Tuesday, September 30, 2008

My Oldie Favorites #2

Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs- Stay

On this day.....

1630 - John Billington, one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, became the first criminal executed in the American colonies when he was hanged for murder at Plymouth.


1862 - "Stonewall" Jackson led the Confederates to victory at the second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, during the U.S. Civil War.




1927 - Babe Ruth hit his 60th homer of the season to break his own major-league record.


1934 - Babe Ruth played his last game for the New York Yankees.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Worlds smallest man meets woman with longest legs

He Pingping from Inner Mongolia, China's autonomous region, the world's smallest man sits underneath Svetlana Pankratova from Russia, the Queen of Longest Legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Pingping, born with primordial dwarfism, holds the Guiness World Record for the smallest man at 74.61 cms (2 feet and 5.37 inches) and Pankratova holds the Guiness World Record for the longest leg of any woman at 132 cms (4 feet 4 inches) in length.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)


Friday, September 05, 2008