Trevor WholohanThis Day in History May 2nd
May 1st 2007 23:43
This Day in History
1865 - President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1878 - US stops minting 20¢ coin
1885 - Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
1890 - The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1920 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
1932 - Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported.
1939 - Lou Gehrig's streak of 2130 consecutive Major League Baseball games played comes to an end. The record will stand for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks it.
1945 - First Helicopter Rescue--Lt A. Kleisch, USCG, rescued 11 Canadian airmen.
1945 - Russians took Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting. The Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1946 - Prisoners revolted at California's Alcatraz prison, 5 prisoners die.
1952 - The first scheduled jet airliner passenger service begins with a BOAC Comet jet which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1955 - Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1960 - Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964 - An explosion sinks the USS Card(an escort carrier) while docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.
1970 - Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burned down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard took control of the campus.
1972 - Buddy Baker became the first stock car driver to finish a 500-mile race in less than three hours, winning the Winston Select 500 in Talladega, Alabama.
1974 - Former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by Court of Appeals.
1974 - The filming of "Jaws" began in Martha's Vineyard, MA.
1975 - US Navy departs Vietnamese waters at end of evacuation.
1980 - Pope John Paul II begins African tour
1982 - The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank Argentina's only cruiser, the General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands War. More than 350 people died.
1983 - 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga CA
1988 - Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore & get a new park
1994 - Dr Kevokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1997 - Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
1999 - A US F-16 went down over western Serbia on the 39th night of air strikes. Allied forces rescued the pilot.
1999 - Yugoslav authorities released 3 American POW’s who had been held for 32 days.
2004 - American Thomas Hamill, kidnapped three weeks ago in an insurgent attack on his convoy, was found by U.S. forces south of Tikrit, Iraq after he escaped from his captors
Famous Birthday’s
1885 - Hedda Hopper, Hollidaysburg PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
1903 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor(White Christmas) Died 1977
1907 - Pinky Lee children's show host (Pinky Lee Show) Died 1993
1948 - Larry Gatlin Seminole TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady)
1950 - Lou Gramm Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-I Want to Know What Love Is)
1972 - The Rock, professional wrestler and actor(The Rundown, Walking Tall, Be Cool)
1985 - Kyle Busch, #5 Kellogg’s/Carquest Nextel Cup race car driver, 4 Wins.
Famous Death’s
1945 - Martin Bormann propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
1972 - J Edgar Hoover head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77
1984 - Jack Barry game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
Joke of the Day
Yard Sale
A woman was taking her time browsing through everything at a friend's yard sale, and said to her, "My husband is going to be very angry I stopped at a yard sale."
"I'm sure he'll understand when you tell him about all the bargains you found," her friend replied.
"Normally, yes," she said. "But he just broke his leg, and he's waiting for me to take him to the hospital to have it set."
Signs You Have Nothing To Do At Work
1. You've read the entire Dilbert page-a-day calendar
2. You discover that staring at your cubicle wall long enough produces images of Elvis.
3. You've definitively figured out a way to get Gilligan OFF the island.
4. You decide to see how many Surges you can drink before the inevitable explosion occurs.
5. People come into your office frequently to borrow pencils from your ceiling.
6. The 5th Division of Paperclips has completely overrun the Pushpin Infantry, and General White-Out has called for reinforcements.
World Records
Largest land mammal
The largest adult male African elephant ever recorded measured 13ft 7in(4.16m) tall in a projected line from the highest point of the shoulder to the base of the fore foot.
Longest gestation period for a mammal
The Asian elephant has an average gestation period of 650 days(over 21 months) and a maximum of 760 days(over two years) more than twice that of humans. The shortest mammalian gestation period is 12 to 13 days by the Virginia opossum of North America.
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