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MAY is:
TODAY IS:
Born on this Day
1889: Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
19??: Steve Wiggins (Big Tent Revival)
1926: Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis
1921: Lyricist Hal David .He and Burt Bacharach wrote
dozens of hits together
1925: Actress Jeanne Crain
1926: Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz. His
biggest LP: "Bitches Brew."
1927: Spy novelist Robert Ludlum
1929: Former opera singer Beverly Sills
1934: Former White House news secretary Ron Nessen
1936: Country singer-songwriter Tom T. Hall
1939: Actor Ian McKellen
1939: Actress Dixie Carter
1943: Singer Leslie Uggams
1944: Movie director and Muppeteer Frank Oz (voice of Miss
Piggy)
1947: Country singer Jessi Colter
1947: Actress Karen Valentine
1947: Country singer Jessi Colter
1950: Rock singer Klaus Meine (The Scorpions)
1951: Actress Patti D'Arbanville
1955: Actress Connie Selleca
1958: Rock singer-musician Paul Weller
1963: Actor-comedian Mike Myers
1969: Actress Anne Heche
1970: Actor Jamie Kennedy
1971: Actor Justin Henry ("Kramer vs. Kramer")
1973: Rapper Dat Nigga Daz
1975: Singer Lauryn Hill (The Fugees)
1979: Actor Corbin Allred
323: Death of Alexander the Great – death came at the
end of a two-day feast.
0709: Death of St. Aldhelm
0735: Death of "The Venerable" Bede
1085: Alfonso VI, King of Leon, takes Toledo
1085: Death of St. Gregory VII, Pope, to the immense
relief of Emperor Henry IV
1184: Glastonbury Abbey, England, destroyed by fire
1261: Death of Pope Alexander IV
1315: Edward Bruce invades Ireland
1498: The Venice movable type publisher Ottaviano
Petrucci, having produced movable type for printing music, applied for what today we would
call the patent.
1502: Columbus discovered Martinique
1521: Edict of Worms
1555: Death of Henry II, King of Navarre
1559: First Protestant synod in France meets in Paris
1571: Election of Stephen Bathory as Prince of
Transylvania
1571: Founding of Barinas, Venezuela
1583: Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley converse with spirits
1650: Hanging of Montrose, in Edinburgh
1787: The first regular session of the Constitutional
Convention was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown
up for a quorum.
1793: Father Stephen Theodore Badin became the first Roman
Catholic priest to be ordained in the United States, in a ceremony in Baltimore.
1810: Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
1844: The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from
Washington DC to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore "Patriot."
1844: Stuart Perry of New York City patented the gasoline
engine.
1869: The grand opera house in Vienna was opened. The
emperor Franz Joseph made a low-key criticism of its forbidding appearance not a serious
or heartfelt attack, just a mild jab only to have one architect collapse of a heart attack
and another commit suicide.
1895: Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals
charge in London; he was sentenced to prison. "The Ballad of Reading Gaul," was
inspired by the time he spent in prison.
1895: James P. Lee first published "Gold in America
-- A Practical Manual." It is said to be the first book about regular folks finding
gold.
1927: Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car and
begins production of the Model A.
1927: The "Movietone News" was shown for the
first time at the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City. Charles Lindbergh's epic flight
aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" was featured.
1935: Pittsburgh, Babe Ruth of the Boston Braves played
the final game of his career and scored his 714th and final home run. The record stood for
39 years.
1935: At the Big Ten conference championships held in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, Jesse Owens, who had been sick the previous day, ran the 100-yard dash in
9.4 seconds to tie the world's record.
1946: Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it
proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
1961: President Kennedy asked the nation to work toward
putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
1963 The Organization of African Unity was founded, in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1965: In a heavyweight fight in Lewistin, Maine, Cassius
Clay knocked out challenger Sonny Liston in one minute and 56 seconds of the first round.
1968: The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National
Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated.
1969: The motion picture "Midnight Cowboy,"
starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, opened in New York.
1979: 275 people died in America's worst domestic air
disaster when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare
airport.
1981: Daredevil Daniel Goodwin, wearing a
"Spiderman" costume, scaled the outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7½ hours.
1983: Navy Lt. Comdr.. Albert Schaufelberger, a U.S.
military attaché in San Salvador, was slain by the guerrilla group FMLN.
1983: "The Return of the Jedi," the third
installment of George Lucas' "Star Wars" movie trilogy, opened nationwide. The
movie topped all previous opening day box office records with a gross of $6,219,629.
1984: CIA Director William Casey dismissed as
"politically motivated" a House subcommittee report that he had obtained
briefing materials from President Carter's 1980 re-election campaign.
1984: The Detroit Tigers tied the 1916 New York Giants as
they won their 17th road game, beating the California Angels 5-1. That game broke the
American League mark of 16 held by the Washington Senators from 1912.
1985: More than 11,000 people were killed as a hurricane
and tidal wave devastated Bangladesh.
1985: CBS Radio began network baseball coverage for the
first time in 25 years as Brent Musberger called the play-by-play for the Los Angeles
Dodgers-New York Mets game.
1986: 5 to 7 million people formed a broken 4000-mile
human chain from Los Angeles to New York in Hands Across America, to benefit the nation's
homeless. The event raised $24.5 million.
1987: A jury in New York acquitted former Labor Secretary
Raymond J. Donovan and seven other construction executives of fraud and grand larceny.
1988: President Reagan departed the White House on a trip
to the Soviet Union and a superpower summit with Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1989: The Calgary Flames won their first Stanley Cup by
defeating the Montreal Canadiens in game six of their championship series by a score of
4-to-2.
1990: A congressional report cast doubts on the U.S.
Navy's official finding that a troubled sailor probably had caused the blast that killed
47 servicemen aboard the battleship USS Iowa.
1991: Foreigners fled the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa
as rebels closed in on the city. Israel completed Operation Solomon, which had evacuated
15,000 Ethiopian Jews to their promised land.
1992: Career US diplomat Philip Habib died in
Puligny-Montrachet, France, at age 72. Jay Leno made his debut as permanent host of NBC's
"Tonight Show," succeeding Johnny Carson.
1993: The White House announced it was putting five fired
employees of its travel office on paid leave as it investigated accusations of financial
mismanagement.
1993: The Boston Pops backed up James Taylor in a concert
to be videotaped for later broadcast. The program included the title music from
"Jurassic Park."
1994: The U.N. Security Council lifted a 10-year-old ban
on weapons exports from South Africa, scrapping the last of its apartheid-era embargoes.
1995: NATO warplanes struck Bosnian Serb headquarters.
(Serbs answered with swift defiance, storming U.N. weapons depots, attacking safe areas
and taking peacekeepers as hostages.)
1996: President Clinton, honoring the men and women who
died in military service, used his weekly radio address to defend America's global
military role, saying it "is making our people safer and the world more secure."
1997: In the first round of parliamentary elections,
French voters gave the leftist opposition the biggest share of votes in a surprising
setback for President Jacques Chirac's conservatives.
1997: Senator Strom Thurmond (Republican, South Carolina)
became the longest-serving senator in US history, marking 41 years and ten months of
service.
1998: Indonesia's new president, B.J. Habibie, promised to
hold elections.
1998: Leaders in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and
its breakaway province of Abkhazia agreed to a cease-fire after a week of
fighting. 1999: A bipartisan congressional report said China's two-decade effort to
steal U.S. weapons technology continued well into the Clinton administration; President
Clinton responded that his administration was already "moving aggressively to tighten
security."
1999: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr decided against
re-prosecuting Whitewater figure Susan McDougal and Julie Hiatt Steele, a witness in the
Monica Lewinsky investigation, after both their trials ended with hung juries.
2000: The government proposed a rating system telling consumers how prone vehicles are to rolling over.
2000: Iranian state radio announced that former President Hashemi Rafsanjani had resigned from the incoming parliament, depriving hard-liners of a leading figure in the power struggle between conservatives and reformists.
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