Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, December 3rd
December 3rd 2007 00:57
This Day in History
1775 - 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
1800 - A tie resulted in the US between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr for Presidency.
1818 - Illinois admitted as 21st US state in the Union.
1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th President of US, John C Calhoun Vice-President
1868 - Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
1901 - Milwaukee is dropped from the American League & replaced by St Louis Browns
1901 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Rep’s asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
1910 - The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show.
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1940 - The British government announces that it has placed a first order with US yards for the construction of 60 merchant ships.
1942 - Admiral Tanaka leads 10 destroyers in a supply operation to bring food to the desperate Japanese soldiers on Guadalcanal. To avoid air attacks, the cargo is dropped not landed. Only about 300 of the 1500 containers reach the Japanese forces.
1947 - Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in New York NY
1948 - "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be microfilm from spy Alger Hiss)
1950 - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1950 - Tom Fears (LA Rams) caught an NFL-record 18 passes against the Green Bay Packers.
1952 - 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1953 - Eisenhower criticized Senator McCarthy for saying communists are in Republican party.
1964 - Police arrested about 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley.
1964 - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
1971 - President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1973 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1979 - In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are killed during a stampede for seats before a Who concert
1979 - Christie's auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
1982 - 77ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in December
1984 - Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin
1984 - A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000-600,000 others (some 6,000 later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1991 - Muslims released American Alann Steen, who had been held captive nearly five years.
1992 - UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
1992 - The Greek tanker "Aegean Sea" ran aground at La Coruna, Spain and spilled 21.5 million gallons of crude oil.
1997 - South Korea received $55 billion from the Inter. Monetary Fund to bailout its economy.
2000 - Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts attached the world's largest, most powerful set of solar panels to the international space station.
2001 - Some 3,000 Taliban surrendered at Char Dara, 6 miles west of Kunduz.
2005 - XCOR Aerospace makes 1st manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, Calif
Famous Birthday’s
1930 - Andy Williams Wall Lake IA, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
1937 - Bobby Allison, Nascar race car driver with 86 Wins & 446 Top Tens, 1988 Daytona 500
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne England, rock vocalist(Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon, No More Tears)
1951 - Rick Mears Indy-car racer (over 25 wins) Won Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times
1960 - Daryl Hannah actress (Splash, Blade Runner, Grumpy Old Men 1 2, Kill Bill 1 2)
1963 - Terri Schiavo, center of right to die case in Florida (d. 2006)
1968 - Brendan Fraser Indianapolis IN, actor (School Ties, Blast from the Past, The Mummy)
Joke of the Day
Dinosaur Plumbing
Because I couldn't unplug the toilet with a plunger, I had to dismantle the entire fixture, no small feat for a non-plumber. Jammed inside the drain was a purple rubber dinosaur, which belonged to my five-year-old son. I painstakingly got all the toilet parts together again, the tank filled, and I flushed it.
However, it didn't work much better than before! As I pondered what to do next, my son walked into the bathroom. I pointed to the purple dinosaur I had just dislodged and told him that the toilet still wasn't working. "Did you get the green one, too?" he asked.
Unhappy Pharmacist
Dude walks into a pharmacy laughing hysterically, orders 2 condoms, still laughing, pays the pharmacist and walks out laughing. The pharmacist is perplexed but doesn't give it a second thought. The next day the same guy walks in laughing hysterically, orders 2 condoms, still laughing, pays the pharmacist and walks out laughing.
The pharmacist remembers the day before and starts to wonder what's up but not for too long because he has work to do.The next day the same guy walks in laughing hysterically, orders 2 condoms, still laughing, pays the pharmacist and walks out laughing. Now the pharmacist is intrigued as to what is going on with this guy so he arranges with his assistant to follow the guy and find out where he is going, should the man return.
Wouldn't you know it, The same guy comes back the next day, laughing hysterically, orders 2 condoms, still laughing, pays the pharmacist and walks out laughing.
The assistant followed him as per his orders and came back 20 minutes later. The eager pharmacist asked his assistant where the man went? The assistant said: "Your house."
World Records
Most Diving World Championships
Greg Louganis of the USA, won a record five world titles: highboard in 1978, and both highboard and springboard in 1982 and 1986, as well as four Olympic gold medals in 1984 and 1988.
Longest Soft ball marathon
The longest game of softball played was one of 55 hr 11 min at St Mary's Rugby Football Club, Templeogue, Dublin, Ireland, on April30-May 2.
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