Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, January 16th
January 16th 2008 00:33
1547 - Ivan IV the Terrible (age 17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Russia
1883 - The United States Civil Service Commission was established
1919 - Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th
1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, becomes the law of the land - one year after ratification; it is repealed in 1933
1920 - 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
1939 - Comic strip "Superman" debuts
1941 - War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1941 - US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1943 - German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
1943 - Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
1944 - General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1951 - Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
1957 - 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round the world flights
1961 - Mickey Mantle signed a contract that made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League at $75,000 for the 1961 season.
1962 - Shooting begins on the 007 movie "Dr No" with Sean Connery starring ✮✭✮d 29;✮
1963 - Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
1965 - "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV
1973 - NBC presents the 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"
1974 - "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
1974 - New York Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
1976 - "Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
1976 - Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"
1980 - Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
1981 - Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth
1984 - Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait , with an Apache helicopter attack
1997 - Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, 27, was shot to death while changing a flat tire in L.A.
1998 - It was announced that Texas would receive $15.3 billion in a tobacco industry settlement. The payouts were planned to take place over 25 years.
2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
2005 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman to do so.
Famous Birthday’s
1910 - David McCampbell US pilot/captain (WWII-Pacific-downed 34 Japanese planes)
1935 - A J Foyt , auto race driver (He Won the Indy 500 in1961, 64, 67, 77)
1944 - Ronnie Milsap NC, blind country singer (Legend in My Time, Wasted Days)
1948 - John Carpenter Carthage NY, director (Halloween, The Thing, Escape from L.A.)
1964 - Mark Collins NFL corner/safety (N.Y. Giants, K.C. Chiefs, Green Bay Packers)
1974 - Kate Moss, English supermodel/actress(Inferno)
Famous Death’s
1972 - David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian] (Alvin & Chipmunks), dies at 52
1979 - Ted Cassidy Pittsburgh PA, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46
1993 - Glenn Corbett US actor (Shenandoah, Chisum, Midway), dies at 63
1997 - Ennis Cosby son of Bill Cosby, murdered on L.A. highway at 29 changing a tire.
2007 - Benny Parsons, Nascar driver(1973 Winston Cup, 21 Wins, 283 Top Tens in 526 races) and an announcer on TBS, ESPN, NBC and TNT.(Died of Lung Cancer)
Joke of the Day
Some Race Horses Talking
Some race horses staying in a stable. One of them starts to boast about his track record. "In the last 15 races, I've won 8 of them!"
Another horse breaks in, "Well in the last 27 races, I've won 19!!"
"Oh that's good, but in the last 36 races, I've won 28!", says another, flicking his tail.
At this point, they notice that a greyhound dog has been sitting there listening. "I don't mean to boast," says the greyhound, "but in my last 90 races, I've won 88 of them!"
The horses are clearly amazed. "Wow!" says one, after a hushed silence. "A talking dog."
Late for Work
Late for work already, I was annoyed to find a strange car in my reserved parking space again. After locating a spot far away, I stormed into my office determined, to have the car towed. As the morning wore on, however, my anger cooled, and I decided to give the driver another chance.
During lunchtime, I went outside and left this note on the driver's windshield:
"Please don't take my parking space. If you do, and your car disappears, don't say I never towed you!"
World Records
Longest Tongue
Steven Taylor’s tongue measures 3.7 inches from the tip to the center of his closed top lip. It was measured at the Westwood medical center, Coventry, Warwickshire, UK.
Shortest man
The shortest mature human of whom there is independent evidence was Gul Mohammed On July 19, 1990, he was examined and found to measure a height of 22.5 inches.
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