Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records January 23rd
January 23rd 2007 01:54
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1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China
1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in U.S. to receive medical degree.
1865 - General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1870 - 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
1916 - Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 - Netherlands refuse to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1930 - George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established
1932 - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 - British 8th forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis.
1943 - World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War
1953 - NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1953 - NFL's National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences
1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean, 35,798 feet(6.8 miles)
1962 - Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.
1971 - -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record)
1973 - Pres. Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1974 - Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" opened the credits of the movie, "The Exorcist".
1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV.
1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on ABC. 1978 - Sweden became the first country to ban aerosol sprays because of damage to the ozone
1983 - "The A-Team" debuted on TV.
1986 - 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
1988 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1991 - "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1997 - A judge in Fairfax, VA, sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside the CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three others.
1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the U.S. under FBI custody.
2002 - U.S. Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped and subsequently beheaded in Pakistan
Famous Birthday’s, January 23rd
1737 - John Hancock, American Revolutionist/First to sign the Declaration (d. 1793)
1898 - Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1914 - Napoleon L Bonaparte French pretender to the throne
1923 - Florence Halop Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC Fighter(Former Light Heavyweight Champion)
Joke of the Day
Space Monkeys
NASA decided to send a shuttle into space with two monkeys and an astronaut. They trained them for months. Then when they thought they were ready, they placed all three in the shuttle and got ready to send them up into space.
As the moment came closer NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey One. Initiate!" At that the first monkey started typing like mad and suddenly the shuttle's engines ignited and the shuttle took off.
Two hours later NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey Two. Initiate!"
At that the second monkey started typing like mad and suddenly the shuttle separated from the empty fuel tanks.
Another two hours later mission control announced, "This is mission control to the astronaut..."
At this the astronaut responded "I know, I know. Feed the monkeys and don't touch anything."
What's the Time?
Every Monday morning for years, at about 11:30 am, the telephone operator in a small Sierra-Nevada town received a call from a man asking the exact time. One day the operator summed-up the nerve to ask him why the regularity. "I'm foreman of the local sawmill," he explained. "Every day, I have to blow the whistle at noon, so I call you to get the exact time." The operator giggled, "That's really funny," she said. "All this time, we've been setting our clock by your whistle.
World Records
Most Lightning Strikes Survived
The only man in the world to be struck by lightning seven times was ex-Park Ranger Roy C. Sullivan, otherwise known as the human lightning conductor. A single lightning strike is made up of several 100 million volts,(shocking).
Furthest Eyeball Proper
Kim Goodman can pop her eyeballs out to a distance of .43 inches beyond her eye sockets. Kim’s eyes would protrude out of her head every time she yawns, and she has now taught herself to pop her eyes out on cue.
Most Children Delivered at a single birth and survive
Bobby McCaughey gave birth to set of septuplets on November 19, 1997 at the University Hospital in Iowa the four boys and three girls were delivered after 31 weeks by cesarean section and weighing between 2 lbs. 5 oz. and 3 lbs. 4 oz.
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1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China
1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in U.S. to receive medical degree.
1865 - General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1870 - 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
1916 - Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 - Netherlands refuse to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1930 - George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established
1932 - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 - British 8th forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis.
1943 - World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War
1953 - NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1953 - NFL's National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences
1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean, 35,798 feet(6.8 miles)
1962 - Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.
1971 - -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record)
1973 - Pres. Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1974 - Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" opened the credits of the movie, "The Exorcist".
1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV.
1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on ABC. 1978 - Sweden became the first country to ban aerosol sprays because of damage to the ozone
1983 - "The A-Team" debuted on TV.
1986 - 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
1988 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1991 - "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1997 - A judge in Fairfax, VA, sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside the CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three others.
1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the U.S. under FBI custody.
2002 - U.S. Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped and subsequently beheaded in Pakistan
Famous Birthday’s, January 23rd
1737 - John Hancock, American Revolutionist/First to sign the Declaration (d. 1793)
1898 - Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1914 - Napoleon L Bonaparte French pretender to the throne
1923 - Florence Halop Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC Fighter(Former Light Heavyweight Champion)
Joke of the Day
Space Monkeys
NASA decided to send a shuttle into space with two monkeys and an astronaut. They trained them for months. Then when they thought they were ready, they placed all three in the shuttle and got ready to send them up into space.
As the moment came closer NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey One. Initiate!" At that the first monkey started typing like mad and suddenly the shuttle's engines ignited and the shuttle took off.
Two hours later NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey Two. Initiate!"
At that the second monkey started typing like mad and suddenly the shuttle separated from the empty fuel tanks.
Another two hours later mission control announced, "This is mission control to the astronaut..."
At this the astronaut responded "I know, I know. Feed the monkeys and don't touch anything."
What's the Time?
Every Monday morning for years, at about 11:30 am, the telephone operator in a small Sierra-Nevada town received a call from a man asking the exact time. One day the operator summed-up the nerve to ask him why the regularity. "I'm foreman of the local sawmill," he explained. "Every day, I have to blow the whistle at noon, so I call you to get the exact time." The operator giggled, "That's really funny," she said. "All this time, we've been setting our clock by your whistle.
World Records
Most Lightning Strikes Survived
The only man in the world to be struck by lightning seven times was ex-Park Ranger Roy C. Sullivan, otherwise known as the human lightning conductor. A single lightning strike is made up of several 100 million volts,(shocking).
Furthest Eyeball Proper
Kim Goodman can pop her eyeballs out to a distance of .43 inches beyond her eye sockets. Kim’s eyes would protrude out of her head every time she yawns, and she has now taught herself to pop her eyes out on cue.
Most Children Delivered at a single birth and survive
Bobby McCaughey gave birth to set of septuplets on November 19, 1997 at the University Hospital in Iowa the four boys and three girls were delivered after 31 weeks by cesarean section and weighing between 2 lbs. 5 oz. and 3 lbs. 4 oz.
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