Trevor WholohanA Day in History
December 7th 2006 00:41
This Day in History Thursday, December 7th
1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin MO, kills 1
1917 - U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.
1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1941 - World War II: Canada declared war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.
1941 - World War II: - Over 200 Imperial Japanese warplanes attack the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.(A Date that will Live in Infamy)
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta kills 119 people, Worst Hotel fire in US.
1956 - Helen O'Connell joins the Today Show panel
1967 - Otis Rescue records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather borrowed in 1823 to the University of Cincinatti; the $22,646 fine went unpaid
1971 - The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be immortalized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".
1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched.
1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1987 - PSA Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
1988 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the reduction of the number of Soviet military troops by half a million.
1993 - Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed that the U.S. government had conducted more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in secret at its Nevada test site.
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes.
2003 - A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.
Famous Birthday’s December 7th
1923 - Ted Knight Terryville CT, (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
1926 - Wolfgang Ludewig composer
1940 - Mike Minor San Francisco CA, actor (Steve-Petticoat Junction, All My Children)
1942 - Harry Chapin NY NY, folk/rock singer/songwriter (Taxi, Cat's in the Craddle)
1956 - Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) 3-time NBA MVP, Olympic Gold Medalist (1992)
1973 - Terrell Owens wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers, Eagles, Dallas Cowboys)
1985 - Ashley, A Lovely CNA here at MacArthur Hall 3rd floor Happy Birthday Ashley!
Joke of the Day
Mild - Mannered Man
A mild mannered man was tired of his wife always bossing him around, so he went to a psychiatrist. The doctor told him he had to develop self-esteem. The doctor gave him a booklet on assertiveness training, which he read on the way home.
When he walked through the door and his wife came to greet him, he told her, "From now on I'm the man of this house and my word is law. When I come home from work, I want my dinner on the table. "Now go upstairs and lay me some clothes on the bed, because I'm going out with the boys tonight. Then draw my bath.
"When I get out of the tub, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?"
"The undertaker," she replied.
A Feat of Strength The strong young man at the construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of one of the older workmen. After several minutes, the older worker had had enough. "Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?" he said. "I will bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that building that you won't be able to wheel back."
"You're on, old man," the young guy replied.
The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then he turned to the young man and said, "Alright. Get in."
World Records
Largest Autographed Drumstick Collection
Peter Lavinger of New York, USA, has collected over 1,300 famous drummers' sticks since 1980. It took Peter 13 years to collect all those drumsticks.
Deepest Concert
The deepest concert was performed by Katie Melua (UK) and her band at 303 m (994 ft) below sea level, on Statoil's Troll A gas rig, off the coast of Bergen, Norway on 1 October 2006. Ms Melua performed two 30-minute concerts to an audience of 20 oilrig workers, each of whom had won a ticket to see the performance.
1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin MO, kills 1
1917 - U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.
1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1941 - World War II: - Over 200 Imperial Japanese warplanes attack the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.(A Date that will Live in Infamy)
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta kills 119 people, Worst Hotel fire in US.
1956 - Helen O'Connell joins the Today Show panel
1967 - Otis Rescue records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather borrowed in 1823 to the University of Cincinatti; the $22,646 fine went unpaid
1971 - The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be immortalized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".
1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched.
1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1987 - PSA Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
1993 - Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed that the U.S. government had conducted more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in secret at its Nevada test site.
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes.
2003 - A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.
Famous Birthday’s December 7th
1923 - Ted Knight Terryville CT, (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
1926 - Wolfgang Ludewig composer
1940 - Mike Minor San Francisco CA, actor (Steve-Petticoat Junction, All My Children)
1942 - Harry Chapin NY NY, folk/rock singer/songwriter (Taxi, Cat's in the Craddle)
1956 - Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) 3-time NBA MVP, Olympic Gold Medalist (1992)
1973 - Terrell Owens wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers, Eagles, Dallas Cowboys)
1985 - Ashley, A Lovely CNA here at MacArthur Hall 3rd floor Happy Birthday Ashley!
Joke of the Day
Mild - Mannered Man
A mild mannered man was tired of his wife always bossing him around, so he went to a psychiatrist. The doctor told him he had to develop self-esteem. The doctor gave him a booklet on assertiveness training, which he read on the way home.
When he walked through the door and his wife came to greet him, he told her, "From now on I'm the man of this house and my word is law. When I come home from work, I want my dinner on the table. "Now go upstairs and lay me some clothes on the bed, because I'm going out with the boys tonight. Then draw my bath.
"When I get out of the tub, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?"
"The undertaker," she replied.
A Feat of Strength The strong young man at the construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of one of the older workmen. After several minutes, the older worker had had enough. "Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?" he said. "I will bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that building that you won't be able to wheel back."
"You're on, old man," the young guy replied.
The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then he turned to the young man and said, "Alright. Get in."
World Records
Largest Autographed Drumstick Collection
Peter Lavinger of New York, USA, has collected over 1,300 famous drummers' sticks since 1980. It took Peter 13 years to collect all those drumsticks.
Deepest Concert
The deepest concert was performed by Katie Melua (UK) and her band at 303 m (994 ft) below sea level, on Statoil's Troll A gas rig, off the coast of Bergen, Norway on 1 October 2006. Ms Melua performed two 30-minute concerts to an audience of 20 oilrig workers, each of whom had won a ticket to see the performance.
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