Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, November 9th
November 9th 2007 00:52
This Day in History
1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 - T. Roosevelt is 1st President to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)
1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1921 - USS Olympia arrives at the Washington Navy Yard from France carrying the body of the Unknown Soldier for internment at Arlington National Cemetery.
1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass."
1939 - Hitler survives attempted murder by explosion, the man plotting is sent to concentration camp.
1940 - Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WW II
1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1950 - Corporal Harry J. LaVene, a tail gunner on a RB-29 over Sinuiju, became the first aerial gunner to shoot down a MiG-15.
1961 - Major Robert White flew an X-15 rocket plane at a record speed of 4,093 mph.
1965 - Willie Mays named NL MVP
1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1965 - Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1975 - The Great Lakes "bulker" the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior.
1979 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran to release all American hostages "without delay." Militants, mostly students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4.
1984 - A bronze statue titled "Three Servicemen," by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1989 - East German opened the Berlin Wall, allowing travel from East to West Berlin.
1992 - Joe Nemechek wins the Busch title by three points over Bobby Labonte in the closest points race in series history.
1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors
1999 - Germany celebrated the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, With a party!
2000 - William Leonard Pickard (55) and Clyde Apperson (45) of California were indicted by a grand jury in Kansas City for running a massive LSD laboratory inside a decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Wamego, Ka.
2004 - U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians.
Famous Birthday’s
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor(Samson & Dalila)Died 2000.
1918 - Spiro Theodore Agnew (R) 39th VP (1973-77), crook, Died 1996
1932 - Carl Perkins singer (Blue Suede Shoes)
1936 - Mary Travers Louisville KY, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival, Proud Mary) (d. 1990)
1951 - Lou Ferrigno Brooklyn NY, body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk)
1970 - Chris Jericho, 231lb 5ft 10in Pro-wrestler in the WCW & WWF
1971 - David Duval, American Golfer and former #1 in the world
Famous Death’s
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France, Born 1890
2003 - Art Carney, actor(Ed Norton in the Honeymooners)Born 1918
2006 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, died of leukemia at 65.
Joke of the Day
Overweight Blonde
An overweight blonde consulted her doctor for advice. The doctor advised that she run ten miles a day for thirty days. This, he promised, would help her lose as many as twenty pounds. The blonde followed the doctor's advice, and, after thirty days, she was pleased to find that she had indeed lost the pesky twenty pounds. She phoned the doctor and thanked him for the wonderful advice which produced such effective results.
At the end of the conversation, however, she asked one last question: "How do I get home, now 300 miles away?"
Universal Time
A customer calls the round-the-clock tech support hotline to ask what hours the call center is open. "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week," says the technician who answers the call.
Then Customer asks, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time?"
Where's The Lady Of The House?
A guy dials his home phone from work. A strange woman answers.
The guy says, "Who is this?"
"This is the maid.", answered the woman.
"We don't have a maid!"
"I was just hired this morning by the lady of the house."
"Well, this is her husband. Is she there?"
"Ummm .... she's upstairs in the bedroom with someone who I just figured was her husband."
The guy is fuming. He says to the maid, "Listen, would you like to make $50,000?"
"What do I have to do?"
"I want you to get my gun from my desk in the den and shoot that witch and the jerk she is with." The maid puts down the phone. The guy hears footsteps, followed by two gunshots.
The maid comes back to the phone. "What should I do with the bodies?"
"Throw them in the swimming pool!"
"What?! There's no pool here?"
Long pause... "Uh .... is this 221-1811?"
World Records
Longest Tennis Marathon, Doubles
The longest competitive doubles tennis match lasting 48 hours and 15 minutes was played between Brian Jahrsdoerfer & Michel Lavoie and Peter Okpokpo & Warner Tse (all USA) at Westside Tennis Club, Houston, Texas, USA over April 13-15, 2006.
Longest Contra Line
A total of 875 people danced for over five minutes on March 14, 2003 at Waid Academy, Anstruther, Fife, to the dance 'The Waid Waggle', played to the tune of 'Achy Breaky Heart'.
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