Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records February 14th
February 13th 2007 21:53
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1779 - James Cook is killed by the natives of the Sandwich Islands(later named Hawaii.
1848 - James K Polk became 1st President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1903 - US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1912 - 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton CT
1912 - Arizona becomes 48th state
1919 - United Parcel Service(UPS)forms
1929 - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangster rivals of Al Capone killed
1941 - German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1945 - Perú, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador join the United Nations
1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
1950 - USSR & China sign peace treaty
1954 - Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1959 - $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY
1962 - U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the White House on television.
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1967 - Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1971 - Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 - Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1978 - 1st "microchip" patented by Texas Instruments
1980 - Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News."
1984 - Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1985 - Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1988 - Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1989 - Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic
1989 - Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to India as a court-ordered settlement.
1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit.
1990 - Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene.
1990 - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1992 - Cease fire in Somalia begins
1998 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
2000 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2003 - In Madrid, Spain, a ceramic plate with a bullfighting motif painted by Pablo Picasso in 1949 was stolen from an art show. The plate was on sale for $12,400.
Famous Birthday’s, February 14th
1859 - George Washington Gale Ferris engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
1894 - Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelski], Waukegan IL, "Oh! Rochester!" Died 1974
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975
1934 - Florence Henderson Dale IN, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
1940 - Porpoise 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Florida)
1945 - Gregory Hines New York NY, actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps)
1963 - Jeff Dellenbach NFL center (N.E. Patriots, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Drew Bledsoe NFL quarterback (New England Patriots)
1972 - Rob Thomas, American musician (matchbox twenty)(Smooth, Ever the Same)
Joke of the Day
Job Interview
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked the young Engineer fresh out of MIT, "And what starting salary were you looking for?" The Engineer said, "In the neighbourhood of $75,000 a year, depending on the benefit's package." The HR Person said, "Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years - say, a red Corvette?" The Engineer sat up straight and said, "Wow! Are you kidding?" And the HR Person said, "Certainly, ...but you started it."
Criminal Lawyer
A man walked into the local Chamber of Commerce of a small town, obviously desperate. Seeing a man at the counter, the stranger asks, "Is there a criminal lawyer in town?" To which the man behind the counter immediately quipped, "Yes, but we haven't been able to prove it yet!"
World Records
Oldest Working General Practitioner
Dr. Kauromal Chandiramani(India) practiced as a general practitioner in Bombay India for 75 years 198 days from September 22 1923 to May 9, 1999 on his 100th birthday.
Oldest person to do a "loop the loop"
On May 21, 1998, 95-year-old Adeline Ablitt(UK) flew in a glider as it performed a loop the loop over the soaring center Leicestershire, UK.
Oldest male driver
Fred Hale Sr.(USA) is currently the oldest driver, he was issued his license and February 1995 and drove until it expired on his 108th birthday in 1998
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