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May 3rd
1469 ~ Birthday of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1844 ~ Birthday of Richard D'Oyly Carte, English Impresario. 1898 ~ Birthday of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel. 1937 ~ Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 1945 ~ Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese. 1978 ~ The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail ( spam ) is sent by Digital Equipment Corporation to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the US. 1971 ~ Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations intended to shutting down Washington, D.C. 1990 ~ The Latvian parliament met to declare independence from the USSR. 2002 ~ Death of Barbara Castle, British politician. 2006 ~ Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison. |
May 4th
1825 ~ Birthday of Thomas Henry Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog", English Scientist.
1852 ~ Birthday of Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. 1929 ~ Birthday of Audrey Hepburn, Film and Stage Actress Extraordinaire. 1942 ~ The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval engagement fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began during World War II. 1953 ~ Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea". 1970 ~ The Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. 1975 ~ Death of Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges. 1979 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the UK’s first female Prime Minister. 1982 ~ The HMS Sheffield was sunk by an Exocet missile during the Falklands War. 2000 ~ Ken Livingstone elected the first Mayor of London. |
May 5th
1807 ~ Death of P.D.Q. Bach, fictitious Composer.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher. 1891 ~ NYC’s Carnegie Hall had its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. 1925 ~ Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Dayton, Tennessee. 1944 ~ Birthday of John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor (Gimli). 1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space. 1973 ~ Birthday of Brooke Ashley, a former Porn actress. 1980 ~ Great Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege. 1992 ~ Wolfenstein 3D was released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game. 1995 ~ Death of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion. |
May 6th
1856 ~ Birthday of Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis.
1862 ~ Death of Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher. 1915 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, Writer. 1915 ~ Birthday of Orson Welles, Director. 1937 ~ The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. 1940 ~ John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. 1953 ~ Birthday of Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1954 ~ Roger Bannister became the first man to run the mile in under four minutes. 1994 ~ Queen Elizabeth and French President François Mitterrand opened the Chunnel. 1994 ~ Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991. |
May 7th
1825 ~ Death of Antonio Salieri, Composer.
1833 ~ Birthday of Johannes Brahms, Composer. 1840 ~ Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer. 1915 ~ World War I: A German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people. 1919 ~ Birthday of Eva Peron, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron. 1933 ~ Birthday of Johnny Unitas, American football star. 1945 ~ General Alfred Jodl signed unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in World War II. 1954 ~ The Battle of Ðiên Biên Phú ended in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13). 1999 ~ Kosovo War: Three Chinese embassy workers were killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft “mistakenly” bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. President Clinton called the attack a “tragic mistake”. 2007 ~ The tomb of Herod the Great was discovered. |
May 8th
1794 ~ French chemist Antoine Lavoisier was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.
1873 ~ Death of John Stuart Mill, Empiricist Philosopher. 1895 ~ Birthday of Fulton J. Sheen, bishop and television personality. 1968 ~ Birthday of Jamie Summers, American porn star. 1973 ~ The Second Battle of Wounded Knee ended. 1978 ~ David Berkowitz pleaded guilty to the ''Son of Sam'' killings. 1984 ~ The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics. 1985 ~ Death of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer. 1988 ~ Death of Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction writer. 1999 ~ The Citadel, South Carolina's formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet. |
May 9th
1874 ~ Birthday of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.
1901 ~ Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne. 1903 ~ Death of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter. 1931 ~ Death of Albert Michelson, Physicist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics. 1949 ~ Birthday of Billy Joel, American musician. 1961 ~ Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles became the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings. 1972 ~ Israeli commandos liberated a hijacked Sabena airliner at Lod airport in Tel Aviv. 1974 ~ The U.S. Congress’s House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. 1986 ~ Death of Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineer. 1994 ~ Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. |
May 10th
1818 ~ Death of Paul Revere, engraver, American Patriot.
1838 ~ Birthday of John Wilkes Booth, Actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln. 1857 ~ The Indian Mutiny began when the Sepoys revolted against the British Army. 1869 ~ The first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. was completed at Promontory, Utah. 1899 ~ Birthday of Fred Astaire, Singer, Dancer & Actor. 1924 ~ J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI. 1940 ~ British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government. 1960 ~ The USS Triton completed the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. 1981 ~ François Mitterrand became the first Socialist President of France.. 2002 ~ FBI agent Robert Hanssen was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Russia. |
May 11th
1904 ~ Birthday of Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter.
1918 ~ Birthday of Richard Feynman, American Physicist. 1973 ~ Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed. 1981 ~ Death of Bob Marley, Reggae musician. 1987 ~ The first heart-lung transplant took place in Baltimore, Maryland. 1988 ~ Death of Kim Philby, Spy. 1997 ~ IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. 1998 ~ India announced that it had tested a group of nuclear weapons. 2001 ~ Death of Douglas Adams, Science Fiction author. 2003 ~ Death of Noel Redding, the bass guitarist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. |
May 12th
1820 ~ Birthday of Florence Nightingale, Nurse.
1845 ~ Birthday of Gabriel Fauré, Composer. 1889 ~ Death of John Cadbury, Chocolate Entrepreneur. 1918 ~ Birthday of Julius Rosenberg, Spy. 1942 ~ The start of Second Battle of Kharkov: During the battle the Soviets recapture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, then were encircled and destroyed. 1943 ~ Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. 1962 ~ Douglas MacArthur delivered his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point. 1971 ~ Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias in St Tropez. 2001 ~ Death of Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer. 2003 ~ Al Qaeda killed 26 people in the Riyadh compound bombings. |
May 13th
1842 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan, Composer.
1861 ~ Queen Victoria issued a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognized the breakaway Confederate states as having belligerent rights. 1888 ~ Brazil abolished slavery. 1912 ~ The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established in the U.K. 1937 ~ Birthday of Roger Zelazny, Science Fiction author. 1940 ~ Winston Churchill made his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. 1979 ~ Birthday of Lauren Phoenix, Canadian Porn Actress. 1981 ~ Birthday of Sunny Leone, Canadian/American Porn Actress. 1981 ~ Mehmet Ali Agca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome. 1995 ~ Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to climb Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. |
May 14th
1787 ~ Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author. 1948 ~ The independent state of Israel was proclaimed. 1955 ~ The USSR and seven other communist bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. 1969 ~ Birthday of Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (Galadriel). 1973 ~ Skylab 1, the first American space station, was launched. 1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia. 1987 ~ Death of Rita Hayworth, American actress. 1998 ~ Death of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor. 2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror for publishing photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers that were shown to be fake. |
May 15th
1869 ~ Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York city.
1886 ~ Death of Emily Dickinson, Poet. 1911 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Standard Oil Company, requiring its break up under the Sherman Anti-Trust act. 1919 ~ The Winnipeg General Strike began. 1930 ~ Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois. 1953 ~ Birthday of Mike Oldfield, English composer (Tubular Bells). 1957 ~ Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. 1972 ~ George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination. 1988 ~ The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. 1991 ~ Edith Cresson became France's first female Prime Minister. |
May 16th
1868 ~ The U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson of the articles of impeachment against him.
1943 ~ The Jewish Warsaw ghetto uprising ended. 1955 ~ Birthday of Olga Korbut, gymnast. 1966 ~ Birthday of Janet Jackson, Super Bowl Half Time Flasher. 1966 ~ The Chinese Cultural Revolution started when The Communist Party issued the "May 16 Notice". 1969 ~ The Soviet space probe Venera 5 landed on Venus. 1979 ~ Birthday of McKenzie Lee, English Porn actress. 1990 ~ Death of Jim Henson, Puppeteer. 2002 ~ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones opened in theaters. 2005 ~ Newsweek magazine retracted its Koran abuse story that started protests in Afghanistan. |
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