May 28

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Psalm   59:16

MAY is:

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Better Hearing and Speech Month

Better Sleep Month - Promotes the connection between quality beds and a good night's sleep. Sponsor: The Better Sleep Council.

Breathe Easy Month - Focuses attention on air pollution (indoor and outdoor) and second hand smoke -- and how they affect our lungs. Sponsor: American Lung Association.

TODAY IS:

Athlete of the Century Day - James Thorpe was one of America's greatest athletes. The Native American was born this day in 1888, near Prague, Oklahoma.

Saint Bernard of Montjoux Feast Day - Patron saint of mountain climbers and skiers.

Spy Novels are Splendid Day - On the birthday of Ian Flemming, creator of James Bond - 007 spy novels, we celebrate all spy ad adventure books. Ian Flemming was born on this day in 1908. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update.

Wonder Girl of the Air Day - English aviator, Amy Johnson, completed the first solo airplane flight from England to Australia on this day in 1930. This and many other airplane feats was cause for her to be named the Wonder Girl of the Air

Born on this Day

• 1888: Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe
  

• 19??: Ed O'Neal (Dixie Melody Boys)
  

• 1908: British novelist Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
  

• 1923: Gyorgy Ligeti was born in Transylvania.
  

• 1931: Actress Carroll Baker
  

• 1933: Actor John Karlen ("Cagney and Lacey")
  

• 1934: Canada's Dionne quintuplets, three of whom survive - Annette, Cecile and Yvonne
  

• 1938: Basketball executive Jerry West
  

• 1944: Singer Gladys Knight
  

• 1944: Singer Billy Vera
  

• 1945: Singer John Fogerty
  

• 1945: Country singer Gary Stewart
  

• 1947: Actress-director Sondra Locke
  

• 1947: Actress Beth Howland
  

• 1962: Singer Roland Gift
  

• 1962: Actor Brandon Cruz (TV series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father")
  

• 1968: Rapper Chubb Rock
  

• 1968: Singer Kylie Minogue
  

• 1970: Actor Glenn Quinn ("Angel")
  

• 1986: Actor Joseph Cross ("Jack Frost")                 
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1533: England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry the Eighth to Anne Boleyn valid.
  

• 1787: Leopold Mozart died. Already eclipsed by his famous son, Leopold Mozart sank into nearly complete obscurity except in his role as Wolfgang's dad until recent years, when one of his horn concertos re-entered the repertory.
  

• 1798: Congress empowered President John Adams to recruit an American army of 10,000 volunteers.
  

• 1863: The first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War.
  

• 1892: The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
  

• 1904: Puccini's "Madame Butterfly," a failure at its premiere, was sung anew after revisions and was a huge success.
  

• 1934: The Dionne quintuplets -- Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne -- were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.
  

• 1937: President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.
  

• 1937: Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
  

• 1940: During World War Two, the Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces.
  

• 1957: The National League gave its approval for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
  

• 1972: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.
  

• 1977: 165 people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky.
  

• 1984: President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
  

• 1985: David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers (he was freed 17 months later).
  

• 1987: Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, stunned the world as he landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
  

• 1988: Syrian troops moved into southern Beirut to end 22 days of fighting between rival Shiite Moslem militias.
  

• 1989: Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil won the Indianapolis 500 auto race.
  

• 1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev tried to calm his nation's economic nerves with a hastily scheduled television address.
  

• 1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opened a two-day Arab League summit in Baghdad with a keynote address in which he said if Israel were to deploy nuclear or chemical weapons against Arabs, Iraq would respond with "weapons of mass destruction."
  

• 1991: NATO agreed to reorganize its forces in Europe, with a 50-percent cut in U.S. troops in Europe.
  

• 1991: Ethiopian rebels seized control of the capital of Addis Ababa, a week after the country's longtime Marxist ruler, Mengistu Haile Mariam, resigned his post and fled. 
  
  

• 1992: The United States offered nine million dollars in aid to victims of the fighting in former Yugoslavia.
  

• 1992:The House of Representatives voted to lift the government's ban on using aborted fetuses for tissue transplantation research, but the tally fell short of a veto-proof majority.
  

• 1994: Palestine Liberation Organization officials announced that Yasser Arafat had named himself interior minister of the autonomous zones as part of an interim government; 14 other prominent Palestinians, mostly Arafat allies, were appointed to other positions.
  

• 1995: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 devastated the Russian town of Neftegorsk, killing at least 2,000 people.
  

• 1995: Bosnia's foreign minister and three colleagues were killed when rebel Serbs shot down their helicopter.
  

• 1996: President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
  

• 1997: In Denver, Timothy McVeigh's attorneys rested their case in the Oklahoma City bombing trial.
  

• 1997: President Clinton paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan with a speech in the Netherlands in which he urged today's leaders to revive economies in the former Soviet bloc.
  

• 1998: Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts of its own, raising fears of a nuclear arms race.
  

• 1998: Comic actor Phil Hartman of "Saturday Night Live" and "NewsRadio" fame was shot to death at his home in Encino, California, by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
  

• 1998: California astronomer Susan Terebey announced she had photographed what may be a planet some 450 light years from Earth.
  

• 1999: Russia's Balkan envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, met with Slobodan Milosevic for nine hours, declaring the Yugoslav president key to a Kosovo peace plan despite complications caused by his indictment for war crimes.
  

• 2000: Juan Montoya won the 84th Indianapolis 500, becoming the first rookie champion since Graham Hill in 1966.
  

• 2000:  President Alberto Fujimori of Peru won a lopsided re-election victory in a runoff vote that had been boycotted by his opponent. 
  
  

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