Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, October 30th
October 29th 2007 23:56
This Day in History
1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history. He was later hung.
1864 - Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold.
1888 - 1st ballpoint pen patented
1919 - Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of the spitball
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
1941 - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
1944 - Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1945 - US government announces end of shoe rationing
1948 - 20 die & 14,000 made ill by killer smog caused by pollutants in Donora Pennsylvania
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican
1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved an order to remove Joseph Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.
1965 - Da Nang, US Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
1966 - The Zodiac Killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, Calif.
1970 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1972 - US President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
1974 - "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
1974 - California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
1985 - Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for a mission its final successful mission.
1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
1988 - NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
1989 - Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1991 - Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29)
1993 - Martin Fettman, America's first veterinarian in space, performed the world's first animal dissections in space, while aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
1997 - Al-Sha'if tribesmen kidnapped a US businessman near Sanaa, Yemen. He was released
2001 - Michael Jordan returned to the NBA with the Washington Wizards after a 3 1/2 year retirement. The Wizards lost 93-91 to the New York Knicks.
2002 - In Belarus(between Russia and Ukraine) authorities reported the discovery of a mass grave on a military base at Slutsk with the remains of up to 12,000 people killed during World War II. Some 800,000 Jew of Belarus were killed by Nazis.
2004 - The US Army extended Iraq tours by 2 months for some 6,500 soldiers.
Famous Birthday’s
1735 - John Adams, Braintree, Mass (F) 2nd president (1797-1801)
1882 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
1918 - Ted Williams Red Sox hitter (AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)
1939 - Grace Slick Chicago, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit)
1945 - Henry Winkler NYC, actor (Fonz-Happy Days, Night Shift)
Famous Death’s
1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (murdered) (b. 1965)
2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress, Hawaii Five-O, died of a stroke(b. 1924)
Joke of the Day
Fixing the Headstone
Two men were walking home after a Halloween party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the cemetery they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows.
Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.
"Holy cow, Mister," one of them said after catching his breath, "You scared us half to death -- we thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late at night?"
"Those fools!" the old man grumbled. "They misspelled my name!"
Mummy Music
Q: What kind of music do mummies listen to? ----------------------------- ----- A: Wrap!
Top Ten Reasons Why Trick-or-Treating is Better Than Sex
10. You are guaranteed to get at least a little something in the sack.
9. If you get tired, wait ten minutes and go back at it again.
8. The stranger you look, the easier it is to get some.
7. You don't have to compliment the person who gave it to you.
6. Person you are with doesn't fantasize you're someone else, you already are.
5. If you get a stomach ache, it won't last nine months.
4. If you wear leather and chains, no one thinks you're kinky.
3. Doesn't matter if kids hear you moaning and groaning.
2. Less guilt the next morning from over-indulging.
1. If you don't get what you want at one place, you can always go next door to get more!
World Records
Stretchiest Skin
Garry Turner, of Caistor, Lincolnshire, England, stretched the skin of his stomach to a distended length of 6.25 in on the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime in Los Angeles, California, USA, on October 29, 1999.
Heaviest Kidney Stone
Peter Baulman (Australia) had a kidney stone removed from his right kidney in December 2003 at The Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia, weighing 12.5 oz and measuring at its widest point, 4.66 in.
Longest Leg Hair
A hair growing on the thigh of the left leg of Tim Stinton (Australia) was found to have reached a length of 4.88 in when measured at Box Hill South, Victoria, Australia, on February 2, 2005.
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