Trevor WholohanThis Day in History September 20th
September 20th 2007 00:29
This Day in History
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
1873 - Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)
1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.
1891 - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1933 - Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
1939 - A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near Aachen. This is the RAF's first aerial victory of WWII.
1943 - American forces on Sagekarasa discover that the Japanese forces have been evacuated.
1953 - Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western "The Six Shooter" on NBC.
1955 - "You'll Never Be Rich" premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to "The Phil Silvers Show."
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest at a New York City department store by an apparently deranged black woman.
1962 - James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
1968 - Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1972 - Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
1976 - Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
1977 - The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.
1982 - NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1984 - A Hizbulla suicide bomber destroyed the rebuilt U.S. Embassy in Beirut. 25 people died.
1984 - "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC-TV.
1985 - Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
1987 - Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
1987 - Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
1990 - Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message.
1992 - National Football League: Brett Favre, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, begins his most consecutive starts streak for a quarterback in the NFL.
1998 - Baseball: After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off.
2000 - Last performance of the musical Cats (musical) on Broadway.
2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares "war on terror".
2001 - A chartered flight left the US with members of the sprawling bin Laden family. The FBI interviewed 22 of the 26 people aboard.
Famous Birthday’s
1928 - Dr Joyce Brothers NYC, psychologist and advice columnist ($64,000 question winner)
1934 - Sophia Loren Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
1964 - Crispin Glover, actor, Back to the Future, Nurse Betty, Charles Angel’s 1&2)
1967 - Kristen Johnston,Whitefish Bay Wis, actress(3rd Rock from the Sun, ER, Austin Powers)
Famous Death’s
1949 - Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56
1973 - Jim Croce singer/songwriter (Time In A Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown), dies in a plane crash at 30
1973 - Glenn Strange actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
Joke of the Day
Purchasing Power
A mid-level executive was so frustrated at being passed over for promotion year after year, that, in frustration, he went to a brain-transplant center in the hope of raising his I.Q. 20 points. After a battery of physical and psychological tests, he was told by the center's director that he was an acceptable candidate.
"That's great!" the executive said. "But I understand that this procedure can be really expensive."
"Yes, sir, it can," the director replied. "An ounce of accountant's brain for example, costs one thousand dollars; an ounce of an economist's brain costs two thousand; an ounce of a corporate president's is forty-five thousand. An ounce of a politician's brain is seventy-five thousand dollars."
"Seventy-five thousand dollars for an ounce of a politician's brain? Why on earth is that?"
"Do you have any idea," the director asked, "how many politicians we would have to kill to get an ounce of Brain?"
Expensive Brains
A man is in dire need of a brain transplant, so he goes to the hospital to see the brain surgeon. The brain surgeon gives him three options a brain from a redhead, a brain from a brunette or a brain from a blonde. The redhead’s brain is $75,000, the brunettes is $80,000 and the blondes is $350,000. So the man asked why is the blondes brain worth so much and the doctor said “because it’s never been used.”
World Records
Fastest Circumnavigtion In A Power Vessel
On July 3, 1998, the Cable & Wireless Adventurer completed its circumnavigation of the world under Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) rules. The 115-ft boat had travelled more than 26,000 miles in 74 days, 20 hr 58 min 30 sec.
Fastest Solar-Powered Pacific Crossing
Japan's Kenichi Horie made the fastest-ever crossing of the Pacific in a solar-powered boat when he traveled 10,000 miles from Salinas, Ecuador, to Tokyo, Japan, in 148 days from March 20 to August 5, 1996.
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