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jseal 05-15-2013 06:25 PM

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.

jseal 05-15-2013 08:21 PM

May 16th
 
1868 ~ The U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson of the articles of impeachment against him.

1905 ~ Birthday of Henry Fonda, Actor.

1919 ~ Birthday of Liberace, American pianist.

1943 ~ The Jewish Warsaw ghetto uprising ended.

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.

1969 ~ Death of Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America .

1979 ~ Birthday of McKenzie Lee, English Porn actress.

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.

jseal 05-16-2013 07:31 PM

May 17th
 
1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination.

1936 ~ Birthday of Dennis Hopper, Actor & Director.

1943 ~ The RAF carried out the Dambusters raid.

1954 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court issued their decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

1974 ~ Thirty-three people were killed by terrorist bombings in Ireland.

1992 ~ Death of Lawrence Welk, American musician.

1996 ~ President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in - Megan's Law.

2004 ~ Same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts.

2009 ~ Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected the first female President of Lithuania.

2012 ~ Death of Donna Summer, singer-songwriter .

jseal 05-17-2013 07:20 PM

May 18th
 
1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Logician & Philosopher, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950.

1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer.

1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer.

1944 ~ Monte Cassino fell to the Allies.

1974 ~ India became the sixth nuclear nation by successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon.

1975 ~ Death of Leroy Anderson, American Composer.

1980 ~ Mount St. Helens in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.

2004 ~ Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage.

2009 ~ The Armed Forces of Sri Lanka defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending almost 26 years of fighting.

2012 ~ Facebook began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ.

jseal 05-18-2013 07:27 PM

May 19th
 
1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.

1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader.

1915 ~ Death of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, ANZAC stretcher bearer at Gallipoli.

1921 ~ The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.

1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader.

1935 ~ Death of T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia").

1965 ~ Tui Malila, the longest living animal known, died in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192.

1983 ~ Birthday of Eve Angel, Hungarian Porn actress.

2001 ~ Sun Zhonghua was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized under the "One child" policy.

2004 ~ PM Blair hit with a purple flour filled condom.

jseal 05-19-2013 07:07 PM

May 20th
 
1772 ~ Birthday of Sir William Congreve, English inventor (“By the rockets’ red glare”).

1806 ~ Birthday of John Stuart Mill, English philosopher.

1873 ~ Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

1883 ~ The eruption of Krakatoa began, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.

1927 ~ Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York, on the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving in Paris the next day.

1961 ~ U.S. marshals were sent to restore order in Montgomery, Alabama.

1977 ~ Birthday of Tiger Tyson, Porn actor.

1989 ~ Facing pro-democracy demonstrations, Chinese authorities declared martial law, setting the stage for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist.

2002 ~ Death of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.

jseal 05-20-2013 08:52 PM

May 21st
 
1471 ~ Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist.

1881 ~ Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.

1924 ~ Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".

1956 ~ The U.S. detonated the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

1978 ~ Birthday of Briana Banks, German/American Porn actress.

1985 ~ Birthday of Marie McCray, Porn actress.

1991 ~ Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber.

2000 ~ Death of Sir John Gielgud, British actor.

2004 ~ Stanislav Petrov was awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.

jseal 05-22-2013 05:51 PM

May 22nd
 
1813 ~ Birthday of Richard Wagner, Composer.

1840 ~ Transporting British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished.

1856 ~ In one of the more impressive expressions of American democracy, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the U.S. Senate because of a speech Sumner had made which attacked Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas.

1859 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Physician & Writer.

1885 ~ Death of Victor Hugo, French author.

1907 ~ Birthday of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor & Director.

1907 ~ Birthday of Hergé, comic book creator.

1947 ~ The Truman Doctrine was enacted.

1969 ~ The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.

1972 ~ Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and joined the British Commonwealth.

jseal 05-22-2013 08:33 PM

May 23rd
 
1430 ~ Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.

1701 ~ Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.

1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer.

1873 ~ Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.

1906 ~ Death of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer.

1908 ~ Birthday of John Bardeen, the only man to have been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics twice; 1956 & 1972.

1934 ~ Death of Bonnie and Clyde, Outlaws.

1951 ~ The Tibetan government was forced to sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.

1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

1977 ~ More than 100 children and six teachers were taken hostage in a primary school in northern Holland.

jseal 05-24-2013 06:57 PM

May 24th
 
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.

1844 ~ The first telegram was sent by Samuel Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".

1883 ~ The Brooklyn Bridge was opened.

1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen.

1941 ~ Death of Lancelot Holland, British admiral, died in sinking of the HMS Hood.

1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter.

1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist.

1974 ~ Death of Duke Ellington, American composer and musician.

1976 ~ BOAC and Air France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.

2001 ~ 23 people were killed and hundreds injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem when the floor collapsed.

jseal 05-24-2013 07:29 PM

May 25th
 
1803 ~ Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Quotable Individual.

1889 ~ Birthday of Igor Sikorsky, developer of the helicopter.

1895 ~ Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.

1925 ~ John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

1926 ~ Birthday of Miles Davis, Jazz Musician

1929 ~ Birthday of Beverly Sills, Soprano.

1953 ~ The U.S. conducted its only nuclear artillery test.

1961 ~ President Kennedy set the US goal to put the first man on the moon by the end of that decade.

1962 ~ The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business.

1977 ~ Star Wars was released.

jseal 05-25-2013 07:52 PM

May 26th
 
1868 ~ The Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal.

1896 ~ The first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average published

1897 ~ Bram Stoker's novel Dracula went on sale in London.

1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Environmental writer.

1940 ~ Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.

1951 ~ Birthday of Sally Ride, Astronaut.

1972 ~ Birthday of Kylie Ireland, Porn Actress, Director, Producer, & radio host

2002 ~ The Mars Odyssey found signs of water ice deposits on the planet Mars.

2004 ~ Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

jseal 05-28-2013 06:50 PM

May 27th
 
1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.

1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize 1973.

1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author.

1937 ~ The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.

1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck was sunk.

1963 ~ Jomo Kenyatta led his party, Kenya African Nation Union, to victory in the Kenya’s first general election.

1964 ~ Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first PM.

1976 ~ Birthday of Anita Blond, Hungarian Porn actress.

1995 ~ Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event.

jseal 05-28-2013 06:52 PM

May 28th
 
1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.

1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone.

1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets.

1936 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication.

1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.

1972 ~ Death of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.

1982 ~ British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green during the Falklands War.

1987 ~ Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.

1984 ~ President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.

1998 ~ Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.

jseal 05-29-2013 08:36 AM

May 29th
 
1903 ~ Birthday of Bob Hope, British-born Comedian & Actor.

1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author.

1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring” premiered in Paris.

1917 ~ Birthday of John Kennedy, U.S. President.

1919 ~ Arthur Eddington's observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1972 ~ Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod (now Ben Gurion) International Airport, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.

1979 ~ Death of Mary Pickford, Canadian-born Actress and studio founder.

1999 ~ The Discovery Space Shuttle completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

2005 ~ French voters rejected the European Union's proposed constitution.


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