Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, January 8th
January 8th 2008 02:00
This Day in History
1870 - US mint at Carson City NV begins issuing coins
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fought their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry
1894 - Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1902 - 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago IL)
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1918 - Woodrow Wilson announces his "14 Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1925 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1937 - -50ºF (-45.6ºC), San Jacinto NV (state record)
1940 - Britain's 1st WWII rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
1951 - Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow(a sea bird) is rediscovered in Bermuda
1953 - Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
1954 - Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
1955 - Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes to #1 for 11 weeks
1958 - Bobby Fisher, at the age of 14, won the United States Chess Championship.
1961 - Robert Goulet made his national TV debut this night on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty."
1968 - Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV 1
1973 - Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1974 - Loch Ness Monster photographed
1975 - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
1979 - Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh
1982 - American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) settled the Justice Dept's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divide itself into 22 Bell System companys
1987 - Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
1992 - US President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour.
1993- NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
1994 - Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. She lost the title later because of her involvement in the attack.
1996 - For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1998 - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
1998 - World Trade Center bomber mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
2004 - The U.S. Defense Department announced it had designated former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a prisoner of war.
2005 - The U.S. military said an air strike in Mosul, Iraq, hit the wrong target, demolishing a civilian home and killing 14 people.
Famous Birthday’s
1923 - Larry Storch New York City NY, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)
1926 - Soupy Sales [Milton Hines], North Carolina, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
1935 - Elvis Aaron Presley Tupelo MS, rocker (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)D. 1977
1935 - Jesse Garon Presley stillborn twin brother of Elvis
1937 - Bob Eubanks Flint MI, TV host (Newlywed Game)
1942 - Stephen Hawking English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
1946 - Kathleen Noone actress (All My Children, Party of 5, Knots Landing)
1947 - David Bowie, Singer/actor/producer(China Girl, Ashes to Ashes, Zoolander)
1951 - John McTiernan Albany NY, actor (Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man)
Famous Death’s
1642 - Galileo Galilei Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 78 in Arceti Italy
1991 - Steve Clark guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
1994 - Pat Buttram, actor(Mr. Haney on Green Acres) (b. 1915)
1998 - Walter Diemer inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur(Wendy’s) (b. 1932)
Joke of the Day
Top 10 Reasons to Become a Nurse
1. Pays better than fast food, though the hours aren't as good.
2. Fashionable shoes & sexy uniforms.
3. Needles: It's better to give than to receive.
4. Reassure your patients that all bleeding stops eventually.
5. Expose yourself to rare, exotic, & exciting new diseases.
6. Interesting aromas.
7. Courteous & infallible doctors who always leave clear orders in perfectly legible handwriting.
8. Do enough charting to navigate around the world.
9. Celebrate the holidays with all your friends, at work.
10. Take comfort that most of your patients survive no matter what you do to them.
Did You Ever Wonder?
- Can you cry under water?
- How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
- If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
- Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
- Why do you have to "put your two cents in"...but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
- Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
- Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
- What did cured ham actually have?
- How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
World Records
Largest Pedal-Powered Vehicle
The largest pedal-powered vehicle is capable of carrying 82 riders and was built by the Hägglunds Marine Septoped Sällskap in Örnsköldsvik (Sweden) on September 3, 2005.
Highest Limousine
The world's highest limousine, from the ground to the roof, measures 3.33 m (10 ft 11 in). Built by Gary and Shirley Duval (Australia) it has an eight wheel independent suspension system and sits on eight monster truck tyres. It has two separate engines and took a little over 4,000 hours to complete.
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