On this date in . . .
1568:
The Dean of Saint Paul's
Cathedral in London perfected a way to bottle beer.
1876:
George Washington Bradley pitched
the first no-hitter in baseball, leading St. Louis to a 2-0 win over Hartford.
1930: The first World Cup Soccer competition was
held in Montevideo, Uruguay.
1939: Frank Sinatra recorded "From the Bottom
of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood" with the Harry James Orchestra. It was
Sinatra's first record.
1954: Dean Stone won the All-Star Game without
throwing a pitch. With the American League trailing, Stone came in to pitch in the 8th
with two out and Red Schoendienst on third. Before he fired his first pitch, Schoendienst
tried to steal home and was thrown out. The American League went ahead in the 9th, and
Virgil Trucks came in to save the win for Stone.
1976: History's longest bagpipe concert, starring
four student pipers from Churchill School in Salisbury, Rhodesia, ended after 100 hours.
1978:
Bob Dylan performed before the
largest open-air concert audience (for a single artist). Some 200,000 fans turned out to
hear Dylan at Blackbushe Airport in England.
1990: The movie "Ghost" premiered in the
U.S. It starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg.
1991: Timothy Badyana set a Guinness World Record
by running 10 kilometers in 45 minutes 37 seconds in Dayton, Ohio. He ran backwards.
1993: To keep witnesses from describing his
clothing, a 19-year-old man stripped naked to rob a Los Angeles bank and ran out with two
shopping bags filled with cash. Nearby sheriff’s deputies, noticing a naked man
running down the street with two bags full of money, arrested him immediately.
2003: Richard Rodriguez,
a university teacher from Chicago, set a world record by completing more than 70 hours on one of Europe's steepest
roller-coasters. The 42-year-old smashed the previous record of 35.5 hours,
traveling on the Epedition GeForce train at Germany's Holiday Park in Hassloch.
He was allowed 15 minute breaks every eight hours. Doctors accompanied him
on the 75 miles per hour, 203-foot high ride.
2005: Former
WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in
prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
Birthdays:
 | actor Harrison Ford is 68; |
| actor Cheech Marin 64; |
| singer Louise Mandrell 56; |
| musician Roger McGuinn 68; |
| singer Denise Miller 47; |
| singer Victoria Shaw 48; |
| singer Neil Thraser 45; |
| singer Deborah Cox 37; |
| basketball's Spud Webb 47. |
Q: Depressed at how his career
was going, in the early ‘70s did Harrison Ford quit acting and work as: (a) a
carpenter; (b) a pilot; or (c) an airplane mechanic?
A: A carpenter.
Q: How many tiny
pasta stars does Campbell Soup make in year for its Chicken & Stars Soup: (a) 44
million; (b) 4 billion; or (c) 44 billion?
A: 44 billon stars a year.
Q: How many endangered
tortoises did customs agents discover in one man’s pants in Miami: (a) five; (b) 55;
or (c) 550?
A: 55.
49 years ago today:
