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Trivia Today |
July 13, 2010 • Today is Childhood Memories Day, a day to try to remember whatever happened to your Hot Wheels, your stuffed animals, your baseball cards, your apple core collection..... • Today is Bottled Beer Day. On this date in 1568, the Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London perfected a way to bottle beer. • Today is Embrace Your Geekness Day, a day to spend endless hours going to strange places on the Internet (wellcat.com). • Today is National French Fries Day. • Today is the Major League Baseball All Star Game at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. • Today is Gruntled Workers Day, a day to appreciate workers who are happy in their jobs (sponsored by Tom & Ruth Roy of Lebanon, Pennsylvania). • Today is World Cup Day. The first World Cup soccer competition was held on this date in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay with 14 countries participating. Two weeks later Uruguay took the cup by defeating Argentina. 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:
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?
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? Q: How many endangered
tortoises did customs agents discover in one man’s pants in Miami: (a) five; (b) 55;
or (c) 550?
49 years ago today:
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