Trevor WholohanThis Day in History, December 7th
December 7th 2007 00:06
This Day in History
1796- Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
1805 - Having spied the Pacific Ocean for the first time a few weeks earlier, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross to the south shore of the Columbia River (near modern-day Portland) and begin building the small fort that would be their winter home.
1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin MO, kills 1
1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. He went on to play "Tarzan" in several movies.
1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
1941 - 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1942- The U.S. Navy launched the USS New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built.
1945 - Microwave oven patented accidentally by a 8th grade dropout Percy Spencer.
1946 - Fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta killed 119 people. It was America's worst hotel fire.
1949 - Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei
1952 - In the largest single-day tally of the Korean War, U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet
pilots report seven of 32 enemy fighters destroyed, one damaged and one probably destroyed.
1963- During the Army-Navy game, videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast as CBS re-showed a one-yard touchdown. Navy beat Army, 21-15.
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather borrowed in 1823 to the University of Cincinatti; the $22,646 fine went unpaid
1972 - Apollo 17, final manned lunar landing mission (last of Apollo Moon series), launched
1972 - Philippine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1973 - Wings release "Band on the Run"
1982 - Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1987 - 43 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on his ex-boss the two pilots and then himself aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner.
1988 - Earthquake in Armenia - 6.9 on the Richter scale (>100,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the reduction of Soviet military troops by half a million
1993 - Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed that the U.S. government had conducted
more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in secret at its Nevada test site.
1994 - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 18 days
2003 - A painting by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home, where it had been for 60 years.
2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
Famous Birthday’s
1923 - Ted Knight Terryville CT, (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
1940 - Mike Minor San Francisco CA, actor (Steve-Petticoat Junction, All My Children)
1942 - Harry Chapin New York NY, folk/rock singer/songwriter (Taxi, Cat's in the Craddle)
1947 - Johnny Bench baseball catcher (Cincinnati Reds (1967-1983)1975, 1976 World Series)
1955 - Priscilla Barnes Fort Dix NJ, actress (License to Kill, Three's Company)
1956 - Larry Bird hoop star ( Boston Celtics (1979–1992),3-time MVP, Indiana Pacers Coach)
1973 - Terrell Owens wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys)
Joke of the Day
Forgive Me
Tommy O'Connor went to confession and said, "Forgive me father for I have sinned." "What have you done Tommy
O'Connor?" "I had sex with a girl." "Who was it, Tommy?" "I cannot tell you father, please forgive me for my sin."
"Was it Mary Margaret Sullivan?" "No father, please forgive me for my sin but I cannot tell you who it was."
"Was it Catherine Mary McKenzie?" "No father, please forgive me for my sin." "Well then it has to be, Sarah
Martha O'Keefe." "No father, please forgive me, I cannot tell you who it was." "Okay, Tommy go say 5 Hail Mary's
And 4 Our Fathers and you will be abolished of your sin."
So Tommy walked out to the pews where his friend Joseph was waiting. "What did ya get?" asked Joseph.
"Well I got 5 hail Mary's, 4 Our Fathers, and 3 good leads."
Batman
I went to dinner with my husband, a male friend of ours, Jim, and his new girlfriend, Dorothy.
While eating dinner we got on the subject of vacations. Dorothy said that she wanted to go to Gotham City for her next vacation.
I tried to explain to her that it wasn't a real place. She laughed and said "It is, too. It's where Batman lives".
I laughed and looked over at Jim who smiled and told me she was serious. I then tried to explain. "Batman does not exist. Why do you think there have been four of them: Bale, Clooney, Kilmer and Keaton?"
She looked me straight in the eye and said, "That's because he doesn't want anyone to know who he really is."
World Records
Driest Place on Earth
The Atacama desert is without a doubt the driest place on earth it is nestled along the coast of Chile, South America - right next to the Pacific Ocean. this amazing desert sees less than .004 inches of rain fall a year. Some places of this massive desert have not had rain in over 400 years.
Most Concrete Broken by hand in 60 seconds
Dr. Dan Netherland (USA) (GWR) broke 55 concrete blocks [76.2 cm x 20.3 cm x 7.3 cm (20 in x 8 in x 2.9 3in) thick, 50 lb each, arranged in 10 stacks from one to ten blocks, by hand in 17.45 sec on 26 February 2003, at Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg (USA). Total Weight 3014lbs.
Largest Sumo Wrestler in History
Chad Rowan (GWR) AKA Akebono is 6ft 8in and an amazing 501 lbs was promoted to Yokozuna in January 1993
| 50 |
| Vote |
subscribe to this blog
