Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, November 6th
November 6th 2007 00:44
This Day in History
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.
1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - During World War I, Candian forces take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
1928 - Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Dem. Alfred E. Smith.
1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
1936 - RCA displays TV for the first time for the press
1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1956 - The Eisenhower-Nixon Republican ticket won the presidential elections
1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Senator of Mass. Democrat )
1965 - The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.
1966 - 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on for 29 years.
1984 - President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger TX, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a family spy ring.
1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.
1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. Iraqi forces had blown up an estimated 732 Kuwaiti oil wells.
1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career.
2002 - Winona Ryder is found guilty of shoplifting after stealing items worth $5,500 from a New York boutique.
2003 - Pres. Bush signed the $87.5 billion Iraq spending bill.
2004 - Over 50 people were killed across central Iraq including nearly 2 dozen Americans.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
Famous Birthday’s
1851 - Charles H Dow co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal, Died 1902
1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943 in WW II)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler Nazi SS leader
1916 - Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d.2002)
1946 - Sally Field Pasadena CA, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun, Forrest Gump)
1948 - Glenn Frey Detroit, rocker (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1970 - Ethan Hawke, actor (Dead Poets Society, Explorers, Training Day, Lord of War)
Joke of the Day
Missing
A guy (we'll call him Aaron) was laying down carpet in some woman's home.
As he was finishing, he got a craving for a cigarette.
Aaron looked around and discovered that his cigarettes were missing.
He did, however, notice a bump in the carpet and figured that he had laid carpet over the pack without noticing it there. Aaron decided rather than to take up the carpet, he would get a hammer and pound it into the ground so no one would know.
When he finished that, the owner of the house walked into the room and commented on what a nice job he had done.
"Aaron, The carpet looks wonderful!" she exclaimed. "Here are your cigarettes; I found them in the kitchen. Oh yes, by the way, have you seen my cellphone?"
Two Fools Flying
Two morons stand on a cliff with their arms outstretched. One has some budgies lined up on each arm, the other has parrots lined up on his arms.
After a couple of minutes, they both leap off the cliff and fall to the ground.
Laying next to each other in intensive care at the hospital, one moron says to the other, "I don't think much of this budgie jumping."
The other moron replies, "Yeah, I'm not too keen on this paragliding either."
World Records
Most Live Rattlesnakes sat in a bathtub with
Jackie Bibby and Rosie Reynolds-McCasland (both USA) jointly hold the record having sat in two separate tubs, each with 75 Western Diamondback rattlesnakes on the set of 'Guinness World Records
Most Live Rattlesnakes held in the mouth(Yummy)
The most live Rattlesnakes held in the mouth by their tails is eight by Jackie Bibby (USA) for 12.5 seconds without any assistance at Guinness World Records Experience, Orlando, Florida, USA on May 19, 2001.
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