Events of this week in history: In 1781, Maryland became the 13th and final state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, almost three years after the official deadline given by Congress of March 10, 1778. In 1882, future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. In 1920, Jujiro Matsuda formed Toyo Cork Kogyo, a business that made cork, in Hiroshima, Japan; more than a decade later, the company produced its first automobile and eventually changed its name to Mazda. In 1933, with the notes of the William Tell Overture and a shout of Hi-yo, Silver! Away!, The Lone Ranger debuted on Detroits WXYZ radio station. In 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, was assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. In 1994, the American speed skater Dan Jansen set a new world record of 35.76 seconds for 500 meters at the World Sprint Championships in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 1843, future President William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio. In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state to join the Union. In 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elected its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson. In 1962, folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary signed their first recording contract. In 1985, American recording artists gathered to record We Are the World, a song which went on to raise more than $60 million for African famine. In 1986, 73 seconds after lifting off, the space shuttle Challenger, with passenger Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, who won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew, exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire. In 1785, the Georgia General Assembly incorporated the University of Georgia, the first state-funded institution of higher learning in the new republic. In 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C., for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. In 1965, the Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford Mustang sports car developed by the American auto racer and car designer Carroll Shelby, debuted. In 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were signed by officials from the United States and North Vietnam, bringing an official end to Americas participation in its most unpopular foreign war. In 1975, a bipartisan Senate investigation of activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was launched by a special congressional committee headed by Senator Frank Church of Idaho. On November 20, the committee released its report, charging both U.S. government agencies with illegal activities. The committee reported that the FBI and the CIA had conducted illegal surveillance of several hundred thousand U.S. citizens. In 2010, J.D. Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” the classic American novel about a disillusioned teenager, died of natural causes at age 91 at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire. A Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: The kitten version of “num num num” while eating? - - - Go to youtu.be/UTx1ll_MCk4 The highest single-day snowfall totals for all 50 states. - - - Go to weather/sports-rec/ski-conditions/50-states-biggest-snow-days-20130112?pageno=1 In La Mesa, California, a teenager went to the kitchen and grabbed the last blueberry muffin from a pack, but said when she looked at it, she couldn’t eat it because—it looks like her six-month-old Chihuahua Chico. - - - See below And now its time for FRIDAY FILES! - - - In Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a 20-year-old driver seemingly didn’t notice he struck a man on a bicycle delivering newspapers, and the man was lodged in his windshield. The man said he turned to the driver and said, Hello, Im the guy you hit on the bicycle, according to ABC news station WHTM. The driver did not respond, but continued on, running a stop sign and hitting another vehicle before he arrived home. The driver finally noticed the man when he stopped the car outside his home. He said, “Who are you? What are you doing in the car? The man said the driver started freaking out about going to jail. He then locked the car doors and went into his home. The man, whose body had gone most of the way through the windshield, then pulled his knees and feet into the car, and got out the passenger side. A witness found the man as he was walking and took him to a hospital. The driver was found at his home. He is facing several preliminary charges, including suspicion of drunken driving, suspicion of hit-and-run causing injury and suspicion of failing to render aid. - - - In the Fabrício Province in Brazil, a woman was walking her dog when she felt a thud on her head and terrible pain. She reached up and felt needle points. A porcupine had fallen off a lamp post and landed on her head. The woman had around 200 quills in her head, which had to be removed one-by-one by a surgeon with tweezers. - - - In El Ejido, Spain, a 34-year-old man was attempting to illegally occupy an apartment in a residential building on the outskirts of the city when a group of neighbors confronted him. Panicked by their reaction, he pulled out a gun and fired several shots to intimidate them, reports La Voz de Almería newspaper. When he attempted to put the weapon back in his pocket, he mistakenly shot himself in the gro.in area. The neighbors took him to the local hospital. He faces charges for illegal possession of a firearm as soon as he is released from hospital. - - - In Sarasota, Florida, as police officers walked by a man in a park, they noticed he dropped a Marlb.oro ciga.rette box. They kindly told the man he dropped his ciga.rettes, and the man responded, “I don’t smoke ciga.rettes, I smoke we.ed.” The officers then felt the need to search the box and inside found a bag containing, not we.ed, but four pieces of crack coc.aine. The man was arrested. - - - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a pregnant woman woke up this past Wednesday with contractions, and thought she had plenty of time to get to the hospital. As they got more urgent and painful, her husband put her on a sled to take her to the car because it was slippery outside. However, in between the house and car, the baby started coming. A neighbor called 911, and the operator talked the father through the process as the baby was born on the sled.
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