Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records February 15th
February 15th 2007 00:00
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1764 - St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
1804 - New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
1870 - Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth MN
1898 - USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
1903 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
1918 - 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
1931 - 1st Dracula movie released
1933 - U.S. President-elect Roosevelt escaped an assination attempt in Miami.
1936 - Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
1939 - German battleship Bismarck was launched
1942 - During World War II, Singapore surrendered to the Japanese.
1944 - 891 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
1950 - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1953 - 17 year old Tenley Albright becomes the first American to win the world figure skating championship.
1956 - Pirates & Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham AL, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
1961 - Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
1965 - John Lennon passes his driving test
1971 - After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
1978 - Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL
1982 - The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm killing 84 rig workers.
1984 - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1989 - The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops had left Afghanistan.
1990 - Baseball owners lock out players
1992 - 100th episode of "Cops" airs on the Fox Network
1992 - Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1998 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 after 20 years of disapointment.
2002 - At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. It reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.
2003 - Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. Estimates from 8,000,000-30,000,000 people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in history of the world.
2004 - Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Daytona 500 6 years to the day when his father won.
Famous Birthday’s
1564 - Galileo Galilei Pisa, Italy, astronomer/physicist
1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist (d. 1906)
1907 - Cesar Romero, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man)Died 1996
1927 - Harvey Korman Chicago IL, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
1954 - Matt Groening cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
1962 - Renee Props Oklahoma, actress (Ellie-As the World Turns, Weird Science)
1964 - Chris Farley actor (Saturday Night Live, Coneheads, Tommy Boy)Died 1997
1969 - Edgar Bennett NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
Famous Death’s
1965 - Nat King Cole singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 45
1996 - McLean Stevenson actor (MASH-Lt. Col. Henery Blake, Hello Larry)dies at 66
Joke of the Day
A Pirate's Tale
A pirate was talking to a "land-lubber" in a bar. The land-lubber noticed that, like any self-respecting pirate, this guy had a peg leg, a hook in place of one of his hands and a patch over one eye. The land-lubber just had to find out how the pirate got in such bad shape. He asked the pirate, "How did you lose your leg?"
The pirate responded, "I lost me leg in a battle off the coast of Jamaica!" His new acquaintance was still curious so he asked, "What about you hand. Did you lose it at the same time?"
"No," answered the pirate. "I lost it to the sharks off the Florida Keys." Finally, the land-lubber asked, "I notice you also have an eye patch. How did you lose your eye?
The pirate answered, "I was sleeping on a beach when a seagull flew over and pooped right in me eye." The land-lubber asked, "How could a little something like that make you lose your eye?"
The pirate snapped, "It was the day after I got me hook!"
Fifty-One Days
A group of blondes walk into a bar. One of the women tells the bartender to line up a row of drinks for all of them. The gals lift their glasses and toast, "Here's to 51 days!" and they proceed to down their drinks. Once again, they tell the bartender to "line 'em up", and once again they toast 51 days and down their drinks. The bartender says, "I don't get it. Why in the world are you toasting 51 days?"
One of the blondes explains, "We just finished a jigsaw puzzle. It had written on the box '2-4 years,' but we finished it in 51 days!"
World Records
Longest Human Domino Line
On Sept. 30, 2000, 9,234 students aged 18 to 21 from NYAA poly connects formed a human Domino chain stretching 2.6 miles(4.2km) across Siloso beach, Singapore
Longest Human Chain
On August 23, 1989 up to 2 million people joined hands to form a human chain 370 miles(595km) long across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the nonaggression treaty between the USSR and Nazi Germany.
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