Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 3rd
April 3rd 2007 00:09
1790 - Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created
1860 - Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California
1865 - Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg
1868 - An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1882 - Outlaw Jesse James is killed by his cousin Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
1910 - Alaska's Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America is climbed.
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, killer of the Lindbergh baby, is executed.
1942 - The Japanese begin their all-out assault on the U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan.
1946 - Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 - Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada
1953 - "TV Guide" was published for the first time.
1956 - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Vieba hn freed
1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1966 - Three-thousand South Vietnamese lead a protest against the Ky regime in Saigon.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1969 - Melvin Laird announces that the US will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1972 - Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States after a twenty-year absence.
1973 - The first portable cell phone call is placed in New York City.
1974 - 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states, 315 killed.
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - John Chancellor stepped down as anchor of the "The NBC Nightly News." Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw became the co-anchors of the show.
1985 - Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1986 - U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1987 - Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualifying record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1993 - The Norman Rockwell Museum opened in Stockbridge, MA.
1996 - Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber attacks in exchange for a life sentence without chance for parole
1998 - The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9,000 for the first time.
2000 - A U.S. federal judge ruled that Microsoft had violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2000 - The Nasdaq set a one-day record when it lost 349.15 points to close at 4,233.68.
2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2007 - 2007 NFL Schedule will be released on NFL Network
Famous Birthday’s
1783 - Washington Irving, U.S. writer, Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Died 1859)
1924 - Marlon Brando, Omaha, Nebraska, actor, Superman, Godfather(Died 2004)
1924 - Doris Day, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, girl next door actress, Pillow Talk
1934 - Jane Goodall, born in London, England, ethologist, studied African chimps
1942 - Wayne Newton, born in Roanoke, Virginia, singer (Danke Schon, Shiril Girl)
1944 - Tony Orlando, NY City, Talk show host/singer, Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon
1954 - Mick Mars, born in Indiana, guitarist, Motley Crue-Girls Girls
1958 - Alec Baldwin, actor, Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice, Pearl Harbor)
1961 - Melissa Etheridge, rock guitarist and vocalist, Come to My Window
1961 - Eddie Murphy, actor, (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Dr. Dolittle)
Joke of the Day
Choose a Punishment
Private Loyds was brought up before the unit CO for some offense.
"You can take your choice, private - one month's restriction or twenty day's pay," said the officer.
"All right, sir," said the bright soldier, "I'll take the money."
Golf Problem
The only problem with golf is that the slow people are always in front of you and the fast people always end up behind you.
Fighting Mood
Patient: Doctor, what I need is something to stir me up; something to put me in a fighting mood. Did you put something like that in this prescription?
Doctor: No need for that. You will find that in your bill.
World Records
Longest motorcycle ride by a team
Chris and Erin Ratay(USA) covered 101,322 miles on separate motorcycles on a journey that covered 50 countries on six continents. They departed from Morocco on May 21, 1999 and returned home to New York City USA on August 6, 2003.
Longest motorcycle ride
Emilio Scotto(Argentina) covered over 457,000 miles through 214 countries and territories on a motorcycle from January 17, 1985 to April 2, 1995.
Most sovereign countries visited six months
John Bougen and James Irving(New Zealand) visited 191 of the worlds 193 sovereign countries and 167 days 15 hours 39 minutes from August 28, 2002 to February 12, 2003. Their journey called the all nations quest, was in support of the microphone off Save the Children Charity
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