Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, December 10th
December 10th 2007 01:01
This Day in History
1817 - Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th American state.
1896 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1903 - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1906 - 1st American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - President Theodore Roosevelt
1915 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1919 - National League votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
1920 - President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
1922 - Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1922 - Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville TN
1939 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, they beat the New York Giants 27-0
1941 - Japan invaded the Philippines.
1941 - Aircraft from USS Enterprise attack and sink Japanese Submarine I-70 north of Hawaiian Islands. I-70 is the first Japanese combatant ship sunk during World War II.
1941 - LT Utter shoots down Japanese ZERO in first Navy air-to-air kill during World War II.
1941 - With no weapon larger than the .30 caliber MG, 153 Marines defended Guam until overwhelmed.
1950 - The U.S. Air Force completed a four-day mission in which it airdropped 1,580 tons of supplies and equipment and evacuated 4,687 casualties from the Chosin Reservoir.
1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.
1963 - 6 year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on the Andy Williams Show
1964 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr,He’s the youngest to receive it
1970 - The defense opens its case in the murder trial of Lt. William Calley in his role in the My Lai massacres.
1971 - Jim Hart throws a football for a record 98 yards, the longest recorded throw.
1983 - Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat New York Jets 34-7
1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1986 - Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1987 - "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time
1993 - The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed the repaired Hubble Space Telescope back into Earth's orbit.
1995 - 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
1995 - Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (started Dec 9th)
2001 - In Kenya Sheikh Ahmed Swedan, an al Qaeda operative, was arrested in Mandera near the Somalia border for involvement in the Aug 7, 1998 US Embassy bombing.
2004 - Staff Sgt. Johnny M. Horne Jr. (30) of Wilson, N.C., was sentenced to three years in prison for killing severely wounded Qasim Hassan (16) in Sadr City on Aug 18.
2004 - A US passenger jet, United Flight 869, landed in Vietnam, the first since the Vietnam War ended nearly 30 years ago.
Famous Birthday’s
1830 - Emily Dickinson, poet, Only 7 of 1,789 her poems got published while she was alive
1929 - Dan Blocker Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)Died 1972
1941 - Tim Considine Louisville KY, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
1952 - Susan Hallock Dey Illinois, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
1970 - Bryant Stith NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
Famous Death’s
1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
1909 - Red Cloud Sioux Indian chief, dies
1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
1967 - Otis Redding singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26, 4 others died in the crash
1982 - Freeman "Amos" Gosden US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
2005 - Richard Pryor, comedian and actor, (Stir Crazy, Superman 3, The Toy, Harlem Nights, Brewster's Millions) Died of a Heart attack/MS 8 days after his 65th birthday.
Joke of the Day
They Are In The Shower
A salesman rang the doorbell and little Johnny answered. The salesman asked if his father was at home. Johnny said, "Yes."
The salesman said, "Well, can I see him please?"
Johnny snickered and said, "No, he is in the shower."
Then the salesman asked if his mother was at home.
Johnny said, "Yes."
The salesman said, "Well can I see her?"
Johnny snickered again and said, "No, she's in the shower too."
The salesman then asked, "Do you think they will be out soon?"
Johnny laughed this time and said "No."
The salesman asked, "Why?"
"Well", Johnny said, "when my dad asked me for the Vaseline, I gave him some Super Glue."
Eating at a Chinese restaurant
My friend Ann and I were eating at a Chinese restaurant. When an elderly waiter set chopsticks at our places, Ann made a point of reaching into her purse and pulling out her own pair.
"As an environmentalist," she declared, "I do not approve of destroying bamboo forests for throwaway utensils."
The waiter inspected her chopsticks. "Very beautiful," he said politely. "Ivory."
World Records
The Most decks of cards ripped one handed in 30 seconds
Big Steve McGranahan (USA) ripped 10 decks of cards in 29 seconds on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Feb 10, 2005
"Heaviest aircraft pulled by an individual"
David Huxley (GWR) of Australia pulled a Boeing 747 400 weighing an incredible 412,264lb (187 tons) a distance on 298 ft 6 inches in 60 seconds on October 15,1997. Sydney Australia.
Fastest Time To Break 16 Concrete Blocks
On September 28, 2002, Britain's "pocket Hercules" Frederick Burton piled 16 blocks on his chest and had these smashed in a time of 12.70 seconds. Each block broken by colleague Peter Johnson with a sledgehammer in a record-breaking time.
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