LOL! Too true!

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.

May 17th
 

1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination.

1838 ~ Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat.

1935 ~ Death of Paul Dukas, French composer.

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.

May 18th
 

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

1910 ~ The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet.

1911 ~ Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.

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.

1995 ~ A man stole a tank and ran it through a suburb of San Diego.

May 21st
 

Sorry for the missing days ... life has been very complicated. :(


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".

1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter.

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

1978 ~ Birthday of Briana Banks, Porn Actress.

1979 ~ Birthday of Jesse Capelli, Canadian 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.

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.

May 23rdd
 

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 is 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.

1962 ~ Raoul Salan, the leader of the Secret Army Organisation (OAS) was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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.

1940 ~ Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

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.

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.

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.

1963 ~ The Organisation of African Unity was set up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1982 ~ HMS Coventry was sunk during the Falklands War.

May 26th
 

1703 ~ Death of Samuel Pepys, English civil servant, famous for his diary.

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

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

1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Environmental writer.

1908 ~ The first commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran.

1948 ~ Birthday of Stevie Nicks, Songwriter.

1951 ~ Birthday of Sally Ride, Astronaut.

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

2008 ~ Severe flooding began in eastern and southern China, killing 148 & forcing the evacuation of 1.3 million.

2011 ~ A suicide bomber detonated three bombs at government buildings in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China.

Today (May 25th) marks the 35th anniversary of the theatrical release of Star Wars: A New Hope.

(I'm a geek) :)

I still remember the first time that battleship sailed over our heads, and just kept on coming.

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.

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 Blonde, Hungarian Porn Actress.

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

1997 ~ The Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton while he was in office.

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.

1971 ~ Death of Audie Murphy, American actor & war hero.

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.

2002 ~ Mars Odyssey found evidence of large ice deposits on Mars.

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.

1998 ~ Death of Barry Goldwater, U.S. senator & presidential candidate.

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

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

May 30th
 

1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).

1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author.

1912 ~ Death of Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, the elder of the Wright Brothers.

1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.

1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.

1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.

1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998.

1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law',' which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.

2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption.

June 1
 

(jseal sent me this to publish for today since he'll be gone. He indicated another was sent for the 31st but either I didn't get it ... or ... heaven forbid, I inadventently deleted it. In any case, here's the one for the 1st of June - DB)

June 2nd
 

1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Famous French Pervert.

1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.

1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.

1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic.

1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1.

1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.

2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched.

2005 ~ Death of Chloe Jones, Model & Porn Actress.

You're very welcome, jseal! :boink:

June 3rd
 

1888 ~ The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the SF Examiner.

1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer.

1924 ~ Death of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist.

1926 ~ Birthday of Allen Ginsberg, American poet.

1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne.

1965 ~ Edward White became the first American astronaut to walk in space.

1969 ~ The science fiction television series Star Trek aired its final new episode after being canceled by NBC.

1982 ~ The Israeli ambassador to Britain was shot on a London street.

1973 ~ At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-flight and disintegrated, killing the six members of the crew and eight bystanders on the ground.

1989 ~ Death of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader.

I hadn't realized that "Casey at the Bat" was that old. See, ya' learn something everyday ...

Thanks, jseal!

I also like Thayer's nod to Pope's "Essay on Man." Yeah, I know, I'm a pushover for the classics.

June 4th
 

1798 ~ Death of Giacomo Casanova, Italian Lover.

1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American Sex Therapist.

1940 ~ The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France.

1944 ~ Birthday of Michelle Phillips, American Singer (The Mamas & the Papas).

1975 ~ Birthday of Angelina Jolie, American Actress.

1984 ~ The album ''Born in the U.S.A.'' by Bruce Springsteen was released.

1919 ~ Birthday of Jenaveve Jolie, Mexican-American Porn Actress.

1986 ~ Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret U.S. military intelligence to Israel.

1989 ~ The Tiananmen Square Massacre.

2010 ~ The maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Two years later, SpaceX acccomplished the first rendezvous of a commercial rocket with the International Space Station (ISS).

June 5th
 

1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.

1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist.

1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe.

1963 ~ UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned over a sex scandal.

1967 ~ Israel began the “Six Day War” with a pre-emptive attack on Egypt.

1968 ~ Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, CA.

1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.

1977 ~ The first practical personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale.

1989 ~ The Unknown Rebel halted a column of tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests.

2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.

June 6th
 

1832 ~ Death of Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher.

1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.

1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer.

1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.

1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

1983 ~ Birthday of Gianna Michaels, Porn Actress.

1984 ~ Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

1985 ~ Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz.

2002 ~ A Near Earth Object (NEO), estimated at 10 metres diameter, exploded over the Mediterranean Sea. The explosion is estimated to have been roughly equal to that used at Nagasaki.

2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm.

Hmmm ... I don't seem to recall that NEO exploding over the Mediterranean. Interesting. Were any ships in the area? Did anyone get hurt?

It was an instrument only detection they kept very quiet.