Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, November 30th
November 30th 2007 00:16
This Day in History
1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1864 - American Civil War: - Confederate General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his men).7,700 Casualties
1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1943 - World War II:U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, & Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
1944 - Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
1948 - Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1950 - US President Truman threatens China with atom bomb
1952 - Jackie Robinson charges New York Yankees with racism
1954 - In Alabama, an 8.5 lb meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
1960 - Production of the DeSoto automobile brand ceases.
1967 - Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1974 - Pioneer 11 sent photos back to NASA as it neared Jupiter.
1979 - Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1982 - US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1986 - "Time" magazine published an interview with U.S. President Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staffer Oliver North as a "national hero."
1990 - Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1993 - President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill(5 day waiting period for pistols)
1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
1994 - Two passengers died and nearly 1,000 others and crew members fled the cruise ship "Achille Lauro" after it caught fire off the coast of Somalia; the ship sank 2 days later
1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm
2000 - David Spade was assaulted with a stun gun by his longtime personal assistant, David Malloy. Malloy attacked Spade during a burglary of Spade's home in Beverly Hills.
2003 - US forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes in the northern city of Samarra while delivering new Iraqi currency to banks.
2004 - Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
Famous Birthday’s
1810 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker, was born.
1835 - Mark Twain, [Samuel L Clemens], author, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
1874 - Winston Churchill, British PM, 1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel Prize 1953, Died 1965
1929 - Dick Clark, Mt Vernon, New York, TV Host, American Bandstand
1931 - Davey Jones rocker (Monkees-Daydream Believer, I'm A Believer)
1955 - Billy Idol, [William Broad], rocker, White Wedding
1962 - Bo Jackson, baseball/football player, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Raiders
1965 - Ben Stiller, New York City, actor(Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy)
1978 - Clay Aiken, American Musician
Famous Death’s
30 - BC- Cleopatra Egyptian queen commits suicide
1979 - Zeppo Marx dies at 78
1996 - Tiny Tim singer("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), dies at 64
Joke of the Day
Throwing Dollars
A tour guide was showing a tourist around Washington, D. C. The guide pointed out the place where George Washington supposedly threw a dollar across the Potomac River. "That's impossible," said the tourist. "No one could throw a coin that far!"
"You have to remember," answered the guide. "A dollar went a lot farther in those days."
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 Record
Smallest Submarine
The smallest submarine was made by Pierre Poulin (Canada) and has a displacement of 620 kg (1366.9 lbs). Its official dive was made in the Memphremagog Lake, in Magog, Quebec on June 26, 2005.
Largest Internet Provider
NTT DoCoMo (Japan) is the world's largest wireless internet provider, with 45,687,117 subscribers to their i-mode service as of January 2006.
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