This day in history.....
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Mare
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May 23
1785: In a letter, Benjamin Franklin describes his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses; the upper portion of the lens is ground for distance and the lower part for reading.
1873: The North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is established as Canada's national police force; officers are popularly called Mounties.
1911: The administrative center of the New York Public Library opens on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd streets in Manhattan.
1934: Notorious partners-in-crime Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, commonly known as Bonnie and Clyde, are shot to death in a police ambush in Louisiana.
1785: In a letter, Benjamin Franklin describes his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses; the upper portion of the lens is ground for distance and the lower part for reading.
1873: The North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is established as Canada's national police force; officers are popularly called Mounties.
1911: The administrative center of the New York Public Library opens on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd streets in Manhattan.
1934: Notorious partners-in-crime Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, commonly known as Bonnie and Clyde, are shot to death in a police ambush in Louisiana.
Mare
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May 25th
My oldest son graduates 5th grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1787: The Constitutional Convention, presided over by George Washington, opens in Philadelphia to establish a new U.S. Constitution.
1793: In Baltimore, Maryland Father Stephen Theodore Badin is the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in the United States.
1935: American track-and-field athlete Jesse Owens breaks or ties six world records in less than an hour at the Big Ten Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1963: The Organization of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the goal of promoting continental peace and cooperation.
1977: The science fiction film Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, is released.
My oldest son graduates 5th grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1787: The Constitutional Convention, presided over by George Washington, opens in Philadelphia to establish a new U.S. Constitution.
1793: In Baltimore, Maryland Father Stephen Theodore Badin is the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in the United States.
1935: American track-and-field athlete Jesse Owens breaks or ties six world records in less than an hour at the Big Ten Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1963: The Organization of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the goal of promoting continental peace and cooperation.
1977: The science fiction film Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, is released.
SouthernN'Proud
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Mare said:
How's that workin' out for ya?
Mare
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May 26th
1521: The Edict of Worms outlaws the German church reformer Martin Luther and his followers, called Lutherans, by imposing on them the Ban of the Holy Roman Empire.
1868: The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends; the Senate falls one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
1896: The Wall Street Journal begins publishing the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1948: The all-white National Party, under Daniel Malan, wins South Africa's general elections; the party immediately begins instituting its policy of apartheid, or racial segregation.
1972: Richard Nixon, the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union, signs a treaty limiting antiballistic missile sites.
1998: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that most of Ellis Island, former gateway for immigrants to America and now a museum, belongs to New Jersey, not New York.
1521: The Edict of Worms outlaws the German church reformer Martin Luther and his followers, called Lutherans, by imposing on them the Ban of the Holy Roman Empire.
1868: The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends; the Senate falls one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
1896: The Wall Street Journal begins publishing the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1948: The all-white National Party, under Daniel Malan, wins South Africa's general elections; the party immediately begins instituting its policy of apartheid, or racial segregation.
1972: Richard Nixon, the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union, signs a treaty limiting antiballistic missile sites.
1998: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that most of Ellis Island, former gateway for immigrants to America and now a museum, belongs to New Jersey, not New York.
SouthernN'Proud
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Mare said:
One president too late.
SouthernN'Proud
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Better timing.
Mare
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May 27th
1647: The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
1937: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, opens; at the time of its completion, it is the longest suspension bridge in existence.
1994: Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to live in his native Russia after 20 years in exile.
1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a truce with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, leader of the breakaway state of Chechnya, although fighting continues on both sides.
1647: The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
1937: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, opens; at the time of its completion, it is the longest suspension bridge in existence.
1994: Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to live in his native Russia after 20 years in exile.
1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a truce with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, leader of the breakaway state of Chechnya, although fighting continues on both sides.
Mare
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May 28th
1929: On With the Show, the first talking movie that is all in color debuts at New York City's Winter Garden theater.
1934: The identical Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario, Canada; the girls are made wards of the government and put on display at a themepark called Quintland.
1980: The first Islamic parliament, the Majlis, opens in Iran.
1987: West German Mathias Rust flies a private plane unchallenged through Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's historic Red Square.
1991: The 17-year Marxist rule which brought famine and war to Ethiopia ends when rebel tanks storm the nation's capital, Addis Ababa.
1929: On With the Show, the first talking movie that is all in color debuts at New York City's Winter Garden theater.
1934: The identical Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario, Canada; the girls are made wards of the government and put on display at a themepark called Quintland.
1980: The first Islamic parliament, the Majlis, opens in Iran.
1987: West German Mathias Rust flies a private plane unchallenged through Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's historic Red Square.
1991: The 17-year Marxist rule which brought famine and war to Ethiopia ends when rebel tanks storm the nation's capital, Addis Ababa.
Mare
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May 29th
1453: Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th U.S. state; it is the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1854: U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories; settlers of the territories would determine the legality of slaveholding.
1953:New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
1453: Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th U.S. state; it is the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1854: U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories; settlers of the territories would determine the legality of slaveholding.
1953:New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
Mare
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May 30th
1431: After being captured by Burgundian troops and then handed over to English troops, French military leader Joan of Arc is burned as a heretic in Rouen, France.
1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States.
1911: Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 automobile race.
1971: The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on its mission to Mars; it becomes the first artificial satellite of another planet when it orbits Mars the following November.
1431: After being captured by Burgundian troops and then handed over to English troops, French military leader Joan of Arc is burned as a heretic in Rouen, France.
1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States.
1911: Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 automobile race.
1971: The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on its mission to Mars; it becomes the first artificial satellite of another planet when it orbits Mars the following November.
Mare
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May 31st
1790: President George Washington signs the first U.S. copyright act into law.
1889: Over 2000 people die when the South Fork Dam breaks, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1961: South Africa becomes an independent republic and withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962: Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is hanged by the State of Israel for his role in the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
1994: The United States announces that it is no longer aiming long range nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union.
1790: President George Washington signs the first U.S. copyright act into law.
1889: Over 2000 people die when the South Fork Dam breaks, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1961: South Africa becomes an independent republic and withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962: Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is hanged by the State of Israel for his role in the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
1994: The United States announces that it is no longer aiming long range nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union.
Mare
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June 1st
1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the Union.
1796: Tennessee enters the U.S. as the 16th state.
1813: In the War of 1812, naval commander James Lawrence, fatally wounded, tells his men "to fire faster and not to give up the ship," the source of the motto "Don't give up the ship."
1831: British Arctic explorer John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross become the first Europeans to reach the magnetic north pole, on the Boothia Peninsula in northern Canada.
1925: Baseball player Lou Gehrig pinch hits for Pee Wee Wanninger, beginning his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.
1938: Action Comics #1 is released, the first comic book featuring the Superman character created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.
1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the Union.
1796: Tennessee enters the U.S. as the 16th state.
1813: In the War of 1812, naval commander James Lawrence, fatally wounded, tells his men "to fire faster and not to give up the ship," the source of the motto "Don't give up the ship."
1831: British Arctic explorer John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross become the first Europeans to reach the magnetic north pole, on the Boothia Peninsula in northern Canada.
1925: Baseball player Lou Gehrig pinch hits for Pee Wee Wanninger, beginning his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.
1938: Action Comics #1 is released, the first comic book featuring the Superman character created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.
SouthernN'Proud
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Happy birthday Momma SnP! Got her a battle flag for her birthday...at her request no less.
Mare
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June 2nd
1883: President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom, a family friend 27 years his junior, becoming the first president married in the White House.
1946: Italians vote to replace the country's monarchy with a republic, leading to the abdication of King Humbert II.
1953: Queen Elizabeth II is coronated in Westminster Abbey, after succeeding her father, George VI, to the throne the previous year.
1957: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, interviewed on CBS's Face the Nation, declares, "Your grandchildren in America will live under socialism."
1999: The African National Congress wins 66 percent of the vote in South African elections, leading to the selection two weeks later of the party's leader, Thabo Mbeki, to succeed Nelson Mandela as president.
1883: President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom, a family friend 27 years his junior, becoming the first president married in the White House.
1946: Italians vote to replace the country's monarchy with a republic, leading to the abdication of King Humbert II.
1953: Queen Elizabeth II is coronated in Westminster Abbey, after succeeding her father, George VI, to the throne the previous year.
1957: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, interviewed on CBS's Face the Nation, declares, "Your grandchildren in America will live under socialism."
1999: The African National Congress wins 66 percent of the vote in South African elections, leading to the selection two weeks later of the party's leader, Thabo Mbeki, to succeed Nelson Mandela as president.
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Mare said:
This prediction has become reality....
Mare
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June 3rd
1937: American divorcee Wallis Simpson weds the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, who had abdicated the British throne to marry her.
1948: The Hale telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, is dedicated at Mount Palomar Observatory in California.
1959: Singapore gains its independence from Britain, becoming a self-governing state in the Commonwealth of Nations.
1968: Valerie Solanas, an actor and author of the SCUM Manifesto, a pamphlet denouncing men, shoots and wounds artist Andy Warhol at his New York studio.
1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's Islamic revolution, dies, sending millions of Iranians into the streets in mourning.
1999: Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic agrees with NATO leaders on a peace plan that calls for the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo.
1937: American divorcee Wallis Simpson weds the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, who had abdicated the British throne to marry her.
1948: The Hale telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, is dedicated at Mount Palomar Observatory in California.
1959: Singapore gains its independence from Britain, becoming a self-governing state in the Commonwealth of Nations.
1968: Valerie Solanas, an actor and author of the SCUM Manifesto, a pamphlet denouncing men, shoots and wounds artist Andy Warhol at his New York studio.
1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's Islamic revolution, dies, sending millions of Iranians into the streets in mourning.
1999: Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic agrees with NATO leaders on a peace plan that calls for the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo.
Mare
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June 4th
1827: The inaugural cricket match between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place at the Lord's ground, London, England.
1896: In Detroit, Henry Ford test-drives his first automobile, the Quadricycle, a two-cylinder engine mounted on four bicycle wheels that has a top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph).
1936: Léon Blum becomes the first Socialist premier of France when he forms a Popular Front coalition government, which introduces a program of extensive social reform.
1942: Near the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, American and Japanese air and sea forces begin the three-day Battle of Midway. The American victory there halts Japan's eastward push.
1987: After winning 107 straight times in the 400-meter hurdles, Edwin Moses loses his first race in nearly ten years when Danny Harris outruns him in Madrid, Spain.
1989: Months of student-led prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square end after the Chinese army crushes the protests.
2003: Television star Martha Stewart is indicted under charges including obstruction of justice and securities fraud, stemming from sales of stock in December 2001.
1827: The inaugural cricket match between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place at the Lord's ground, London, England.
1896: In Detroit, Henry Ford test-drives his first automobile, the Quadricycle, a two-cylinder engine mounted on four bicycle wheels that has a top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph).
1936: Léon Blum becomes the first Socialist premier of France when he forms a Popular Front coalition government, which introduces a program of extensive social reform.
1942: Near the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, American and Japanese air and sea forces begin the three-day Battle of Midway. The American victory there halts Japan's eastward push.
1987: After winning 107 straight times in the 400-meter hurdles, Edwin Moses loses his first race in nearly ten years when Danny Harris outruns him in Madrid, Spain.
1989: Months of student-led prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square end after the Chinese army crushes the protests.
2003: Television star Martha Stewart is indicted under charges including obstruction of justice and securities fraud, stemming from sales of stock in December 2001.
Mare
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June 5th
1884: In response to Republican hopes that he will be the party's nominee for president, General William T. Sherman sends a telegram saying, "If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."
1900: Novelist, poet, and journalist Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28, five years after his novel The Red Badge of Courage gained international acclaim.
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation taking the United States off the gold standard, which had required that all paper money and coin be redeemable in gold.
1947: The U.S. secretary of state, General George C. Marshall, calls for a European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan), funded by the United States, to help European countries recover from World War II.
1967: On the first morning of the Six-Day War, Israel attacks Egypt. By the day's end Israeli forces will have virtually destroyed the air forces of both Egypt and Jordan.
1968: On the night he wins the California Democratic presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan B. Sirhan in Los Angeles. He dies of his wounds the next day.
1884: In response to Republican hopes that he will be the party's nominee for president, General William T. Sherman sends a telegram saying, "If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."
1900: Novelist, poet, and journalist Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28, five years after his novel The Red Badge of Courage gained international acclaim.
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation taking the United States off the gold standard, which had required that all paper money and coin be redeemable in gold.
1947: The U.S. secretary of state, General George C. Marshall, calls for a European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan), funded by the United States, to help European countries recover from World War II.
1967: On the first morning of the Six-Day War, Israel attacks Egypt. By the day's end Israeli forces will have virtually destroyed the air forces of both Egypt and Jordan.
1968: On the night he wins the California Democratic presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan B. Sirhan in Los Angeles. He dies of his wounds the next day.