Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, October 22nd
October 22nd 2007 01:15
This Day in History
1797 - 3,200 feet above Paris, André Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1861 - The 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts was completed.
1917 - U.S.A. seized raw material for war that had been purchased and stored by Germans in the U.S.A. during the first two years of the war.
1926 - J. G. Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by the FBI.
1939 - The first televised pro football game, Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 23-14.
1942 - On Guadalcanal, the Japanese attack again over the Matanikau River with a strong force of tanks and infantry. They are thrown back with heavy losses
1943 - World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb.
1950 - The Los Angeles Rams set an NFL record by defeating the Baltimore Colts 70-27.
1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 - President J. F. Kennedy announces on TV that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
1968 - Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times
1972 - Operation Linebacker I, the bombing of North Vietnam with B-52 bombers, ended.
1975 - Sergeant Leonard Matlovich is discharged after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads " "A gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing 2 men and a discharge for loving one." He was on the cover of Time.
1978 - Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
1979 - Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
1981 - US national debt tops $1 trillion
1983 - At the Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia, an armed man crashed a truck through front gates and demanded to speak with U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1988 - Sir Elton John sells out Madison Square Gardens for a record 26th time
1990 - Grunge band Pearl Jam, play their first show as a band at the Off Ramp club in Seattle.
1991 - General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion
1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2001 - Def. Sec. Donald Rumsfeld denied that US and British planes bombed a hospital in Herat where the Taliban claimed 100 people were killed.
2001 - A 2nd Washington DC postal worker, Joseph Curseen (47), died of inhalation anthrax.
2002 - Special Forces in the Pankisi Gorge had captured 15 Arab militants linked to al Qaeda.
2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2006 - Michael Schumacher drives his last Formula 1 Race.
Famous Birthday’s
1903 - Curly Howard, actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future 1 2, Angels in the Outfield)
1939 - Tony Roberts NYC, actor (Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show)
1942 - Annette Funicello, actress (Mickey Mouse Club, Shaggy Dog, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1952 - Jeff Goldblum Pitts Pa, actor (The Fly, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Holy Man)
1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player for the Seattle Mariners - # 51 & he makes $17 million a year after signing a $90 million contract in 2007.
1980 - Michael Fishman actor (DJ-Roseanne)
Famous Death’s
1932 - Anna Dickinson first woman to speak before Congress and to climb Colorado’s Long Peak mountain in 1873. Anna dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday.
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd or Public enemy #1 shot dead by Melvin Purvis & FBI
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i, aka Yokozuna, 6ft 5in American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
Joke of the Day
A police recruit was asked during the exam, "What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?"
He said, "Call for backup."
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A Sunday School teacher asked her class why Joseph and Mary took Jesus with them to
Jerusalem. A small child replied: "They couldn't get a babysitter."
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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to "honor thy father and thy mother," she asked "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?" Without missing a beat, one little boy answered, "Thou shall not kill."
Chinese mothers
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
World Records
Largest Lizard
The largest lizard is the Komodo dragon, otherwise known as the Komodo monitor or ora, found on the Indonesian islands. Males average 7ft 5in(2.25m) in length and weigh about 130 pounds(59kg). The largest accurately measured specimen was a male presented to an American zoologist in 1928 by the Sultan of Bimo. For short. In 1937 it was put on display in St. Louis Zoological Gardens, Missouri by which time it was 10ft 2in long and weighed 365 pounds.
Heaviest Living Snake
The heaviest living snake is a Burmese python that weighed 403lb’s(182.5kg) on November 20, 1998. She is 25 years old, 27ft(8.22m) long and has a birth of 28 inches (71cm). Known as “Baby” she lives the Serpent Safari Park in Gurnee, Illinois and is still living and growing Today.
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