Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, December 31st, Happy New Years Eve
December 31st 2007 02:05
This Day in History
1841 - Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
1857 - Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln signed an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.
1877 - President Rutherford B. Hayes became the first U.S. President to celebrate his silver (25th) wedding anniversary in the White House.
1879 - Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of incandescent lighting to an audience in Menlo Park, NJ.
1891 - New York's new Immigration Depot was opened at Ellis Island, to provide improved facilities for the massive numbers of arrivals.
1897 - Brooklyn, NY, spent its last day as a separate entity before becoming part of NY City.
1907 - For the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year
1911 - Marie Curie received her second Nobel Prize for her work on radioactive elements.
1914 - Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000
1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
1946 - U.S. President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
1947 - Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were married.
1951 - The "Wild Bill Hickok" series came to radio following its success on television.
1953 - Willie Shoemaker broke his own record as he won his 485th race of the year.
1955 - General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to earn more than one billion dollars in a single year.
1960 - The farthing coin, which had been in use in Great Britain since the 13th century, ceased to be legal tender.
1961 - In the U.S., the Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
1967 - The Green Bay Packers won the National Football League championship game by defeating the Dallas Cowboys 21-17. The game is known as the Ice Bowl since it was played in a wind chill of 40 degrees below zero. (NFL)
1970 - Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin
1974 - Private U.S. citizens were allowed to buy and own gold for the first time in more than 40 years.
1977 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam
1977 - Ted Bundy(serial killer) escapes from jail in Colorado
1978 - Taiwanese diplomats struck their colors for the final time from the embassy flagpole in Washington, DC. The event marked the end of diplomatic relations with the U.S.
1979 - At year end oil prices were 88% higher than at the start of 1979.
1981 - Netherlands unemployment stands at record 475,000
1981 - CNN Headline News debuts
1997 - Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service
1997 - More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
1997 - Quaker Oats settles a lawsuit involving the immoral use of child subjects in radioactivity experiments circa 1945-1956.
1997 - Michael Kennedy, 39-year-old son of the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was designated acting president.
1999 - The United States Government handed Panama Canal control over to Panama as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties
1999 - Sarah Knauss died at the age of 119 years. She was the world's oldest person. She was born September 24, 1880.
2002 - President Bush told reporters an attack by Saddam Hussein or a terrorist ally "would cripple our economy."
2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
2004 - Ricardo Palmera (54) became the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to be sent to face prosecution in a U.S. federal court.
2006 - The United Kingdom pays final installment of Second World War debt to the United States.
Famous Birthday’s
1922 - Rex Allen Wilcox AZ, cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor)
1943 - John Denver [Henry John Deutschendorf Jr] Roswell NM, singer/songwriter/actor (Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy, Oh God!) Died in 1997
1947 - Tim Matheson California, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek)
1948 - Donna Summer Boston MA, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
1951 - George Thorogood, musician(Bad to the Bone, Who do you Love, Move it on Over)
1959 - Val [Edward] Kilmer actor (The Saint, Top Gun, The Doors)
1959 - Bebe Neuwirth Princeton NJ, actress (Lilith-Cheers, Damn Yankees)
1963 - Scott Ian US heavy metal guitarist (Anthrax-I'm the Man)
Famous Death’s
1985 - Rick Nelson singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
1985 - Sam Spiegel Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84
1997 - 76 law enforcement officers killed by felons in US this year
1997 - Michael Kennedy son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39
Joke of the Day
Great Gift Idea
A husband walks into Fredrick's of Hollywood to purchase some sheer lingerie for his wife. He is shown several possibilities that range from $250 to $500 in price, the more sheer, the higher the price. He opts for the most sheer item, pays the $500 and takes the lingerie home. He presents it to his wife and asks her to go upstairs, put it on and model it for him. Upstairs, the wife thinks, "I have an idea. It's so sheer that it might as well be nothing. I won't put it on, do the modeling naked, return it tomorrow and keep the $500 refund for myself."
So she appears naked on the balcony and strikes a pose.
The husband says, "Good Lord! You'd think that for $500, they'd at least iron it!"
Oops
A man returned home from the night shift and went straight up to the bedroom and found his wife with the sheet pulled over her head, fast asleep. Not to be denied, the horny
husband crawled under the sheet and proceeded to make love to her.
Afterward, as he hurried downstairs for something to eat, he was startled to find breakfast on the table and his wife pouring coffee.
"How'd you get down her so fast?" he asked. "We were just making love!"
"Oh my God," his wife gasped, "That's my mother up there!
She came over early and had complained of having a headache.
I told her to lie down for awhile."
Rushing upstairs, the wife ran to the bedroom. "Mother, I can't believe this happened. Why didn't you say something?"
The mother-in-law huffed, "I haven't spoken to that jerk for fifteen years and I wasn't about to start now!"
A Day At The Vet's
One day a man took his poodle to the veterinarian. As he walked into the waiting room, he noticed a very attractive young woman with her Great Dane.
He sits next to her, trying desperately to think of *something* to say to this woman. The best he can come up with is, "That's a big dog."
She smiles, and leans over to pat his dog on the head. She turns and says, "Yes, he is. Now, what's wrong with your little dog?"
He replies, "Well, he's a male dog, you see. And whenever we have company over, he trys to introduce various bits of himself to their shins. It's become a problem, so I'm here to take care of it."
"So, why are you and your really big dog here?" He's really hitting it off with her!
"Well, my dog is male too. I have the same problem with him: when I bend over in the kitchen, he jumps up behind me, puts his paws on my shoulders and, well,..."
"Oh, yes, I see," the man interrupts. "So you're hear to get him fixed too?"
"Oh no,... to get his nails clipped."
World Records
Shakespeare Recital World Record
On 15 - 16 February 2004, more than 150 people of the Wellesley College Shakespeare Society read aloud the complete work of Shakespeare (39 plays, 154 sonnets and poetry) in a record time of 22 hours and 05 minutes.
The solo record is held by Adrian Hilton of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire who - armed with a host of friends to keep him awake, and with advice from NASA on nutrition and the effects of sleeplessness - took a mammoth 110 hours and 46 minutes - almost 5 days - to complete the recital at the International Shakespeare Festival in 1987.
Worlds Largest Barf bag collection
The largest collection of “airsickness” bags was amassed by marketing and investment consultant Niek Vermeulen of the Netherlands who has the world's largest collection of “barf bags” with over 3,728 optical different bags from over 802 different airlines (counted in March 2004) and a further 10,000 spare bags.
Niek and his family embark upon nearly 70 international flights each year, harvesting sickbags along the way. His favorite bag is an airsickness bag from a NASA space shuttle, which spent 16 days in space.
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