Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, November 22nd
November 22nd 2007 01:35
This Day in History
1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts
1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1923 - Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1935 - The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began in Alameda, CA, when the flying boat known as the China Clipper left for Manila. The craft was carrying over 110,000 pieces of mail.
1942 - Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
1942 - During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad began.
1943 - FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons defeated the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18.
1954 - The Humane Society forms
1955 - RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1961 - Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President.
1968 - Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album
1968 - 1st interracial TV kiss, Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura
1972 - U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China
1976 - Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts
1977 - Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins
1980 - Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil.
1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers? Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
1985 - Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become U.S. citizens
1990 - George Bush has Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia
1996 - O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.
2005 - Ted Koppel retires after hosting Nightline for over 26 years.
Famous Birthday’s
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School)
1932 - Robert Vaughn NYC, actor (Napoleon Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy)
1943 - Billie Jean King Cal, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis L.A. CA, actress ( Halloween, Trading Places, True Lies)
1961 - Mariel Hemingway Ketchum Id, actress (Manhattan, Personal Best)
Famous Death’s
1718 - Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, dies off Virginia coast
1963 - John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas, born 1917
1980 - Mae West dies at her Hollywood residence at 87, born 1893
1983 - Michael Conrad actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58
Joke of the Day
Thanksgiving Day Poem
MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY,
MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP.
MAY YOUR POTATOES 'N GRAVY
HAVE NARY A LUMP,
MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS,
MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE,
MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER
STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS.
Why did the turkey cross the road?--------------It was the chicken's day off.
If the Pilgrims were alive today, what would they be most famous for?--------Their AGE
Why can't you take a turkey to church?------------Because they use such FOWL language
What are the feathers on a turkey's wings called?---------------------- ------Turkey feathers
Can a turkey jump higher than the Empire State Building? Yes - a building can't jump
What do you get when you cross a turkey with an octopus?
Enough drumsticks for Thanksgiving
Which side of the turkey has the most feathers?-------------------- --------------The outside
Why did the police arrest the turkey?---------------------- --They suspected it of fowl play
What did the turkey say before it was roasted?--------------------- ---------Boy! I'm stuffed!
Why did the Indian chief wear so many feathers?-------------------- -To keep his wigwam
What happened to the Pilgrim who was shot at by an Indian?---He had an arrow escape
Thanksgiving is a traditional American Holiday where families all over the United States sit for dinner at the same time— otherwise called Halftime
Ode to Thanksgiving
To our national birds, The American Eagle, The Thanksgiving Turkey
May one give us peace in all our states--And the other a piece for all our plates
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked the stock boy, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?" The stock boy answered, "No ma'am, they're dead."
Thanksgiving Divorce
A man in Phoenix calls his son in New York the day before Thanksgiving and says,"I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.
"Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams. We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the father says. "We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her."
Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. "Like heck they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this,"
She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at her father, "You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" and hangs up. The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife.
"Okay," he says, "they're coming for Thanksgiving and paying their own way."
A man forgot to buy turkey for Thanksgiving
It's the day before Thanksgiving, and the butcher is just locking up when a man begins pounding on the front door.
"Please let me in," says the man desperately. "I forgot to buy a turkey, and my wife will kill me if I don't come home with one."
"Okay," says the butcher. "Let me see what I have left." He goes into the freezer and discovers that there's only one scrawny turkey left. He brings it out to show the man.
"That's one is too skinny. What else you got?" says the man.
The butcher takes the bird back into the freezer and waits a few minutes and brings the same turkey back out to the man.
"Oh, no," says the man, "That one doesn't look any better. You better give me both of them!"
World Records
Most Calves in a Single Birth
The most calves born in a single birth is five, all of whom were born on March 18, 2005 at the Santa Clara Ranch, Congregacion Garza, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The owners are Mr Guadalupe Olivares Garza & Sons.
Highest Ranking Camel
The world's highest ranking law-enforcement camel is Bert, who was accepted as Reserve Deputy Sheriff for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, San Dimas, USA on April 5, 2003 and regulary goes on patrol with his handler Nance Fite (USA).
Fastest Car Widow opened by a Dog
The fastest time a dog has unwound a non-electric car window is 11.34 seconds and was achieved by Striker, a border collie owned and trained by Francis V. Gadassi (Hungary). The record was set on September 1, 2004 in Quebéc City, Canada.
Black November
A Turkey's Lament
When I was a young turkey, new to the coop,
My big brother Mike took me out on the stoop,
Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow,
And he told me there was something that I had to know;
His look and his tone I will always remember,
When he told me of the horrors of ..... Black November;
"Come about August, now listen to me,
Each day you'll be thick, where once you were thin,
And you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin.
"And then one morning, when you're warm in your bed,
In'll burst the farmer's wife, and hack off your head;
"Then she'll pluck out all your feathers so you're bald'n pink,
And scoop out all your insides and leave ya lyin' in the sink,
"And then comes the worst part" he said not bluffing,
"She'll spread your cheeks and pack your rear with stuffing".
Well, the rest of his words were too grim to repeat,
I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat,
And decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked,
I'd have to lay low and remain overlooked;
I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
High-roughage salads, juice and diet cola,
And as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes,
I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes,
I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half,
And tried not to notice when the bigger birds laughed;
But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath,
As they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death;
And sure enough when Black November rolled around,
I was the last turkey left in the entire compound;
So now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap;
I haven't a worry, so I eat and I nap,
She held me today, while sewing and humming,
And smiled at me and said "Christmas is coming........"
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