Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes, Sports and Wisconsin News December 27th
December 27th 2006 01:44
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1845 - Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson GA
1862 - Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
1862 - Battle of Elizabethtown KY
1904 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan premieres in London.
1932 - Radio City Music Hall opens (New York City)
1937 - Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1941 - Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
1943 - German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
1945 - The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
1947 - 1st "Howdy Doody Show" (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
1951 - In Cincinnati, OH, a Crosley automobile, with a steering wheel on the right side, became the first vehicle of its kind to be placed in service for mail delivery.
1956 - Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1965 - The BP oil rig Sea Gem capsized in the North Sea, with the loss of 13 lives.
1968 - Apollo 8 returns to Earth
1968 - "The Breakfast Club" signed off for the last time on ABC radio, after 35 years.
1971 - Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock of Charles Schulz' "Peanuts" comic strip were on the cover of "Newsweek" magazine.
1974 - Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
1979 - "Knots Landing" premieres on CBS-TV
1979 - Soviet troops invade Afghánistán, Pres. Hafizullah Amin overthrown & executed
1980 - Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
1981 - Ed. Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 points (38th game)
1983 - Propane gas fire devastated 16 square blocks of Buffalo NY
1983 - Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
1985 - Dian Fossey, an American naturalist(Gorillas in the Mist), was found murdered by poachers, at a research station in Rawanda.
1991 - "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV
1992 - The U.S. shot down an Iraqi fighter jet during what the Pentagon described as a confrontation between a pair of Iraqi warplanes.
1992 - Harry Connick, Jr. is caught with 9mm gun in New York's JFK airport
2002 - North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said that it would restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.
2002 - Clonaid announced the birth of the first cloned human baby. The baby had been born December 26.
Famous Birthday’s
1822 - Louis Pasteur Dole France, bacteriologist (invented pasteurization)
1939 - John Amos Newark NJ, actor (Good Times, Coming to America)
1947 - Peter Criss rocker (Kiss-Beth)
Famous Death’s
1982 - John Leonard Swigert Jr astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
1985 - Dian Fossey US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
1986 - Cliff Burton bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24
Joke of the Day
Fancy Cooking
Two confirmed bachelors sat talking. Their conversation drifted from politics to cooking. "I got a cookbook once," said the first, "but I could never do anything with it." "Too much fancy cooking in it, eh?" asked the second. "You said it. Every one of the recipes began the same way - Take a clean dish and...."
Foreign Language
A mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacks them. The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away. "See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see why it's important to learn a foreign language?"
Strawberry Fertilizer A farmer was driving along the road with a load of fertilizer. A little boy, playing in front of his house, saw him and called, "What've you got in your truck?" "Fertilizer," the farmer replied. "What are you going to do with it?" asked the little boy. "Put it on strawberries," answered the farmer. "You ought to live here," the little boy advised him. "We put sugar and cream on ours."
World Records
Largest Slab of Fudge
The world's largest slab of fudge weighed 3,010 lb, 1.5 US tons and was made by Northwest Fudge Factory.com (Canada) at the FedNor Pavillion Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, Canada on November 5, 2004.
Largest Stir-Fry
The world's largest stir-fry weighed 1,543 lb and was made by TV chef Nancy Lam, in aid of children's charity, NCH in Leicester Square, London, UK on Jan 23, 2004.
Wisconsin Weather December 27th
Wednesday: Mostly sunny skies. High 37F. Winds light and variable.
Wednesday night: Mostly cloudy skies with a few snow showers late. Low 26F. Winds light and variable. Chance of snow 30%.
Thursday: Rain and snow in the morning. A few rain showers in the afternoon mostly cloudy. High 38F. Winds E at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precip 30%.
Friday: Showers possible. Highs in the upper 30s and lows in the low 30s.
Saturday: Cloudy with rain. Highs in the upper 30s and lows in the low 30s.
Sports
Philadelphia Eagles 23, Dallas Cowboys 7
The Philadelphia Eagles were supposed to get buried by December road games against all three division foes, especially with retread backup Jeff Garcia running the offense.
Turns out, that challenge was exactly what they needed to grab control of the NFC East.
After close calls in Washington and New York, Garcia and the Philadelphia defense made it a clean sweep with a surprisingly easy 23-7 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Monday. Garcia led the Eagles (9-6) to scores on four of their first five drives and the defense forced Tony Romo and the Cowboys into easily their least-productive game of the season. The victory -- actually Philadelphia's fourth straight -- clinched a wild-card berth and moved it into first place in the division with one game left in the season.
"We took a situation where things weren't looking good, with some major hurdles to overcome, and we found a way to win," said Garcia, who improved to 4-1 since replacing an injured Donovan McNabb. "It's this playoff mentality we've had over the past month that's carried us."
Packers to face Bears in final Sunday night game of regular season
The Green Bay Packers will face the Chicago Bears in the final Sunday night game of the regular season on New Year's Eve thanks to the NFL's flexible schedule.
The Packers (7-8), one of five teams vying for the last playoff spot in the NFC, will take on the Bears at Soldier Field. The outcome will have no bearing on Chicago (13-2) because the Bears have already clinched the top seed in the NFC and home-field advantage. The game, originally scheduled for 1 p.m., has been pushed back to an 8:15 p.m. EST kickoff.
In other changes announced by the NFL on Monday night following the New York Jets' 13-10 road victory over the Dolphins: Buffalo at Baltimore, Miami at Indianapolis, and Atlanta at Philadelphia were all shifted from 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. EST.
There are five scenarios in which the Packers have a chance to make the playoffs. If they fail, it is possible that Brett Favre will be playing his final NFL game in prime time.
If the New York Giants defeat the Washington Redskins on Saturday night, the only hope for the Packers to make the postseason would be with a win and a tiebreaker edge over New York in strength of victory.
The moves are part of the network's flex scheduling, a feature of the new television contract with the NFL that's meant to ensure contending teams play in prime time late in the season.
Wisconsin News December 27th
Shopko reopened
It took crews less than 30 minutes to determine it was safe for employees and shoppers to reenter the Shopko department store in downtown Stevens Point. A manager smelled gas in the store and called the fire department. WPS was called out to the scene. The store was evacuated at around 1:05 p.m. and it was reopened at 1:30 p.m. A manager said there was a small gas leak and it was fixed.
Fire still burning outside Sun Prairie plant
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. Strikers outside the Goodyear plant in Sun Prairie are still stoking the fire next to a makeshift strike shelter. But, they're hopeful a tentative deal reached with the tire maker will end the eleven-week-long strike. About 300 workers at the Sun Prairie plant vote on the three-year deal Thursday.
The proposed agreement covers more than 12-thousand Goodyear employees in the U-S. It includes a company commitment of a billion dollars to cover retiree benefits.
Joe Jarden adds wood to the fire outside the Sun Praire plant and looks forward to returning to work. He says the agreement isn't everything the union asked for and he'll probably pay about nine or ten dollars more a week for health insurance.
The world's third-largest tiremaker and the union reached the deal after both sides resumed talks in Pittsburgh last week. The strike began October fifth.
The deal allows Goodyear to stick with plans to close the plant in Tyler, Texas, but not immediately. It provides a one-year transition period.
Web site of shame exceeds expectations
MADISON, Wis. The state's so-called 'Web site of shame' collected nearly 16 (m) million dollars in its first year of operation, exceeding the Revenue Department's expectations. The site tries to shame tax delinquents into paying up by posting their names on the Internet.
When the site went online last January, revenue officials thought it would help collect about one million dollars in unpaid taxes a year. The site lists the names of people who owe more than 25-thousand dollars and are more than 90 days past their last appeal.
Through November, the site collected 15-point-seven million dollars.
The site is updated quarterly. Delinquents get a letter before their names are posted. They can avoid the Internet posting by setting up a payment plan with the state.
Soldier, 21, from Racine killed in Iraq
The Defense Department says a 21-year-old soldier from Racine was killed in Iraq on Sunday. A news release from the department says Private Evan A. Bixler died in Hit, Iraq, on Christmas Eve. He was killed by indirect enemy fire received during security operations. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Baumholder, Germany.
News December 27th
Gates signs order sending 82nd Airborne brigade to Kuwait
WASHINGTON Two senior defense officials say Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed orders that will send a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait.
The soldiers, who are based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are expected to be deployed into Iraq early next year. The 82nd Airborne unit, which would include as many as 33-hundred soldiers, will replace a Marine unit that had served as the reserve force based in Kuwait but has been deployed into Iraq.
Army officials say they weren't aware a final decision had been made on sending the unit to Kuwait. But the two senior defense officials say Gates signed the order today.
U-S backs Ethiopian strikes in Somalia
STATE DEPARTMENT U-S officials are showing their support for Ethiopia's military operations against Somalia.
A State Department spokesman notes that Ethiopia has had "genuine security concerns" stemming from the rise of Islamist forces in Somalia, its eastern neighbor.
The spokesman also pointed out that Ethiopia took the action at the request of Somalia's secular government, which has international backing. That government has not had much success in resisting the growing influence of the more powerful Islamist forces.
Yesterday, Ethiopian fighter jets bombed Somalia's two main international airports. And today, witnesses report Islamic fighters retreated from the main front.
Ethiopia has said its military action is aimed at preventing further aggression by the Islamic Courts militias. Somalia's government has no presence in the country's capital. Its reach is limited to one western town.
A key U-S goal in Somalia is the capture of three reputed al-Qaida figures.
White House salutes Saddam death penalty ruling
CRAWFORD, Texas The White House is praising a decision by Iraq's highest appeals court to uphold the death sentence against former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
A White House spokesman says the ruling marks "an important milestone in the Iraqi people's efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law."
The court also says that Saddam is to be hanged within 30 days.
Saddam was sentenced to death last month for ordering the killings of 148 Shiites in 1982, following an attempt on his life.
The president, meanwhile, is in Texas, where he will host a National Security Council meeting on Thursday at his ranch.
The president is not expected to make any final decision yet on what he says will be a new way forward in Iraq.
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