Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, November 15th
November 15th 2007 01:11
This Day in History
1763 - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1806 - Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.
1864 - Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.
1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
1939 - Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 - Franklin D Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C
1940 - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1954 - 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City
1957 - U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000
1960 - USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1965 - Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War
1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Dublin, Ohio.
1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1980 - Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
1985 - A research assistant is injured as a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.
1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.
1995 - Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit.
2001 - Two al-Qaeda computers were acquired by a Wall Street journalist in Kabul for $1,100 following US bombing. They were found to contain over 1,750 text and video files of al Qaeda activities including weapons programs. One file contained the names of 170 al Qaeda members.
2003 - 2 US Army Black Hawk helicopters collided under fire and crashed in Iraqi, 17 died
2005 - In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year.
Famous Birthday’s
1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe Sun Prairie WI, painter (Cow's Skull)
1891 - Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1906 - Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general, received 22 medals and decorations. (d. 1990)
1928 - C.W. McCall, Country Western singer(Convoy, Wolf Creek Pass, Rubber Duck)
1929 - Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 - Whitman Mayo NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1940 - Sam Waterston Cambridge MA, actor (Law & Order, Heaven's Gate)
1954 - Beverly D'Angelo , actress(A Streetcar Named Desire, Vacation, European Vacation)
Famous Death’s
1958 - Tyrone Power, actor died of a heart attack(The Mark of Zorro, Jeese James) b. 1914
1984 - Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center
1996 - Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)
Joke of the Day
Today's Fairy Tales
A young girl asked her father if all fairy tales begin with "Once Upon A Time?"
"No," he replied. "A whole lot of them begin with 'If I’m elected, I promise...'"
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!"
Ask Another Doctor
The doctor and his wife were having a heated argument at breakfast. As he stormed out of the house, the man angrily yelled to his wife, "You aren't that good in bed either!"
By midmorning, he decided he'd better make amends and called home. After many rings, his wife, clearly out of breath, answered the phone. "What took you so long to answer and why are you panting?"
"I was in bed."
"What in the world are you doing in bed at this hour?"
"Getting a second opinion"
World Records
Youngest Professional Artist
Dante Lamb (USA, b. 16 November 1999 ) is the youngest artist to have his work purchased and displayed. Dante's abstract paintings hang in the Monkey Love Dessert Bar & Gallery, St Simons Island, Georgia, USA and his first piece sold on 6 October 2003 for $85 (£50) when he was only 3 years old.
Youngest Radio Presenter(Radio DJ)
The youngest radio presenter is Kimberley Perez (b. 20 February 1998) (USA) who hosts a show every Saturday 3-7pm, on KLAX 97.9 La Raza FM, in Los Angeles, California, USA, which started when she was 5 years old.
Youngest Person to Ski on All Seven Continents
The youngest person to ski on all seven continents is Timothy Turner Hayes (USA) starting at the age of 4 in the ski resort in Stratton, Vermont, USA finishing at the age of 13 and 204 days in Asia
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