May 23

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:

National Egg Month - Dedicated to the versatility, convenience, economy, and good nutrition of the incredible edible egg. Sponsor: American Egg Board

National Foster Care Month

National Guy Pride Month - In 1995, Dave Barry proclaimed May as National Guy Pride Month. This was one way to promote his book, Dave Barry's Guide Guys.

National Hamburger Month - Sponsor: White Castle Systems.

National High Blood Pressure Month - Promotes the treatment of high blood pressure. Sponsor: High Blood Pressure Education Program

TODAY IS:

Bifocals Birthday - In 1875, Benjamin Franklin announced that he had invented bifocals.

Canadian Mounties established (1873) - The Northwest Mounted Police force was established in Canada.

Don't Rob A Bank Day - On the anniversary of the 1934 shooting deaths of Bonnie and Clyde, reconsider any thoughts you might have for robbing a bank. 

South Carolina Ratification Day - In 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U. S. Constitution.

Linnaeus Day - This day celebrates the birthday of Carolus Linnaeus who is known as the father of biology.

Born on this Day

• 1617: Elias Ashmole
  

• 1734: Austrian physician and hypnotist Franz Mesmer
  

• 1810: Social reformer and writer and critic for the New York Tribune Margaret Fuller
  

• 1820: James Buchanan Eads, engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis
  

• 1824: Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was a U.S. senator and for whom sideburns were named.
  

• 1846: Arabella Mansfield, born Belle Aurelia Babb. While teaching at Ohio Wesleyan college, she became the first woman in the U.S. to take and pass the bar exam. She never used her law degree.
  

• 1883: Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
  

• 19??: Roger Mullins (Mullins)
  

• 1901: The composer Edmund Rubbra.
  

• 1910: Band leader Artie Shaw
  

• 1919: Actress Betty Garrett
  

• 1923: Pianist Alicia de Larrocha
  

• 1925: Bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman
  

• 1928: Singer Rosemary Clooney
  

• 1928: Actor Nigel Davenport
  

• 1931: Actress Barbara Barrie
  

• 1933: Actress Joan Collins
  

• 1934: Musician Robert Moog
  

• 1937: Actor Charles Kimbrough
  

• 1943: Rhythm-and-blues singer General Johnson (Chairmen of the Board)
  

• 1943: Tennis legend John Newcombe
  

• 1945: Actress Lauren Chapin
  

• 1951: Country singer Judy Rodman
  

• 1952: Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler
  

• 1958: Actor-comedian Drew Carey
  

• 1958: Country singer Shelley West
  

• 1960: Actor Linden Ashby ("Melrose Place")
  

• 1967: Rock musician Phil Selway (Radiohead)
  

• 1972: Singer Lorenzo
  

• 1973: Singer Maxwell
  

• 1974: Singer Jewel
  

• 1984: Actor Adam Wylie                  
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0607: Death of St. Desiderius
  

• 1059: Coronation of Philip I, King of France
  

• 1116: Death of St. Ivo of Chartres
  

• 1125: Death of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
  

• 1173: Death of St. Euphrosyme of Polotosk
  

• 1192: The 3rd Cusade, and Richard I of England, recaptures Daron
  

• 1373: Chaucer returns from Italy
  

• 1430: Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians, who sell her to the English. Guided by what she believed were divine voices, Joan of Arc revived French fortunes in the Hundred Years' War. Her death only made her more powerful.
  

• 1480: Turks arrive at Rhodes to besiege it
  

• 1498: Death of Sarvonerola, by burning as an heretic
  

• 1498: Vasco da Gama makes landfall at Calcutta, India
  

• 1524: Death of Ismail, Shah of Persia
  

• 1533: The marriage of England's King Henry the Eighth to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
  

• 1541: Jacques Cartier begins his third voyage to Canada
  

• 1607: Christopher Newport and 140 surviors found Jamestown
  

• 1611: Rudolf II abdicates the Crown of Bohemia
  

• 1618: The Thirty Years War begins when three opponents of the Reformation are thrown through a window; the Defenestration of Prague.
  

• 1701: Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder.
  

• 1785: Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals, making it unnecessary to carry two pairs of glasses. His other innovations included the lightning rod and a stove.
  

• 1788: South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  

• 1827: The first nursery school in the U.S. was established in New York City. The school was developed to offer "children protection from weather, idleness and contamination of evil spirit.""
  

• 1864: Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in Battle of North Anna, Virginia.
  

• 1873: Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.
  1876: Boston's Joe Borden pitched the very first no-hitter in National League history.
  

• 1879: Iowa State University, located in Ames, Iowa, established the first veterinary school in the United States.
  

• 1895: The New York Public Library had its origins with an agreement combining the city's existing Astor and Lenox libraries.
  

• 1900: Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
  

• 1915: Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War One.
  

• 1922: The play, "Abie's Irish Rose," opened at the Fulton Theatre in New York City. The play continued for 2,327 performances. It is estimated that some 50,000,000 people have seen the play performed somewhere in the world.
  

• 1922: The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in Washington, D.C. The two debaters argued about "Daylight Saving Time.""
  

• 1934: Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  

• 1937: Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died in Ormond Beach, Florida.
  

• 1940: Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, the Pied Pipers and featured soloist Frank Sinatra recorded "I'll Never Smile Again" in New York for RCA.
  

• 1944: During World War II, Allied forces bogged down in Anzio began a major breakout offensive.
  

• 1944: The University of Chicago announced plans to withdraw from membership in the NCAA's Big 10 Conference and said it would not participate in any athletic competition.
  

• 1945: Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
  

• 1950: The re-evaluation of the reputation of Richard Strauss dates from this day, the morning after Kirsten Flagstad sang the premiere of his "Four Last Songs."
  

• 1960: Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and spirited him back to Israel, where he was tried, convicted and hanged.
  

• 1962: The National Basketball Association agreed to plans to transfer the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, California. The team became the San Francisco Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors).
  

• 1962: Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees set a major-league baseball record by hitting two home runs in one inning.
  

• 1977: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeals of former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Erlichman and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell in connection with their Watergate convictions.
  

• 1983: Vladimir Danchev, an announcer on Radio Moscow, surprised listeners by praising Muslim rebels in Afghanistan and criticizing Soviet policy in three English-language newscasts before he was taken off the air.
  

• 1984: A House subcommittee released a report pointing to CIA Director William Casey as the 1980 Reagan campaign official who'd received briefing materials from the Carter White House.
  

• 1984: Issuing his annual report on smoking, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said smoking was costing the nation $40 billion a year in health expenses and lost productivity.
  

• 1985: Thomas Patrick Cavanagh, an aerospace engineer who admitted trying to sell "stealth" bomber secrets to the Soviet Union, was sentenced in Los Angeles to life in prison.
  

• 1986: The White House said President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, would participate in "Hands Across America" to help raise millions of dollars for the nation's hungry and homeless.
  

• 1987: Rescue workers and survivors searched through the rubble of a killer tornado in Saragosa, Texas, that had claimed 30 lives. Texas Governor Bill Clements expressed his sorrow, and pledged all possible help.
  

• 1988: Maryland Gov. Donald Schaefer signed the nation's first law banning the manufacture and sale of cheap handguns, known as "Saturday Night Specials."
  

• 1988: Less than a week before a scheduled superpower summit in Moscow, Secretary of State George Shultz went to Capitol Hill to ask for a prompt Senate vote to ratify the intermediate-range nuclear missile treaty.
  

• 1989: An estimated one million people in Beijing and tens of thousands in other Chinese cities marched to demand that Premier Li Peng resign.
  

• 1990: Neil Bush, son of the president, denied any wrongdoing as a director of a failed Denver savings-and-loan in testimony before Congress.
  

• 1990: The Soviet Union unveiled an economic-reform program that included plans for a national referendum.
  

• 1991: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld federal regulations prohibiting federally funded women's clinics from discussing or advising abortion with patients.
  

• 1992: The United States and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Lisbon, Portugal, to implement the START missile-reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution.
  

• 1993: A jury in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, acquitted Rodney Peairs of manslaughter in the shooting death of Yoshi Hattori, a Japanese exchange student he'd mistaken for an intruder.
  

• 1994: Funeral services were held at Arlington National Cemetery for former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
  

• 1994: "Pulp Fiction" by American director Quentin Taratino won the "Golden Palm" for best film at the 47th Cannes Film Festival.
  

• 1994: Roman Herzog was elected president of Germany, the first person chosen for the position since the country's unification in 1990. He was backed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
  

• 1995: The nine-story hulk of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished. That day, James Nichols, whose brother and a friend were charged in the Oklahoma bombing, was released from federal custody. 
  

• 1996: The House approved, by a vote of 281-to-144, election-year legislation to raise the minimum wage by 90 cents an hour.
  

• 1997: The defense at the Oklahoma City bombing trial suffered an embarrassing setback when one of its own witnesses provided testimony potentially damaging to defendant Timothy McVeigh.
  

• 1997: The Senate decisively approved a carefully constructed deal to balance the budget and cut taxes.
  

• 1997: Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.
  

• 1998: Official returns showed two convincing "yes" votes for the Northern Ireland peace accord: a surprisingly strong 71.1 percent in British-linked Northern Ireland, and 94.4 percent in the Republic of Ireland.
  

• 1999: Social Democrat Johannes Rau won election as Germany's president, a largely ceremonial post.
  

• 1999: Professional wrestler Owen Hart, also known as "The Blue Blazer," died when he fell 78 feet from a cable as he was being lowered into the ring at a World Wrestling Federation show in Kansas City, Mo.
  

• 1999: "Rosetta," a Belgian film, won top honors at the 52nd annual Cannes Film Festival.
  

• 2000: Two weeks before a US-Russia arms summit, presidential candidate George W. Bush said he would slash America's nuclear arsenal as part of a broad national security review that would call for a missile-defense system.
  
  

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