Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, December 21st
December 21st 2007 00:39
This Day in History
1620 - The “Mayflower”, & its 103 passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln and Congress authorized the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Navy personnel that had distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action.
1891 - 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1898 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
1909 - 1st junior high school established (Berkeley CA)
1913 - The "New York World" Sunday edition included the first crossword puzzle.
1919 - J. Edgar Hoover gallantly deported anarchist, feminist Emma Goldman to Russia for agitating against forced conscription in the US.
1933 - 20th Century Fox signs Shirley Temple, age 5, to a studio contract
1937 - Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, color animated feature with sound in Hollywood, CA. The movie was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
1943 - USS Grayling (SS-208) sinks fourth Japanese ship since 18 December.
1944 - US B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked Mukden in Manchuria.
1944 - Horse racing was banned in the United States until after the end of World War II.
1950 - Far East Air Force executed "Operation Kiddie Car" by transporting 1,000 Korean War orphans to the island of Cheju-do for their safety from the Communists.
1951 - First helicopter landing aboard a hospital ship, USS Consolation.
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announced his retirement from major league baseball.
1958 - Charles de Gaulle was elected to a seven-year term as the first president of France.
1959 - Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1968 - Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell & Bill Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1968 - David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in California
1969 - Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1969 - Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
1970 - Elvis Presley meets with President Richard Nixon to discuss the war on drugs.
1972 - The Defense Department announces that eight B-52 bombers and several fighter-bombers were lost since December 18th, plus 47 flyers.
1978 - Police in Des Plaines IL, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for the murder of 33 men & boys.
1981 - Cincinnati defeated Bradley 75-73 in 7 overtimes. (longest NCAA Division I game ever)
1987 - Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker in the Philippines, killing 1,565
1989 - US invades Panamá and ousts General Noriega
1996 - After two years of denials, Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules.
1999 - Amid the possibility of a holiday terrorist attack, security was tightened at airports.
2002 - Larry Mayes was released after spending 21 years in prison for a rape that he never committed. He was the 100th person to be released after DNA tests were performed.
2002 - President Bush received a smallpox vaccination, fulfilling a promise he'd made when he ordered inoculations for about a-half million U.S. troops.
2003 - Time magazine's named The American soldier, who bears the duty of "living with and dying for a country's most fateful decisions," as Person of the Year.
Famous Birthday’s
1879 - Joseph Stalin [Dzoegashvili] Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000 people.
1935 - Phil Donahue Cleveland OH, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show)
1937 - Jane Fonda, actress (Barbarella, On Golden Pond, Monster In law) Vietnam war protester
1940 - Frank Zappa, composer/musician/satirist (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls)D. 1993
1946 - Carl Wilson, musician (The Beach Boys - Little old lady from Pasadena, 409) (d. 1998)
1948 - Samuel L Jackson actor (Amos & Andrew, Pulp Fiction, XXX, Kill Bill 2, SWAT)
1957 - Ray Romano Queens NY, actor (Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond)
1965 - Andy Dick Charleston SC, actor (Matthew-Newsradio, The Cable Guy, Road Trip)
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor(Jack Bauer on 24, Young Guns 1 2)
Famous Death’s
1928 - Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper vs South Africa 1895-96)
1940 - F[rancis] Scott [Key] Fitzgerald author (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44
1945 - George S Patton US general (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car accident in Heidelberg at 60
1992 - Albert King US blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw, Born Under A Bad Sign), dies at 71
Joke of the Day
Top 10 Signs Your Presidential Candidate is Under-Qualified
10. Promises to improve foreign relations with Hawaii.
9. Runs a series of attack ads against Martin Sheen's character on "The West Wing".
8. His #1 choice to work on his cabinet is "That Bob Vila guy".
7. Outstanding record as Governor of Rhode Island nullified by the fact that no one really cares.
6. Got his degree in Political Economics by bribing Sally Struthers with a chocolate donut.
5. Anybody mentions Washington, he asks, "The state or the DC thingie?"
4. At the debates, answers every question with a snarled, "You wanna wrestle?"
3. Vows to put an end to the war in Pokemon and free the Pikachu refugees once and for all.
2. Says the Pledge of Allegiance as quickly as possible, then shouts, "I win!"
1. On the very first question of the debate, he attempts to use a lifeline.
You looked a lot like my wife
A serious drunk walked into a bar and, after staring for some time at the only woman seated at the bar, walked over to her and kissed her. She jumped up and slapped him silly.
He immediately apologized and explained, "I'm sorry. I thought you were my wife. You look exactly like her."
"Why you worthless, insufferable, wretched, no good drunk!" she screamed.
"Funny," he muttered, "you even sound exactly like her."
World Records
Longest Pregnancy
The World’s longest recorded human gestation on record is held by Dr. Anissa August M.D of Temple, Texas. Dr. August was pregnant for a staggering 17 months 11 days. She gave birth too a healthy baby boy.
Fewer than 10% of births occur on the due date; 50% of births are within a week of the due date, and almost 90% are born within two weeks of due date and 10% of babies are born between the 10th & 14th month of gestation.
Greatest Volcanic eruption "
Largest volcanic eruption of all time occurred over 1800 years ago in 130 AD of the coast of New Zealand. an estimated 33 billion tons of pumice which would cover over 20,000 square miles.
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