Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records February 13th
February 13th 2007 01:48
Treasure Trooper Rules!
1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1741 - "The American Magazine," the first magazine in the U.S., was published in PA.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared President
1866 - Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in U.S. history
1875 - Mrs. Edna Kanouse gave birth to America's first quintuplets.
1899 - Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 Fahrenheit.
1905 - -40ºF (-40ºC) Lebanon KS (state record)-40ºF (-40ºC) Warsaw MO (state record)
1924 - King Tut's tomb opened
1935 - A jury in New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. He was later executed in the electric chair.
1937 - NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC
1943 - Women's Marine Corps created
1945 - Red Army forces take Budapest, Hungary from German forces. 159,000 Die
1945 - Allied aircraft began bombing the German city of Dresden. 135,000 Die
1955 - Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1959 - Barbie doll goes on sale
1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
1965 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
1970 - Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, near New Delhi
1971 - Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
1971 - 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
1975 - There was a fire in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.
1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins Olympics figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
1977 - Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
1982 - Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week
1984 - 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
1988 - The XV Olympic Winter Games open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1990 - Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1990 - US, England, France & England give Germany the OK to re-unify
1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy a bunker in Baghdad. The bunker was unknowingly used as a shelter for Iraqi civilians, 334 civilians died.
1997 - Space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Telescope aboard for a tune up
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2002 - John Walker Lindh plead innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden.
Famous Birthday’s, February 13th
1875 - Kanouse quintuplets Watertown WI, 1st quintuplets born in US.
1887 - Alvin York famed US soldier with 25 kills in WWI
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford Bristol TN, country singer/actor (pea picker) Died 1991
1923 - Chuck Yeager US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
1934 - George Segal actor/banjo player (Fun with Dick & Jane, Stick, The Cable Guy)
1942 - Peter Tork Washington DC, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1944 - Jerry Springer London England, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show & former Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio he’s worth about $500 million)
1977 - Randy Moss, American football player(Vikings & Raiders, 5 Pro Bowls)
Famous Death’s
1952 - Alfred Einstein German/US musicologist, dies at 71
1994 - Jack Kirby cartoonist (Marvel Comics), dies at 76
2002 - Waylon Jennings, musician(Luckenbach Texas, Good Ol’Boys)Born 1937
Joke of the Day - Curious Questions
Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me ...... they're cramming for their final exam.
As income tax time approaches, did you ever notice: When you put the two words "The" and "IRS" together it spells "THEIRS"?
World Records
Longest Working career as a Salsa artist
Celia Cruz(Cuba) was a leading salsa artist for 50 years and she recorded over 50 albums she recorded some 20 gold LPs and received over a hundred awards. She started in 1950.
Oldest Competing Aerobatic pilot
Ian Metcher(Australia) was 85 years old when he won the aerobatics section of the Western Australia a light aircraft championships on February 24, 2001
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