Legs presents ~ On This Day

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 19th

715
St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1506
Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir

1535
French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships,

1568
English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1571
Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines

1588
Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England

1635
France declares war on Spain

1643
Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England

1780
About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained

1792
Russian army enters Poland

1793
Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)

1848
México gives Texas to US, ending the war

1884
Ringling Brothers circus premieres

1892
Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer

1906
Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes

1921
Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system

1928
51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)

1934
Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Saturday Review of Literature"; Males who solved puzzle become members of Baker Street Irregulars

1939
Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact

1940
Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)

1943
Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)

1943
Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan

1944
German defense line in Italy collapsed

1958
"South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks

1958
US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)

1962
A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday.

1967
USSR ratifies treaty with England & US banning nuclear weapons in space

1971
USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1975
27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh

1977
"Smokey & the Bandit" premieres

1979
"In The Navy" by Village People hits #3

1982
Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

1987
Chet Fleming files for a patent on his method for keeping a severed head alive. The mechanism includes blood filtering, pumping equipment, and nutrient supply. Ultimately, US Patent 4,666,425 is granted.

1989
Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas

1991
Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500

1992
Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York


1992
Vice President Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values

1993
Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellín Colombia, kills 132

1994
Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run

1995
Emmy's 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time

2005
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is released into theaters worldwide, completing George Lucas' 28 year old saga which first appeared in 1977 and includes 6 episodes.

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 20th

0325
1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicæa, Asia Minor

0526
Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria

1293
Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

1310
Shoes were made for both right & left feet

1498
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India

1690
England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II

1734
1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina

1768
Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States was born

1774
Britain gives Québec, Labrador & territory north of the Ohio

1775
Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain

1784
England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)

1825
Charles X becomes King of France

1830
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)

1845
1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii

1861
Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle

1861
Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

1861
North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union

1867
British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage

1867
Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1874
Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz

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

1892
George Sampson patents clothes dryer

1900
2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris France

1910
Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII

1916
Codell KS hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)

1926
Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1927
At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris

1930
1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot


1932
Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

1939
Pan Am begins regular transatlantic airmail and passenger service across the North Atlantic

1940
Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention

1942
US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve

1946 - Cher, wa born

1959
Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship

1960
Music DJ Alan Freed, originator of the term "Rock and Roll," is indicted in New York in the Payola scandal. Freed had accepted $30,650 from five record companies to play their records

1961
White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery AL

1967
BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life"

1969
US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam

1970
100,000 march in New York supporting US policies in Vietnam

1977
"Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

1980
710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated

1985
Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1300 for 1st time

1986
Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv


1989
China declares martial law in Beijing

1989
Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live

1990
Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photographs from space


1993
274th & final "Cheers" on NBC

1995
CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung

[Dingfod]

Also on May 20th:

1506
Chistopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain.

1747
British ship surgeon, James Lind, on the HMS Salisbury discovered by experimentation the cure for scurvy, lemons and oranges (vitamin C).

1830
D. Hyde of Reading, Pennsylvania patented the fountain pen. It was 1884 before the first practical fountain pen went on the market.

1862
President Abraham Lincoln signed The Homestead Act, opening up vast tracts of land in the west to settlement.

1873
Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss received a patent for their copper riveted denim jeans.

1916
The first Normal Rockwell painting appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine.

1956
The first hydrogen bomb dropped from an airplane was exploded over Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.

1964
The first nuclear powered lighthouse went into operation in the Chesapeake Bay, at Baltimore harbor, Maryland, powered by a 60 Watt generator.

[Legs]

Good ones, Dingfod

I hate fountain pens, though

[Dingfod]

Were it not for leaky old fountain pens, the ballpoint pen would never have been invented. That's kind of like my opinion that horses were the reason the internal combustion engine was invented.

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 21st

427 BC
Plato, Greek philosopher was born

0143
Earliest known date in America-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed

987
King Louis V of France, dies

0996
Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor

1216
French crown prince Louis enters England

1420
Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English

1471
King Edwards IV enters London

1502
Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena

1602
Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)

1780
Elizabeth Fry Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse was born

1804
Lewis & Clark Expedition begins

1840
New Zealand became a British colony

1846
1st steamship arrives in Hawaii

1861
North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union

1871
French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die

1879
Battle of Iquiquw

1881
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1908
1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago

1914
Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota

1916
Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)

1917
Great Atlanta fire

1918
House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote

1925
Canadians allow beer sales


1927
Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic

1932
1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands

1940
AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees

1941
1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)

1944
Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"

1945
German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

1945
Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed

1952
Mr T. Was born

1954
Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated

1956
US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1961
Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery

1966
"Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97

1966
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in London

1969
Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death

1979
Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in the USSR

1980
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back opens in theaters.

1982
British troops lands on Falkland Islands

1983
"Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63

1983
David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1

1988
"Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99

1990
Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV; It was all a dream

1997
Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 22nd

0012 BC
A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China

337
Emperor Constantine dies. Although quite dead, his embalmed corpse continues to act as head of state, receving state dignitaries and daily reports from ministers as if nothing had changed.

760
14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1176
Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo

1200
Peace of Goulet

1370
Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium

1455
Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St Albans)

1455
Richard of York takes St Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI

1526
Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac

1570
1st atlas, with 70 maps, published

1746
Russia & Austria signs treaty of cooperation

1761
1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Philadelphia

1807
Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Philadelphia)

1819
1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (leaves Savannah GA)

1843
1st wagon train, 1000+ departs Independence MO for Oregon

1849
Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device

1851
Hail the size of pumpkins falls on Bangalore, India.

1863
General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg

1863
War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops


1868
Great Train Robbery; 7 men make off with $98,000 in cash

1872
Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)

1892
Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube

1906
Wright Brothers patent a flying machine

1910
Johnny Olson, American game show announcer, is born

1926
"Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1

1927
8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed

1933
Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay

1936
Aer Lingus is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.

1940
Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies to Paris

1942
México declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan

1943
1st jet fighter is tested

1947
1st US ballistic missile fired

1955
Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th

1956
"Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV

1957
South Africa Government approves race separation in universities

1961
1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Space Needle in Seattle), opens

1965
Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1

1967
"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)

1967
Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)

1972
US President Nixon begins visit Moscow

1973
President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up

1977
Final European scheduled run of the Orient Express (94 years)

1980
Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry

1981
Peter Sutcliffe is convicted of murdering 13 women in the Yorkshire Ripper trial.

1987
30 killed in a Texas tornado

1990
Microsoft releases Windows 3.0

1992
California Angels are involved in a bus crash in New Jersey

1992
Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show

1995
Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised

1996
Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 16th time

1998
Lewinsky scandal: A federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

2002
In Washington, DC, the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.

2004
The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also killed one local resident.

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by Legs

On this Day ~ May 22nd

1761
The first life insurance policy issued in the United States was written by the Corporation for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers; the CftRoPaDPMaoftPaDWaCoPM for short. Same day, same place, gambling was legalized.

1819
The first bicycles, called "swift walkers" were introduced in NYC. The same day the first bicycle accident occured when the first bicyclist dropped a wheel into a sewer grate.

1841
A patent was issued to Henry Kennedy of Philadelphia for the first reclining chair. Lazy boys have been thanking him ever since.

1859
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes books, was born. Dr. Watson rejoiced and Dr. James Moriarity would rue the day.

1906
Orville and Wilbur Wright received a patent for a "Flying Machine with a Motor". Their cousins, Oliver and Warren Wright received their rejection letter from the patent office regarding their invention of the seatback tray table, saying "We at the patent office see no practical use for this invention at this time."

1985
Fortune magazine named Sears the nations largest retailer. Sam Walton giggled a bit when he read it.

1992
Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show for the last time. Chin fetishists have been enjoying his retirement ever since.

[Legs]

Originally Posted by Dingfod

Lazy boys have been thanking him ever since.

[Madii]

1845 - Mary Cassatt, artist, born.

[livius drusus]

Oh cool. Out of all the American Impressionists, she's the one I like best. Her subjects and treatments are just so warm.

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 23rd

1059
Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France

1275
King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews

1420
Jews of Syria & Austria expelled

1421
Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled

1430
Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British

1493
King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis

1533
King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void

1536
Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition

1544
German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark

1555
Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV

1568
Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed

1576
Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory

1611
Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia

1618
2nd Defenestration of Prague; the beginning of the 30 Years War

1647
Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland

1701
Captain Kidd hung in London after conviction of piracy & murder

1706
Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed

1774
Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)

1785
Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals

1788
South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution

1862
Battle at Front Royal VA

1862
Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal VA

1864
Battle of Dallas GA

1865
Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot

1873
Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms

1873
Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for 1st time

1887
1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver British Columbia

1894
William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal

1901
Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent

1903
1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin

1908
Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die


1911
New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft

1915
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WWI

1922
Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

1923
Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.

1934
Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)

1935
1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)

1939
British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949

1943
826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund

1944
British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy

1945
Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Chief of Police, committed suicide

1945
Winston Churchill resigns as British PM

1953
Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes

1956
Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers

1956
World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Fransisco

1960
Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

1966
The Beatles release "Paperback Writer"

1969
BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Rock band The Who release Tommy, the first rock opera.

1969
The Who release the rock opera "Tommy"

1970
Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of the US (England)

1977
Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11

1978
General strike in Peru

1979
Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy

1981
Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage

1982
Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles

1988
Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990

1990
Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion

1994
Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication

1995
In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, what remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is imploded.

2003
25-year-old Nepalese Sherpa, Pemba Dorjie Sherpa, makes the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest, in 12 hours 45 minutes. This is broken by his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu only three days later.

2004
Part of Paris Charles De Gaulle International Airport Terminal 2E collapses, killing five people and injuring three others.

[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.

[Legs]

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 24th

1086
Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III

1153
Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland

1626
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24

1653
German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria

1658
Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought

1660
English king Charles II visits Netherlands

1667
French troops attack into Southern Netherlands

1689
English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants

1726
People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax

1738
Methodist Church is established

1815
George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia

1818
General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola FL

1822
At Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain

1830
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written

1854
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts

1862
Westminster Bridge across Thames opens

1881
Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die

1883
Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland

1890
Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London

1899
1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)

1915
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

1915
Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1916
Conscription begins in Britain

1916
US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker

1922
Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6ºC)

1922
Russian-Italian trade agreement signed

1930
1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)

1931
1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad

1940
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio

1940
German tanks reach Atrecht France

1941
Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive

1943
Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp.

1951
Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal

1954
German airline Lufthansa forms

1957
Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan

1959
1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)

1961
27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson MS

1964
Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan

1966
"Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances

1968
Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession

1968
President De Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse

1969
Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1974
Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV

1976
1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)

1980
"Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56

1983
Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students

1985
"View to a Kill" premieres in US

1985
Cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die

1986
Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel

1989
"Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres

2001
The Versailles wedding hall collapse in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.

[Dingfod]

Dingfod's Addendum: May 24th:

1543
Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus died. He died the year his major work was published, saving him from the outrage of some religious leaders who later condemned his heliocentric view of the universe as heresy.

1844
Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?", from the U.S. Capitol to Baltimore.

1863
The good citizens of Bannack, Montana elect Henry Plummer as their new sheriff, not realizing he is a hardened outlaw who will use his office to rob and murder them.

1892
Thomas Edison was issued a patent for an electric locomotive and an electric railway.

1899
The first parking garage opened in Boston by W.T. McCullough as the Back Bay Cycle and Motor Company. McCullough advertised the garage's opening as a "stable for renting, sale, storage, and repair of motor vehicles."

1929
The Marx Brothers first movie, The Cocoanuts, opened. Nuttier things were to occur.

1938
A patent was issued for the coin operated parking meter to Carl McGee of Oklahoma City. If each parking meter in the U.S. made 25 cents per day, the total would be over $1.25 million each day.

1940
Igor Sikorsky made the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight in a machine of his own invention. Things have been up and down for Sikorsky ever since.

1941
Bobby Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 1962, Zimmerman, inspired by poet Dylan Thomas, legally changed his name to Bob Dylan. What I want to know is who told him he could sing?

1964
Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) suggested using nuclear weapons on North Vietnam. Most of his contemporaries in Congress don't exactly give the idea glowing reviews.

1968
Quebec separatists bomb the U.S. Consulate in Quebec City. Damn beret-wearing, French-speaking, poutine-eating, America-hating terrorists.

[Legs]

Originally Posted by Dingfod

Damn beret-wearing, French-speaking, poutine-eating, America-hating terrorists.

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 25th

585 BC
1st known prediction of a solar eclipse

615
Boniface IV Pope (608-15), dies

1241
1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany

1420
Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.

1494
Jacopo Pontormo II Italy, painter (Sepulture of Christ), was born

1659
Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector

1660
English King Charles II lands in Dover

1661
King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragança

1720
"Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000

1721
John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent

1784
Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek

1787
Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1793
Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained

1810
Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)

1812
Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela

1825
American Unitarian Association founded

1844
1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot

1862
Battle of Winchester VA

1864
Battle of New Hope Church GA

1868
Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs Surrey Gentlemen

1870
Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

1878
Gilbert & Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London

1887
Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die

1900
Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics

1911
Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz

1914
British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule

1915
2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties

1927
Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)

1928
Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean

1932
Goofy make his debut

1935
Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour

1937
1st airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York

1940
Golden Gate International Expo reopens

1943
Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers

1946
Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1947
Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111

1948
San Fransisco receives its 1st telecast

1949
Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai

1953
1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston TX

1955
Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall KS & most of Blackwell OK

1959
Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional


1961
JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade

1962
Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"

1963
Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian, is born

1964
16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore

1965
Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage

1967
John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce

1968
"Unicorn" by The Irish Rovers hits #7

1969
"Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating

1973
US launches 1st Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz

1977
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opens in theaters and eventually becomes the highest grossing film of all time.

1979
American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275

1983
"Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released

1983
1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed

1986
95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida

1986
Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York (anyone want to admit they participated in this? )

1989
Eastern Airlines graduates its 1st class of non-union pilots

1991
Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews

1992



1997
Muhammad Fadhel PM of Iraq (1953-54), dies

[Dingfod]

Dingfod's Addendum: May 25th:

1521
The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw. The Diet of Worms was revived in the 20th Century by that Scottish breakfast place, McDonalds.

1865
300 people are killed in Mobile, Alabama when the ordinance depot explodes. Like my mom said, "That's what you get when you play with fireworks." All I got was burned fingers.

1895
Oscar Wilde convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison, spreading his "popularity" to prison inmates.

1925
Schoolteacher John T. Scopes indicted for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

1935
Baseball great Babe Ruth hit his 714th and last home run. Without the use of steroids I might add. He was, however, aided greatly by a diet of beer and hotdogs.

1977
The George Lucas film Star Wars opens at theaters everywhere, setting box office records. Triggers a trend in camping out in line to get tickets for opening night of movies that you can see a few days later without standing in line.

2006
Ken Lay and Jeffry Skilling are convicted for their roles in the collapse of Enron corporation. Still doesn't get the money back, does it?

[Legs]

On this Day ~ May 26th

0961 German King Otto II crowned

1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII

1521 Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers

1596 England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain

1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven CT kills 500 Indians

1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony

1781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia

1788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain

1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress

1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara

1805 Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains

1805 Napoleon is crowned king of Italy

1824 Brazil is recognized by US

1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates

1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy

1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South

1861 Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL

1864 Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek VA

1864 Territory of Montana is formed

1865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith

1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote

1874 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56½

1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration

1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state

1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player

1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY

1896 Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)

1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned

1898 San Fransisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies

1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa

1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Gables" (BG)

1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms

1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)

1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England

1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia

1922 Lenin suffers a stroke

1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg

1924 German Government of Marx resigns

1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration Law (restricting immigration)

1926 Lebanon adopts constitution

1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile

1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution

1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens

1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work

1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk

1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia

1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck

1942 Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star

1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam

1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa

1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo

1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb

1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers

1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy

1951 Sally Ride, astronaut, born

1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die

1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off Rhode Island, killing 103

1958 Union Square, San Fransisco becomes state historical landmark

1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta

1961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours

1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes

1965 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect

1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth

1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal)

1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord

1973 Beatles' "The Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1

1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled

1974 Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic

1975 Tennis game in the Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes

1977 "Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway

1977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center

1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City

1979 "Dancin' Fool" by Frank Zappa hits #45

1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"

1980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st National League-er to record 6, 1-hitters

1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6

1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14

1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor & Coventry were hit in Falkland war

1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7

1983 Los Angeles Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws

1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia

1984 Tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die

1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die

1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail

1987 William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA

1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 second silence, honoring radio

1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals

1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1992 Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour

1993 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time

1994 Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)

1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton

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On this day... May 27th

366 Procopius, Roman usurper (executed)

1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge

1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned

1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake

1660 Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire

1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK

1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland

1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great

1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov

1796 James S McLean patents his piano

1813 Americans capture Fort George, Canada

1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line

1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado

1854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed

1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning

1862 Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)

1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die

1863 Siege of Port Hudson LA

1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA

1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow

1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland

1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis MO); killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless

1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam

1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima

1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Fransisco

1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in the Bronx

1917 Race riot in East St Louis IL, 1 black killed

1918 Battle of Aisne

1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days

1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR

1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty

1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape

1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA

1933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional

1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage

1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated

1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta

1941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force

1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor

1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered

1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim

1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague

1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris

1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry

1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)

1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China

1944 Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris France

1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid

1948 Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians

1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin

1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens

1952 European Defense Community forms

1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV

1956 French raid in Algiers

1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS

1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey

1961 1st black light is sold

1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya

1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US

1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes

1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain

1968 National League awards Montréal & San Diego major league franchises

1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost

1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV

1969 Walt Disney World construction begins

1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I

1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1972 "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6

1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"

1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 and Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality, was born

1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582

1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop

1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol

1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR


1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress

1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan

1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking

1986 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled

1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal

1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles

1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow

1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die

1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence

1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)

1997 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

[Dingfod]

Dingfod's Addendumdedumdum: May 27:

1647
The first record of an execution of a witch occured in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.

1755
The first municipal water pumping plant in America was installed at Bethlehem, Pa., by Hans Christopher Christiansen.

1831
Comanches killed mountain man and explorer Jedediah Smith on the Santa Fe Trail.

1837
Frontier lawman, buffalo hunter, army scout, and gamble, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock was born in Troy Grove, Illinois.

1873
E.J. McCoy, the famous black American inventor, was issued one of his many patents for a lubricating device (U.S. No. 139,407). His name on these products led to the expression, "the real McCoy," to recognize the leader in quality.

1890
A patent was issued for the coin operated Edison Electric Phonograph, a jukebox.

1919
The first oil well in Britain struck oil at Hardstoft, near Tibshelf, in a Derbyshire coalfield.

1927
Model T Ford #15,007,033 was the last one to roll of the assembly line.

1930
The Chrysler Building in NYC opens.

1931
Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took man's first trip into the stratosphere when they rode their balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet.

1932
The Sydney Harbor Bridge opens.

1939
DC Comics introduces its second superhero: Batman.

1961
The first black light was sold.

1968
George Walker Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.

1971
Sweden reveals it has supported North Vietnam with $550K of medical supplies.

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

1999
Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.

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On this day... May 28th

585 BC A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce.

0640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)

1156 Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet

1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia

1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V

1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage

1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida

1588 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).

1664 1st Baptist Church is organized (Boston)

1674 German Parliament declares war on France

1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated

1741 Spain & Bavaria sign treaty

1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)

1754 George Washington defeats French & Indians at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)

1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)

1818 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched

1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie

1845 Fire in Québec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed

1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

1892 Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature

1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern

1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)

1900 Solar eclipse occurs

1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted

1907 1st Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy

1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll


1919 Armenia declares it's independence

1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1923 US unemployment has nearly ended

1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal

1926 US Customs Court created by congress

1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days

1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.

1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens to vehicular traffic

1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England

1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta

1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"

1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus

1957 National League approves Brooklyn Dodgers' & New York Giants' move to west coast

1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)


1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio

1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit

1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400

1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 American League announces it is splitting into 2 divisions

1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"

1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars

1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate

1973 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 innings (game started 5/26)

1974 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win

1974 Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation

1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky

1979 European Market accepts Greece as member

1980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"

1982 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight

1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain

1983 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63

1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 51-G

1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados

1986 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces

1987 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci

1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot

1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta

1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed

1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)

1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)


1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)

1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa

1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people

1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight

1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.

[Dingfod]

Dingfod's Addendumb: May 28:

1897
Jell-O was introduced.

1916
Barney Oldfield ran a qualifying lap in his front-wheel-drive Christie at 102.6mph. It was the first time any driver had rounded the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in excess of 100mph.

1928
Dodge Brothers and Chrysler merged.

1928
The first television station WGY in Schenectady, New York began broadcasting 2 hours a day, 3 days a week.

1929
The first color "Talkie" motion picture premiered, On With the Show.

1932
The 32-km-long Barrier Dam in Holland was completed to seal off the Zuyder Zee in Holland.

1940
Belgium surrenders to Germany after 18 days of bombing.

1959
Two monkeys were launched into suborbital space aboard a Jupiter missile.

1987
Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, takes off from Helsinki, Finland, travels through more than 400 miles of Soviet airspace, and lands his small Cessna aircraft in Red Square by the Kremlin.

2003
The first cloned horse was born by natural delivery.

[Legs]

On this Day...May 29th

363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to conquer it.

526 Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die

757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II

1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire

1453 French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated

1630 Governor John Winthrop begins "History of New England"

1652 English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp

1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth

1692 Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France

1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated

1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony

1727 Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia

1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed

1790 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution

1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte

1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state

1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, & of

people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"

1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln

1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army

1864 Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz

1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect

1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate

1889 August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna" premieres in Copenhagen

1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co

1902 Dutch State Mine law forms

1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania

1909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career homerun

1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers

1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break

1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
1916 New York Giants win 17th consecutive road game

1916 Official flag of President of US adopted

1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington

1922 Ecuador becomes independent

1922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws

1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car

1935 Hague local museum opens

1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 seconds)

1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich Commissioner of Hague Netherlands

1940 In WWII, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France

1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas" greatest selling record to date

1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)

1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US

1944 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy

1945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa

1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands

1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC

1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair

1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends

1953 Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Mount Everest

1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married

1954 Pope Pius X issues holy declaration

1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns

1956 LaToya Jackson, was born

1956 WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando FL (NBC) 1st broadcast

1957 Laos Government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns

1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels

1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government

1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1

1961 Melissa Etheridge, American musician was born

1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Garry Moore Show"

1965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' homerun out of Connie Mack Stadium

1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational

1967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19

1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II

1968 Manchester United become the first English team to win European Championship soccer tournament beating Benfica of Portugal 4-1 at Wembley after an added 30 minutes

1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1968 UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia

1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice

1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)

1971 "Court Room" by Clarence Carter hits #61

1972 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1973 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating
$100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records

1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles CA

1974 Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster

1976 "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29

1976 Only homerun of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil

1977 A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.331 mph) for a record 4th time

1977 Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500

1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM


1980 "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 12 performances

1980 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate

1980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League president


1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1982 "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses hits #62

1982 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531

1982 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war

1983 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

1983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 meters

1984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)

1985 Heysel Stadium Disaster - 39 die and 500 injured in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer; English clubs banned from playing in European competition for five years

1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia

1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor Vic Morrow

1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains

1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan

1989 Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty

1990 An earthquake hits Peru, killing 56

1991 "Les Miserables" opens at ACTEA Theatre, Auckland New Zealand

1991 Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I

1992 New York Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games

1993 Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany

1994 "Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 223 performances

1994 Patty Sheehan wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game

1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 (Endeavour 11), lands

1997 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym

1997 Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil