May 26

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 Trauma Awareness Month

National Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Month - This disease strikes 1 in 5,500. Sponsor: National Tuberous Sclerosis Association.

Older Americans Month - First celebrated in 1963 as Senior Citizens Month; the name was changed in 1974.

Personal History Awareness Month - Educates people on the importance of compiling a personal history for yourself as well as for your family.

Project Safe Baby Month - Encourages the proper use of chill safety seats. Sponsor: Project Safe Baby Team

REACT CB-Radio Month - Encourages the proper use of (emergency only) CB Channel 9. Sponsor: REACT Inc.

TODAY IS:

• Celebrity Marriage Day - In 1994, Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson were married in the Dominican Republic.
  
  
• Human Fly Day - George Willig, the Human Fly, climbed the outside of the 110 story World Trade Center in 1977.
  
  
• Put Up Your Dukes Day - Stand up for what you believe in on this the birthday of John Wayne. He was born in 1907 in Winterset, Iowa. Sponsor: The life of the Party.
  

Born on this Day

• 1650: English Gen. John Churchill, ancestor of statesman Sir Winston Churchill.
  

• 1886: Singer Al Jolson.
  

• 1893: The conductor who commissioned Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Eugene Goosens, was born. Goosens' father and grandfather were ALSO conductors.
  

• 19??: David Meece
  

• 1907: Actor John Wayne
  

• 1908: Actor Robert Morley
  

• 1913: Actor Peter Cushing
  

• 1920: Singer Peggy Lee
  

• 1923: Actor James Arness.
  

• 1925: Actor Alec McCowen
  

• 1926: Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis
  

• 1939: Opera singer Teresa Stratas
  

• 1939: Sportscaster Brent Musberger
  

• 1942: Rock singer-musician Levon Helm (The Band)
  

• 1948: Singer Stevie Nicks
  

• 1949: Actor Philip Michael Thomas
  

• 1949: Actress Pam Grier
  

• 1949: Singer Hank Williams Jr.
  

• 1951: Sally Ride, first American woman in space
  

• 1957: Actress Margaret Colin
  

• 1958: Country singer-songwriter Dave Robbins (BlackHawk)
  

• 1962: Actress Genie Francis ("`General Hospital'')
  

• 1962: Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait
  

• 1964: Singer Lenny Kravitz
  

• 1966: Actress Helena Bonham Carter
  

• 1968: Rock musician Phillip Rhodes (Gin Blossoms, The Pharoahs)
  

• 1971: Rhythm-and-blues singer Joey Kibble (Take 6) 
  

• 1971: Actor-producer-writer Matt Stone                
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1521: Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms (vohrms) because of his religious beliefs and writings.
  

• 1805: Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
  

• 1865: arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.
  

• 1868: President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives for "high crimes and misdemeanors." He won acquittal in the Senate by one vote.
  

• 1870: Giuseppe Verdi wrote that he liked an idea put forth for a new grand opera. "I have the read the Egyptian story. It is well-conceived," Verdi wrote, and proceeded to compose "Aida."
  

• 1913: Actors' Equity Association was organized.
  

• 1924: The composer Victor Herbert, in his sixties and weighing about 260 pounds, died of a heart attack while climbing the stairs to his doctor's office in New York.
  

• 1940: The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, during World War Two began.
  

• 1954: More than 100 crew members of the aircraft carrier USS Bennington died in an explosion off Rhode Island.
  

• 1969: The "Apollo Ten" astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
  

• 1972: At the Moscow summit, President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pact limiting nuclear weapons.
  

• 1977: George H. Willig scaled the outside of the South Tower of New York's World Trade Center; he was arrested at the top of the 110-story building.
  

• 1981: Fourteen people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS "Nimitz" off Florida.
  

• 1987: Former PTL leader Jim Bakker told ABC's "Nightline" he had made a "terrible mistake" in turning control of the ministry over to the Reverend Jerry Falwell, and accused Falwell of misleading him.
  

• 1989: Reports began circulating that House Majority Whip Tony Coelho would resign to spare himself and the Democratic Party the ordeal of an investigation into his ethics.
  

• 1990: Soviet maverick politician Boris N. Yeltsin failed in a second round of voting to win the presidency of the Russian Federation. (He succeeded in a third round of balloting three days later.)
  

• 1991: A Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard; crash investigators blamed an engine thrust reverser that had inexplicably deployed shortly after takeoff. 
  

• 1991: Rick Mears became the third driver to win the Indianapolis 500 four times.
  

• 1992: President Bush and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won primaries in Kentucky, Arkansas and Idaho.
  

• 1992: The White House announced that the Coast Guard was returning a group of Haitian refugees picked up at sea to their homeland under a new executive order signed by President Bush.
  

• 1994: President Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.
  

• 1994: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. (The marriage, however, did not last.)
  

• 1995: In the tobacco industry's largest recall ever, Philip Morris USA halted sales of several cigarette brands, including some versions of top-selling Marlboro, because some filters were contaminated.
  

• 1996: A police sergeant searching the murky waters where ValuJet Flight 592 crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people aboard, found the crucial cockpit voice recorder.
  

• 1996: Buddy Lazier won the Indianapolis 500.
  

• 1996: Albania's opposition parties pulled out of the election on polling day because of "terror'' and manipulation of the poll by the ruling Democratic Party.
  

• 1997: Australian Prime Minister John Howard made an unexpected personal apology to tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken from their parents under a past government policy of assimilation.
  

• 1998: The Supreme Court made it far more difficult for police to be sued by people hurt during high-speed chases.
  

• 1998: The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island, historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
  

• 1999: House Republicans pushed through legislation that would put new obstacles in the way of spending government surpluses that came from Social Security taxes.
  

• 1999: Indian aircraft fired on separatist guerrillas in the Kashmir province and Pakistan threatened retaliation; it was the first use of air power in years in the long-running conflict over the Himalayan border region.
  

• 2000: Barry Grunow, 35, an English teacher at Lake Worth Community Middle School in Florida, was shot to death by Nathaniel Brazill, a seventh grader who'd been sent home for throwing water balloons on the last day of classes. 
  
  
  

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