06-15-2016, 05:30 PM
Fun Facts and Daily Trivia Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The 167 day of the year 199 days left
763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history
860: -- Florence Nightingale started her School for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London.
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 -- Charles Goodyear was granted patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
1902: -- In possibly the worst baseball game ever pitched, Texarkana's C. B. DeWitt lost 51-3 to Corsicana in the Texas League. Corsicana’s Nig Clark hit eight home runs in a small park in Ennis, where the game had to be played because of Corsicana’s Sunday "blue" law.
1928: -- During a triple steal, 41-year-old Ty Cobb stole home the 50th and final time in his 24-year major-league career. Cobb’s Tigers beat the Indians 12-5.
1950: -- Michel Lotito was born in Grenoble, France. Known as "Mr. Eat-It- All," Michel ate metal and glass for years. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, he is the only human known to have actually eaten 10 bicycles, seven TV sets, a shopping cart, a coffin (handles and all), a computer, and a small Cessna airplane.
1992: -- U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle advised a Trenton, New Jersey, elementary school student to spell "potato" p-o-t-a-t-o-e.
1994: -- Disney’s movie "The Lion King" opened in American theaters.
1996:-- Ella Fitzgerald, the "first lady of song," died in Beverly Hills at age 78. Her #1 hits included were "A- Tisket, A- Tasket," "I’m Making Believe," and "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall."
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
2004: -- Tim Berners-Lee received the $1.2 million Millennium Technology Prize in Helsinki, Finland, for creating the World Wide Web.
The 167 day of the year 199 days left
763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history
860: -- Florence Nightingale started her School for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London.
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 -- Charles Goodyear was granted patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
1902: -- In possibly the worst baseball game ever pitched, Texarkana's C. B. DeWitt lost 51-3 to Corsicana in the Texas League. Corsicana’s Nig Clark hit eight home runs in a small park in Ennis, where the game had to be played because of Corsicana’s Sunday "blue" law.
1928: -- During a triple steal, 41-year-old Ty Cobb stole home the 50th and final time in his 24-year major-league career. Cobb’s Tigers beat the Indians 12-5.
1950: -- Michel Lotito was born in Grenoble, France. Known as "Mr. Eat-It- All," Michel ate metal and glass for years. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, he is the only human known to have actually eaten 10 bicycles, seven TV sets, a shopping cart, a coffin (handles and all), a computer, and a small Cessna airplane.
1992: -- U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle advised a Trenton, New Jersey, elementary school student to spell "potato" p-o-t-a-t-o-e.
1994: -- Disney’s movie "The Lion King" opened in American theaters.
1996:-- Ella Fitzgerald, the "first lady of song," died in Beverly Hills at age 78. Her #1 hits included were "A- Tisket, A- Tasket," "I’m Making Believe," and "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall."
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
2004: -- Tim Berners-Lee received the $1.2 million Millennium Technology Prize in Helsinki, Finland, for creating the World Wide Web.
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