[NightCrawler]

I too read them daily, keep up the history.

[ZJJ]

May 16

1770
Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France.

1929
The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.

1946
The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway.

1975
Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.

1985
Michael Jordan was named "Rookie of the Year" in the National Basketball Association.

1997
President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.

[ZJJ]

May 17

1792
The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.

1875
The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.

1938
NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time.

1954
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

1973
Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin.

1987
An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.

[warhawk]

zjj, on May 17 2003, 08:12 , said:

May 17

1987
An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.

A day that changed some "well thought out firefighting techniques". Also a day that proved the worth of the Perry Class Frigate.

Stout Hearts
Warhawk

[ZJJ]

May 18

1804
Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.

1896
The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."

1920
Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland.

1953
Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.

1974
India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power.

1980
Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years.

2000
A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.

[ZJJ]

May 19

1536
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded.

1921
Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants.

1928
The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California.

1935
British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

1994
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York.

[ZJJ]

May 20

1861
North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.

1927
Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.

1932
Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

1978
Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.

1996
In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.

[ZJJ]

May 21

1542
Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto died while searching for gold on the banks of the Mississippi River.

1881
Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross.

1927
Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic (from New York to Paris) in his monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.

1932
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland).

1956
The first hydrogen bomb to be dropped by air exploded over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

1989
In Hong Kong, approximately one million people took to the streets to show their support for students protesting for democratic reforms in China’s Tiananmen Square.

1998
Indonesian President Suharto resigned.

[ZJJ]

May 22

1455
The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans.

1761
The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia.

1849
Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.

1927
An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 claimed approximately 200,000 victims.

1972
Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union.

1992
Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show.

[ZJJ]

May 23

1788
South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.

1873
The North West Mounted Police force was formed in Canada. It would later be known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

1911
The New York Public Library, the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated in New York City after 16 years of construction.

1934
Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.

1949
The German Federal Republic came into existence.

1960
Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

[ZJJ]

May 24

1844
Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"

1883
The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.

1899
W.T. McCullough of Boston, Mass., opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.

1935
Major League Baseball’s first night game was played under the lights at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated Philadelphia, 2–1.

1941
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) was born in Duluth, Minn.

1958
The United Press and the International News Service merged to form United Press International (UPI).

1976
The British and French Concordes made their first commercial flights.

2000
Israeli troops pulled out of Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

[Ruin]

Boy I'm glad this doesn'y count towards the post count. rofl.

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1844
Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"

I knew about this, but didn't think it was that line...

[ZJJ]

May 25

1787
The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in order to establish a new U.S. government.

1925
John Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

1935
American track star Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied another in just 45 minutes.

1935
The legendary Babe Ruth hit his 714th and final home run against the Pittsburgh Pirates. His record stood until Hank Aaron broke it in 1974.

1965
Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title.

1968
The Gateway Arch was dedicated in St. Louis.

1969
Midnight Cowboy, the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar, was released.

1979
The worst air disaster in U.S. history (excluding the Sept. 11 attacks) occurred when a DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport, killing over 270 people.

[ZJJ]

May 26

1521
Martin Luther's writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.

1868
President Andrew Johnson avoided conviction for impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors" by one vote.

1959
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves before losing, 1–0, in the 13th.

1977
George Willig, "the human fly," scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by attaching himself to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top. It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb, and $1.10 in fines—a penny per floor.

1978
The first legal casino to be operated in the United States outside of Nevada was opened in Atlantic City.

[ZJJ]

May 27

1647
The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.

1703
St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.

1936
The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.

1937
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.

1941
British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.

1994
Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.

1996
After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.