Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, November 7th
November 7th 2007 00:46
This Day in History
1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook.
1893 - The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President
1917 - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
1918 - United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1932 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1940 - In the U.S. state of Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion
1941 - Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: German fascists murder 2580 Jews.
1942 - 1st US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt wins re-election over challenger Thomas E. Dewey, to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1962 - Richard Nixon quits politics-You won't have Nixon to kick around(So he says)
1964 - NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, can move to Atlanta in 1966
1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuted in television commercials.
1972 - President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 - NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into the little league
1976 - "Gone With the Wind" televised
1982 - Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)
1983 - Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1989 - Richard Ramirez, convicted of Calif's "Night Stalker" killings, was sentenced to death.
1989 - NYC elects its 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman)
1991 - Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theater.
1991 - Magic Johnson (NBA) announced that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he was retiring from basketball.
1995 - In a Japanese courtroom, three U.S. military men admitted to the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl.
1998 - After 9 days in space. 77-year-old John Glenn returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery, visibly weak but elated after the mission.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.
2001 - After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 - War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Famous Birthday’s
1918 - Billy Graham Charlotte NC, evangelist (Crusades)
1936 - Gwyneth Jones Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano (Die Walkyre)
1942 - Johnny Rivers singer (Secret Agent Man)
1957 - Christopher Knight, actor(Peter Brady on the Brady Bunch, My Fair Brady VH1)
1964 - Dana Plato Maywood CA, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes) Died 1999
Famous Death’s
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt Former 1st Lady, dies at 78 in NYC
1978 - Gene Tunney former heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 80
1980 - Steve McQueen Slater MO, actor,(The Great Escape, Papillon, Bullitt) dies at 50
Joke of the Day
A Lawyer Named Strange
A lawyer named Strange died, and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for passersby would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone. However he suggested an alternative:
He would inscribe, "Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer." That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be certain to remark: "That's Strange!"
Feeling Old
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old ... it's the thought that he's married to a grandmother that makes him feel old.
A young minister
A young minister, in the first days of his first parish, was obliged to call upon the widow of an eccentric man who had just died.
Standing before the open casket and consoling the widow, he said, “I know this must be a very hard blow, Mrs. Vernon.
"But we must remember that what we see here is the husk only, the shell.
"The nut has gone to heaven.”
World Records
Pogo Stick Jumping Distance
Ashrita Furman of Jamaica, New York, USA set a distance record of 23.11 miles in 12 hours 27 min on June 22, 1997 at Queensborough Community College Track, New York, USA. Ashrita holds the most Guinness World Records of any indiviual - sacking racing, brick carrying and underwater rope jumping are some of his other records.
Greatest Distance Walked with a Milk Bottle Balanced on the Head
The greatest distance walked by a person continuously balancing a milk bottle on the head is 80.96 miles by Ashrita Furman of New York, USA, around Victory Field track, Forest Park, Queens, on April 22-23, 1998. It took him 23 hours 35 minutes to complete the walk.
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