Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records February 27th
February 27th 2007 01:42
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1703 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile, Alabama
1827 - New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1869 - John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
1879 - Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1890 - D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), match is draw
1908 - Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1908 - Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
1922 - Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
1927 - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1932 - Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1939 - Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 - The USS Langley, the first US aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.
1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1950 - General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 - 22nd amendment is ratified, limiting President to 2 terms in office
1953 - F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River.
1956 - Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1960 - US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
1962 - South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
1963 - Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
1969 - Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon's arrival in Rome.
1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 - Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
1977 - Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1981 - Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1981 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
1982 - Wayne B. Williams was found guilty of murdering two young black people. 28 bodies had been found in the Atlanta area over a period of 22 months.
1989 - German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1990 - Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping Co. are indicted on 5 criminal counts
1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."
1991 - Singer James Brown is released from prison
1998 - Britain's House of Lords agreed to give a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference.
1999 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
2002 - In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.
2006 - The Harlem Globetrotters extended their overall record to 22,000 wins.
Famous Birthday’s
1892 - William Demarest St Paul MN, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
1910 - Joan Bennett Palisades NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows, Little Women)
1930 - Joanne Woodward Thomasville GA, actress (The Long Hot Summer, Rachel)
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor London, actress (Cleopatra) married 8 times to 7 men
1940 - Howard Hesseman Salem OR, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
1962 - Adam Baldwin, actor(Full Metal Jacket, Next of Kin, The Patriot, Serenity)
1980 - Chelsea Victoria Clinton Daughter of Bill & Hillary Clinton
Famous Death’s
1985 - J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
1998 - J T Walsh actor (Good Morning Vietnam), dies from a heart attack at 54
2003 - Fred Rogers [Mr. Rogers] children's television host, dies from cancer at 74
Joke of the Day
Who Would Know
The man passed out in a dead faint as he came out of his front door onto the porch. Someone called 911. When the paramedics arrived, they helped him regain consciousness and asked if he knew what caused him to faint. "It was enough to make anybody faint," he said. "My son asked me for the keys to the garage, and instead of driving the car out, he came out with the lawn mower!"
Blondes Fishing
These two blondes rent a boat and go fishing in a lake. They're amazed at the number of fish that they catch, so one says to the other, "We'll have to come back here tomorrow!" The other asks, "But how will we remember where this spot is?" The first blonde then takes a can of spray paint, paints an X on the bottom of the boat, and says, "We'll just look for this X tomorrow." The other blonde says,
"You idiot! How do you know we'll get the same boat?"
World Records
Heaviest Aircraft pulled by an individual
David Huxley(Australia) pulled a Boeing 747 weighing 412,264 pounds a distance of 298ft 6in in 1 minute 27.7 seconds on October 15, 1997 in Sydney Australia.
Nails concrete block break
Chad Netherland(USA) had 21 concrete blocks weighing a total of 692 lbs. 10 oz. Placed on his chest and then broken with a 16 pound sledgehammer while he lay on the bed of nails at the Great Lakes aquarium to Duluth, Minnesota on November 9, 2003
1703 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile, Alabama
1827 - New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1869 - John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
1890 - D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), match is draw
1908 - Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1908 - Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
1922 - Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
1927 - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1932 - Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1939 - Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 - The USS Langley, the first US aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.
1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1950 - General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 - 22nd amendment is ratified, limiting President to 2 terms in office
1953 - F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River.
1956 - Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1960 - US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
1962 - South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
1963 - Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
1969 - Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon's arrival in Rome.
1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 - Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
1977 - Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1981 - Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1981 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
1982 - Wayne B. Williams was found guilty of murdering two young black people. 28 bodies had been found in the Atlanta area over a period of 22 months.
1989 - German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1990 - Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping Co. are indicted on 5 criminal counts
1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."
1991 - Singer James Brown is released from prison
1998 - Britain's House of Lords agreed to give a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference.
1999 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
2002 - In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.
2006 - The Harlem Globetrotters extended their overall record to 22,000 wins.
Famous Birthday’s
1892 - William Demarest St Paul MN, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
1910 - Joan Bennett Palisades NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows, Little Women)
1930 - Joanne Woodward Thomasville GA, actress (The Long Hot Summer, Rachel)
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor London, actress (Cleopatra) married 8 times to 7 men
1940 - Howard Hesseman Salem OR, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
1962 - Adam Baldwin, actor(Full Metal Jacket, Next of Kin, The Patriot, Serenity)
1980 - Chelsea Victoria Clinton Daughter of Bill & Hillary Clinton
Famous Death’s
1985 - J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
1998 - J T Walsh actor (Good Morning Vietnam), dies from a heart attack at 54
2003 - Fred Rogers [Mr. Rogers] children's television host, dies from cancer at 74
Joke of the Day
Who Would Know
The man passed out in a dead faint as he came out of his front door onto the porch. Someone called 911. When the paramedics arrived, they helped him regain consciousness and asked if he knew what caused him to faint. "It was enough to make anybody faint," he said. "My son asked me for the keys to the garage, and instead of driving the car out, he came out with the lawn mower!"
Blondes Fishing
These two blondes rent a boat and go fishing in a lake. They're amazed at the number of fish that they catch, so one says to the other, "We'll have to come back here tomorrow!" The other asks, "But how will we remember where this spot is?" The first blonde then takes a can of spray paint, paints an X on the bottom of the boat, and says, "We'll just look for this X tomorrow." The other blonde says,
"You idiot! How do you know we'll get the same boat?"
World Records
Heaviest Aircraft pulled by an individual
David Huxley(Australia) pulled a Boeing 747 weighing 412,264 pounds a distance of 298ft 6in in 1 minute 27.7 seconds on October 15, 1997 in Sydney Australia.
Nails concrete block break
Chad Netherland(USA) had 21 concrete blocks weighing a total of 692 lbs. 10 oz. Placed on his chest and then broken with a 16 pound sledgehammer while he lay on the bed of nails at the Great Lakes aquarium to Duluth, Minnesota on November 9, 2003
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