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Gazpacho Aficionado Time - During ripe tomato season, enjoy cold gazpacho soup. (My question is where are tomatoes ripe now?)
MAY is:
Healthy Baby Month - Promotes reproductive health in men as well as a father's role in the health of a baby. Sponsor: Iowa Substance Abuse Info Center.
Iowa Tourism Month - Sponsor: Iowa Tourism Board.
Labor History Month
TODAY IS:
Loomis Day - This day honors Mahlon Loomis, who received a patent on wireless telegraphy in 1872, many years before
Marconi. Sponsor: Puns Corp.
Memorial Day - Traditional - A day to honor our dead, especially those who died in war.
Saint Ferdinand Feast Day - Saint Ferdinand III of Castile, a warrior king, is patron saint of engineers, rulers,
governors, prisoners and the poor.
Saint Joan of Arc Feast Day - Born in 1412, she is the patron saint of France. She was canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic church on May 16, 1920.
Born on this Day
1265: Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
19??: Quinton Mills
19??: John Thorn (Whiteheart)
1908: Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Porky
Pig and many other cartoon characters
1909: Band leader Benny Goodman
1926: Christine Jorgensen, who gained notoriety for
undergoing a sex-change operation
1926: Country musician Johnny Gimble
1936: Actor Keir Dullea
1927: Actor Clint Walker
1936: Actress Ruta Lee
1939: Actor Michael J. Pollard
1951: Actor Stephen Tobolowsky
1958: Actor Ted McGinley
1961: Actor Ralph Carter
1964: Country singer Wynonna
1964: Rock musician Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine)
1971: Rock musician Patrick Dahlheimer (Live)
1972: Actor Trey Parker
1974: Rapper Cee-Lo (Goodie Mob)
1981: Actor Blake Bashoff
0542: Death of Arthur I, King of England
0727: Death of St. Herbert
0849: Frankish Empire divided between Charles, Louis &
Lothar, Worms
1249: Assassination of Reginald II, King of the Isle of
Man
1252: Death of St. Ferdinand of Castile
1257: Founding of the University of Marberg, Germany
1323: A truce is proclaimed in the Scottish Wars, to last
for thirteen years
1379: Death of Henry II of Trastamara, King of
Castile-Leon
1416: Jerome of Prague, theologian, burned as a heretic by
the Church
1431: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen,
France, at age 19. She had been convicted of sorcery.
1498: Columbus sets out from Spain on his third voyage
1536: Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, his 3rd wife
1539: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto lands on the coast
of Florida.
1574 Death of Charles IX, King of France
1593 Christopher Marlowe, playwright, stabbed to death
over a tavern bill
1631 "La Gazette de France" first published
1635 Treaty of Prague ends Thirty Years War
1640 Death of Peter Paul Rubens, painter
1854: The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were
established.
1866: Bedrich Smetana's opera "The Bartered
Bride," which was to become the world's most popular Czech opera, was premiered in
Prague. It was not much of a success. Smetana would spend the next several years revising
it, it enjoys success nowadays.
1883: 12 people were trampled to death when a rumor that
the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a
stampede.
1911: Indianapolis saw its first long-distance auto race;
Ray Harroun was the winner.
1922: The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington DC,
by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
1937: A battle between police and strikers at the Republic
Steel Corp. plant in Chicago killed 10 people and wounded 90.
1938: Walter Piston's "Incredible Flutist" was
premiered by the Boston Symphony.
1943: American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu
from the Japanese during World War Two.
1958: Unidentified soldiers killed in World War Two and
the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1962: One of the towering masterworks of the 20th century
was premiered. Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" was composed for the
rededication of the rebuilt St. Michael's Cathedral in Coventry. The church had been
bombed out in World War Two.
1971: The American space probe "Mariner Nine"
blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on a journey to Mars.
1980: Pope John Paul II arrived in France on the first
visit by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the early 19th century.
1982: Spain became NATO's 16th member, the first country
to enter the western alliance since West Germany in 1955.
1987: Soviet Defense Minister Sergei L. Sokolov and the
chief of Soviet air defenses were fired, two days after West German pilot Mathias Rust
entered Soviet airspace in a small plane and flew all the way to Moscow's Red Square.
1988: On the second day of the Moscow summit, Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, giving a toast at a state dinner, called for closer contacts
with Americans, adding, "This should be done without interfering in domestic affairs,
without sermonizing or imposing one's views and ways."
1989: US Representative Claude Pepper (Democrat, Florida),
a champion of the nation's elderly, died in Washington at age 88.
1989: Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing
erected a 33-foot statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy."
1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in
Washington for his summit with President Bush.
1991: The US Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors can be sued for the legal advice they give police and can be forced to pay damages when that advice leads to someone's rights being violated.
1992: President Bush ordered the seizure of Yugoslav
government assets in the United States after the United Nations imposed sanctions in an
effort to force Yugoslavia to observe a cease-fire in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1993: Emerson Fittipaldi won the 77th Indianapolis 500,
driving at an average speed of 157.207 miles-an-hour.
1994: The UN Security Council warned North Korea to stop
refueling a nuclear reactor and allow UN monitors to perform full inspections.
1994: Mormon Church president Ezra Taft Benson died in
Salt Lake City at age 94.
1995: In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded guarantees of no further NATO
air attacks and de facto recognition of a self-styled Serb state.
1996: The House called off a contempt-of-Congress vote
after President Clinton's aides turned over one-thousand pages of papers and a long-sought
list of documents in the travel office firings.
1996: Britain's Prince Andrew and the former Sarah
Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their ten-year marriage.
1997: Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted
in Trenton, New Jersey, of raping and strangling a seven-year-old neigbhor, Megan Kanka,
whose 1994 murder inspired "Megan's Law," requiring that communities be notified
when sex offenders move in. (Timmendequas was later sentenced to death.)
1998: Northern Afghanistan was rocked by a powerful
earthquake believed to have killed up to five-thousand people.
1998: A tornado tore through Spencer, South Dakota,
killing six people.
1998: Pakistan set off another nuclear blast.
1999: Astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery rigged
cranes and other tools to the exterior of the international space station during a
spacewalk; then, the astronauts entered the orbiting outpost for three days of making
repairs and delivering supplies.
1999: Kenny Brack won the crash-marred Indianapolis 500,
driving a car owned by racing legend A.J. Foyt.
2000: Former Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey died in Scranton at age 68.
2000: Gordon "Tex" Beneke, a singer and sax player with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, died in Costa Mesa, California, at age 86
2000: President Clinton arrived in Portugal as he opened a week-long visit to Europe.
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