The Only

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Unusual, unique, and uncommon facts about a diversity of subjects:

The only :
unique, one of a kind, unusual, exceptional
people, places, animals and other wonders


(64 facts)
Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent.
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced.
Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
Bats have only one baby a year.
Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only US president elected four times.
George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the United States.
Gerald Ford was the only US president not to have been elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have been married in the White House.
Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States - Iolani.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
In 1969, "Midnight Cowboy" became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)
James Buchanan was the only US president never to be married.
Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
Notables who were the only child in their families include Ansel Adams, Hans Christian Andersen, Carol Burnett, Raymond Chandler, Eric Clapton, Linda Ellerbee, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Englund, Charlton Heston, James Earl Jones, Ted Koppel, Ivan Lendl, Barry Manilow, Maria Montessori, Jack Nicholson, Flannery O'Connor, Al Pacino, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Robert Edwin Peary, Lisa Marie Presley, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frank Sinatra, Robin Williams, and Tiger Woods.
Ohio is the only US state without a rectangular flag. Ohio's flag is a pennant.
Only one foreign country--Liberia in Africa--has a capital city named after an American president. The capital is Monrovia, named after James Monroe.
Only one person ever won an Oscar by a write-in. In 1934 and 1935, write-in votes were permitted and Hal Mohr won an Oscar for Cinematography in 1935 for his work on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a write-in. 1935 was the last year such votes were permitted.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any state of the United States.
Richard M. Nixon is the only US president to have resigned.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves.
The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
The Beatles held the Top Five spots on the April 4th, 1964 Billboard singles chart. To date, they're the only band that has ever accomplished that.
The Bledowska Desert in Poland is the only true desert in Europe.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.
The first graves in Arlington National Cemetery were dug by James Parks, a former Arlington Estate slave. Buried in Section 15, James Parks is the only person buried in Arlington National Cemetery who was also born on the property.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The hyoid bone in the throat is the only bone in the human body not joined to another.
The Joshua tree is the only tree that grows in California's Mojave Desert.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
The only active diamond mine in the United States is in Arkansas.
The only country in the world that has a Bill of Rights for Cows is India.
The only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution is treason - Article III, Section 3.
The only Englishman to become Pope was Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159.
The only father and son to hit back-to-back home runs in a major league baseball game? Ken Griffey, Jr., and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., both of the Seattle Mariners, in a game against the California Angels on September 14, 1990.
The only known common metal that is liquid at room temperature is mercury.
The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992.
The only one of his sculptures that Michelangelo signed was the "The Pieta," completed in 1500.
The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
The only repealed amendment to the US Constitution deals with the prohibition of alcohol.
The only river that flows both north and south of the equator is the Congo. It crosses the equator twice.
The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
The only wood used by famed London cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale was mahogany.
The pecan tree is the only naturally growing nut tree in North American. It is native to the Texas, Mississippi and Mexico River Valleys.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) indigenous to North America.
There is only one Q in a Scrabble game.
There's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state.
Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
When Pierre Trudeau wed Margaret Sinclair in 1971 he became the only Canadian Prime Minister to get married while in office. The couple divorced in 1984.
Woodrow Wilson was the only US president to earn a doctorate.
Zsa Zsa Gabor was the first - and only - recipient of a Golden Globe Award for "Most Glamorous Actress." She won the peculiar award in 1958. The category was deleted thereafter.



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LASTS

Sports "Lasts"

BARE KNUCKLE FIGHT
The last bare-knuckle fight of pro boxing took place in 1889. John L. Sullivan ko'd Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds.
BASEBALL HOME RUN
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Hank Aaron hit his 755th and last home run in Milwaukee on July 20, 1976.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Mickey Mantle hits final career homer, # 536, in 1968.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Babe Ruth hit his last 3 home runs in 1935 when the Boston Braves faced the Pirates.
DISCONTINUED OLYMPIC SPORTS
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Cricket - last in Paris in 1900.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Croquet - last in Paris in 1900.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Golf: men - last in St. Louis in 1904.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Golf: women - last in Paris in 1900.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Lacrosse - last in London in 1908.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Polo - last in Paris in 1900.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Rugby - last in Paris in 1924.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Tug of War - last in Antwerp in 1920.
OLYMPIC LAST:
The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold.
LAST MATADOR DEATH:
The last major matador to die in a bullfight was Miguel Cubero, known as Yiyo, who was gored in 1985.

WOODEN TENNIS RACQUET
A wooden racket was last used at Wimbledon in 1987.





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Entertainment "Lasts"

AGATHA CHRISTIE
The last novel published by Agatha Christie was "Murder from the Past." She wrote it around 1940 but specified in her will that it was to be published after her death. She died in 1976.
ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
The last Andy Griffith Show was televised on September 16, 1968.
BEATLES
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The Beatles last concert was at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, on August 29, 1966. The last song they played was "Long Tall Sally."
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The Beatles recorded their last song together, "I Me Mine," in 1970.
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven's last symphony was his 9th.
BUDDY HOLLY
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Buddy Holly's last performance was on February 2, 1959.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Buddy Holly's last record, "It Doesn't Matter," was released in 1959.
DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES
Diana Ross performed for the last time with the Supremes during a show in Las Vegas in 1970.
ED SULLIVAN SHOW
The last Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV was June 6, 1971. Running for more than 20 years, the Ed Sullivan Show was the longest running variety show on TV. The first show had been telecast on June 20, 1948.
ELVIS PRESLEY
The last song that Elvis ever performed publicly was "Bridge Over Troubled Water", at his final concert in Indianapolis in June, 1977.
FAR SIDE CARTOON
The last original "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson was published in 1995. The first had appeared in 1980.
GRATEFUL DEAD
The Grateful Dead gave their last concert with leader Jerry Garcia at Chicago's Soldier Field in 1995. Jerry died a month later of a heart attack while in drug rehab.
LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN
David Letterman's last show on NBC was on Friday, June 25, 1993. He moved to CBS in August 1993 to host "The Late Show with David Letterman."
LIFE MAGAZINE
The last weekly issue of "Life" magazine was issued December 29, 1972.
M*A*S*H
The final episode of M*A*S*H was broadcast on February 28, 1983, and was titled "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen."
MARILYN MONROE
The last line ever spoken by Marilyn Monroe on the silver screen was "How do you find your way back in the dark?" The line is from the 1961 film The Misfits with Clark Gable. She died in 1962.
MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
The staff of WJM-TV had a going-away party, as the last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was broadcast on March 19, 1977 - Everyone was fired except the inept Ted Baxter. The show had been a popular hit for seven years.
MILTON BERLE SHOW
The last "Milton Berle Show" aired on ABC on January 6, 1967.
PEANUTS COMIC STRIP
The last original Peanuts Comic Strip was published February 13, 2000. Coincidentally, creator Charles M. Schultz died the night before.
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PERRY MASON
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifErle Stanley Gardner wrote 75 mysteries starring the fictional lawyer Perry Mason. The first was "The Case of the Velvet Claws" in 1933 and the last was "The Case of the Troubled Trustee" in 1956.
PLAYBOY
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last Playboy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985. Venice Kong was the model.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last Playboy club in the US, in Lansing, Michigan, was closed on July 30, 1988.
SILENT MOVIE
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifThe last U.S. feature-length movie released without any soundtrack
was THE POOR MILLIONAIRE (1930), starring Richard Talmadge and
Constance Howard. It was released by Biltmore Pictures in April 1930.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifThe last British feature-length movie released without any soundtrack
was PARADISE ALLEY (1931), starring John Argyle and Margaret Delane.
It was released by Argyle Art Pictures in March 1931.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifThe last silent feature from the Soviet Union was SCHASTYE
(HAPPINESS), released in 1935. The last seven Indian silent features
were released that same year. The last 15 Japanese silent features
were released in 1938.
STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifItalian violin maker Antonius Stradivarius of Cremona made his finest instruments after 1700. His last surviving instrument was dated 1737, the year of his death.
TONIGHT SHOW
The last "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson as host was May 22, 1992.




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Last Animals

CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY
Although it is the central figure in the state's flag, the last grizzly in California was spotted in the Sierras in 1924.
CAROLINA PARAKEET
The last known Carolina parakeets were sighted on Lake Okeechobee in 1904 by ornithologist Dr. Frank Chapman.
DODO
The last dodo bird died in 1681.
GREAT AUK
The last great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was killed by collectors on Eldey Island in 1844.
MEXICAN SILVER GRIZZLY
The last Mexican Silver Grizzly was killed in 1964 by ranchers protecting their herds.
MONK SEAL
The last monk seal was seen off the Bahamas in 1959, in Inagua,.
PASSENGER PIGEON
The last passenger pigeon, named Martha, died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Her stuffed body is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution.
QUAGGA
The last wild quagga was probably shot in the late 1870’s, and the last specimen in captivity, a mare, died on August 12, 1883 at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
The quagga was a subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province. It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid marks on the front part of the body only. In the mid-section, the stripes faded and the dark, inter-stripe spaces became wider, and the rear parts were a plain brown.
TASMANIAN TIGER/WOLF
In 1936 the last Tasmanian Tiger died in the Hobart, Tasmania zoo.
Was Thylacinus cynocephalus a wolf or a tiger? It was neither. This remarkable animal looked like wolf with tiger stripes on its back and tail, but it was more closely related to kangaroos than to either tigers or wolves. The Tasmanian tiger-wolf was a marsupial; it had a pouch for its young just like a kangaroo.
WOLF
The last wolf in Great Britain was killed in Scotland, in 1743. The wolf became extinct in England in 1486, Scotland in 1743, and Ireland in 1770.




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"Last" Rulers & Families

AFGHANISTAN
Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, died at age 92 on July 23, 2007.
AUSTRIA / HUNGARY
Charles I, last emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, abdicated Nov. 11-13, 1918. He had ruled from 1916 to 1918. He died in 1922.
The last coronation of a Hungarian King took place on December 30th 1916 in the church of the Blessed Virgin in Buda Castle.
Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last empress of Austria-Hungary died on March 14, 1989.
AZTEC
The last Aztec emperor was Montezuma II, who reigned from 1502 to 1520. He allowed Hernando Cortes to enter the capital of Tenochtitlan without a battle and was taken prisoner. He died under mysterious circumstances.
BACH FAMILY
The last descendant of the prolific musical Bach family died on Christmas Day, 1845.
BONAPARTE FAMILY
The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
BRITISH VICEROY OF INDIA
India's last British viceroy, or governor-general, was Lord Louis Mountbatten, from August 1947 to June 1948.
CHINA
Henry Pu-yi, from 1908 to 1912, was the last emperor of China. This ended the reign of the last imperial dynasty to rule China, the Ch'Ing.
EGYPT
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolemies to rule Egypt. When she committed suicide in 30 B.C., Rome annexed Egypt as a province.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifOn July 23, 1952, the military overthrew the government of King Farouk. Although he never reigned, his 17-year-old son succeeded him and became the last king of Egypt.
FRANCE
Louis Philippe, in 1848, was the last king of France.
GERMANY
Wilhelm II was the last Kaiser. He was forced to abdicate in 1918.
HAWAII
Queen Liliuokalani, the last royal ruler of Hawaii, was deposed in 1893.
INCA
In 1533, the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
IRAN
Reza Pahlevi, the last Shah Mohammed of Iran, fled Iran to Egypt in 1979. Iran was declared an Islamic Republic after more than 2,500 years as an independent monarchy.
ITALY
Victor Emmanuel III was the last royal king of Italy. He reigned 1900 to 1946.
LAST BRITISH MONARCH WHO ABDICATED
On December 11, 1937, Edward VIII of England abdicated, ending a reign of 325 days. He married Wallis Warfield Simpson on June 3, 1938.
LAST BRITISH MONARCH WHO COULDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH
George I, King of England from 1714 to 1727, was a German prince who succeeded to the throne at the age of 54. He could neither write nor speak the English language.
LINCOLN FAMILY (The family of US President Abraham Lincoln)
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith died in 1985 and his death signaled the end of the Lincoln family lineage. Abraham Lincoln had one child, Robert Todd Lincoln, who had Mary, Abraham II and Jessie. Abraham II, the only son, died at the young age of 16. Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith was Jessie'sson by her first husband, Warren Beckwith.
MARRIED POPE
Adrian II (867-872) was the last married Catholic pope. He was actually married before he became pope, but refused to adopt celibacy or give up his wife when he ascended the papal throne.
MEDICI FAMILY
Gian Gastone de Medici, who died in 1737, was the last male member of de Medici family.
MISS CANADA
Nicole Dunsdon, the last Miss Canada, completed her reign in October 1992. In 1991 women's groups had successfully lobbied to have the Miss Canada contest canceled, claiming it was degrading to women.
MOHICAN
Uncas, son of Chingachgook, was the last of the Mohicans in James Fenimore Cooper's novel published in 1826.
ROMANIA
On December 30, 1947, King Michael, the last reigning monarch in Eastern Europe was forced from his throne by revolutionaries who established the People's Republic, with a constitution modeled after the Soviet Union's.
RUSSIA
Nicholas II, shot to death with his family in 1918, was the last of the czars of Russia, and of the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled Russia for more than 300 years.
RUSSIAN KGB
The last chairman of Russia's KGB was Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin in 1991.
POLAND
Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland, ruled from 1764 to 1795.
SIAM
During the reign of King Prajadhipok of the Chakri dynasty, a coup on June 24, 1932 put an end to Siam's absolute monarchy, establishing a constitutional monarchy dominated by the military.
SOVIET UNION
The Communist Party's 75-year controlling regime of the Soviet Union ended on August 29, 1991.
VENICE / GENOA
The last Venetian doge, Lodovico Manin, retired 1797 and the last Genoese doge in 1804. The doges were the Chief Magistrates in the ancient constitutions of Venice and Genoa. The first doge of Venice was appointed 697 with absolute power (modified 1297), and from his accession dates Venice's prominence in history.




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Every thing ends - sooner or later ...
"Last" Deaths

LAST DEATH FROM SMALLPOX
In September, 1978, Janet Parker, an English medical photographer, was exposed to smallpox as the result of a laboratory accident. She subsequently died. On May 8, 1980, the World health Organization declared smallpox eradicated. Some samples remain in laboratories in Atlanta and Moscow. When scientists destroy the samples the smallpox virus will become the first life form intentionally eliminated from the earth.
LAST EXECUTION IN TOWER OF LONDON
The last execution in the Tower of London took place on Thursday, August 14, 1941, when Josef Jakobs, a German spy, was shot by an eight-man firing squad. Because he had suffered a broken ankle when he had parachuted into England on the night of January 31, 1941, he could not stand before the firing squad and he was, instead, seated in an old Windsor chair and tied up. Five of the eight shots pierced his heart.
LAST GUILLOTINE EXECUTION
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last public execution by guillotine was on June 17, 1939. Eugen Weidman was executed before a large crowd in Versailles, France.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last nonpublic use of the guillotine in France, at Baumetes Prison, in Marsailles, was the execution of convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, on September 10, 1977. France abolished capital punishment on September 9, 1981.
LAST PERSON BURNED AT THE STAKE
Phoebe Harrius was convicted of coining false money, a crime of high treason at that time, and was executed by being burned at the stake in front of Newgate Prison in England, in 1786.
LAST SURVIVING SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Charles Carroll was the last of the 59 men who signed the Declaration of Independence to die. He passed away in 1832 at the age of 95.
LAST SURVIVING US WAR VETERANS
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifAmerican Revolution (1775–1783)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Last veteran, Daniel F. Bakeman, died 4/5/1869, age 109
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Last widow, Catherine S. Damon, died 11/11/06, age 92
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Last dependent, Phoebe M. Palmeter, died 4/25/11, age 90
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifWar of 1812 (1812–1815)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast veteran, Hiram Cronk, died 5/13/05, age 105
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast widow, Carolina King, died 6/28/36, age unknown
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast dependent, Esther A. H. Morgan, died 3/12/46, age 89
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifIndian Wars (c. 1861–1898)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast veteran, Fredrak Fraske, died 6/18/73, age 101
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifMexican War (1846–1848)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast veteran, Owen Thomas Edgar, died 9/3/29, age 98
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast widow, Lena James Theobald, died 6/20/63, age 89
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast dependent, Jesse G. Bivens, died 11/1/62, age 94
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifCivil War (1861–1865)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast Union veteran, Albert Woolson, died 8/2/56, age 109
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast Confederate veteran, John Salling, died 3/16/58, age 112
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifSpanish-American War (1898)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gifLast veteran, Nathan E. Cook, died 9/10/92, age 106

LAST US MUTINY HANGING
The last US Navy man hanged for mutiny was Midshipman Philip Spencer in 1842. The son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer, he had schemed with 2 others to turn his ship to piracy.
LAST US PIRATE HANGING
The last person hanged in the US for being a pirate was Capt. Nathaniel Gordon, in New York City on March 8, 1862. Gordon had been smuggling slaves into the US.
LAST US PUBLIC EXECUTION
The last public execution in America was the hanging of a 22-year-old black man named Rainey Bethea at Owensboro, KY, in 1936. Bethea had been convicted of the slaying of a 70-year-old white woman. By five o'clock the morning of the execution, 20,000 people were in the field, including over 200 sheriffs and deputies from various parts of the U.S. For complete details, see: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/6275.
LAST US SOLDIER EXECUTED FOR DESERTION
Private Eddie Slovik was tried by court-martial and sentenced to death for desertion during WWII. He was shot by his own unit, the 28th Infantry Division, in a small town in northeast France. There were 70 executions by firing squad during WWII, but Slovik's was the only one for desertion. The rest were for rape or murder.
LAST VIET NAM WAR DEATH
The last American soldier killed in the Vietnam War was Kelton Rena Turner, an 18-year old Marine. He was killed in action on May 15, 1975, two weeks after the evacuation of Saigon, in what became known as the Mayaguez incident.
LAST WITCHCRAFT HANGING
The last person hanged for witchcraft in the American colonies was executed on September 22, 1692.
LAST WOMAN HANGED IN ENGLAND
Ruth Ellis was executed by hanging in 1955; the suspension of capital punishment throughout England made her the last woman to be executed by this method.
LAST WWI DEATH
The last soldier killed in World War I was Pvt. Henry Gunther of Baltimore, MD. The official end of the shooting was supposed to coincide with the signing of the armistice at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918. Pvt. Gunther was with Company A, 313th Infantry, 79th Division of the US Army as it advanced upon Metz near the German border. Gunther's platoon ran into an ambush. Enraged by the enemy machine-gun fire, Gunther charged the German position with fixed bayonet. At the very moment that a messenger arrived with word that the war was ending at 11:00 a.m., Gunther was shot through the left temple and left side, at 11:01. General Pershing's order of the day named him as the last American killed in the war. Posthumously, he received the Distinguished Service Cross.




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Other "Lasts"

ALCATRAZ PRISON
Alcatraz Federal Prison was closed in March of 1963. The facility had served as a US military prison from 1859 to 1933 and as a federal prison from 1933. Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.
ANNE FRANK
13-year-old Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary on August 1, 1944; a diary she had kept for two years while hiding with her family to escape Nazi deportation to a concentration camp. Three days later the Grune Polizei raided the secret annex in Amsterdam, Holland, where the Jewish family was in hiding. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
AUTOMOBILE
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last Model T Ford came off the assembly line on May 26, 1927.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The 1550 Silver Spyder Porsche was the last car designed by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The Studebacker-Packard Co. made the last Packard on August 19, 1958.
BRANDING FOR PUNISHMENT
Jonathan Walker, in 1844, was the last person branded in the US as punishment for a crime. He had the initials SS branded into the palm of his right hand as punishment for helping American slaves escape to the Bahamas. (The charge against him was slave stealing.)
CIGARETTE AD ON TELEVISION
On December 31, 1970, the last cigarette ad, a commercial for Virginia Slims, was aired on the "Tonight Show." Cigarette advertising was banned from radio and TV effective January 1, 1971.
CONCORDE FLIGHT
The last Transatlantic Concorde flight touched down in London on Friday, October 24, 2003. The last flight was piloted by Mike Bannister. The Concorde made its first commercial flight in January 1976.
DRIVER'S LICENSE
New York was the last state, in 1984, to put photographs on driver's licenses.
ELLIS ISLAND
In 1954, Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
LAST CALL
A bartender's announcement that customers may order one more drink before the bar closes is known as the last call.
LAST HORSEMAN
The last horseman of the Apocalypse is Death, according to Revelations 6:2-8.
LAST POST
The title of music played at military burials is called the last post.
LAST SUPPER
The Passover meal taken by Jesus and his disciples before his death.
LONDON TRAM
London's last tram ran July 6, 1952, as motor buses replaced streetcars.
MOON LASTS
US Astronaut Eugene Cernan is the last person to set foot on the moon - December 1972.
The last words spoken from the moon were from Eugene Cernan, Commander of the Apollo 17 Mission on 11 December 1972. "As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind."
MORSE CODE
The last Coast Guard radio navigation station still using Morse code transmitted its last message on March 31, 1995 from Chesapeake, Virginia.
OLDSMOBILE
The last Oldsmobile rolled off a Lansing assembly line the week of April 27, 2004, ending production of an automobile line that began in 1897. The last Oldsmobile is an Alero, the only model still in production. General Motors slowly phased out other Olds models the past few years.

PROHIBITION
On December fifth, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.
RED DYE #2
The most frequently used dye in drugs, food and cosmetics, red dye No. 2, was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration on February 12, 1976, after studies indicated the dye was carcinogenic.
SLAVERY IN US
On December 18th, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect.
US CIVIL WAR
All Confederate troops west of the Mississippi River surrendered on May 26, 1865.
US CURRENCY
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Large-denomination U.S. bills ($500 and higher) were last printed in 1945.
They were officially withdrawn from circulation in 1969.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Gold coins were last circulated in 1933. The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 made it illegal for private persons to own gold bullion.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last Indian Head or Buffalo nickel was issued in 1938 by the Denver Mint. Three men: Two Moons, Iron Tail, and John Big Tree had been used as models for the Indian head.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last Lincoln cent with wheat ears on the reverse side was issued in 1958.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last time US quarters and dimes actually had any silver content was 1964.
US INDIAN RESISTANCE
The last major American Indian resistance to white settlement was the 'Battle of Wounded Knee,' in 1890.
US PRESIDENT
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last "foreign" born US president was William Henry Harrison. He was born in 1773, in Virginia, before the USA was formed. The Constitution would later require that the president be a native-born citizen and a resident of the US for at least 14 years.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last US President not born in a hospital was Lyndon B. Johnson. He was born in a farmhouse in Texas in 1908.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last US President to be born in a log cabin was James Garfield. He was born on Nov. 19, 1831.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last US President to own slaves was Ulysses S. Grant. In 1848, when he married Julia Dent, she already owned 1 slave. She received a second as a wedding gift, and later purchased a third one. Grant bought a slave named William Jones and later freed him.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last US President to resign from office was Richard Nixon, on August 9, 1974.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif The last US President to serve 4 terms was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1947, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution limited future presidents to two terms.
WITCHCRAFT TRIAL IN ENGLAND
The last witchcraft trial in England was the trial of Jane Wenham in 1712. She was found innocent.
postscript: According to http://farshores.org/witch.htm, Helen Duncan, a medium, was arrested in Portsmouth in 1944 and was eventually tried at the Bailey under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Duncan was originally arrested for the catch-all charge of vagrancy but as she came up for trial at the Old Bailey, the police suddenly added the charge of witchcraft.
TELESPHOBIA
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Last Words, death bed statements . . .
Thomas Jefferson--still survives...
~~ John Adams, US President, d. July 4, 1826
(Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same day.)
This is the last of earth! I am content.
~~ John Quincy Adams, US President, d. February 21, 1848
See in what peace a Christian can die.
~~ Joseph Addison, writer, d. June 17, 1719
Is it not meningitis?
~~ Louisa M. Alcott, writer, d. 1888
Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait.
In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."
~~ Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. 1789
Am I dying or is this my birthday?
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964
Nothing, but death.
When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817
Codeine . . . bourbon.
~~ Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968
How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
~~ P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891
I can't sleep.
~~ James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937
Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
~~ Ethel Barrymore, actress, d. June 18, 1959
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
~~ John Barrymore, actor, d. May 29, 1942
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
~~ Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, d.1170
Now comes the mystery.
~~ Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887
In her new book The Most Famous Man in America, author Debby Applegate writes on page 466 that Beecher's last words in fact were, "You were saying that I could not recover." Ms. Applegate has not been able to confirm the traditional version of Beecher's last words.
Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957
Josephine...
~~ Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, May 5, 1821
I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.
~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702
Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
~~ Johannes Brahms, composer, d. April 3, 1897
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Spoken to her husband of 9 months, Rev. Arthur Nicholls.
~~ Charlotte Bronte, writer, d. March 31, 1855
Beautiful.
In reply to her husband who had asked how she felt.
~~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, d. June 28, 1861
Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
~~ Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824
Et tu, Brute?
Assassinated.
~~ Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, d. 44 BC
I am still alive!
Stabbed to death by his own guards - (as reported by Roman historian Tacitus)
~~ Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, d.41 AD
Don't let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) starve.
~~ Charles II, King of England and Scotland, d. 1685
Ay Jesus.
~~ Charles V, King of France, d. 1380
I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1, 1904
The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
Dying of tuberculosis.
~~ Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849
I'm bored with it all.
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965
This time it will be a long one.
~~ Georges Clemenceau, French premier, d. 1929
I have tried so hard to do the right.
~~ Grover Cleveland, US President, d. 1908
That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.
~~ Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959
Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
~~ Noel Coward, writer, d. 1973
Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.
~~ Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977
That was a great game of golf, fellers.
~~ Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d. October 14, 1977
I am not the least afraid to die.
~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882
My God. What's happened?
~~ Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, d. August 31, 1997
I must go in, the fog is rising.
~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886
Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?
Minutes before her plane crashed.
~~ Jessica Dubroff, seven-year-old pilot, d. 1996
Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire.
(Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)
~~ Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927
Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Last letter to her husband before her last flight.
KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low.
Last radio communiqué before her disappearance.
~~ Amelia Earhart, d. 1937
It is very beautiful over there.
~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931
No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.
~~ Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910
All my possessions for a moment of time.
~~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603
I've never felt better.
~~ Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
~~ Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988
I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
~~ Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959
A dying man can do nothing easy.
~~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d. April 17, 1790
Come my little one, and give me your hand.
Spoken to his daughter, Ottilie.
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, d. March 22, 1832
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.
~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967
Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.
When asked if he thought dying was tough.
~~ Edmund Gwenn, actor, d. September 6, 1959
God will pardon me, that's his line of work.
~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856
Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark.
~~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d. June 4, 1910
All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
~~ Henry VIII, King of England, d. 1547
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
~~ Thomas Hobbes, writer, d. 1679
I see black light.
~~ Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885
Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
~~ Andrew Jackson, US President, d. 1845
Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
Killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War.
~~ General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863
Is it the Fourth?
~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
From Luke 23:46
~~ Jesus Christ
Does nobody understand?
~~ James Joyce, writer, d. 1941
Why not? Yeah.
~~ Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
~~ Franz Leher, composer, d. October 24, 1948
A King should die standing.
~~ Louis XVIII, King of France, d. 1824
Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?
~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715
I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms.
~~ Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
~~ Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956
Let's cool it brothers . . .
Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16 times.
~~ Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883
I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence!
~~ Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, (Archduke Maximilian of Austria), d. June 11, 1867
Nothing matters. Nothing matters.
~~ Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29, 1957
It's all been very interesting.
~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762
I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
~~ Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953
Good-bye . . . why am I hemorrhaging?
~~ Boris Pasternak, writer, d. 1959
Get my swan costume ready.
~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931
I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.
~~ Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523
Lord help my poor soul.
~~ Edgar Allan Poe, writer, d. October 7, 1849
I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
Spoken to his wife.
~~ James K. Polk, US President, d. 1849
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
~~ Alexander Pope, writer, d. May 30, 1744
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
~~ François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553
I have a terrific headache.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President, d. 1945
Put out the light.
~~ Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . .
Killed in battle during US Civil War.
~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864
Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
Spoken to his nurse.
~~ George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d. November 2, 1950
I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .
~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953
Moose . . . Indian . . .
~~ Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862
God bless... God damn.
~~ James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
~~ Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, d. 1940
Don't worry chief, it will be alright.
~~ Rudolph Valentino, actor, d. August 23, 1926
Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.
~~ Vespasian, Roman Emperor, d. 79 AD
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923
I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.
~~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519
I die hard but am not afraid to go.
~~ George Washington, US President, d. December 14, 1799
Go away. I'm all right.
~~ H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900
I am ready.
~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
~~ Florenz Ziegfeld, showman, d. July 22, 1932




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Suicide Notes . . .
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.
Suicide note.
~~ Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort, French writer, d. 1794
Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.
Suicide note.
~~ Kurt Cobain, musician, d. April 8, 1994
Goodbye, everybody!
Last words as he jumped off the cruise ship "Orizaba." (His body was never found.)
~~ Hart Crane, poet, d. April 27, 1932
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?
Suicide note.
~~ George Eastman, inventor, d. March 14, 1932
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness -- furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.
Written in his own blood, and given to a friend the day before he hanged himself.
~~ Sergei Esenin, Russian poet, d. Dec. 28, 1925
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Suicide note.
~~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer, d. August 17, 1935
( As an advocate for the right-to-die, Gilman committed suicide on August 17, 1935 by taking an overdose of chloroform. She "chose chloroform over cancer.")
Lets see if this will do it.
Accidental suicide as he shot himself with a blank-loaded pistol on the set of TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced a chunk of his skull into his brain; he died six days later.
~~ Jon Erik Hexum, actor, d. October 18, 1984
All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over, and the lamps expire.
Suicide note.
~~ Robert E. Howard, writer, d. June 11, 1936
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.
Shot herself during broadcast.
~~ Chris Chubbuck, newscaster, d. July 15, 1974
Don't worry, it's not loaded.
Suicide playing Russian roulette.
~~ Terry Kath, rock musician, d. January 23, 1978
They tried to get me - I got them first!
Suicide by drinking Lysol.
~~ Vachel Lindsay, poet, d. December 4, 1931
I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.
Suicide note.
~~ Freddie Prinze, comedian, d. January 29, 1977
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.
Suicide note.
~~ George Sanders, British actor, d. April 25, 1972
When I am dead, and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain drenched hair,
Tho you should lean above me broken hearted,
I shall not care.
For I shall have peace.
As leafey trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough.
And I shall be more silent and cold hearted
Than you are now.
Suicide note to her lover who left her.
~~ Sara Teasdale, poet, d. 1933
"Football Season Is Over."
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax This won't hurt.
Hunter left the note for his wife, Anita. He shot himself four days later at his home in Aspen, Colo., after weeks of pain from a host of physical problems that included a broken leg and a hip replacement.
~~ Hunter S. Thompson, author, d. 20 February, 2005
The writer's ashes were blown into the sky in Woody Creek, Colo., amid fireworks on Aug. 20.
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe.
Suicide note.
~~ Lupe Velez, actress, d. December 13, 1944
The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.
Suicide note.
~~ James Whale, film director, d. May 29, 1957
I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time.
Suicide note.
~~ Wendy O. Williams, punk rock performer, d. April 6, 1998
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
Suicide note
~~ Virginia Woolf, author, d. March 28, 1941




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Last words spoken before execution . . .
Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.
Executed in electric chair in New York.
~~ George Appel, d. 1928

You are going to hurt me, please don't hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you!
Guillotined.
~~ Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, d. 1793

I am going to be face to face with Jesus now. . . . I love you all very much. I will see you all when you get there. . . . I will wait for you.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Karla Faye Tucker Brown, d. February 3, 1998

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.
Executed by firing squad.
~~ Erskine Childers, Irish patriot, d. November 24, 1922

Thank you for the change in my life you have given me, the love and closeness of my family and my beautiful daughter. Thank you for using me...
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ John Cockrum, d. September 30, 1997

You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother.
Executed in electric chair.
~~ Francis "Two Gun" Crowley, d. 1931

They butchered me back there, I was in a lot of pain. They cut me in the groin; they cut me in the leg. I was bleeding profusely. This is not an execution, it is murder.
Executed by injection, Florida
~~ Bennie Demps, d. June 8, 2000
( It took execution technicians 33 minutes to find suitable veins for the execution. The executioners had no unusual problems finding one vein, but because Florida protocol requires a second alternate intravenous drip, they continued to work to insert another needle, finally abandoning the effort after their prolonged failures.)

I'm going home, babe.
Executed by injection, Delaware.
~~ James Allen Red Dog, d. March 3, 1993

Remember, the death penalty is murder.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Robert Drew, d. August 2, 1994

Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life.
Last words on the gallows.
~~ George Engel
(He was one of four executed after the 1886 Haymarket bombing in Chicago)

I love you.
Spoken to the executioner.
Executed by injection, New York.
~~ Sean Flannagan, d. June 23, 1989

How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.
Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma.
~~ James French, d. 1966

I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Johnny Frank Garrett, Sr., d. February 11, 1992

Let's do it!
Executed by firing squad, Utah.
~~ Gary Gilmore, d. January 17, 1977

I'd rather be fishing.
Executed in electric chair, Louisiana.
~~ Jimmy Glass, d. June 12, 1987

Good people are always so sure they're right.
Executed at San Quentin.
~~ Barbara Graham, d. June 3, 1955

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
Executed by injection, Oklahoma.
~~ Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20, 1995

Lock and load. Let's do it.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ G. W. Green, d. November 12, 1991

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
Executed in California's gas chamber.
~~ Robert Alton Harris, d. April 21, 1992

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.
(Actual)
Shot by British as a spy.
~~ Nathan Hale, American hero, d. 1776

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
(Attributed)
~~ Nathan Hale

I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Lionel Herrera d. May 12, 1993

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.
Executed by hanging, at Camp Justice in the Baghdad suburb of Khadimiya
~~ Saddam Hussein d. December 30, 2006

I don't hold any grudges. This is my doing. Sorry it happened.
Executed in electric chair, Indiana.
~~ Steven Judy, d. March 9, 1981

Such is Life
Executed by hanging.
~~ Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, d. 1880

I love you, mom.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Clarence Lackey, d. May 20, 1997

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
Executed by guillotine
~~ Louis XVI of France, d. January 21, 1793

My dear Melinée, my beloved little orphan,
In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We are going to be executed today at 3:00. This is happening to me like an accident in my life; I don’t believe it, but I nevertheless know that I will never see you again.
Executed by firing squad
~~ Missak Manouchian, d. February 21, 1944
(Leader of the Parisian section of a Communist Resistance movement, the Francs Tireurs et Partisans - Main - d'oeuvre immigrée (FTP-MOI). See his entire letter & those of others of this group also executed, at: The Last Letters (http://marxists.org/history/france/resistance/manouchian/index.htm).

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
Executed by guillotine.
Monsieur, I beg your pardon.
Spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot.
~~ Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, d. October 16, 1793

Today is a good day to die. I forgive all of you. I hope God does too.
Executed by injection, Virginia.
~~ Mario Benjamin Murphy, d. September 17, 1997

Shoot me in the chest!
To his executioners.
~~Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, d.1945

Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of it!
Executed by firing squad.
~~ Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant, Australian poet & national hero, d. 1902

Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.
Executed by hanging Leavenworth, Kansas.
~~ Carl Panzram (http://www.mugshots.com/Criminal/Killers/Carl_Panzram.htm), d. September 5, 1930

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Executed by beheading.
~~ Sir Walter Raleigh, d. October 29, 1618

Well, the Lord is going to get another one.
Executed in electric chair, Georgia.
~~ John Eldon Smith, d. December 15, 1983

Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
Executed in electric chair, Florida.
~~ John Spenkelink, d. May 25, 1979

Adios.
Executed by injection in Maryland.
~~ John Thanos, d. May 16, 1994




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Famous Firsts of the 1500's, 1600's, 1700's

Ivan IV (the Terrible)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1547 --- 1st Tsar of Russia.
Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1553 --- 1st reigning queen of England.
Sofinisba Anguissola
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1559 --- 1st woman artist to gain prominence as a painter.
Virginia Dare
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1587 --- 1st child born in the American colonies, on August 18th, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
Anne Bradstreet
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1650 --- 1st published American woman writer. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Ann Franklin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1762 --- 1st woman to hold the title of newspaper editor, "The Newport Mercury" in Newport, RI.
James Cook
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1773 --- 1st person to cross Antarctic Circle.
Benjamin Franklin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1775 --- appointed 1st Postmaster General in America (July 26, 1775).
Margaret Corbin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1779 --- 1st woman to be awarded a disability pension by US Congress. She fought in the Revolutionary War.
Marquis d'Arlandes
Pilatre de Rozier
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1783 --- 1st humans to fly. They were airborne in a hot-air balloon for 20 minutes, in Paris, on Nov. 21.
John Jay
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1789 --- 1st US Supreme Court chief justice.
Frederick Muhlenberg
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1789 --- 1st Speaker Of the US House Of Representatives.
Edmund Randolph
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1789 --- 1st US attorney general.
George Washington
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1789 --- 1st US President president elected under the U.S. Constitution.(only unanimously elected US president.)
Martha Washington
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1789 --- 1st US First Lady.
Samuel Hopkins
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1790 --- holder of US Patent #1. Thousands of patents were issued before his, but his was the first when the numbering started. He patented a process for making potash and pearl ashes.
Henry Laurens - Charleston, South Carolina statesman
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1792 --- 1st formal cremation in US. He left instructions in his will.
William Blount
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1797 --- 1st person in theUS to be impeached by the House of Representatives, the first time it even exercised this power, and was simultaneously expelled from the US Senate on July 8. He was found guilty ‘of a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public trust and duty as a Senator,’ because he had been active in a plan to incite the Creek and Cherokee Indians to aid the British in conquering the Spanish territory of West Florida.
André-Jacques Garnerin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1797 --- 1st parachute jump. Dropped from a balloon, about 6,500 ft. over Monceau Park in Paris in a 23-ft.-diameter parachute made of white canvas with a basket attached (Oct. 22).
Benjamin Stoddert
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1798 --- 1st Secretary of the US Navy
Count de Grisley
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1799 --- 1st magician to perform the trick of sawing a woman in half .


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Famous Firsts of the 1800's

Thomas Jefferson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif1801 --- 1st US president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
Mary Kies
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1809 --- 1st woman to be issued a US patent. She was granted a patent for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread to make bonnets.
Sam Patch
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1829 --- 1st first known person to survive the jump off of Niagara Falls.
Edward Smith
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1831 --- 1st indicted bank robber in the US. He was sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison.
Richard Lawrence
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1835 --- 1st known person to attempt to assassinate an American President. On January 30, 1835, President Andrew Jackson was attending the funeral of South Carolina congressman Warren R. Davis. Lawrence fired two pistols at point-blank range. Both misfired.
Mary Lyon
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1837 --- founded 1st woman's college in US, Mt. Holyoke College.
Queen Victoria
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1837 --- 1st English monarch to live in Buckingham Palace.
William Henry Harrison
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1841 --- 1st US president to die in office. At 32 days, he also had the shortest term in office.
Tim Hyer
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1841 --- 1st recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion.
Antoinette de Correvont
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1843 --- 1st professional woman photographer. In 1843 she opened a Daguerreotype studio in Munich.
Elizabeth Blackwell
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1849 --- 1st woman to receive medical degree in US. (from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.)
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1853 --- 1st American woman ordained a minister by a recognized denomination (Congregational.)
Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1859 --- 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
Jules Leotard
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1859 --- world's 1st flying trapeze circus act. Performed at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, without safety nets.
William Carney
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1863 --- 1st African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor (on July 18,1863 at Fort Wagner, S.C.)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1864 --- 1st African American woman to receive an M.D. degree in the US. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College.
Mary Walker
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1865 --- 1st (and only) woman to receive the US Medal of Honor. She was a Civil War surgeon. Her medal was rescinded in 1916, however, when the Army purged its files to cut down on what they thought were "unwarranted" issues. It wasn't re-instated until 1976.
David Glasgow Farragut
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1866 --- 1st Admiral in US Navy.
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http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1866 --- Committed the first US train robbery. On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers boarded an eastbound train in Indiana wearing masks and toting guns. After emptying one safe and tossing the other out the window, the robbers jumped off the train and made an easy getaway.
Sir John Alexander McDonald
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1867 --- 1st Prime Minister of Canada.
Lucy Hobbs Taylor
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1867 --- 1st woman in the US to become a certified dentist. She graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery.
Ebenezer D. Bassett
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1869 ---1st African American U.S. diplomat, minister-resident to Haiti.
Arabella Mansfield
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1869 --- 1st woman lawyer. A year later, Ada H. Kepley, of Illinois, graduates from the Union College of Law in Chicago. She is the first woman lawyer to graduate from a law school.
Jefferson Long
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1870 --- 1st African American elected to U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia.
Hiram Revels
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1870 --- 1st African American US Senator. He completed the term of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who had resigned to become president of the Confederacy.
Lucy Walker
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1871 --- 1st woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland.
Victoria Woodhall
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1872 --- 1st woman to run for President of the US.
Herbert Hoover
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1874 --- 1st US President born west of the Mississippi.
Louis De Geer
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1874 --- 1st US Prime Minister of Sweden
Matthew Webb
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1875 --- 1st known person to swim across the English Channel. (He drowned in 1883 after unsuccessfully trying to swim across the whirlpools and rapids beneath Niagara Falls.)
Mary Baker Eddy
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1879 --- 1st and only American woman to found a lasting American-based religion- The Church of Christ (Scientist).
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1879 --- 1st female lawyer to plead a case before the US Supreme Court.
Mary Mahoney
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1879 --- 1st African American woman to study and work as a professionally trained nurse.
Moses Fleetwood Walker
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1884 --- 1st African American baseball player in the major leagues.
Grover Cleveland
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1886 --- 1st President married inside the White House.
Wilhelm Steinitz
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1886 --- world's 1st chess champion.
Susanna M. Salter
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1887 --- 1st woman US mayor. (Argonia, KS). She won by a two-thirds majority but didn't even know she was in the running until she went into the voting booth. Her name was submitted by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She died at the age of 101 in 1961.
Oscar Straus
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1887 --- 1st Jewish ambassador from US. (Ambassador to Turkey.)
Norman Coleman
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1889 --- 1st US Secretary of Agriculture.
Louise Blanchard Bethune
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1890 --- 1st woman elected to full membership in the American Institute of Architects.
William Kemmler
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1890 --- 1st criminal to be executed by electrocution (in Auburn Prison, Auburn, N.Y., Aug. 6)
Louis Henry Sullivan
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1891 --- architect of 10 story Wainwright Building, the 1st skyscraper.
Grover Cleveland
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1892 --- 1st (and only) US President to win election to nonconsecutive terms. He defeated Benjamin Harrison.
Myra Bradwell, (nee Colby)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1892 --- 1st female lawyer in US. She qualified for Illinois bar in 1869, but was prevented, due to gender, from being admitted to practice until 1892.
Annie Moore
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1892 --- 1st immigrant to pass through Ellis Island. She was 15 years old and from County Cork, Ireland.
Queen Isabella of Spain
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1893 --- 1st woman to appear on a US postage stamp.
Frankie Nelson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1896 --- winner of the 1st women's bicycling marathon, which took place on January 6-11, 1896 at Madison Square Garden in New York. She traveled 418 miles.
H.H.A. Beach
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1897 --- her "Gaelic Symphony" is the first symphony by a woman performed in the United States, and possibly the world.
John J. McDermott
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1897 --- winner of the he 1st annual Boston Marathon - the first of its type in the US.

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Famous Firsts of the 1900's

Edmund Barton
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1900 --- 1st Prime Minister of Australia.
Charlotte Cooper
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1900 --- 1st woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal (for tennis).

1st Nobel Prize winners:
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1901 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Literature: Sully Prudhomme (Rene Francois Armand)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Peace: Jean Henri Dunant & Frederic Passy
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Physics: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Physiology & Medicine: Emil Adolf Von Behring
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Chemistry: Jacobus Henricus Van't Hoff
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1969 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Economics: Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen
1st female Nobel Prize winners:
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1903 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Physics: Marie Sklodowska Curie
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1905 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Peace: Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1909 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Literature: Selma Ottilia Lovisa LagerlØf
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1911 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Chemistry: Marie Sklodowska Curie
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1947 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Physiology & Medicine: Gerty Radnitz Cori
Annie Taylor
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1901 --- 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was aged 64 years at the time.
Vida Goldstein
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1902 --- 1st woman in the British Empire to run for a national office. She ran for the Australian Senate when women there got the right to vote in all federal elections.
Martha Washington
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1902 --- 1st woman to be pictured on a US postage stamp. The 8-cent stamp was issued in November 1902.
Maurice Garin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1903 --- 1st Tour de France winner.
Alexander Winton
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1903 --- set the 1st land speed record in car racing. Set at Daytona Beach, his speed was 68.18 mph.
May Sutton Brandy
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1904 --- 1st American woman to win the ladies singles tennis championship at Wimbledon.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1905 --- 1st "actual" British prime minister. Until the 18th century, the monarch's most senior minister could hold any of a number of titles; usually either First Lord, Lord Chancellor, Lord Privy Seal, or one of the Secretaries of State. During the late 18th Century, the term "prime minister" came to be used. In 1905, the title was officially recognized by King Edward VII.
Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1906 --- 1st American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was for helping mediate an end the Russo-Japanese War.
Ferenc Szisz
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1906 --- Winner of the 1st Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France. The Romanian driver drove a Renault.
Charles Curtis
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1907 --- 1st American Indian to become a US Senator. (Kansas) He resigned in March of 1929 to become President Herbert Hoover's Vice President.
Thomas E. Selfridge
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1908 --- 1st airplane fatality. Selfridge, a Lt.in the US Army Signal Corps, was in a group evaluating the Wright plane at Fort Myer, Va. He was up 75 ft. with Orville Wright when the propeller hit a bracing wire and was broken, throwing the plane out of control, killing Selfridge and seriously injuring Wright (Sept. 17).
Baroness Raymonde de la Roche
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1910 --- 1st licensed woman pilot. (of France, who learned to fly in 1909, received ticket No. 36 on March 8.)
Alice Wells
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1910 --- 1st policewoman in the US. She was hired by the Los Angeles Police Department . She was allowed to design her own uniform and was active in propagating the need for policewomen elsewhere. As a result of her efforts seventeen departments in American were employing policewomen by 1916.
Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer

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http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1911 --- 1st man to reach the South Pole, beating out an expedition led by Robert F. Scott.
Marie Sklodowska Curie
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1911 --- 1st person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Her first was in Physics (1903) and the second in Chemistry (1911.)
Ray Harroun
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1911 --- 1st winner of the Indianapolis 500 car race. His average speed was 74.59 mph, he finished in 6 hours, 42 minutes, 8 seconds.
Alice Hyde
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1911 --- 1st winner of the "Miss World" beauty pageant. She was 17.

Harriet Quimby
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1911 --- 1st US woman pilot. (A magazine writer, got ticket No. 37, making her the second licensed female pilot in the world. She was also the 1st woman to fly across the English Channel. She flew from Dover, England and landed at Hardelot, France, in a Blériot monoplane(April 16). She was later killed in a flying accident over Dorchester Bay during a Harvard-Boston aviation meet on July 1, 1912. )
Arthur R. Eldred
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1912 --- 1st boy to reach the rank of Eagle Scout -- the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program. He was of Oceanside, NY.
Louis D. Brandeis
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1916 --- 1st Jewish member of the US Supreme Court. (Appointed by President Wilson)
Jeannette Rankin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1916 --- 1st woman elected to US congress. (Montana) Only legislator to vote against both WW I and WW II.
Loretta Walsh
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1917 --- 1st female Yeoman (F) in the US Navy.
1st Pulitzer Winners
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1917 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Biography: Laura E. Richards, H. Elliott, and Florence Hall
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif History: Jean Jules Jusserand
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Reporting: Herbert B. Swope
1st female Pulitzer Winners:
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1921 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Fiction: Edith Wharton for "The Age of Innocence."
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1923 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay for "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver."
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1983 ---
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif Music: Ellen Taafe Zwilich
Rosika Schwimmer
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1918 --- the world's 1st woman ambassador. She was appointed the Hungarian ambassador to Switzerland.
Charles Hamilton Houston
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1919 --- 1st African American Editor of the Harvard Law Review
Lucy Slowe
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1920 --- 1st African American woman tennis champion in the US. She won the women's singles title at a tournament in Baltimore.
Ethelda "Thel" Bleibtrey - swimmer
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1920 --- 1st US woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics. (Margaret Abbott was awarded a porcelain bowl, not a gold medal, in 1900.)
Bessie Coleman
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1921 --- 1st US African American female pilot, but earned her license in France. Was killed April 30, 1926, in a flying accident.
Margaret Gorman
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1921 --- 1st Miss America. She was 16 and 30-25-32.
Henry Sullivan
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1923 --- 1st American to swim across the English Channel.
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1924 --- 1st African American to pass US Foreign Service exam.
Nellie Taylor Ross
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1925 --- 1st female state governor. (Wyoming)
Gertrude Ederle
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1926 --- 1st American woman to swim the English Channel. It took her 14 hours and 39 minutes. (She broke the existing men's record.)
Al Jolson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1927 --- lead role in the 1st talking motion picture, "The Jazz Singer."
Charles Lindbergh
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1927 --- 1st man to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Norma Talmadge
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1927 --- 1st footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater (now Mann's Chinese Theater.)
Janet Gaynor
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1928 --- 1st Oscar winner for Best Actress.
Emil Jannings
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1928 --- 1st Oscar winner for Best Actor.
Ellen Church
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1930 --- 1st airline hostess. She served passengers flying between San Francisco, California and Cheyenne, Wyoming on United Airlines.
Laura Ingalls
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1930 --- 1st woman to make a solo transcontinental flight across the United States.

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Sinclair Lewis
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1930 --- 1st American recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Jane Addams
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1931 --- 1st American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Jackie Mitchell - baseball pitcher
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1931 --- 1st woman in organized baseball. She was signed by the Chattanooga Baseball Club at the age of 19.
Hattie Caraway
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1932 --- 1st woman elected to US Senate.
Amelia Earhart
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1932 --- 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman. (traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours)
Frances Perkins
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1933 --- 1st woman in US Presidential Cabinet. (Secretary of Labor under FDR.)
Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Annette Dionne
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1934 --- 1st quintuplets to survive infancy. They were born near Callender, Ontario to Oliva and Elzire Dionne.
Horton Smith
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1934 --- won the 1st Masters Golf Tournament under the magnolia trees of Augusta National in Georgia.
Lettie Pate Whitehead
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1934 --- 1st American woman to serve as a director of a major corporation, The Coca-Cola Company.
Wallis Warfield Simpson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1936 --- 1st Time magazine "Woman of the Year."
Jane Matilda Bolin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1939 --- 1st African American woman judge. (New York City)
Gene Cox
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1939 --- 1st girl page in US House of Representatives.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1939 --- 1st US president to speak on television. (Spoke at the opening session of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939.)

Hattie McDaniel
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1940 --- 1st African American actress to win an Oscar. She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind".
Booker T. Washington
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1940 --- 1st African American to be pictured on a US postage stamp. His likeness was issued on a 10-cent stamp.
Annie G. Fox
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1941 --- 1st woman to receive the US Purple Heart Medal. She was wounded while serving at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7 1941.

Glenn Miller
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1941 --- Received the 1st gold record ever awarded to a recording artist.
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1946 --- Canonized by Pope Pius XII.. She is the first US citizen (she was born in Italy) to become a saint.
William Henry Hastie
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1946 --- 1st African American US Federal Judge.
Trygve Lie - Norwegian socialist
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1946 --- 1st Secretary General of United Nations.
Chuck Yeager
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1947 --- 1st person to break the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound. (On October 14, 1947, he flew a Bell X-1 rocket at 670 mph in level flight.)
Dick Button
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1948 --- 1st American to become World Figure Skating Champion.
Eugenia Anderson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1949 --- 1st US woman appointed ambassador to a foreign country. (Ambassador to Denmark)
Gwendolyn Brooks
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1949 --- 1st African American woman to win a Pulitzer prize.

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Ralph Bunche
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1950 --- 1st African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Charles Cooper
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1950 --- 1st African American player in NBA (Fort Wayne Indiana Celtics).
Florence Chadwick
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1951 --- 1st woman to have swum across the English Channel in each direction.
George (Christine) Jorgenson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1952 --- recipient of the world's 1st sex-change operation.
Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a sex change operation in Berlin March 5, 1930. He assumed the identity of Lili Elbe, and had ovaries implanted. It is speculated that Wegener was actually a hermaphrodite, and the credit for first sex change usually is given to Christine Jorgenson.
Patricia McCormick
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1952 --- 1st professional woman bullfighter. She got herself two bulls in the contest held in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Lucille Ball
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1953 --- appeared on the cover of the 1st TV Guide (April).
Jacqueline Cochrane
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1953 --- 1st woman to fly faster than speed of sound. (She piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.)
Tenley Albright
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1953 --- 1st American to win the Women's World Figure Skating Championship. She was 17-years old when she won the competition in Davos, Switzerland.
Elizabeth II
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1953 --- 1st monarch to have a televised coronation.
Sir Edmund Hillary
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1953 --- 1st recorded climb of Mt. Everest.
Sir Roger Bannister
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1954 --- 1st person recorded to run a mile race in under four minutes. He broke the four minute barrier at Imey Road, Oxford on the 6 May. His time was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1954 --- 1st first African American general in the US Air Force
Marian Anderson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1955 --- 1st African American singer at the Metropolitan Opera. She appeared as Ulrica in Verdi's "The Masked Ball."


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Nat King Cole
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1955 --- 1st African American US Television host, "The Nat King Cole Show"
Don Larsen
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1956 --- pitched the 1st and only perfect game in a World Series, for the New York Yankees.
Althea Gibson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1957 --- 1st African American tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title.
Laika, the dog
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1957 --- 1st living creature to orbit the earth. Aboard the Soviet satellite, Sputnik 2.
Julia Child
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1958 --- 1st woman designated a full-fledged "Chef."
William O'Ree
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1958 --- 1st African American hockey player in the NHL. (Boston Bruins)
Ruth Carol Taylor
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1958 --- 1st African American woman to become a stewardess (now, flight attendant) by making her initial flight this day on Mohawk Airlines from Ithaca, NY to New York City.
Clifton R Wharton
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1958 --- 1st African American US foreign minister. (Romania)
Hiram L. Fong
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1959 --- 1st Chinese-American in US Senate. (Hawaii)
Daniel K. Inouye
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1959 --- 1st Japanese-American in US House of Representatives. (Hawaii)
Sirimavo Bandaraneike
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1960 --- 1st woman to be elected the head of state. She became the president of Sri Lanka. (Following her were Indira Gandhi of India in 1966 and Golda Meir of Israel in 1969.)
Harry Belafonte
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1960 --- 1st African American performer to win a major Emmy award; he was awarded Best Performance in a Variety Show for his TV special "Tonight with Belafonte."
Oveta Culp Hobby
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1960 --- 1st woman to serve as US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. She is also the first director of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), and the first woman to receive the US Army Distinguished Service Medal.
Wilma Rudolph
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1960 --- 1st American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics, on September 7.

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Antonio Abertondo
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1961 --- 1st person to swim the English Channel non-stop in both directions.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1961 --- 1st human in space, 1st human to orbit Earth.
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1961 --- 1st American in space; (Freedom 7). 2nd human in space; member of original Mercury 7.
Janet G. Travell
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1961 --- 1st woman to hold the post of Personal Physician to the President. (Appointed by Kennedy)
Roy Claxton Acuff
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1962 --- 1st living person admitted to Country Music Hall of Fame.
Joan Crawford
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1962 --- 1st guest on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson," October 1.
John Glenn
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1962 --- 1st US astronaut to orbit earth.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1963 --- 1st US President to wear contact lenses.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova - Russian cosmonaut
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1963 --- 1st woman in space.
Golda Meir
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1964 --- 1st Jewish female prime minister, and 1st female prime minister of Israel.
Jerrie Mock
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1964 --- 1st around-the-world solo flight by a woman.
Sidney Poitier
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1964 --- 1st African American actor to win an Oscar in a major category. He earned the honor for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his role in the film, "Lilies of the Field".
Peter Sellers
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1964 --- 1st male to appear on the cover of "Playboy" magazine.
Margaret Chase Smith
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1964 --- 1st woman nominated for president of the US by a major political party, at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
Patricia R Harris
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1965---1st African American female US ambassador. (Luxembourg)
Alexei Arkhovich Leonov
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1965 --- 1st human to walk in space.
Amber Dean Smith
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1965---1st ever nude centrefold girl when in 1965 at the age of 19 years she was crowned 'Pet Of The Year' by Penthouse magazine.
Edward Higgins White, Jr.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1965 --- 1st American to walk in space.
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1966 --- 1st woman prime minister of India.
Constance Baker Motley
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1966 --- 1st femal African American US Federal Judge.
Robert C. Weaver
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1966 --- 1st African American in US Presidential Cabinet (LBJ appointed him Secretary of HUD.)
Charles Whiman
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1966 --- On Aug. 1, 1966, University of Texas student Charles Whitman barricaded himself and an array of rifles in a 28-story campus tower, shooting 13 students to death and wounding 31. He perpetrated the 1st US school shooting.
Christiaan Barnard - heart surgeon
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1967 --- performed the 1st human heart transplant.
Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1967 --- 1st African American US astronaut. He died in a plane crash during a training flight and never made it into space.
John Lennon
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1967 --- 1st artist on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine (November 9, 1967.)
Thurgood Marshall
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1967 --- 1st African American to become a Supreme Court justice.
Muriel Siebert
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1967 --- 1st woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. She was also the nation's first- ever discount broker, and the first woman to serve as Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York.
Carl Stokes
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1967 --- 1st African American elected as the mayor of a major city. (Cleveland, Ohio)
Louis Washkansky
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1967 --- 1st human heart transplant recipient. He lived 18 days with the new heart.
Shirley Chisholm
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1968 --- 1st African American woman elected to the US House of Representatives.
Ruth Eisemann-Schier
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1968 --- 1st woman placed on the FBI's Most Wanted List (for kidnaping, extortion, and other crimes.)
Neil Armstrong
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1969 --- 1st man to walk on the moon.
Barbara Jo Rubin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1969 --- 1st woman jockey to win a race in North America. She was riding Cohesian, at Charlestown Race Course in West Virginia.


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Elizabeth P. Hoisington
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1970 --- 1st female general in the US armed forces. She was appointed to the post of director of the Women's Army Corps.
Bella Savitsky Abzug
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1971 --- 1st Jewish woman in Congress.
Satchel Paige
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1971 --- 1st Negro-League player elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fran Phillips
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1971 --- 1st woman to set foot on the North Pole, on April 5th.
Berenice Gera
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1972 --- 1st female umpire in pro baseball.
Billy Jean King
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1972 --- named Sports Illustrated "Sportsperson of the Year," becoming the 1st woman to be so honored.
Sally Jean Priesand
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1972 --- 1st ordained woman rabbi in the US.
Mark Spitz - US swimmer
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1972 --- 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals.
Jean Westwood
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1972 --- 1st woman to head the US Democratic Party.
Henry Kissinger
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1973 --- 1st Jewish US Secretary of State. He was also the 1st naturalized citizen to hold this office.
Emily Warner
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1973 --- 1st female commercial airline pilot in the US. (Frontier Airlines)
Mia Farrow
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1974 --- appeared on the cover of the 1st People Magazine.
Richard Milhous Nixon
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1974 --- 1st and only US president to resign from office.
Mary Louise Smith
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1974 --- 1st woman to head the US Republican Party.
Ellen Burstyn
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1975 --- 1st person to win an Oscar and a Tony in the same year. These awards were for her performances in the film "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore" (1974) and the play "Same Time, Next Year."
Junko Tabei
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1975 --- 1st woman to climb Mt. Everest
George Carlin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1975 --- 1st guest host on "Saturday Night Live" which premiered on October 11.
Natalie Cole
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1975 --- 1st African American to win the Best New Artist Grammy Award.
Ella Grasso
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1975 --- 1st woman to become a governor of a state (Connecticut) without a husband preceding her in the governor's chair.
Janis Ian
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1975 --- 1st musical guest on TV's "Saturday Night Live".
Junko Tabei
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1975 --- 1st woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
Sarah Caldwell
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1976 --- 1st woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Tom Waddell and Charles Deaton
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1976 --- 1st gay men to be featured in the "Couples" section of People magazine.
Barbara Walters
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1976 --- 1st female newscaster on a US TV network news program. She signed a $5 million (five year) contract with ABC television as the evening news anchorwoman on April 22, 1976.
Billy Crystal
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1977 --- played 1st openly gay main character, Jodie Dallas, on network television on ABC's "Soap," which aired from 1977 to 1981.
Bette Davis
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1977 --- 1st female motion picture performer to be honored with the Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute (AFI), the highest honor given for a career in film. (Since the AFI established this award in 1973, only three other women have been honored since Davis: Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, and Lillian Gish. )
Janet Guthrie
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1977 --- 1st woman to qualify and race at the Indianapolis 500.
Jacqueline Means
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1977 --- 1st woman to be an ordained Episcopal priest
Harvey Milk
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1977 --- 1st · acknowledged homosexual elected to high local office (San Francisco Board of Supervisors)
Louise Brown
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1978 --- 1st test tube baby. (Lancastershire, England)
Mary Hargrafen (Sister Mary Carl)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1978 --- 1st nun to become a captain in the US Air Force. (Sisters of St. Francis.)
John Paul the Second (Karol Wojtyla)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1978 --- 1st Pole to become pope.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1998 --- 1st pope to visit Cuba. (Jan. 21-25)
Diana Nyad
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1979 --- 1st person to swim from the Bahamas to Florida.
Margaret Thatcher
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1979 --- Britain's 1st female prime minister.


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Sandra Day O'Connor
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1981 -- 1st female US Supreme Court justice.
Barney Frank
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1981 -- 1st openly gay U.S. Congressperson.
Barney Clark
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1982 -- 1st recipient of a permanent artificial heart, on Dec. 2. He lived until March 23, 1983.
Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr. (Guy)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1983 --- 1st African American American in space.
Elizabeth Dole (Mary Elizabeth Hanford)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1983 --- 1st female US Secretary of Transportation.
Sally Kristen Ride
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1983 --- 1st US woman in space.
Bruce Springsteen
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1983 --- 1st US music CD artist - "Born in the USA" released March 1983
Vanessa Williams
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1983 --- 1st African American Miss America. Williams relinquished her crown during her reign when nude pictures of her were published in "Penthouse" magazine.
Joan Benoit
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1984 --- winner of the 1st women's Olympic marathon at the Summer Games, held in Los Angeles.
Geraldine Ferraro
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1984 --- 1st woman vice-presidential nominee of a major US political party.
Kathryn Sullivan
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1984 --- 1st female US astronaut to walk in space.
Penny Harrington
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1985 --- 1st woman police chief of a major city. Head of the Portland, Oregon force of 940 officers and staff.
Libby Riddles
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1985 --- 1st woman to win the Iditarod, Alaska's 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog sled race. She completed the course in 18 days, twenty minutes and seventeen seconds.
Wilma Mankiller
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1985 --- 1st woman to lead a major American Indian tribe. She was elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Corazon Aquino
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1986 --- 1st woman President of the Philippines. She was later the 1st Philippine president not to seek a second term.


Mary Lund
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1986 --- 1st female recipient of an artificial heart.
Christa Sharon McAuliffe
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1986 --- 1st teacher selected for the NASA Teacher in Space program. She died, along with the rest of the crew, when the space shuttle Challenger blew up not long after launching.
Oprah Winfrey
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1986 --- 1st African-American woman to own her own television production company.
Kofi Annan
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1987 --- 1st black Secretary General of the United Nations.
Aretha Franklin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1987 --- 1st female artist inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Mary R. Stout
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1987 --- 1st female president of a national veteran group, named by the Vietnam Veterans of America on August 2, 1987.
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1987 --- 1st African American to become Chairman and CEO of a Fortune 500 company (TIAA-CREF).
Kurt Browning
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1988 --- 1st figure skater to land a quadruple jump in competition.
Gertrude Belle Elion - pharmacologist
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1988 --- 1st woman admitted to National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Justin Fashanu
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1988 --- a top soccer player in Britain, reveals that he is gay. He is the 1st athlete in a team sport to come out during his athletic career.
Michael Jordan
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1988 --- 1st basketball player pictured on a box of Wheaties cereal.
Penny Marshall
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1988 --- 1st woman film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office – "Big."
Mary Wilson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1988 --- 1st female rock star to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame.
Robert Morris
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1989 --- On July 26, 1989, Robert Morris was indicted for spreading the Internet’s first worm virus, infecting more than 6,000 university, research center and military computers. He is the 1st hacker ever to be prosecuted.


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Antonia Novello
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1990 --- 1st woman and first Hispanic to be named Surgeon General of the US.
Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1990 --- 1st African American president of The Harvard Law Review in its 104-year history.
Lech Walesa
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1990 --- Poland’s 1st non-Communist President
Douglas L. Wilder
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1990 --- 1st elected African American US governor. (Virginia)
Nadine Strossen
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1991 --- 1st female president of the ACLU.
Billy Crystal
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1992 --- 1st guest on "The Tonight Show," when Jay Leno permanently replaced Johnny Carson as host.
Mae Carol Jemison
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1992 --- 1st African American woman in space (on the Endeavor.)
Sidney Portier
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1992 --- 1st African American motion picture performer to be honored with the Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute (AFI), the highest honor given for a career in film.
Aileen Wuornos
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1992 --- 1st female serial killer in America. In 1992 she was charged with the shooting of five middle-aged men she met on highways by hitch hiking. She confessed to shooting seven men in self-defence and was eventually executed on 9th October 2002. Lethal Intent, the Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos story (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786015187/braincandy0f)
Madeleine Albright
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st female US Secretary of State. She is the first woman in this position as well as the highest-ranking woman in the United States government.
Maya Angelou
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st female poet to read a poem at a US presidential inauguration. She read "On the Pulse of Morning," at Clinton's inauguration.
Akebono (Chadwick Haheo Rowan)
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st non-Japanese yokozuna (sumo wrestler.)
Carol Elizabeth Moseley-Braun
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st African American woman in US Senate.
Kim Campbell
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st female Prime Minister of Canada.
Barbara Harmer
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st woman to pilot the Concorde (March 25th.)
Janet Reno
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st female US Attorney General.
Shiela Widnall
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1993 --- 1st secretary of a branch of the US military (appointed to head the Air Force)
Eileen Marie Collins
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1995 --- 1st female space shuttle pilot. She piloted the space shuttle Discovery during a mission to rendezvous with space station Mir.
Rebecca Elizabeth Marier
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1995 --- 1st woman to graduate 'top of the class' at West Point, the US Military Academy. The rankings are based on academic, military and physical accomplishments.
Madeleine Albright
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1996 --- 1st female US Secretary Of State.
Dolly, the lamb
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1996 --- 1st cloned mammal.
Jennifer Daetz, Lieutenant
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1997 --- 1st woman to command a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ship, the HMAS Shepparton.
Claudia Kennedy, US Army Major General
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1997 --- 1st female US three-star general..
Anna Lelkes
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1997 --- became the 1st official female member of the Vienna Philharmonic after the orchestra voted to end its all-male policy. She plays the harp.
McCaughey septuplets
Kenneth Robert, Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Nathan Roy, Brandon James, and Joel Steven
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1997 --- 1st surviving set of septuplets. Conceived as the result of fertility drugs, they were born in Des Moines, Iowa on November 19, 1997.
Craig Breedlove
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1998 --- 1st person to break the sound barrier in a car, at Lake Bonneville, UT, with a trap speed of over 760 MPH.
Jane Henney
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1998 --- 1st woman appointed Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA.)
Johnathan Lee Iverson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1998 --- 1st African American ringmaster in the 129-year history of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. (At age 22, also the youngest.)
Elizabeth Ann Oliver
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1998 --- 1st woman to have her baby's birth broadcast live over the Internet. (June 16)
Carlos Santana
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1998 --- 1st Hispanic to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Lt. Kendra Williams, USN
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1998 --- 1st US female combat pilot to bomb an enemy target. On Dec. 16, bombed enemy targets over Iraq during Operation Desert Fox.
Eileen Collins
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1999 --- 1st woman astronaut to command a space shuttle mission.
Nancy Ruth Mace
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1999 --- 1st female cadet to graduate from the Citadel, the formerly all-male military school in South Carolina.
Cynthia M. Trudell
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1999 --- 1st woman to head a US car company, Saturn Corp.
Abdurrahman Wahid
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 1999 --- 1st elected president of Indonesia (on October 20, 1999)


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Famous Firsts of the 2000's

Hilary Rodham Clinton
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2000 --- elected to the US. Senate, becoming the 1st First Lady ever elected to national office.
Colin Powell
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2000 --- 1st African American secretary of state.
Condoleezza Rice
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2001 --- 1st woman to serve as US national security adviser.
Halle Berry
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2002 --- 1st African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
Vonetta Flowers
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2002 --- 1st African American female US athlete to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympics. She wins in the women's bobsleigh event on February 19th.
Steve Fossett
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2002 --- 1st balloonist to fly solo around the world when he landed in Australia on 4th July 2002.
Tom Ridge
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2003 --- 1st US Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Gene Robinson
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2003 --- 1st openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in US.
Condoleezza Rice
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2005 --- 1st African American woman to serve as US secretary of state.
Anousheh Ansari
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2006 --- 1st female "space tourist," on September 18, 2006, she paid $20 million to ride on the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 capsule.
also: 1st Iranian in space and 1st Muslim woman in space.
Effa Manley
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2006 --- co-owner of the Negro Leagues team Newark Eagles, becomes the 1st woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Tony Dungy
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2007 --- 1st African-American coach to win a Super Bowl.
Keith Ellison
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2007 --- 1st Muslim member of US Congress (He took the ceremonial oath with a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson.)
Drew Gilpin Faust
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2007 --- 1st woman president in Harvard University's 371-year history.
Nancy Pelosi
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2007 --- 1st female Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2008 --- 1st woman to be a Presidential Candidate in every primary and caucus.
Ann Dunwoody
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2008 --- 1st female four-star general in the United States military.
Fahmida Mirza
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2008 --- 1st female National Assembly speaker in Pakistan’s 60-year history.
Sarah Palin
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2008 --- Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska - 1st Republican woman in US history to be nominated for vice president.
Danica Patrick
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2008 --- 1st woman to win an Indy Car Race - the Indy Japan 300.
Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2009 --- 1st African-American US President.
Michelle Obama
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/blank.gif 2009 --- 1st African-American US First Lady.


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ACORN
An acorn should be carried to bring luck and ensure a long life. An acorn at the window will keep lightning out AMBER
Amber beads, worn as a necklace, can protect against illness or cure colds. AMBULANCE
Seeing an ambulance is very unlucky unless you pinch your nose or hold your breath until you see a black or a brown dog. Touch your toes
Touch your nose
Never go in one of those
Until you see a dog. APPLE
Think of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, As you twist the stem of an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person whose name you were saying when the stem fell off. An apple a day
Keeps the doctor away. If you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds are inside, you will also know how many children you will have. BABY
To predict the sex of a baby: Suspend a wedding band held by a piece of thread over the palm of the pregnant girl. If the ring swings in an oval or circular motion the baby will be a girl. If the ring swings in a straight line the baby will be a boy. BASEBALL BAT
Spit on a new bat before using it for the first time to make it lucky BED
It's bad luck to put a hat on a bed. If you make a bedspread, or a quilt, be sure to finish it or marriage will never come to you Placing a bed facing north and south brings misfortune. You must get out of bed on the same side that you get in or you will have bad luck. When making the bed, don't interrupt your work, or you will spend a restless night in it. BEE
If a bee enters your home, it's a sign that you will soon have a visitor. If you kill the bee, you will have bad luck, or the visitor will be unpleasant. A swarm of bees settling on a roof is an omen that the house will burn down. BELL
The sound of bells drives away demons because they're afraid of the loud noise. When a bell rings, a new angel has received his wings. BIRD
A bird in the house is a sign of a death. If a robin flies into a room through a window, death will shortly follow. BIRTH
Monday's child is fair of face;
Tuesday's child is full of grace;
Wednesday's child is full of woe;
Thursday's child has far to go;
Friday's child is loving and giving;
Saturday's child works hard for a living.
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
is fair and wise, good and gay. BIRTHDAY CAKE
If you blow out all the candles on your birthday cake with the first puff you will get your wish. BLARNEY STONE
The Blarney Stone is a stone set in the wall of the Blarney Castle tower in the Irish village of Blarney. Kissing the stone is supposed to bring the kisser the gift of persuasive eloquence (blarney.) BLUE
To protect yourself from witches, wear a blue bead. Touch blue
And your wish
Will come true. BREAD
Before slicing a new loaf of bread, make the sign of the cross on it. A loaf of bread should never be turned upside down after a slice has been cut from it. BRIDE
Bridal & wedding superstitions (http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary3.html) BRIDGE
If you say good-bye to a friend on a bridge, you will never see each other again. BROOM
Do not lean a broom against a bed. The evil spirits in the broom will cast a spell on the bed. If you sweep trash out the door after dark, it will bring a stranger to visit. If someone is sweeping the floor and sweeps over your feet, you'll never get married. Never take a broom along when you move. Throw it out and buy a new one. To prevent an unwelcome guest from returning, sweep out the room they stayed in immediately after they leave. BUTTERFLY
If the first butterfly you see in the year is white, you will have good luck all year.

Three butterflies together mean good luck.

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CANDLE
If a candle lighted as part of a ceremony blows out, it is a sign that evil spirits are nearby. CALF
If the first calf born during the winter is white, the winter will be a bad one. CAT
If a black cat walks towards you, it brings good fortune, but if it walks away, it takes the good luck with it. Keep cats away from babies because they "suck the breath" of the child. A cat onboard a ship is considered to bring luck. CHEEKS
If your cheeks suddenly feel on fire, someone is talking about you. CHILL
If you get a chill up your back or goosebumps, it means that someone is walking over your grave. CHIMNEY SWEEP
It's very lucky to meet a chimney sweep by chance. Make a wish when sighting one, and the wish will come true. CIGARETTES
It is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same match. CIRCLE
Evil spirits can't harm you when you stand inside a circle. CLOCK
If a clock which has not been working suddenly chimes, there will be a death in the family. CLOVER
It's good luck to find a four-leaf clover. Clover protects human beings and animals from the spell of magicians and the wiles of fairies, and brings good luck to those who keep it in the house. COIN
It's bad luck to pick up a coin if it's tails side up. Good luck comes if it's heads up. COMB
To drop a comb while you are combing your hair is a sign of a coming disappointment. COUGH
To cure a cough: take a hair from the coughing person's head, put it between two slices of buttered bread, feed it to a dog, and say, "Eat well you hound, may you be sick and I be sound." COW
Cows lifting their tails is a sure sign that rain is coming. CRACK
Don't step on a crack on a sidewalk or walkway. Step on a crack
Break your mother's back. CRICKET
A cricket in the house brings good luck. COUNTING CROWS
One's bad,
Two's luck,
Three's health,
Four's wealth,
Five's sickness,
Six is death. DANDELION
Pick a dandelion that has gone to seed. Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count the seeds that remain on the stem. That is the number of children you will have. DEATH
Superstitions about death (http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary2.html) DOG
A dog howling at night when someone in the house is sick is a bad omen. DOOR
It's bad luck to leave a house through a different door than the one used to come into it. DREAMS
The meaning of dreams
and dream superstitions (http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary4.html) EARS
If your right ear itches, someone is speaking well of you. If your left ear itches, someone is speaking ill of you. Left for love and right for spite:
Left or right, good at night. EASTER
For good luck throughout the year, wear new clothes on Easter. ELEPHANT
Pictures of an elephant bring luck, but only if they face a door. EYE
If your right eye twitches there will soon be a birth in the family. If the left eye twitches there will soon be a death in the family. To cure a sty, stand at a crossroads and recite
Sty, sty, leave my eye
Take the next one coming by. EYELASH
If an eyelash falls out, put it on the back of the hand, make a wish and throw it over your shoulder. If it flies off the hand the wish will be granted.

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FINGERNAILS
It is bad luck to cut your fingernails on Friday or Sunday. Fingernail cuttings should be saved, burned, or buried. FISH
A fish should always be eaten from the head toward the tail. Dream of fish: someone you know is pregnant. FISHING
Throw back the first fish you catch then you'll be lucky the whole day fishing. If you count the number of fish you caught, you will catch no more that day. It's bad luck to say the word "pig" while fishing at sea. FLAG
It brings bad luck for a flag to touch the ground. FLOWER
First Flower of Spring: The day you find the first flower of the season can be used as an omen:
Monday means good fortune,
Tuesday means greatest attempts will be successful,
Wednesday means marriage,
Thursday means warning of small profits,
Friday means wealth,
Saturday means misfortune,
Sunday means excellent luck for weeks. FOOT
If the bottom of your right foot itches, you are going to take a trip. FORK
To drop a fork means a man is coming to visit. FRIDAY
A bed changed on Friday will bring bad dreams. Any ship that sails on Friday will have bad luck. You should never start a trip on Friday or you will meet misfortune.


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Never start to make a garment on Friday unless you can finish it the same day. FRIDAY THE 13TH - how did Friday the thirteenth become such an unlucky day?
fear of Friday the 13th is rooted in ancient, separate bad-luck associations with the number 13 and the day Friday. The two unlucky entities combine to make one super unlucky day. There is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Balder died and the Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. There is a Biblical reference to the unlucky number 13. Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Supper. A particularly bad Friday the 13th occurred in the middle ages. On a Friday the 13th in 1306, King Philip of France arrested the revered Knights Templar and began torturing them, marking the occasion as a day of evil. In ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.
Both Friday and the number 13 were once closely associated with capital punishment. In British tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose. It is traditionally believed that Eve tempted Adam with the apple on a Friday. Tradition also has it that the Flood in the Bible, the confusion at the Tower of Babel, and the death of Jesus Christ all took place on Friday. Numerologists consider 12 a "complete" number. There are 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus. In exceeding 12 by 1, 13's association with bad luck has to do with just being a little beyond completeness. FRIDAY THE 13TH - how is fear of the number thirteen demonstarted? More than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor. Many airports skip the 13th gate. Airplanes have no 13th aisle. Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13. Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery. On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half. Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate. Many triskaidekaphobes, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck . Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names. FROG
A frog brings good luck to the house it enters. The dried body of a frog worn in a silk bag around the neck averts epilepsy and other fits. GOOD FRIDAY
(The Friday before Easter)
A child born on Good Friday and baptized on Easter Sunday has a gift of healing. If a boy, he should go into the ministry. Cut your hair on Good Friday to prevent headaches in the year to come A person who dies on Good Friday will go right to heaven. Shed no blood on Good Friday, work no wood, hammer no nail. HAIR
Pulling out a gray or white hair will cause ten more to grow in its place. HAND
If the palm of your right hand itches it means you will soon be getting money. If the palm of your left hand itches it means you will soon be paying out money. HORSESHOE
A horseshoe, hung above the doorway, will bring good luck to a home. In most of Europe protective horseshoes are placed in a downward facing position, but in some parts of Ireland and Britain people believe that the shoes must be turned upward or "the luck will run out." A horseshoe hung in the bedroom will keep nightmares away.

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ITCH
If your nose itches you will soon be kissed by a fool. If your nose itches
Your mouth is in danger.
You'll kiss a fool,
And meet a stranger.
Rub an itch to wood
It will come to good. IVY
Ivy growing on a house protects the inhabitants from witchcraft and evil. KNIFE
A knife as a gift from a lover means that the love will soon end. A knife placed under the bed during childbirth will ease the pain of labor. If a friend gives you a knife, you should give him a coin, or your friendship will soon be broken. It will cause a quarrel if knives are crossed at the table. It is bad luck to close a pocket knife unless you were the one who opened it. Knife falls, gentleman calls;
Fork falls, lady calls;
Spoon falls, baby calls. KNITTING
It's bad luck to leave a project unfinished. The intended recepient will get bad luck from the unfinished item. Stabbing your needles though your yarn balls brings bad luck to anyone who wears something made from that yarn. Don't knit a pair of socks for your boyfriend or he'll walk away from you. If you knit one of your own hairs into a garment, it will bind the recipient to you. Knitting for children you may have in the future, but before you are pregnant, is bad luck (it may prevent one from getting pregnant, or bring ill health to the baby). LADDER
It is bad luck to walk under a ladder. LADYBUG
If a young girl catches a ladybug and then releases it, the direction in which it flies away will be the direction from which her future husband will come. It is bad luck to kill a ladybug. Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home.
Your house is on fire,
Your children all roam. LEAF
If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn you will not catch a cold all winter. LETTUCE
Lettuce is believed to have magical and healing properties, including the power to arouse love and counteract the effects of wine. Lettuce promotes child bearing if eaten by young women, and certain types of salad can bring on labor in pregnant women. LIE
Cross my heart and hope to die,
Cut my throat if I tell a lie. LIZARD
To dream of a lizard is a sign that you have a secret enemy.

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MANDRAKE
Mandrake is a mysterious plant believed to have powers of preventing sterility in men and animals, causing barren women to bear children, and compelling love. Mandrake is thought to have aphrodisiac and fertilizing properties. Clairvoyants use mandrake to increase their visions to enable them to see strange and wonderful things. MARRIAGE
Wediing superstitions (http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary3.html) MILK
It's bad luck to let milk boil over. MIRROR
To break a mirror means 7 years bad luck. It is unlucky to see your face in a mirror by candlelight. A mirror should be covered during a thunderstorm because it attracts lightning. If a mirror in the house falls and breaks by itself, someone in the house will die soon. MISTLETOE
Mistletoe in the house protects it from thunder and lightning. It also cures many diseases, is an antidote to poison and brings good luck and fertility. A girl standing under a mistletoe cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege. MOTH
A white moth inside the house or trying to enter the house means death. NOSE
If your nose itches, someone is coming to see you. If it's the right nostril, the visitor will be a female, left nostril, male. NUMBERS
See each individual number alphabetically. ONION
An onion cut in half and placed under the bed of a sick person will draw off fever and poisons. A wish will come true if you make it while burning onions. OPAL
Unless you were born in October, it's unlucky to wear opals. OWL
It is bad luck to see an owl in the sunlight. PENCIL
If you use the same pencil to take a test that you used for studying for the test, the pencil will remember the answers. PEPPER
If you spill pepper you will have a serious argument with your best friend. PHOTOGRAPH
If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die first. RABBIT'S FOOT
A rabbit's foot will bring luck and protect the owner from evil spirits if carried in the pocket. RAINBOW
A rainbow in the Eastern sky,
The morrow will be fine and dry.
A rainbow in the West that gleams,
Rain tomorrow falls in streams. RAVEN
To kill a raven is to harm the spirit of King Arthur who visits the world in the form of a raven. RED
A red ribbon should be placed on a child who has been sick to keep the illness from returning. ROBIN
A wish made upon seeing the first robin in spring will come true - but only if you complete the wish before the robin flies away. ROCKING CHAIR
If you leave a rocking chair rocking when empty, it invites evil spirits to come into your house to sit in the rocking chair. ROSEMARY
Rosemary planted by the doorstep will keep witches away.

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SALT
Bad luck will follow the spilling of salt unless a pinch is thrown over the left shoulder into the face of the devil waiting there. Put salt on the doorstep of a new house and no evil can enter. Salty soup is a sign that the cook is in love. SCISSORS
If you drop scissors, it means your lover is being unfaithful to you. SEA GULL
Three seagulls flying together, directly overhead, are a warning of death soon to come. SEVEN
To break a mirror brings seven years of bad luck. The cure: to bury the pieces, or run them in a stream.
The seventh son of a seventh son has magic powers, according to Irish folklore, but is a vampire in Romanian legend.
SHOES
Do not place shoes upon a table, for this will bring bad luck for the day, cause trouble with your mate and you might even lose your job as a result. It's bad luck to leave shoes upside down. SINGING
If you sing before seven, you will cry before eleven. SLEEP
You sleep best with your head to the north and your feet to the south. SNEEZE
Place a hand in front of your mouth when sneezing. Your soul may escape otherwise. The devil can enter your body when you sneeze. Having someone say, "God bless you," drives the devil away. If you sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for danger;
Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger;
Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter;
Sneeze on a Thursday, something better;
Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow;
Sneeze on a Saturday, see your sweetheart tomorrow.
Sneeze on a Sunday, and the devil will have domination over you all week. One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a letter
Four for a boy.
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret, never to be told SPARROW
Sparrows carry the souls of the dead, it's unlucky to kill one. SPIDER
Seeing a spider run down a web in the afternoon means you'll take a trip. A spider is a repellent against plague when worn around the neck in a walnut shell. STARS
All wishes on shooting stars come true. Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight. SWAN
A swan's feather, sewed into the husband's pillow, will ensure fidelity. THIRTEEN
If 13 people sit down at a table to eat, one of them will die before the year is over.
TONGUE
If you bite your tongue while eating, it is because you have recently told a lie. UMBRELLA
Dropping an umbrella on the floor means that there will be a murder in the house. It's bad luck to open an umbrella inside the house, especially if you put it over your head. VALENTINE'S
DAY
If a woman sees a robin flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it means she will marry a sailor. If she sees a sparrow, she will marry a poor man and be very happy. If she sees a goldfinch, she will marry a millionaire. VEIL
A bride's veil protects her from evil spirits who are jealous of happy people. WATERMELON
A watermelon will grow in your stomach if you swallow a watermelon seed. WEATHER
Red sky at night,
Sailor's delight.
Red sky at morning
Sailors take warning Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day.
Rain on the green grass
Rain on the hillside,
But not on me. WEDDING
Wedding superstitions (http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary3.html) WOOD
Knock three times on wood after mentioning good fortune so evil spirits won't ruin it. WINDOW
All windows should be opened at the moment of death so that the soul can leave. WISH
If you make a wish while throwing a coin into a well or fountain, the wish will come true. Wish I may,
Wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight. If you tell someone your wish, it won't come true. WISHBONE
Two people pull apart the dried breastbone of a chicken or turkey until it cracks and breaks, each one making a wish while doing so. The person who gets the long half of the wishbone will have his or her wish come true. X
The number of Xs in the palm of your right hand is the number of children you will have. YAWN
A yawn is a sign that danger is near. Cover your mouth when you yawn, or your soul can go out of your body along with the yawn.

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Note: If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck . Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names.

>>I have 13 letters in my name.. Anna Dominique..
but I don't think i have the devil's luck..
I have God's blessing.. :)
pure superstition..

God bless everyone..

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Superstitions about Death

BIRD
A bird in the house is a sign of a death. If a robin flies into a room through a window, death will shortly follow. CANDLE
Light candles on the night after November 1. One for each deceased relative should be placed in the window in the room where death occurred. CEMETERY
You must hold your breath while going past a cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who has recently died. CLOCK
If a clock which has not been working suddenly chimes, there will be a death in the family. You will have bad luck if you do not stop the clock in the room where someone dies. CORPSE
If a woman is buried in black, she will return to haunt the family. If a dead person's eyes are left open, he'll find someone to take with him. Mirrors in a house with a corpse should be covered or the person who sees himself will die next. DOG
Dogs howling in the dark of night,
Howl for death before daylight. DREAMS
If you dream of death it's a sign of a birth, if you dream of birth, it's a sign of death. If you touch a loved one who has died, you won't have dreams about them DYING
A person who dies on Good Friday will go right to heaven. A person who dies at midnight on Christmas Eve will go straight to heaven because the gates of heaven are open at that time. All windows should be opened at the moment of death so that the soul can leave. The soul of a dying person can't escape the body and go to heaven if any locks are locked in the house. EYE
If the left eye twitches there will soon be a death in the family. If a dead person's eyes are left open, he'll find someone to take with him. FUNERAL
Funerals on Friday portend another death in the family during the year. It's bad luck to count the cars in a funeral cortege. It's bad luck to meet a funeral procession head on. Thunder following a funeral means that the dead person's soul has reached heaven. Nothing new should be worn to a funeral, especially new shoes. Pointing at a funeral procession will cause you to die within the month Pregnant women should not attend funerals. GRAVE
If the person buried lived a good life, flowers will grow on the grave. If the person was evil, weeds will grow. MIRROR
If a mirror in the house falls and breaks by itself, someone in the house will die soon. MOTH
A white moth inside the house or trying to enter the house means death. PHOTOGRAPH
If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die first. THIRTEEN
If 13 people sit down at a table to eat, one of them will die before the year is over. UMBRELLA
Dropping an umbrella on the floor means that there will be a murder in the house.

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Superstitions about Weddings
Wedding Day Superstitions and Traditions

BRIDAL SHOWER
The first gift the bride opens should be the first gift she uses. Everything the bride says as she opens her gifts will be repeated on her wedding night. Somone should be assigned to write down these comments during the shower. The person who gives the third gift to be opened will soon have a baby. Save the ribbons from the shower gifts to make a mock bouquet to be used at the wedding rehearsal. WEDDING DAY
Certain days of the week, and certain months of the year are better than others for a wedding. Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday best of all,
Thursday for losses,
Friday for crosses,
Saturday for no luck at all Married when the year is new, he'll be loving, kind & true,
When February birds do mate, You wed nor dread your fate.
If you wed when March winds blow, joy and sorrow both you'll know.
Marry in April when you can, Joy for Maiden & for Man.
Marry in the month of May, and you'll surely rue the day.
Marry when June roses grow, over land and sea you'll go.
Those who in July do wed, must labour for their daily bred.
Whoever wed in August be, many a change is sure to see
Marry in September's shrine, your living will be rich and fine.
If in October you do marry, love will come but riches tarry.
If you wed in bleak November, only joys will come, remember.
When December snows fall fast, marry and true love will last. FOR A LUCKY BRIDE
Something old,
Something new,
Something borrowed,
Something blue,
And a lucky sixpence
In her shoe. Married in White, you have chosen right
Married in Grey, you will go far away,
Married in Black, you will wish yourself back,
Married in Red, you will wish yourself dead,
Married in Green, ashamed to be seen,
Married in Blue, you will always be true,
Married in Pearl, you will live in a whirl,
Married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow,
Married in Brown, you will live in the town,
Married in Pink, you spirit will sink. WEDDING DAY
Good Omens:
seeing a rainbow
having the sun shine
meeting a black cat
meeting a chimney sweep WEDDING DAY
Bad Omens:
a pig, hare, or lizard running across the road
seeing an open grave
meeting a nun or a monk foretell barrenness OTHER BELIEFS
If the groom drops the wedding band during the ceremony, the marriage is doomed. The new bride must enter her home by the main door, and must not trip or fall - hence the custom of carrying the bride over the threshold. The spouse who goes to sleep first on the wedding day will be the first to die. WEDDING CAKE
If a single woman sleeps with a piece of wedding cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband.

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Superstitions about Dreams and Meanings of Dreams

WHEN you had the dream: Dreams at night are a devil's delight
Dreams in the morning, heed the angels' warning. WHAT the dream was about: ACORN
Dreaming of acorns predicts pleasant things & that much gain is to be expected. For a woman to dream of eating acorns denotes that she will rise to a position of ease & pleasure.
To dream of shaking acorns from a tree means that you will rapidly attain your wishes in business or love.
AIRPORT
In a dream the sight of a busy airport represents the desire for freedom and/or travel.
If the airport is empty and deserted your own travel plans will be changed or delayed.
ALMONDS
If you see almonds in your dream you'll have a temporary sorrow.
If you ate and enjoyed them, you'll be lucky, but if they tasted bitter, you should delay any contemplated changes for as long as possible.
ANGELS
A favorable dream forecasting success, protection, happiness, and rewarding friendships. BABY
To see a baby in your dream signifies innocence, warmth and new beginnings. A love affair may be blooming for you in your near future. You will also make new and fun friends.
If a woman dreams she is nursing a baby, she will be deceived by the one she trusts the most
BALLOON
Seeing balloons in your dream indicates a dashing of hope on any and all fronts, business or love, as well as a general falling off of all kinds of businesses you may be involved in.
If you are ascending in a balloon this is an omen of especially frustrating conditions in your life.
BEAR
To dream of killing a bear foretells liberation from entanglements. BED
To dream of a clean, white bed denotes the end of worries.
If a woman dreams of making a bed, there will soon be a new lover in her life.
BICYCLE
To dream of riding a bicycle uphill signifies bright prospects.
To dream of riding downhill calls for care - misfortune is near.
BIRDS
Flying birds are a sign of prosperity to the dreamer. BIRTH
If you dream of death it's a sign of a birth, if you dream of birth, it's a sign of death. BUTTERFLY
To see a butterfly among flowers indicates prosperity.
To see butterflies flying around denotes news from absent friends by letter or from someone who has seen them.
CANDLES
To see candles burning with a clear and steady flame denotes the constancy of those around you and a well-grounded fortune. CATS
Dreaming of a cat is a generally unfortunate omen and it shows treachery as well as a run of bad luck.
Cats attacking you represent enemies; if you succeed banishing them you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame.
CROW
Seeing a crow in your dream means disappointment in everything, grief and misfortune. CROWN
To dream of a crown predicts a change in your life. The dreamer will travel a long distance from home & form new relationships. DEATH
If you dream of death it's a sign of a birth, if you dream of birth, it's a sign of death. DANCING
To dream that you are dancing means that some unexpected good fortune will come to you. DECEASED PERSON
If you should dream of a deceased person and this person speaks only to you, pay close attention to what the spirit is telling you as it could be very important to you.
To dream of seeing a deceased person is normally a dream of warning, and it tells you that the influences around you at this time do not bode well for your affairs, and you should not enter into any binding contracts or verbal agreements.
DIAMONDS
To dream of owning diamonds is a very promising dream signifying great honor and recognition from high places. DOG
To dream about a dog indicates great gain and constant friends.
To hear the barking of dogs foretells news of depressing nature. Difficulties are more likely to follow.
DRAGONFLY
If you dream that a dragonfly lands on your body then you will have excellent news from someone far away from home.
If you see a dead dragonfly, then the news will be bad.
A dragonfly perched gracefully on some other object shows that you will soon be having guests that may be hard to get rid of.
DRIVING
If you dream that you are driving a vehicle it is a sign that you should be careful to take no chances with your money, such as gambling, in the next two weeks or so.
If someone else is doing the driving you will find yourself in luck, money wise.
FACE
To dream of a smiling face signifies pleasant new friends, experiences, and/or financial gains.
To dream of unpleasant or grotesque (unless amusingly so) faces portend loss.
To dream you are washing your face denotes a necessity to atone for some past indiscretion; better make amends!
To see the faces of strangers signifies an approaching change of residence.
FALLING
To dream of falling indicates a loss of emotional equilibrium or self-control. It may represent your insecurity, a lack of self-confidence, a fear of failure or an inability to cope with a situation.
If you fall a long distance in your dream and get hurt, be prepared for really hard times ahead; but if you fall and are not injured your upsets will be minor and temporary.





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WHAT the dream was about: GANG
To dream that you are confronted or threatened by a gang signifies circumstances or situations in your waking life which are overwhelming and you feel have ganged up on you. GARDEN
To see a vegetable garden in your dream symbolizes increased prosperity will come your way through diligence and care. It also suggests of stability and inner growth.
To see a flower garden in your dream foretells of tranquility, comfort, true love and happy home in your future.
To see a sparse, weed-infested garden denotes that you have neglected your spiritual needs.
GLOVES
To dream of gloves means that you will have a lawsuit or business troubles, but you will settle them in a manner that satisfies you.
To find a pair of gloves denotes a marriage or new love affair.
HAIR
Dreaming about hair means that you are careless in your personal affairs and will lose advancement by neglecting mental application. HAIRDRESSER
For a woman to dream of going to a hairdresser shows she will soon be entangled in some family scandal concerning the morals of a member of her family. Should she have her hair dyed, she will narrowly escape imprisonment.
For a man to dream of a hairdresser will presage much gossip or a need to dominate a beautiful woman.
HAM
If you dream of eating ham then you will lose something that means a lot to you. HONEY
To dream of eating honey foretells that you will attain wealth and love. ICE
Sitting on ice in your dreams is a dream of the contrary. ICE CREAM
Eating, making, selling or serving ice cream suggests that you are feeling contentment and satisfaction in your life. JAIL
To dream that your lover is in jail signifies that this lover is deceitful and untrustworthy.
To dream that you are in jail signifies your feelings of confinement and suffocation.
JAM
If you dream of eating jam you will suffer embarrassment at the hands of a woman through no fault of your own. KANGAROO
Seeing a kangaroo in your dreams foretells unexpected and exciting trips. KEYS
To dream of keys denotes unexpected change. If the keys are lost, unpleasant adventures will affect you. To find keys means domestic peace and success in business. KILLING
If you dreamed of killing someone, whether intentionally or by accident, it signifies a period of severe emotional stress during which you must make a heroic effort to control your temper. WHAT the dream was about: LETTER
To dream of receiving a letter from a friend foretells their arrival or that you will hear from them soon. LIGHTS
A light shining out of the dark, or a flashlight beam, shows that you will finally find the truth in a situation or the answer to a personal problem that you have been searching for. If the light is dim, you will only find part of the solution. MAGIC
Any form of magic in a dream predicts unexpected changes.
To dream of being mystified and/or amused by a magician indicates a reunion with a long-lost friend or the rekindling of a past love affair.
MARRIAGE
Dreaming of a marriage, or a wedding, is the sign of a death in the family. If the marriage was between strangers, then the death pertains to a not too close acquaintance or friend. MICE
Dreaming of mice foretells domestic troubles or that business affairs will assume a discouraging tone.
If you dream of a mouse jumping on you or getting in your clothing, then you will be involved in a scandal with a friend.
MONKEY
To dream of a monkey denotes that you have deceitful friends who will flatter you to advance their own interests. NECK
A dream featuring the neck is a sign of approaching money, unless the dream concerned a broken neck, in which case it is a warning against mismanagement of your affairs. NECKLACE
If you dream of losing a necklace you will soon be suffering bereavement of a loved one.
If you dream your loved one places a necklace around your neck or that you are wearing one, it shows an early marriage and a happy domestic life.
NEEDLE
To find a needle predicts that you will have friends who appreciate you.
To look for a needle foretells useless worries.
OAK TREE
To dream of an old, spreading oak means long life and prosperity. If it is filled with acorns you are due a promotion or some type of increase in your life.
If a newlywed sees many oak trees in a forest it foretells a long marriage and many children.
OCEAN
If you dream you are standing on shore and watching the waves foam up as they break over the beach foretells that you will have some narrow escape from an accidental injury.
If you are far out on the ocean and hear the waves as they lap against the hull of the ship, you will have setbacks in your business and a troubled domestic scene.
To sail on a calm ocean is always a good omen for all concerned.
OWL
To dream of an owl denotes a narrow escape from desperate illness or death.

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WHAT the dream was about: RACCOON
To dream of a raccoon warns you to be on your guard.. To see a raccoon in your dream shows that people are presenting false faces to you in your everyday life.
To be chased by a raccoon shows that a person you thought a friend has turned on you and now works behind your back for your downfall.
RAPE
Take this dream as a warning. Take precautions, protect yourself emotionally and physically and don't engage in careless behaviors. ROSE
If a woman dreams of receiving a rose and places it in her hair then will she be deceived by someone thought of as a good friend.
If she receives a bouquet of roses in the Springtime she will find true love but if it is winter her search will be fruitless.
To see a rose bush in full foliage denotes a wedding in the family.
RUNNING
Dream of running: a sign of a big change in your life. SNAKES
To see a lone snake and feel threatened by it shows that you have a bad enemy that is working against you, it also a warning against bodily harm from an enemy.
To dream of many snakes in a pit is the foreboding of much bad luck in love or business.
Should you overcome and kill a threatening snake in your dream shows that you will overcome your adversary and win out.
SPIDERS
All spiders except tarantulas are omens of good luck. The larger the spider, the bigger the rewards.
If you see a spider climbing the wall you will have your dearest wish come true.
If you see a spider spinning a web you will have an increase in your income due to hard work.
TATTOOS
If you dream you are a tattoo artist and you are tattooing someone's body you will soon break with friends or family over strange practices.
If you dream you are the one being tattooed you will become the target for a strangers jealousy but if you see someone else with tattoos then you will take a long, hard journey from home.
TEA
To dream that you are thirsty for tea means that you will be surprised with uninvited guests. TEETH
If you dream of having false teeth this indicates that you will have unexpected help on a problem.
To dream of rotten teeth shows that you have been telling someone a lie or using your smooth words for getting your own way.
If your teeth are rotten, crooked, and/or falling out this means that your lies are hurting someone very badly and that you will soon be found out.
If you dream you have swallowed a tooth you will soon have too 'eat your words'
UMBRELLA
Carrying a closed umbrella in the rain is highly unfortunate for the dreamer and his business plans.
To dream of carrying an open umbrella in the rain is a very fortunate sign that speaks of good luck in most endeavors.
A leaky umbrella denotes quarrels with loved ones.
WATER
Dreaming of clear water is a sign of great good luck and prosperity, a dream of muddy water foretells sadness or sorry for the dreamer through hearing of an illness or death of someone he/she knows well.
Dirty water warns of unscrupulous people who would bring you to ruin.
YARN
To dream of yarn shows you will soon become the wife of a wealthy man.

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Irish Blessings

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.

Always remember to forget
The things that made you sad.
But never forget to remember
The things that made you glad.
Always remember to forget
The friends that proved untrue.
But never forget to remember
Those that have stuck by you.
Always remember to forget
The troubles that passed away.
But never forget to remember
The blessings that come each day.

May the saddest day of your future be no worse
Than the happiest day of your past.

May the roof above us never fall in.
And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.

May there be a generation of children
On the children of your children.

May you live to be a hundred years,
With one extra year to repent!

May the Lord keep you in His hand
And never close His fist too tight.

May your neighbors respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And heaven accept you.

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

Walls for the wind,
And a roof for the rain,
And drinks beside the fire -
Laughter to cheer you
And those you love near you,
And all that your heart may desire!

May God be with you and bless you,
May you see your children's children,
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too few
And heaven is overflowing.

May peace and plenty be the first
To lift the latch to your door,
And happiness be guided to your home
By the candle of Christmas.

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
A Wedding Prayer
By the power that Christ brought from heaven,
mayst thou love me.
As the sun follows its course,
mayst thou follow me.
As light to the eye,
as bread to the hungry,
as joy to the heart,
may thy presence be with me,
oh one that I love,
'til death comes to part us asunder.


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Irish Curses

May those who love us love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.

May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend.

May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.

May you melt off the earth like snow off the ditch.

May his pipe never smoke, may his teapot be broke
And to add to the joke, may his kettle ne’er boil,
May he keep to the bed till the hour that he’s dead,
May he always be fed on hogwash and boiled oil,
May he swell with the gout, may his grinders fall out,
May he roll howl and shout with the horrid toothache,
May the temples wear horns, and the toes many corns,
Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s drake.
May his spade never dig may his sow never pig
May each hair on his wig be well thrashed with a flail
May his door have no latch, may his house have no thatch,
May his turkey not hatch, may the rats eat his meat
May every old fairy, from Cork to Dunleary,
Dip him snug and airy in river or lake,
Where the eel and the trout may feed on the snout
Of the monster that murdered Neill Falheerty’s drake



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Irish Proverbs

A drink precedes a story.
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
A hen is heavy when carried far.
A hound's food is in its legs.
A lock is better than suspicion.
A silent mouth is melodious.
A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
Age is honorable and youth is noble.
As the big hound is, so will the pup be.
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
Even a small thorn causes festering.
Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you.
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
If you want to be criticized, marry.
Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
It is a long road that has no turning.
It is better to exist unknown to the law.
It is not a secret if it is known by three people.
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
It is the good horse that draws its own cart.
It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day.
It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.
Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.
Mere words do not feed the friars.
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity knows no law.
Need teaches a plan.
Patience is poultice for all wounds.
Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.
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People live in each other's shelter.
Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.
Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.
The hole is more honorable than the patch.
The light heart lives long.
The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.
The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
The smallest thing outlives the human being.
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
The well fed does not understand the lean.
The work praises the man.
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
There is no fireside like your own fireside.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
There is no need like the lack of a friend.
There is no strength without unity.
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
Time is a great story teller.
Two shorten the road.
Two thirds of the work is the semblance.
Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.
When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.
Wine divulges truth.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me.
Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.

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Irish Drinking Toasts

May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven
half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Here's to me, and here's to you,
And here's to love and laughter-
I'll be true as long as you,
And not one moment after.

Here's to you and yours
And to mine and ours.
And if mine and ours
Ever come across to you and yours,
I hope you and yours will do
As much for mine and ours
As mine and ours have done
For you and yours!

Health and life to you;
The mate of your choice to you;
Land without rent to you,
And death in Eirinn.

Here's a toast to your enemies' enemies!

When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!

Here's to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer—and another one!

Here's to our wives and girlfriends:
May they never meet!


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