Trevor WholohanThis Day in History October 8th
October 7th 2007 23:50
This Day in History
1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 or 4 miles of buildings. About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless.
1871 - Peshtigo, WI, was destroyed by a forest fire. Over 1,100 people were killed by the fire that eventually burned across 6 counties.
1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
1912 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
1918 - World War I - In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
1927 - NY Yankees sweep the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the 1927 World Series in four games.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for the murder of the baby of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1952 - The Chinese began an offensive in Korea.
1956 - New York Yankees baseball pitcher Don Larsen pitches the first (and only) perfect game in World Series history in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
1957 - The Dodgers announce they are going to move from NY to Los Angeles, California
1957 - Jack Soble, a confessed Soviet spy, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for espionage.
1960 - USS Constellation, a Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier (CV-64) was launched.
1968 - U.S. forces launched Operation Sealord, an attack on North Vietnamese supply lines.
1970 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
1978 - Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph.
1981 - A bomb at the Univ. of Utah was defused. It was later attributed to the Unabomber.
1985 - The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, dumping his body and wheelchair overboard.
1987 - U.S. helicopter gunships in the Persian Gulf sank three Iranian patrol boats after an American observation helicopter was fired on.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound.
1994 - President Clinton warned Saddam Husein not to misjudge "American will or American power" as he ordered additional U.S. forces to the Kuwaiti border.
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2004 - At Alderson Federal Prison Camp, Martha Stewart began her 5 month prison sentence.
Famous Birthday’s
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I)
1936 - David Carradine Hollywood, actor (Kung-Fu, Boxcar Bertha, Young Guns)
1939 - Paul Hogan Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Flipper, Strange Bedfellows)
1941 - Jesse Jackson (D) clergyman/presidential candidate/civil rights activist
1943 - Chevy Chase NYC, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)
1949 - Sigourney [Susan Alexandra] Weaver LA, actress (Alien 1, 2&3, Working Girl, Holes)
1955 - Bill Elliott, Nascar auto racer(Daytona 500-1978, Nascar speed record holder 212mph)
1970 - Matt Damon, actor(Saving Private Ryan, The Bourne Identity, Ocean’s 11, 12&13)
1980 - Nick Cannon, actor/comedian/rapper(Men in Black II, Drumline, Monsterhouse)
Famous Death’s
1869 - Franklin Pierce 14th president of US, dies in Concord, NH
1978 -- Karl Swenson actor (Gunsmoke, Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70
Joke of the Day
Excuses for Not Coming to Work
- I can't come in to work today because I'll be stalking my previous boss, who fired me for not showing up for work. OK?
- My mother-in-law has come back as one of the Undead and we must track her to her coffin to drive a stake through her heart and give her eternal peace. One day should do it.
- If it is all the same to you I won't be coming in to work. The voices told me to clean all my guns today.
- I am stuck in the blood pressure machine down at Kroger.
- I just found out that I was switched at birth. Legally, I shouldn't come to work knowing my employee records may now contain false information.
- The dog ate my car keys. We're going to hitchhike to the vet.
Grandma's Home
When I stopped the bus to pick up Chris for preschool, I noticed an older woman hugging him as he left the house. "Is that your grandmother?" I asked.
"Yes," Chris said. "She's come to visit us for Christmas."
"How nice," I said. "Where does she live?"
"At the airport," Chris replied. "Whenever we want her, we just go out there and get her."
World Records
World's Largest Rubber Band Ball
Steve Milton of Eugene, Oregon, created this 4594-pound rubber band ball by using more than 175,000 rubber bands. It was certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records officials during a weigh-in Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, in Chicago.
Largest Production Car
The largest-ever car was the Bugatti Royale Type 41, also known as the Golden Bugatti, which was first assembled at Molsheim, France, by the Italian designer, Ettore Bugatti (1882-1947), in 1927. It is over 22 ft in length.
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