS-TV.
1966 - "Mission Impossible" premiered on CBS-TV.
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1972 - The first episode of M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
1984 - Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club
1984 - 9,706 immigrants became naturalized citizens when they were sworn in by U.S. Vice President George Bush in Miami, FL. It was the largest group to become U.S. citizens.
1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
1992 - Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his probe of the Iran-Contra scandal. The investigation had lasted 5 1/2 years.
2001 - President Bush said the US wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." he appealed to Americans to get back to everyday business and not turn against their Muslim neighbors
2004 - The USS Curts intercepted the fishing vessel Lina Maria about 300 miles southwest of the Galapagos Islands. The fishing boat had 30,000 pounds of cocaine on board.
Famous Birthday’s
1923 - Hank Williams Sr. country singer(Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin, Tear in My Beer')
1931 - Anne Bancroft AKA Mrs Mel Brooks, Bronx, actress (Graduate) Died 2005
1948 - John Ritter, actor (Jack-3's Company, Hooperman, Problem Child)Died 2003
1975 - Jimmie Johnson, Nascar driver, No #48 Lowes Chevy with 27 Wins & 124 Top tens
Famous Death’s
1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
Joke of the Day
Retirement 401K Advice
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49. With Enron stock, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000. With WorldCom stock, you would have had less than $5.00 left. Then who would pay for your Social Security? But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment advice for today's seniors is to drink heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg Plan.
The New Hearing Aid
Seems an elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%. The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again." To which the gentleman said, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times!"
The chocolate covered peanuts
A guy goes to visit his grandmother and he brings his friend with him. While he's talking to his grandmother, his friend starts eating the peanuts on the coffee table, and finished them off. As they're leaving, his friend says to his grandmother, "Thanks for the peanuts." She says, "Yeah, since I lost my dentures I can only suck the chocolate off them."
World Records
Heaviest Living Snake
The heaviest living snake is a Burmese python that weighed 403lb’s(182.5kg) on November 20, 1998. She is 25 years old, 27ft(8.22m) long and has a birth of 28 inches (71cm). Known as “Baby” she lives the Serpent Safari Park in Gurnee, Illinois and is still living and growing Today.
Longest Dog Tongue
Brandy, a boxer owned by John Scheid(USA), had a tongue that measured 17in(43cm) Long
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