Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records March 1st
March 1st 2007 01:59
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1642 - Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city
1692 - Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA)
1803 - Ohio became the 17th U.S. state.
1847 - Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty
1867 - Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
1909 - 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
1910 - 3 passenger trains buried in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history
1912 - Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 - Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York NY
1913 - Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12
1937 - 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut)
1941- 1st US commercial FM radio station(WSN) goes on the air, Nashville TN
1942 - 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat(5 cruisers sunk,
5 destroyers sunk, 2,300 sailors killed)
1942 - Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough
1943 - World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
1949 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! debuts on Television
1950 - Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
1953 - Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.
1954 - A 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five.
1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1962 - The first K-Mart opens in Garden City, Michigan.
1968 - Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 - New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball
1970 - End of US commercial whale hunting
1971 - A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, without injuries
1974 - Seven people were indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in
1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1980 - 4 inches of Snow falls in Florida
1985 - Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 - Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1991 - US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens.
1993 - U.S. number of food stamp recipients had reached a record number of 26.6 million.
1996 - Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2002 - Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off for mission STS-109, its final successful mission.
2004 - Terry Nichols is convicted of murder charges From the Oklahoma City bombing.
Famous Birthday’s
1904 - Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood) Died 1944/WWII
1917 - Dinah Shore Winchester TN, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1920 - Harry Caray baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
1924 - Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton Sparta WI, Major USAF/astronaut (Apollo 18)
1926 - Robert Clary Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
1927 - Harry Belafonte calypso singer/actor (Banana Boat Song, Buck & the Preacher)
1935 - Robert Conrad, Chicago IL, actor (Wild Wild West, Black Sheep)
1944 - Roger Daltrey London, England, rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1947 - Alan Thicke Kirkland Lake Ontario, actor/host (Growing Pains)
1953 - Ron Howard Duncan OK, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
1954 - Catherine Bach Warren OH, actress (Daisy Duke-Dukes of Hazzard)
Joke of the Day
Maiden Name
Reinstated Once my divorce was final, I went to the local Department of Motor Vehicles and asked to have my maiden name reinstated on my driver's license. "Will there be any change of address?" the clerk inquired. "No," I replied. "Oh, good," she said, clearly delighted. "You got the house."
Marry Me
An elderly widow and widower were dating for about five years. The man finally decided to ask her to marry. She immediately said "yes". The next morning when he awoke, he couldn't remember what her answer was! "Was she happy? I think so, wait, no, she looked at me funny..." After about an hour of trying to remember to no avail, he got on the telephone and gave her a call. Embarrassed, he admitted that he didn't remember her answer to the marriage proposal.
"Oh", she said, "I'm so glad you called. I remembered saying 'yes' to someone, but I couldn't remember who it was."
World Records
Fastest 50 m trailer pull
Juan Antonio Mayor(Spain) pulled a trailer weighing 1,554 pounds a distance of 164 feet in a time of 17.95 seconds on November 22, 2001.
Heaviest vehicle pulled by Hair
The heaviest vehicle to have been pulled by hair alone 98 feet is a double deck bus weighing 17,398 pounds by Letchemankh Ramasimy(Malaysia) May 1, 1999.
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1642 - Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city
1692 - Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA)
1847 - Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty
1867 - Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
1909 - 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
1910 - 3 passenger trains buried in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history
1912 - Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 - Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York NY
1913 - Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12
1937 - 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut)
1941- 1st US commercial FM radio station(WSN) goes on the air, Nashville TN
1942 - 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat(5 cruisers sunk,
5 destroyers sunk, 2,300 sailors killed)
1942 - Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough
1943 - World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
1949 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! debuts on Television
1950 - Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
1953 - Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.
1954 - A 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five.
1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1962 - The first K-Mart opens in Garden City, Michigan.
1968 - Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 - New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball
1970 - End of US commercial whale hunting
1971 - A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, without injuries
1974 - Seven people were indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in
1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1980 - 4 inches of Snow falls in Florida
1985 - Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 - Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1991 - US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens.
1993 - U.S. number of food stamp recipients had reached a record number of 26.6 million.
1996 - Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2002 - Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off for mission STS-109, its final successful mission.
2004 - Terry Nichols is convicted of murder charges From the Oklahoma City bombing.
Famous Birthday’s
1904 - Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood) Died 1944/WWII
1917 - Dinah Shore Winchester TN, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1920 - Harry Caray baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
1924 - Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton Sparta WI, Major USAF/astronaut (Apollo 18)
1926 - Robert Clary Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
1927 - Harry Belafonte calypso singer/actor (Banana Boat Song, Buck & the Preacher)
1935 - Robert Conrad, Chicago IL, actor (Wild Wild West, Black Sheep)
1944 - Roger Daltrey London, England, rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1947 - Alan Thicke Kirkland Lake Ontario, actor/host (Growing Pains)
1953 - Ron Howard Duncan OK, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
1954 - Catherine Bach Warren OH, actress (Daisy Duke-Dukes of Hazzard)
Joke of the Day
Maiden Name
Reinstated Once my divorce was final, I went to the local Department of Motor Vehicles and asked to have my maiden name reinstated on my driver's license. "Will there be any change of address?" the clerk inquired. "No," I replied. "Oh, good," she said, clearly delighted. "You got the house."
Marry Me
An elderly widow and widower were dating for about five years. The man finally decided to ask her to marry. She immediately said "yes". The next morning when he awoke, he couldn't remember what her answer was! "Was she happy? I think so, wait, no, she looked at me funny..." After about an hour of trying to remember to no avail, he got on the telephone and gave her a call. Embarrassed, he admitted that he didn't remember her answer to the marriage proposal.
"Oh", she said, "I'm so glad you called. I remembered saying 'yes' to someone, but I couldn't remember who it was."
World Records
Fastest 50 m trailer pull
Juan Antonio Mayor(Spain) pulled a trailer weighing 1,554 pounds a distance of 164 feet in a time of 17.95 seconds on November 22, 2001.
Heaviest vehicle pulled by Hair
The heaviest vehicle to have been pulled by hair alone 98 feet is a double deck bus weighing 17,398 pounds by Letchemankh Ramasimy(Malaysia) May 1, 1999.
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