Trevor WholohanA Day in History
November 15th 2006 00:46
This Day in History Wednesday November 15th
1660 - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1763 - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1806 - Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.
1864 - Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.
1939 - Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 - Franklin D Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C
1940 - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1954 - 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City
1957 - U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000
1960 - USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1965 - Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War
1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Dublin, Ohio.
1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1980 - Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
1985 - A research assistant is injured as a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing themselves on their album.
1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.
1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.
1995 - Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit.
2000 - Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the first major case against the anti-gang unit.
2005 - In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year.
Famous Birthday’s November 15th
1891 - Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1929 - Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 - Whitman Mayo NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1940 - Sam Waterston Cambridge MA, actor (Law & Order, Heaven's Gate)
1954 - Beverly D'Angelo Columbus Ohio, actress (Vacation, European Vacation)
Famous Death’s
1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
1984 - Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center
1996 - Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)
Joke of the Day
Today's Fairy Tales A young girl asked her father if all fairy tales begin with "Once Upon A Time?"
"No," he replied. "A whole lot of them begin with 'If I’m elected, I promise...'"
A Lawyer Named Strange A lawyer named Strange died, and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for passersby would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone. However he suggested an alternative:
He would inscribe, "Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer." That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be certain to remark: "That's Strange!"
World Records - Youngest Professional Artist
Dante Lamb (USA, b. 16 November 1999 ) is the youngest artist to have his work purchased and displayed. Dante's abstract paintings hang in the Monkey Love Dessert Bar & Gallery, St Simons Island, Georgia, USA and his first piece sold on 6 October 2003 for $85 (£50) when he was only 3 years old.
Youngest Radio Presenter(Radio DJ)
The youngest radio presenter is Kimberley Perez (b. 20 February 1998) (USA) who hosts a show every Saturday 3-7pm, on KLAX 97.9 La Raza FM, in Los Angeles, California, USA, which started when she was 5 years old.
Youngest Person to Ski on All Seven Continents
The youngest person to ski on all seven continents is Timothy Turner Hayes (USA) starting at the age of 4 in the ski resort in Stratton, Vermont, USA finishing at the age of 13 and 204 days in Asia
1660 - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1763 - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1806 - Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.
1864 - Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.
1939 - Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1939 - Franklin D Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C
1940 - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1954 - 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City
1957 - U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000
1960 - USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1965 - Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War
1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Dublin, Ohio.
1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1985 - A research assistant is injured as a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing themselves on their album.
1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.
1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.
1995 - Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit.
2000 - Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the first major case against the anti-gang unit.
2005 - In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year.
Famous Birthday’s November 15th
1891 - Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1929 - Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 - Whitman Mayo NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1940 - Sam Waterston Cambridge MA, actor (Law & Order, Heaven's Gate)
1954 - Beverly D'Angelo Columbus Ohio, actress (Vacation, European Vacation)
Famous Death’s
1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
1984 - Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center
1996 - Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)
Joke of the Day
Today's Fairy Tales A young girl asked her father if all fairy tales begin with "Once Upon A Time?"
"No," he replied. "A whole lot of them begin with 'If I’m elected, I promise...'"
A Lawyer Named Strange A lawyer named Strange died, and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for passersby would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone. However he suggested an alternative:
He would inscribe, "Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer." That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be certain to remark: "That's Strange!"
World Records - Youngest Professional Artist
Dante Lamb (USA, b. 16 November 1999 ) is the youngest artist to have his work purchased and displayed. Dante's abstract paintings hang in the Monkey Love Dessert Bar & Gallery, St Simons Island, Georgia, USA and his first piece sold on 6 October 2003 for $85 (£50) when he was only 3 years old.
Youngest Radio Presenter(Radio DJ)
The youngest radio presenter is Kimberley Perez (b. 20 February 1998) (USA) who hosts a show every Saturday 3-7pm, on KLAX 97.9 La Raza FM, in Los Angeles, California, USA, which started when she was 5 years old.
Youngest Person to Ski on All Seven Continents
The youngest person to ski on all seven continents is Timothy Turner Hayes (USA) starting at the age of 4 in the ski resort in Stratton, Vermont, USA finishing at the age of 13 and 204 days in Asia
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