Trevor WholohanA Day in History
November 25th 2006 01:27
[[SIZE=3This Day in History Saturday, November 25th
1783 - Britain evacuates NY, their last military position in US
1834 - Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1864 - Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1913 - Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House
1920 - WTAW of College Station, TX, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1930 - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, UK, killing 160 shoppers.
1951 - Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1952 - Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1957 - President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1960 - 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
1961 - NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery,
1976 - OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit
1976 - Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1977 - David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins
1978 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1983 - Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 - World's greatest robbery-o25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
1984 - William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1984 - 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1986 - US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua
1988 - Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges
1988 - Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 - US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
1996 - After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
1996 - An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
1997 - US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
2004 - Korean Research team announce that they have used cord blood stem cells to regrow a parapeligic's spinal cord. Patient walks for the first time in 19 years.
Famous Birthday’s November 25th
1893 - Robert Ripley illustrator (Believe it or Not)
1914 - Joe DiMaggio Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak)Died 1999
1920 - Ricardo Montalban actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)
1941 - Percy Sledge, American musician(When a man Loves a Woman)
1944 - Ben Stein, actor(Ferris Buellers Day Off, Win Ben Stein’s Money-TV Show)
1947 - John Larroquette New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court, Stripes)
1960 - John F Kennedy Jr lawyer, son of JFK , Died 1999
1971 - Christine Applegate, actress (Kelly-Married With Children, The Big Hit)
1981 - Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush.
Famous Death’s
1977 - Richard Carlson actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65
1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor(Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory (b. 1907)
1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
Joke of the Day - Late Night Quips
"Germany is filing a war crimes lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for allegedly allowing the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Man, that's when you know you've crossed the line -- when Germans are accusing you of war crimes." --Jay Leno
"I don't want to say that George Bush is a lame duck, but this morning, Cheney shot him." --Bill Maher
"President Bush, on Wednesday, held a news conference where he vowed to work with the new Democratic majority. Which, if true, can only mean one thing -- the Democrats have a nuclear bomb." --Amy Poehler
"On Thursday, the Army launched its new recruitment slogan, 'Army Strong,' which replaces their previous slogan, 'Army of One.' Meanwhile, the Navy is sticking with their recruiting slogan, 'Iraq: It's Almost Entirely Landlocked.'." --Seth Meyers
World Records
Worlds Largest Sapphire
The largest carved sapphire is a multi-coloured (blue, gold, grey) polished rock that weighs 80,500 carats (16.1 kg, 35.49 lb).
Worlds Largest Cut DiamondThe world's largest cut diamond is an unnamed Fancy Black, containing small red diamond crystals. It weighs 555.55 carats and was polished into 55 facets over several years and completed in June 2004.[/SIZE]
1783 - Britain evacuates NY, their last military position in US
1834 - Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1864 - Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1913 - Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House
1920 - WTAW of College Station, TX, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1930 - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1951 - Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1952 - Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1957 - President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1960 - 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
1961 - NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery,
1976 - OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit
1976 - Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1977 - David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins
1978 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1983 - Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 - World's greatest robbery-o25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
1984 - William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1984 - 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1988 - Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges
1988 - Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 - US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
1996 - After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
1996 - An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
1997 - US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
2004 - Korean Research team announce that they have used cord blood stem cells to regrow a parapeligic's spinal cord. Patient walks for the first time in 19 years.
Famous Birthday’s November 25th
1893 - Robert Ripley illustrator (Believe it or Not)
1914 - Joe DiMaggio Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak)Died 1999
1920 - Ricardo Montalban actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)
1941 - Percy Sledge, American musician(When a man Loves a Woman)
1944 - Ben Stein, actor(Ferris Buellers Day Off, Win Ben Stein’s Money-TV Show)
1947 - John Larroquette New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court, Stripes)
1960 - John F Kennedy Jr lawyer, son of JFK , Died 1999
1971 - Christine Applegate, actress (Kelly-Married With Children, The Big Hit)
1981 - Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush.
Famous Death’s
1977 - Richard Carlson actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65
1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor(Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory (b. 1907)
1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
Joke of the Day - Late Night Quips
"Germany is filing a war crimes lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for allegedly allowing the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Man, that's when you know you've crossed the line -- when Germans are accusing you of war crimes." --Jay Leno
"I don't want to say that George Bush is a lame duck, but this morning, Cheney shot him." --Bill Maher
"President Bush, on Wednesday, held a news conference where he vowed to work with the new Democratic majority. Which, if true, can only mean one thing -- the Democrats have a nuclear bomb." --Amy Poehler
"On Thursday, the Army launched its new recruitment slogan, 'Army Strong,' which replaces their previous slogan, 'Army of One.' Meanwhile, the Navy is sticking with their recruiting slogan, 'Iraq: It's Almost Entirely Landlocked.'." --Seth Meyers
World Records
Worlds Largest Sapphire
The largest carved sapphire is a multi-coloured (blue, gold, grey) polished rock that weighs 80,500 carats (16.1 kg, 35.49 lb).
Worlds Largest Cut DiamondThe world's largest cut diamond is an unnamed Fancy Black, containing small red diamond crystals. It weighs 555.55 carats and was polished into 55 facets over several years and completed in June 2004.[/SIZE]
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