Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Sports and Wisconsin News December 28th
December 28th 2006 02:23
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1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.
1846 - Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
1902 - The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
1942 - R.O. Sullivan crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the 100th time.
1944 - Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
1944 - Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1945 - Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
1948 - US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
1958 - Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
1963 - Merle Haggard's 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
1964 - Initial filming of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" began on location near Madrid, Spain.
1967 - Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange 1968 - Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1972 - Martin Bormann's skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
1973 - The Chamber of Commerce of Akron, OH, terminated its association with the All-American Soap Box Derby. It was stated that the race had become "a victim of cheating and fraud."
1975 - "Hail Mary Pass" - Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
1976 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perf’s
1976 - Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
1980 - México terminated fishing agreements with US
1981 - Pat Sajak starts hosting the daytime version of Wheel of Fortune.
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby was born in Norfolk VA.
1984 - TV soap "The Edge of Night" ends 28 year run and 7420 episodes.
1987 - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover AR
1992 - NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana played in his final game as a San Francisco 49er in a victory over the Detroit Lions.
1994 - Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
2000 - Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2000 - Shannen Doherty was arrested for driving under the influence.
2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to the Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
Famous Birthday’s December 28th
1856 - [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Staunton VA,(28 President-D-1913-21, Nobel 1919)
1938 - Charles Neville US rock vocalist/saxophonist (Neville Brothers)
1954 - Denzel Washington actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere, Remember the Titans)
1954 - Tony Rosato Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, Saturday Night Live, Amanda's)
1958 - Joe Diffie Tulsa OK, country singer/guitarist (Home)
1958 - Mike McGuire Haleyville AL, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
Famous Death’s
1923 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
1970 - Charles "Sonny" Liston heavyweight boxer champion (1962-64), dies
1983 - William Demarest actor ("Uncle Charlie" on My Three Sons), dies in at 92
1983 - Dennis Wilson drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
Joke of the Day
Drunk Driver?
Judi was sitting at the defendant table while the state trooper was being cross-examined on the witness stand.
The lawyer asked, "When you stopped Judi, were your red and blue lights flashing?"
"Yes, sir, they were."
"Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?"
"Yes, sir, she did."
"And," looking at Judi, "what was it she said?"
"She said, 'What disco am I at?'"
Lemons A woman went to a Florida lemon grove to apply for a job, but the foreman thought she seemed way too qualified for the position. "Do you even have any actual experience picking lemons?" he asked.
"Well, I think I do." she replied. "I've been divorced three times."
World Records
Most Valuable pair of Jeans
An original pair of Levi Strauss & Co (USA) 501 jeans aged over 115 years old were sold by Randy Knight (USA) to an anonymous collector (Japan) for $60,000 (£33,230) through internet auction site eBay on June 15, 2005.
Longest Wedding Dress Train
The longest wedding dress train measured 1,203.9 m (3,949.8 ft) and was made by Cindy Predhomme and France Loridan (both France) for 'Une Semaine Chrono' in Caudry, France on August 5, 2006.
Wisconsin Weather December 28th
Thursday: Cloudy. Snow showers scattered about the area in the morning. High 36F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30%.
Thursday Night: Cloudy. Low 31F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. Friday: Rain and snow in the morning. A shower or two in the afternoon -otherwise, mostly cloudy. High 36F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 30%.
Saturday: Showers possible. Highs in the upper 30s and lows in the mid 30s.
Sunday: Rain and wind. Highs in the low 40s and lows in the low 30s.
Sports
Ending retirement talk, Kurt Warner says he'll be back in 2007
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Two months after raising the possibility of retirement, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner on Wednesday said he would return in 2007.
Although Warner left himself room to change his mind, it was his most definitive statement yet about his plans.
In October, the 35-year-old Warner acknowledged he had begun considering retirement after losing the starting job to rookie Matt Leinart. But Warner, who has two years remaining on his contract, said he's looking forward to a 10th NFL season.
"I've thought about it a lot, and I'm going to come back and play," Warner said. "I want to play. I feel like I've got a lot of football left in me.
"Not that that can't change when the offseason comes around and me and my family sit down and all of those types of things," Warner said. "But I signed a contract to be here with the Cardinals."
Igawa, Yankees complete $20 million, 5-year deal
NEW YORK -- As the Yankees kept talking about trading Randy Johnson, they finalized their $20 million, five-year contract with Japanese pitcher Kei Igawa on Wednesday. The Yankees had until Thursday to complete an agreement with Igawa after bidding $26,000,194 last month for the right to negotiate with him. The left-hander went 14-9 with a 2.97 ERA and 194 strikeouts for the Hanshin Tigers last season.
New York must pay the bid fee to the Tigers by Jan. 4.
The 27-year-old Igawa figures to fit at the back end of a rotation that includes Chien-Ming Wang, Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte. New York also has oft-injured right-hander Carl Pavano and a couple of touted pitching prospects in Philip Hughes and Humberto Sanchez. The Yankees are discussing dealing Johnson, with the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres the chief contenders for the 43-year-old left-hander, a disappointment during his two seasons in New York.
Igawa gets $4 million each year and can earn $500,000 annually in performance bonuses: $125,000 each for 180, 190, 200, 210 innings pitched. He would be eligible for arbitration after the 2011 season, and free agency after the 2012 season. New York's biggest rival, the Boston Red Sox, bid $51.11 million for negotiating rights to Japanese ace Daisuke Matsuzaka this offseason and signed him to a $52 million, six-year contract.
Wisconsin News December 28th
Fond du Lac man sentenced for wearing unearned medals
OSHKOSH, Wis. A North Fond du Lac man is ordered to do community service and serve one year of probation for wearing military medals he didn't earn.
Sixty-year-old William James Richardson was sentenced in federal court in Milwaukee last week after being found guilty of wearing military medals of valor not issued to him by Congress. He wore the medals while serving on the Fond du Lac American Legion's firing squad. Richardson must do 30 hours of community service.
The medals he wore included the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest military decoration given by the Army.
Madison VA hospital smoke free in pilot program
MADISON, Wis. A veteran's hospital in Madison is taking part in a pilot program to experiment with smoke-free campuses.
There are only five V-A hospitals in the U-S- that are taking part.
Since 1985 a federal law has required V-A hospitals to provide a place to smoke on their grounds. Until recently, the hospital in Madison allowed smoking in the psychiatry unit. But now that exemption has been removed and the entire hospital is going smoke free.
Director Nathan Geraths says one-fourth of patients the hospital sees have problems linked to smoking. He says 20 years ago a store within the hospital stopped selling tobacco and that was considered a major step. And then 10 years ago, smoking in the entire hospital, except for the psychiatry department, was banned. Other V-A hospitals in the program are in Minneapolis, Memphis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
Racine police arrest man after standoff
RACINE, Wis. Police arrested a 38-year-old man after a several hour standoff at his home Wednesday morning. Police say Todd M. Phillips was charged with being armed while intoxicated. Phillips' 21-year-old girlfriend called police early Wednesday morning, saying they had argued and he set up a trip wire that set off a shotgun when she tried to open the door to their home. The girlfriend was not injured by the shot.
Police surrounded the house and arrested Phillips when he surrendered about 8:45 a.m.
Man faces charges in lottery ticket theft
A 19-year-old Fond du Lac man has been arrested for allegedly stealing $3,500 worth of lottery tickets from the gas station where he worked.
The man had been working at EZ Mart, 1177 W. Johnson St., for more than two months when a store supervisor turned him into the police, according to Fond du Lac Police Department reports. The supervisor told police the man used money from the gas station's cash register to purchase lottery tickets.
The man told police he was addicted to gambling and admitted to taking between $3,000 to $3,500 worth of tickets over a weeklong period in December, according to the report.
News December 28th
Body of 1 missing U.S. climber found in China
BEIJING The body of one U-S- climber missing for more than a month has been found on a remote mountain in southwestern China while a second climber is still missing and presumed dead. That's the latest from a rescue coordinator.Christine Boskoff, a top female climber from Appleton, and Charlie Fowler, a well-known climber, guide and photographer, were reported missing after they failed to return to the United States on December 4th.
Arlene Burns, a friend of both climbers, says the body discovered is partially buried and has not been identified yet. Rescue workers were to resume the recovery efforts after daybreak. It's nighttime now in China. Burns, of Colorado, says rescuers were taking pictures and not disturbing anything. She says they'll return in the morning with shovels. She says the other body could be under the snow or connected by a rope.
Ford showed athletic prowess at Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - His deliberate manner of speaking, some highly publicized mishaps and a recurring Chevy Chase bit in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" helped advance the notion that Gerald R. Ford was a bit of a klutz. In fact, Ford was one of the nation's fittest and most athletic presidents.
Ford, who died at 93 on Tuesday, played center on the University of Michigan football team, where he was a three-year letter winner. His teams enjoyed consecutive undefeated, national championship seasons in 1932 and 1933. He was the Wolverines' most valuable player in 1934 and, on Jan. 1, 1935, he played in a college All-Star game known today as the East West Shrine Game. Michigan later retired Ford's No. 48 jersey.
During a 1934 game against the University of Chicago, Ford became the only future U.S. president to tackle a future Heisman Trophy winner when he brought down halfback Jay Berwanger, who won the first Heisman the following year.
"When I tackled Jay in the second quarter, I ended up with a bloody cut and I still have the scar to prove it," Ford said after Berwanger's death in June 2002.
After graduating from Michigan, Ford turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers to play in the NFL, Instead, Ford went to Yale to become an assistant football and boxing coach, with the hope that it would help him get accepted into Yale Law School. His coaching duties delayed his acceptance until spring 1938.
In April 1942, Ford joined the U.S. Naval Reserve as an ensign and he soon became a physical-fitness instructor at a preflight school in Chapel Hill, N.C. A year later, when he began service aboard the aircraft carrier USS Monterey, his first assignment was as athletic director and gunnery division officer. He was in good physical condition when he became president at age 61. While living in the White House, he swam every day, skied regularly and played golf and tennis better than most other presidents, historians say.
But on a number of occasions, Ford, while golfing, hit into the galleries that lined the fairways to watch him. News cameras captured at least one spectator being hit in the head by an errant Ford shot. Bob Hope, a golfing friend of Ford, once quipped: "It's not hard to find Jerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded."
1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.
1846 - Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
1902 - The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
1942 - R.O. Sullivan crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the 100th time.
1944 - Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1945 - Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
1948 - US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
1958 - Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
1963 - Merle Haggard's 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
1964 - Initial filming of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" began on location near Madrid, Spain.
1967 - Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange 1968 - Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1972 - Martin Bormann's skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
1973 - The Chamber of Commerce of Akron, OH, terminated its association with the All-American Soap Box Derby. It was stated that the race had become "a victim of cheating and fraud."
1975 - "Hail Mary Pass" - Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
1976 - Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
1980 - México terminated fishing agreements with US
1981 - Pat Sajak starts hosting the daytime version of Wheel of Fortune.
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby was born in Norfolk VA.
1984 - TV soap "The Edge of Night" ends 28 year run and 7420 episodes.
1987 - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover AR
1992 - NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana played in his final game as a San Francisco 49er in a victory over the Detroit Lions.
1994 - Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
2000 - Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2000 - Shannen Doherty was arrested for driving under the influence.
2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to the Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
Famous Birthday’s December 28th
1856 - [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Staunton VA,(28 President-D-1913-21, Nobel 1919)
1938 - Charles Neville US rock vocalist/saxophonist (Neville Brothers)
1954 - Denzel Washington actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere, Remember the Titans)
1954 - Tony Rosato Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, Saturday Night Live, Amanda's)
1958 - Joe Diffie Tulsa OK, country singer/guitarist (Home)
1958 - Mike McGuire Haleyville AL, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
Famous Death’s
1923 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
1970 - Charles "Sonny" Liston heavyweight boxer champion (1962-64), dies
1983 - William Demarest actor ("Uncle Charlie" on My Three Sons), dies in at 92
1983 - Dennis Wilson drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
Joke of the Day
Drunk Driver?
Judi was sitting at the defendant table while the state trooper was being cross-examined on the witness stand.
The lawyer asked, "When you stopped Judi, were your red and blue lights flashing?"
"Yes, sir, they were."
"Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?"
"Yes, sir, she did."
"And," looking at Judi, "what was it she said?"
"She said, 'What disco am I at?'"
Lemons A woman went to a Florida lemon grove to apply for a job, but the foreman thought she seemed way too qualified for the position. "Do you even have any actual experience picking lemons?" he asked.
"Well, I think I do." she replied. "I've been divorced three times."
World Records
Most Valuable pair of Jeans
An original pair of Levi Strauss & Co (USA) 501 jeans aged over 115 years old were sold by Randy Knight (USA) to an anonymous collector (Japan) for $60,000 (£33,230) through internet auction site eBay on June 15, 2005.
Longest Wedding Dress Train
The longest wedding dress train measured 1,203.9 m (3,949.8 ft) and was made by Cindy Predhomme and France Loridan (both France) for 'Une Semaine Chrono' in Caudry, France on August 5, 2006.
Wisconsin Weather December 28th
Thursday: Cloudy. Snow showers scattered about the area in the morning. High 36F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30%.
Thursday Night: Cloudy. Low 31F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. Friday: Rain and snow in the morning. A shower or two in the afternoon -otherwise, mostly cloudy. High 36F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 30%.
Saturday: Showers possible. Highs in the upper 30s and lows in the mid 30s.
Sunday: Rain and wind. Highs in the low 40s and lows in the low 30s.
Sports
Ending retirement talk, Kurt Warner says he'll be back in 2007
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Two months after raising the possibility of retirement, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner on Wednesday said he would return in 2007.
Although Warner left himself room to change his mind, it was his most definitive statement yet about his plans.
In October, the 35-year-old Warner acknowledged he had begun considering retirement after losing the starting job to rookie Matt Leinart. But Warner, who has two years remaining on his contract, said he's looking forward to a 10th NFL season.
"I've thought about it a lot, and I'm going to come back and play," Warner said. "I want to play. I feel like I've got a lot of football left in me.
"Not that that can't change when the offseason comes around and me and my family sit down and all of those types of things," Warner said. "But I signed a contract to be here with the Cardinals."
Igawa, Yankees complete $20 million, 5-year deal
NEW YORK -- As the Yankees kept talking about trading Randy Johnson, they finalized their $20 million, five-year contract with Japanese pitcher Kei Igawa on Wednesday. The Yankees had until Thursday to complete an agreement with Igawa after bidding $26,000,194 last month for the right to negotiate with him. The left-hander went 14-9 with a 2.97 ERA and 194 strikeouts for the Hanshin Tigers last season.
New York must pay the bid fee to the Tigers by Jan. 4.
The 27-year-old Igawa figures to fit at the back end of a rotation that includes Chien-Ming Wang, Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte. New York also has oft-injured right-hander Carl Pavano and a couple of touted pitching prospects in Philip Hughes and Humberto Sanchez. The Yankees are discussing dealing Johnson, with the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres the chief contenders for the 43-year-old left-hander, a disappointment during his two seasons in New York.
Igawa gets $4 million each year and can earn $500,000 annually in performance bonuses: $125,000 each for 180, 190, 200, 210 innings pitched. He would be eligible for arbitration after the 2011 season, and free agency after the 2012 season. New York's biggest rival, the Boston Red Sox, bid $51.11 million for negotiating rights to Japanese ace Daisuke Matsuzaka this offseason and signed him to a $52 million, six-year contract.
Wisconsin News December 28th
Fond du Lac man sentenced for wearing unearned medals
OSHKOSH, Wis. A North Fond du Lac man is ordered to do community service and serve one year of probation for wearing military medals he didn't earn.
Sixty-year-old William James Richardson was sentenced in federal court in Milwaukee last week after being found guilty of wearing military medals of valor not issued to him by Congress. He wore the medals while serving on the Fond du Lac American Legion's firing squad. Richardson must do 30 hours of community service.
The medals he wore included the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest military decoration given by the Army.
Madison VA hospital smoke free in pilot program
MADISON, Wis. A veteran's hospital in Madison is taking part in a pilot program to experiment with smoke-free campuses.
There are only five V-A hospitals in the U-S- that are taking part.
Since 1985 a federal law has required V-A hospitals to provide a place to smoke on their grounds. Until recently, the hospital in Madison allowed smoking in the psychiatry unit. But now that exemption has been removed and the entire hospital is going smoke free.
Director Nathan Geraths says one-fourth of patients the hospital sees have problems linked to smoking. He says 20 years ago a store within the hospital stopped selling tobacco and that was considered a major step. And then 10 years ago, smoking in the entire hospital, except for the psychiatry department, was banned. Other V-A hospitals in the program are in Minneapolis, Memphis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
Racine police arrest man after standoff
RACINE, Wis. Police arrested a 38-year-old man after a several hour standoff at his home Wednesday morning. Police say Todd M. Phillips was charged with being armed while intoxicated. Phillips' 21-year-old girlfriend called police early Wednesday morning, saying they had argued and he set up a trip wire that set off a shotgun when she tried to open the door to their home. The girlfriend was not injured by the shot.
Police surrounded the house and arrested Phillips when he surrendered about 8:45 a.m.
Man faces charges in lottery ticket theft
A 19-year-old Fond du Lac man has been arrested for allegedly stealing $3,500 worth of lottery tickets from the gas station where he worked.
The man had been working at EZ Mart, 1177 W. Johnson St., for more than two months when a store supervisor turned him into the police, according to Fond du Lac Police Department reports. The supervisor told police the man used money from the gas station's cash register to purchase lottery tickets.
The man told police he was addicted to gambling and admitted to taking between $3,000 to $3,500 worth of tickets over a weeklong period in December, according to the report.
News December 28th
Body of 1 missing U.S. climber found in China
BEIJING The body of one U-S- climber missing for more than a month has been found on a remote mountain in southwestern China while a second climber is still missing and presumed dead. That's the latest from a rescue coordinator.Christine Boskoff, a top female climber from Appleton, and Charlie Fowler, a well-known climber, guide and photographer, were reported missing after they failed to return to the United States on December 4th.
Arlene Burns, a friend of both climbers, says the body discovered is partially buried and has not been identified yet. Rescue workers were to resume the recovery efforts after daybreak. It's nighttime now in China. Burns, of Colorado, says rescuers were taking pictures and not disturbing anything. She says they'll return in the morning with shovels. She says the other body could be under the snow or connected by a rope.
Ford showed athletic prowess at Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - His deliberate manner of speaking, some highly publicized mishaps and a recurring Chevy Chase bit in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" helped advance the notion that Gerald R. Ford was a bit of a klutz. In fact, Ford was one of the nation's fittest and most athletic presidents.
Ford, who died at 93 on Tuesday, played center on the University of Michigan football team, where he was a three-year letter winner. His teams enjoyed consecutive undefeated, national championship seasons in 1932 and 1933. He was the Wolverines' most valuable player in 1934 and, on Jan. 1, 1935, he played in a college All-Star game known today as the East West Shrine Game. Michigan later retired Ford's No. 48 jersey.
During a 1934 game against the University of Chicago, Ford became the only future U.S. president to tackle a future Heisman Trophy winner when he brought down halfback Jay Berwanger, who won the first Heisman the following year.
"When I tackled Jay in the second quarter, I ended up with a bloody cut and I still have the scar to prove it," Ford said after Berwanger's death in June 2002.
After graduating from Michigan, Ford turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers to play in the NFL, Instead, Ford went to Yale to become an assistant football and boxing coach, with the hope that it would help him get accepted into Yale Law School. His coaching duties delayed his acceptance until spring 1938.
In April 1942, Ford joined the U.S. Naval Reserve as an ensign and he soon became a physical-fitness instructor at a preflight school in Chapel Hill, N.C. A year later, when he began service aboard the aircraft carrier USS Monterey, his first assignment was as athletic director and gunnery division officer. He was in good physical condition when he became president at age 61. While living in the White House, he swam every day, skied regularly and played golf and tennis better than most other presidents, historians say.
But on a number of occasions, Ford, while golfing, hit into the galleries that lined the fairways to watch him. News cameras captured at least one spectator being hit in the head by an errant Ford shot. Bob Hope, a golfing friend of Ford, once quipped: "It's not hard to find Jerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded."
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