Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, October 29th
October 29th 2007 00:31
This Day in History
1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.
1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
1929 - "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
1940 - Sec of War H L Stimson drew 1st number in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1942 - 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
1942 - Alaska highway completed
1943 - 3 Allied officers escaped the German camp Stalag Luft 3.
1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a WW II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis.
1956 - The Huntley-Brinkley Report premiered on NBC with Chet Huntley & David Brinkley
1960 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.
1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1971 - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700
1979 - On the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters tried but failed to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
1980 - USS Parsons (DDG-33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of Saigon.
1982 - Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1988 - 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1989 - A public mourning, involving over 20,000 East Berliners, was observed with a minute of silence for the people who had been killed while trying to flee over the Berlin Wall.
1990 - Bernard Shaw of CNN interviews Saddam Hussein before the Persian Gulf War.
1993 - A group of U.S. athletes were attacked by skinheads in Germany.
1994 - Francisco M Duran fired more than two dozen shots at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania Ave. Duran was later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Clinton
1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
1998 - In Freehold, NJ, Melissa Drexler was sentenced to 15 years in prison for strangling her baby after giving birth in the bathroom at her senior prom.
2000 - The wounded destroyer USS Cole departed Aden, Yemen, towed by tugboats to a Norwegian heavy-lift ship to be taken home to repair the gaping hole in its side; 17 sailors were killed in a suicide bombing attack on Oct. 12.
2001 - A hospital worker in NY and a woman who handled mail in New Jersey were found to have anthrax. Since Oct 4 a total of 37 people have tested positive for anthax.
2004 - Osama bin Laden appeared in a new video. He claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks and claimed more violence is possible and vowed to bleed America to bankruptcy.
Famous Birthday’s
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss Brooklyn NY, actor (American Graffiti, Jaws, What about Bob)
1948 - Kate Jackson, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels, Scarecrow and Mrs. King)
1960 - Finola Hughes actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
1961 - Randy Jackson rocker (Jacksons-ABC)
1971 - Winona Ryder [Horowitz], Mn, actress (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhand, Mermaids)
Famous Death’s
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh(English Explorer) is executed in London(born 1554)
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general was in 8 battles (b. 1821)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer American newspaperman, established the Pulitzer Prizes
Joke of the Day
Halloween Delivery
The orthopedic surgeon I work for was moving to a new office, and his staff was helping transport many of the items.
I sat the display skeleton in the front of my car, his bony arm across the back of my seat. I hadn't considered the drive across town. At one traffic light, the stares of the people in the car beside me became obvious, and I looked across and explained, "I'm delivering him to my doctor's office."
The other driver leaned out of his window. "I hate to tell you, lady," he said, "but I think it's too late!"
Q: Why did the mummy call the doctor? --------------------------- A: Because he was coffin
Q: What's a mummy's favorite music? ----------------------------- --- A: Ragtime.
Weddings and Funerals
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next."
They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.
Yard Work
The homeowner got into his old work clothes one Saturday morning and set about all the chores his wife had been urging him to do all week. He cleaned the garage, pruned the hedge, and was halfway through mowing the lawn when a woman pulled up in the driveway and called out her window, "Say, what do you get for yard work?"
The fellow thought for a moment, then answered, "The lady who lives here lets me sleep with her."
World Records
Oldest Crocodilian
The greatest authenticated age for a crocodilian is 66 years -achieved by a female American alligator that arrived at Adelaide zoo, South Australia, on June 5, 1914 when she was two years old. She died on September 26, 1978.
Oldest Snake
The greatest reliable age recorded for a snake is 40 years 3 months in 14 days for a male common Boa constrictor named Popeye, who died at the Philadelphia zoo, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1977.
Longest Snake
The reticulated Python of Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines regularly exceeds 20ft 6in(6.25m) and the record length is 32 feet 9.5in(10m) for a specimen shot in Celebes, Indonesia in 1912.
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