[Dingfod]

Dingfod's Addendum: May 23:

1873
1st Preakness Stakes horse race run at Pimlico, Maryland; G. Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2 minutes 43 seconds.

1908 (repeat with more detail)
America's first air disaster struck in Berkeley, California when a 450 foot long airship collapsed and crashed injuring all 15 passengers on board and it's inventor, John A. Morrell.

1922
Thomas Edison recieved a patent for thin metal sheets or foils. Potatoes were subsequently doomed to a ovenly demise.

1930
U.S. patent law was widened to include plants. Archer-Daniels Midland and Cargill founders rubbed their fingers together and sighed a collective "Excellent!"

1934
Max Wasserburg received a patent for a "beach and lawn chair". Beachbums thankful.

1934
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow came to the end of their two year crime spree, paying for it with their lives in Louisiana in a hail of bullets. Their Ford V-8 was hot... and holey.

1941
British warship, HMS Kelly, was sunk in the Mediterranean by 24 German bombers. Captain Louis Lord Montbatten swam to shore and commanded rescue efforts.

1946
U.S. railworkers went on strike for the first time, asking for better wages. The trucking industry was standing by to take over not too many years later.

1962
The first human limb transplant was a left arm on a 12-year old boy by surgeons Malt and McKhann at Massachusetts General Hospital.