451 - During the Fifth Session of the Council of Chalcedon, the final form of the Chalcedonian Creed was drafted. It became the Early Church's highest and most enduring "definition" of the person and work of Jesus Christ

1642 - Father Charles Raimbault dies at Quebec; first Jesuit in New France

1746 - Princeton University (NJ) received its charter

1797 - André-Jacque Garnerin makes the first successful parachute descent, jumping from a hot air balloon 3,200 feet above Paris

1846 - Founding of Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara, & St. Catharines Telegraph Company; first telegraph company in Canada

1876 - Egerton Ryerson opened The Ottawa Normal School

1881 - McGill and U of T play Canada's first college football game on the University of Toronto lawn

1883 - First NY Horse Show held at Madison Sq Garden

1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) had its grand opening with Faust

1907 - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey

1918 - The first case of Spanish influenza is reported, beginning a pandemic that will cause an estimated 20 million deaths worldwide

1938 - First Xerographic copy made; Chester Floyd Carlson makes the copy by pressing wax paper against an electrostatically-charged, sulfur-coated zinc plate covered with fine, dark powder

1945 - King Government brings in Canadian Citizenship Act to the House of Commons; becomes law in January, 1947; abolishes 'Canadian national' or 'British subject' as the legal terms for non-aliens in Canada

1952 - The complete Jewish Torah was published in English for the first time. A collection of oral and written commentary (dating 200 BC to AD 500) on the first five books of the Old Testament, the Torah comprises the basic religious code of Judaism

1953 - Laos gains full independence from France

1954 - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1958 - Blanche Margaret Meagher appointed Canadian Ambassador to Israel, Halifax-born Meagher Canada's first woman ambassador; later serves as ambassador to Austria and Sweden

1962 - The Cuban missile crisis begins. US President John F. Kennedy announces that the USSR has a missile installation in Cuba and declares a naval blockade to prevent missile shipments

1964 - EMI Records in Britain rejects the Who (who are calling themselves the High Numbers at this time) after the group auditions for the label

1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female group to score a No. 1 album, with Supremes a Go-Go

1966 �?James & Booby Purify release I'm Your Puppet

1975 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus

1976 - English rock group the Who wrap up their tour with a concert in Maple Leaf Gardens; last show Keith Moon will play in North America

1979 - Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest

1983 �?John Cougar releases Crumblin' Down

1987 - Canadian Garry Sowerby and American Tim Cahill completed the first trans-Americas drive on this day, driving from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a total elapsed time of twenty-three days, twenty-two hours, and forty-three minutes. The pair drove the 23'720-km distance in a 1988 GMC Sierra K3500 4-wheel-drive pickup truck

1988 - Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time

 

Birthdays

1511 - Erasmus Reinhold Sr., Saalfeld, Germany �?mathematician; calculated planetary table; 1540 he used the camera obscura for observation for the first time and proved, that the moon's orbit was not circular, but elliptic
1811 - Franz Liszt, Raiding, Hungary - romantic composer/virtuoso pianist: Hungarian Rhapsodies, Years of Pilgrimage
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette Rosine Bernard] Paris, France - silent film actress: Camille, Queen Elizabeth
1844 - Louis Riel, St-Boniface, Manitoba - Metis leader; Riel was found guilty of high treason by six English-speaking Protestant jurors and was hanged in Regina on November 16, 1885
1870 - Camille Roy, Berthier-en-Bas, Quebec - priest, literary critic and Rector of Laval University; an expert on the development of French-Canadian literature, he compiled the Manuel d'histoire de la littérature canadienne-française in 1907
1896 - Charles Glenn King - biochemist: discovered vitamin C
1905 - Karl Jansky - discovered cosmic radio emissions in 1932
1906 - Sidney Kingsley - author: Darkness at Noon
1907 - Jimmie Foxx - baseball player: Detroit Tigers
1911 - Curly Howard [Jerome Lester Horwitz] Brooklyn NY - Curly (with the bald head) of the Three Stooges
1917 - Joan Fontaine, Tokyo, Japan - actress: Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca
1919 - Doris Lessing [May Tayler] Iran - author: Golden Notebook, The Sirian Experiments, The Fifth Child
1920 - Mitzi Green, NY City - actress: Little Orphan Annie, So This is Hollywood
1920 - Timothy Leary - Harvard professor; LSD taker
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, Stamford Connecticut - actor: Taxi, Back to the Future
1938 - Derek Jacobi, London England - actor: Lanner - Strauss Family
1939 - Tony Roberts, NY City - actor: Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show
1942 - Annette Funicello, Utica NY - actress: Mickey Mouse Club, Beach Party
1943 - Catherine Deneuve [Dorleac] Paris, France - actress: Repulsion, Hunger, Dancer in the Dark
1947 - Lee Meredith [Judith Lee Sauls] River Edge NJ - actress: Producers
1952 - Jeff Goldblum, Pittsburgh Pa - actor: The Fly, Thank God it's Friday, Jurassic Park
1963 - Brian Boitano, Sunnyvale, California - figure skater; Olympic Gold -1988
1967 - Ron Tugnutt, Scarborough, Ontario - NHL goaltender: Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators
1968 - Shaggy [Orville Richard Burrell] Kingston Jamaica - singer: It Wasn't Me

 

 

Little Leprechaun

 

A little boy asked his teacher if he could go to the bathroom, so she said yes.

When he went to wipe his fanny, there was no toilet paper, so he used his hand. In his haste to get back to class he forgot to wash, so he made a closed fist to hide it.

 

When he got back to class, his teacher asked, "What do you have in your hand?"

 

The boy said, "A little leprechaun, and if I open my hand he'll get scared away."

 

He was then sent to the principal's office and the principal asked him, "What do you have in your hand?"
 
So the little boy said, "A little leprechaun and if I open my hand he'll get scared away."

 

He was then sent home and his Mom asked him, "What do you have in your hand?"

 

So again the little boy said, "A little leprechaun and if I open my hand he will get scared away.
 
Then his Mom got really mad and yelled, "Open your hand NOW!"
 
And the little boy said, "Oh great Mom, now look what you did, you scared the shit out of him!"