Trevor WholohanThis Day in History September 19th
September 18th 2007 23:41
This Day in History
1777 - Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War
1796 - George Washington makes his farewell address.(It’s the end of his 2nd Term)
1863 - Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat.
1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds from an assassin. The 20th U.S. president lived for 11 weeks after the wounds were inflicted.
1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his first debute in 'Steam Boat Willy'
1934 - Bruno Hauptman was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh.
1943 - American land-based Liberator bombers attack the island of Tarawa.
1945 - William Joyce, also known as "Lord Haw-Haw", was sentenced to death by a British court for his role as a Nazi propagandist.
1948 - Moscow announced it would withdraw all soldiers from Korea by the end of the year.
1952 - The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England.
1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test in Nevada desert.
1957 - Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of 2 miles.
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev(Soviet Leader) is barred from visiting Disneyland.
1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelburne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management.
1968 - Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!)
1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1973 - NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC
1981 - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in NY City's Central Park.
1982 - New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0
1983 - The final episode of "M*A*S*H" was aired on CBS-TV.
1985 - An earthquake registering 8.1 on the Richter Scale hit the Mexico City area. About 6,000 people were killed.
1994 - 20,000 U.S. troops land in Haiti to oversee the country's transition to democracy.
1994 - The pilot episode of the hit medical drama ER airs in the United States, on NBC, which will become one of the most watched shows of all time.
1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1995 - The commander of American forces in Japan and the U.S. ambassador apologized for the rape of a schoolgirl committed by three U.S. servicemen.
2001 - Commencement of combatant activities in Afghanistan
2002 - In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. U.S. troops landed on September 25th to help move foreigners & Americans, to safer areas.
2003 - In Iraq former Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Saddam Hussein's last defense minister, surrendered. to an American commander. He was no. 27 on the most-wanted list.
2004 - US warplanes and artillery pounded the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah. A militant group posted a video showing the beheading of 3 Kurdish hostages.
Famous Birthday’s
1928 - Adam West, American actor(Batman)
1943 - Mama Cass Elliot Balt Md, singer (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
1950 - Joan Lunden Fair Oaks Calif, news host (Good Morning America)
1964 - Trisha Yearwood, Monticello Georgia, country singer, Sweetest Gift
1969 - Matthew L Perry, actor, Friends
1974 - Jimmy Fallon, American Comedian
Famous Death’s
1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds from an assassin. The 20th U.S. president lived for 11 weeks after the wounds were inflicted.
1995 - Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88
Joke of the Day
We’re off to See the Wizard
Four United States Presidents get caught up in a tornado and off they whirled to the land of OZ. They finally made it to the Emerald City and went to find the Great Wizard
"What brings the 4 of you before the great Wizard of Oz?"
Jimmy Carter stepped forward timidly and said: I've come for some courage."
" No Problem! said the Wizard Who's next?"
Richard Nixon stepped forward, "Well, I think I need a heart."
"Done! says the Wizard. Who comes next before the Great and Powerful Oz?"
Up stepped Dubya and said, "I'm told by the American people that I need a brain."
"No problem! said the Wizard. Consider it done."
Then there is a great silence in the hall.
Bill Clinton is just standing there, looking around, but he doesn't say a word.
Irritated, the Wizard finally asks, "Well, what do you want?"
Bill Ask’s "IS DOROTHY HERE?"
More Words
A husband looking through the paper came upon a study that said women use more words than men. It read, "Men use about 15,000 words per day, but women use 30,000."
Excited to prove to his wife that he had been right all along when he accused her of talking too much, he showed her the study results.
The wife thought for a while, then finally she said to her husband, "It's because we have to repeat everything we say."
World Records
Circumnavigation by Car
The records for the first and fastest circumnavigation of the world by car – under the rules applicable in 1989 and 1991, and embracing more than an equator's length of driving 24,901 road miles – are held by Mohammed Salahuddin Choudhury and his wife Neena of Calcutta, India.Saloo and Neena took in the six continents in a record 39 days and 20 hours between November 7 and December 17, 1991. There trip started and ended in India.
Fastest Aerial Circumnavigation Of The World
The fastest flight under the rules of the FAI which permit flights that exceed the length of the Tropic of Cancer or Capricorn 22,858.8 miles, was one of 31 hours 27 minutes 49 seconds by an Air France Concorde. Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru flew the plane from JFK airport in New York, USA eastbound via Toulouse, Dubai, Bangkok, Guam, Honolulu, and Acapulco on August 15 to 16, 1995.
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