Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records February 1st
February 1st 2007 02:19
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1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City.
1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede from U.S. during Civil War.
1893 - Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1913 - Grand Central Station opened in N.Y. City. It was the largest train station in the world
1914 - N.Y. Giants & Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
1920 - The first armored car was introduced.
1921 - Carmen Fasanella a taxicab owner and driver in Princeton, New Jersey, retired Nov. 2, 1989 after 68 years and 243 days of service.
1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch
1937 - Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1940 - Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1944 - US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1950 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1960 - Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1st #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
1964 - Indiana Gov. Mathew Walsh tries to ban the song "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL
1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1968 - Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1974 - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1976 - Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a 7 year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter
1982 - "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV
1987 - Terry Williams won the largest slot machine payoff, at the time $4.9 million.
1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 million)
1994 - Jeff Gillooly plead guilty for the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1996 - Visa announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.
2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
2004 - Janet Jackson exposes her breast on American television during the half-time show of the Super Bowl, prompting the "Nipplegate" controversy.
Famous Birthday’s, February 1st
1895 - John Ford Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)Died 1973
1901 - Clark Gable Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind) Died 1960
1931 - Boris Yeltsin Ural Mountains USSR, president of Russian USSR
1937 - Don Everly Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers-Wake Up Little Susie)
1952 - Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)Died 2004
1965 - Brandon Lee Emerson CO,Bruce Lee’s Son, actor (The Crow) Died 1993
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson Memphis TN, (Elvis' daughter)
1968 - Pauly Shore Hollywood, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)
Famous Death’s
1966 - Buster Keaton [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
1966 - Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
1991 - James G MacDonald cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
2003 - The crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), astronauts.
Joke of the Day
SECRET TO A LONG MARRIAGE
With a couple celebrating their 50th anniversary at the church's marriage marathon, the minister asked Brother Ralph to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he managed to live with the same woman all these years. The husband replied to the audience, "Well, I treated her with respect, spent money on her, but mostly I took her traveling on special occasions.! The minister inquired "Trips to where?" "For our 25th anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China." The minister then said, "What a terrific example you are to all husbands, Ralph. Please tell the audience what you're going to do for your wife on your 50th anniversary?"Brother Ralph: "I'm going to go get her."
A Fitting Punishment
Mr. Jones is traveling with his wife and mother-in-law in a far east country. At a place of honor his mother-in-law makes a careless remark, which the native people take as an insult to the royal family. Mr. Jones is dragged off to court with his wife and mother-in-law and are sentenced to corporal punishment. Each of them are to receive 50 lashes on the rear end with a cane. But because the royal family doesn't want to appear hostile to foreigners, they grant the guests in their country a wish beforehand, as long as it is able to be fulfilled. Mrs. Jones is first. "What do you wish for yourself?" "I would like a pillow bound on my rear end before the lashings." "Okay, that shall be granted to you." Mrs. Jones has the pillow bound to her rear end and receives her punishment. But because the pillow is too small and the executioner also hits her back a couple of times, she receives a few blows. Next it is Mr. Jones' mother-in-law's turn. "What do you wish for yourself?" "I would like a pillow bound on my rear end and a pillow bound on my back before the lashings." "Okay, that shall be granted to you." The mother-in-law receives her fifty lashes, but hardly feels the pain through the pillows. Then comes Mr. Jones himself. "What do you wish for yourself?" "I have two wishes. Do you want to fulfill them for me?" "Because you are a guest in our country, we want to fulfill your wishes for you, as long as they are reasonable." "I would like 100 lashes instead of 50." The executioner is surprised, but recovers again right away and replies, "Yes, that is a pious wish, it shall be granted to you. And what is your second wish?"
"I would like to have my mother-in-law bound to my back."
World Records
Youngest person to travel all seven continents
The youngest person to have traveled to all seven continents is Tanya Donkin, who visited her seventh continent on November 16, 2000 at the age of three years 319 days.
Youngest Billionaire
The world’s youngest billionaire is his serene highness 12th prince Albert von Thurn Und Taxis(Germany born June 24, 1983) with an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion. On his 18th birthday he became the sole heir of the royal family fortune.
Youngest person to visit both polls The youngest person to have visited both geographical poles is Jonathan Silverman (USA) who reached the North Pole at the age of 9 and South Pole at11 years 211 days.
1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City.
1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede from U.S. during Civil War.
1913 - Grand Central Station opened in N.Y. City. It was the largest train station in the world
1914 - N.Y. Giants & Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
1920 - The first armored car was introduced.
1921 - Carmen Fasanella a taxicab owner and driver in Princeton, New Jersey, retired Nov. 2, 1989 after 68 years and 243 days of service.
1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch
1937 - Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1940 - Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1944 - US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1950 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1st #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
1964 - Indiana Gov. Mathew Walsh tries to ban the song "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL
1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1968 - Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1974 - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1976 - Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a 7 year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter
1982 - "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV
1987 - Terry Williams won the largest slot machine payoff, at the time $4.9 million.
1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 million)
1994 - Jeff Gillooly plead guilty for the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1996 - Visa announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.
2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
2004 - Janet Jackson exposes her breast on American television during the half-time show of the Super Bowl, prompting the "Nipplegate" controversy.
Famous Birthday’s, February 1st
1895 - John Ford Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)Died 1973
1901 - Clark Gable Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind) Died 1960
1931 - Boris Yeltsin Ural Mountains USSR, president of Russian USSR
1937 - Don Everly Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers-Wake Up Little Susie)
1952 - Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)Died 2004
1965 - Brandon Lee Emerson CO,Bruce Lee’s Son, actor (The Crow) Died 1993
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson Memphis TN, (Elvis' daughter)
1968 - Pauly Shore Hollywood, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)
Famous Death’s
1966 - Buster Keaton [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
1966 - Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
1991 - James G MacDonald cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
2003 - The crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), astronauts.
Joke of the Day
SECRET TO A LONG MARRIAGE
With a couple celebrating their 50th anniversary at the church's marriage marathon, the minister asked Brother Ralph to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he managed to live with the same woman all these years. The husband replied to the audience, "Well, I treated her with respect, spent money on her, but mostly I took her traveling on special occasions.! The minister inquired "Trips to where?" "For our 25th anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China." The minister then said, "What a terrific example you are to all husbands, Ralph. Please tell the audience what you're going to do for your wife on your 50th anniversary?"Brother Ralph: "I'm going to go get her."
A Fitting Punishment
Mr. Jones is traveling with his wife and mother-in-law in a far east country. At a place of honor his mother-in-law makes a careless remark, which the native people take as an insult to the royal family. Mr. Jones is dragged off to court with his wife and mother-in-law and are sentenced to corporal punishment. Each of them are to receive 50 lashes on the rear end with a cane. But because the royal family doesn't want to appear hostile to foreigners, they grant the guests in their country a wish beforehand, as long as it is able to be fulfilled. Mrs. Jones is first. "What do you wish for yourself?" "I would like a pillow bound on my rear end before the lashings." "Okay, that shall be granted to you." Mrs. Jones has the pillow bound to her rear end and receives her punishment. But because the pillow is too small and the executioner also hits her back a couple of times, she receives a few blows. Next it is Mr. Jones' mother-in-law's turn. "What do you wish for yourself?" "I would like a pillow bound on my rear end and a pillow bound on my back before the lashings." "Okay, that shall be granted to you." The mother-in-law receives her fifty lashes, but hardly feels the pain through the pillows. Then comes Mr. Jones himself. "What do you wish for yourself?" "I have two wishes. Do you want to fulfill them for me?" "Because you are a guest in our country, we want to fulfill your wishes for you, as long as they are reasonable." "I would like 100 lashes instead of 50." The executioner is surprised, but recovers again right away and replies, "Yes, that is a pious wish, it shall be granted to you. And what is your second wish?"
"I would like to have my mother-in-law bound to my back."
World Records
Youngest person to travel all seven continents
The youngest person to have traveled to all seven continents is Tanya Donkin, who visited her seventh continent on November 16, 2000 at the age of three years 319 days.
Youngest Billionaire
The world’s youngest billionaire is his serene highness 12th prince Albert von Thurn Und Taxis(Germany born June 24, 1983) with an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion. On his 18th birthday he became the sole heir of the royal family fortune.
Youngest person to visit both polls The youngest person to have visited both geographical poles is Jonathan Silverman (USA) who reached the North Pole at the age of 9 and South Pole at11 years 211 days.
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