Today in History

25th May

1521 The Edict of Worms condemns Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther as an outlaw and heretic.

1659 Oliver Cromwell's son, Richard, resigned as lord protector of England, allowing Charles II's restoration.

1962 The consecration of Coventry's new cathedral which was designed by Sir Basil Spence. The new church replaced the 14th century cathedral that was destroyed by German bombing during World War II.

1963 Thirty two nations form the Organisation of African Unity with the aim of ending white rule in Africa.

1982 HMS Coventry was sunk by Argentine Skyhawks during the Falklands War. Nineteen of her crew were lost and a further thirty injured.
 
26th May

1733 John Kay, assistant to Richard Arkwright, patented the 'Flying Shuttle' to operate on Arkwright's cotton spinning frame.

1868 The last public execution in Britain - the hanging of murderer Michael Barrett - took place at Newgate.

1897 Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, was published.

1948 The Afrikaner National Party won the South African general election and introduced 'apartheid'.

1950 UK drivers cheered end of fuel rations. Long queues appeared at garages and motorists tore their ration books into confetti after the government announced an end to petrol rationing.

1999 Manchester United became the first British club to win the European Cup for 15 years, beating Bayern Munich 2-1 in the final in Barcelona. This gave them the coveted 'treble' - the Premier League, the FA Cup and the European Cup.
 
27th May 1964

Eleven young boys were suspended from Woodlands Comprehensive School in Coventry, England for having Mick Jagger style haircuts. Headmaster Donald Thompson said the lads were sent home because their hair was "long and scruffy", but they could return "if they cut their hair neatly, like the Beatles."
 
On This Day In History, May 27th

2006 A massive earthquake devastates parts of Java, Indonesia
With 5 million people living within 50 km of the quake's epicentre, about 6000 died, and 1.5 million were left homeless.

1942 Czech resistance fighters kill Reinhard Heydrich
The high-ranking German Nazi official was one of the main architects of the Holocaust. In retaliation, the Nazis murdered all male inhabitants over 15 years of age in the Czech village of Lidice and deported most of the remaining people to concentration camps.

1937 The Golden Gate Bridge is opened
The suspension bridge connecting the San Francisco peninsula with Marin County is one of the most recognized works of United States architecture.

1933 Walt Disney's cartoon Three Little Pigs is released
The animated short film is one of the best-known cartoons of all time. In 1934, it was awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

1851 The world's first chess tournament is held in London
Adolf Anderssen, a maths teacher from Wrocław, won the tournament, which was held parallel to the 1851 Great Exhibition.
Fog then sunny


 
Births On This Day, May 27th 🎂

1975 Jamie Oliver
English chef, author

1934 Harlan Ellison
American author, screenwriter

1923 Henry Kissinger
German/American politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate

1922 Christopher Lee
English actor

1907 Rachel Carson
American biologist, author

Deaths On This Day, May 27th 🪦

2011 Gil Scott-Heron
American singer-songwriter, author

1964 Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian politician, 1st Prime Minister of India

1840 Niccolò Paganini
Italian violinist, composer

1564 John Calvin
French theologian, pastor

927 Simeon I of Bulgaria
 
Weed plowing the young fields of Corn.

(lots of useless past days of history)
I drove across the Golden Gate Bridge once, never went back. Is San Fran Still there? :ROFLMAO: / ... Cal. Hate it day. ...
 
May 27th
1679
Habeas Corpus Act which allows a person's right to challenge unlaw arrest and imprisonment is passed in England
1930
The Chrysler Building in NYC at the time the tallest man made structure at 1,046 ft{310 meter} opens in NYC. It was named for automobile pioneer& founder of Chrysler,Walter Chrysler
1940
British &Allied forces begin evacuation of Dunkirk'Operation Dynamo' during WWII
1969
construction of Walt Disney World at Bay Lake&Buena Vista Fla begins.It opened to the public on Oct 1st 1971.On opening day 10,000 people paid $3.50 admission. It's the worlds largest theme park with 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, 27 resort hotels, golf courses. Today's admission price for 1 day is $109
1994
writer, Alexandre Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia after spending 20 yrs in exile
2019
acc to a new global study,711 of the world's rivers are widely contaminated with antibiotics
 
On This Day In History, May 28th

1998 Pakistan detonates five atom bombs
The nuclear tests came as a response to India's tests just days earlier. Fearing a devastating conflict between the two nuclear powers, a number of countries, including the U.S. and Japan, imposed economic sanctions.

1987 Mathias Rust lands on the Red Square in Moscow
The 19-year-old West German amateur pilot illegally landed his Cessna in the heart of the Russian capital at the height of the Cold War.

1961 Amnesty International is founded
The publication of Peter Benenson's article “The Forgotten Prisoners” is commonly considered the organization's birth hour. Amnesty International is one of the world's most influential human rights organizations.

1937 Volkswagen (VW) is founded
The automobile manufacturer whose name means “People's Car” in German is one of the world's biggest. It produced classics like the VW Golf and the VW Beetle.

1936 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication
In this landmark paper, the British computer pioneer described the Turing Machine and defined the inherent limits of computation.
 
Births On This Day, May 28th 🎂

1968 Kylie Minogue
Australian singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1944 Rudy Giuliani
American lawyer, politician, 107th Mayor of New York City

1923 György Ligeti
Romanian/Austrian composer

1908 Ian Fleming
English journalist, author

1883 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Indian politician

Deaths On This Day, May 28th 🪦

2014 Maya Angelou
American author, poet, actress, director

1972 Edward VIII
of the United Kingdom

1937 Alfred Adler
Austrian psychologist

1849 Anne Brontë
English author, poet

1843 Noah Webster
American lexicographer, author
 
Tish said:
1998 Pakistan detonates five atom bombs
The nuclear tests came as a response to India's tests just days earlier. Fearing a devastating conflict between the two nuclear powers, a number of countries, including the U.S. and Japan, imposed economic sanctions.
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OMG, where the heck was I? How did I miss the horrible event?!
 
On This Day In History, May 29th

1999 Olusegun Obasanjo wins Nigeria's first free elections in 16 years
The former Nigerian Army general and military ruler oversaw a democratization process that defines the country's political system to the present day.

1996 Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel's prime minister
The conservative politician is criticized for hampering the peace process that former prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, had promoted.

1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest
The first successful ascent of the world's highest mountain came after Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans had come within 100 meters of the summit just three days previously.


1942 Bing Crosby Records White Christmas
Crosby's rendition of Irving Berlin's song became the most successful of his career and the best-selling Christmas single in history.

1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps premiered
the performance sparked a riot in the audience as many felt its irregular beat and the percussive character was a sacrilege against music. Today, it is considered one of the key works of 20th-century art music.
 
Births On This Day, May 29th 🎂

1984 Carmelo Anthony
American basketball player

1967 Noel Gallagher
English singer-songwriter, guitarist

1922 Iannis Xenakis
Greek/French composer, engineer, theorist

1917 John F. Kennedy
American lieutenant, politician, 35th President of the United States

1914 Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese mountaineer

Deaths On This Day, May 29th 🪦

2013 Henry Morgentaler
Polish/Canadian physician

2010 Dennis Hopper
American actor, director

1997 Jeff Buckley
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1892 Bahá'u'lláh
Persian spiritual leader founded the Bahá'í Faith

1829 Humphry Davy
English chemist, physicist
 
29th May

1453 The Roman empire in the east came to an end as Ottoman sultan Mehmet II captured Constantinople.

1660 Charles II arrived in London from exile in the Netherlands to reclaim his throne.

1798 The United Irishmen Rebellion against British Rule took place. Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen were massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.

1914 The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland, sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence shortly after departing from Quebec for Liverpool. She collided, in thick fog, with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad and foundered in only 14 minutes. 1,012 lives were lost - (840 passengers, 172 crew).

1972 Three Japanese gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.

1985 39 football fans were killed and at least another 400 injured when a wall collapsed during crowd violence at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, only minutes before the start of the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus.
 
On This Day In History, May 30th

2011 Germany abandons nuclear energy
The government's decision followed the nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima power plant and years of hands-on protests and activism by Germany's powerful anti-nuclear movement.

1967 The Republic of Biafra is proclaimed
The short-lived state consisted of Nigeria's Eastern Region. Its secession sparked the Nigerian Civil War, which lasted until 1970 and resulted in the region's reintegration into Nigeria.

1962 Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is premiered
The work was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed in World War II. It juxtaposes the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead with war poems by Wilfred Owen.

1961 The Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, is assassinated
El Jefe had been the Dominican Republic's President for 31 years. Despite the assassination, the intended removal of the dictatorship in the Caribbean country failed as the ruler's son, Ramfis Trujillo, soon stepped into his father's shoes.

1911 The first Indianapolis 500 is held
Ray Harroun won the first running of the 500-mile automobile race, which is today one of the world's most prestigious sporting events.

 
Births On This Day, May 30th 🎂

1980 Steven Gerrard
English footballer

1971 Idina Menzel
American singer-songwriter, actress

1949 Bob Willis
English cricketer

1846 Peter Carl Fabergé
Russian goldsmith, jeweller

1814 Mikhail Bakunin
Russian philosopher, theorist

Deaths On This Day, May 30th 🪦

1993 Sun Ra
American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet

1960 Boris Pasternak
Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate

1778 Voltaire
French philosopher

1640 Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish painter

1431 Joan of Arc
 
On This Day In History, May 31st

2013 The widest tornado ever recorded hits El Reno, Oklahoma
The storm had a width of 4.2 km (2.6 mi). Nine people were killed as it swept over rural areas of Central Oklahoma.

2005 Deep Throat reveals himself
Former FBI agent Mark Felt admitted that he was the most important informant in the 1970's Watergate scandal which uncovered the dirty tricks of the Nixon administration, ultimately leading to Nixon's resignation.

1961 South Africa becomes an independent republic
Following international criticism of the country's Apartheid regime, it had to leave the Commonwealth of Nations. The system of racial segregation was gradually abolished in the early 1990s.

1879 Werner von Siemens presents the world's first electric locomotive
Von Siemens' landmark invention was soon used in trams. 1881 saw the introduction of the world's first electric tram in Berlin, Germany.

1859 The Great Clock housing Big Ben starts keeping time
The clock at the top of Elizabeth Tower at the north end of the British Houses of Parliament is one of the world's best-known timekeepers.
 
Births On This Day, May 31st 🎂

1976 Colin Farrell
Irish actor

1945 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
German actor, director, screenwriter

1930 Clint Eastwood
American actor, director, producer, politician

1894 Fred Allen
American comedian, actor, radio host

1819 Walt Whitman
American poet, author

Deaths On This Day, May 31st 🪦

2010 Louise Bourgeois
French/American sculptor

1996 Timothy Leary
American psychologist, author

1983 Jack Dempsey
American boxer

1837 Joseph Grimaldi
English actor, dancer

1809 Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
 
2nd June

1780 The six-day-long Gordon Riots, named after anti-Catholic agitator Lord George Gordon, begin in London.

1953 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in Westminster Abbey, London. It was the first British coronation to be televised and was a cold, wet day.

1988 The Australian High Court rejected Britain's bid to ban further publication of the 'Spycatcher' memoirs of former British secret agent Peter Wright.

1994 25 senior intelligence officers, involved in counter terrorism in Northern Ireland, were killed when their Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.

1997 Dr. Stephen Martin & David Mitchell became the first Britons to reach the North Pole without backup.

2012 The start of 4 days of celebrations to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.

2022 Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June saw an extended Bank Holiday and weekend break to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.
 
On This Day In History, June 3rd

2013 The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins
The American soldier, a trans woman now called Chelsea Manning, was responsible for leaking classified videos documenting U.S. war atrocities during the Iraq War. She was sentenced to 35 years confinement.

1998 101 people die in the Eschede train disaster
Travelling at 200 km/h (120 mph), a high-speed ICE train derailed and crashed into a bridge. The accident was caused by a fatigue crack in one of the train's wheels. It was the deadliest high-speed train disaster in history.

1982 The Israeli ambassador to the U.K. is shot
Shlomo Argov survived the assassination attempt by a Palestinian terrorist group, but he was permanently paralyzed. The event triggered the 1982 Lebanon War.

1973 The world's first supersonic airliner crashes
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, sometimes referred to as Concordski, disintegrated in mid-air during the 1973 Paris Air Show. 14 people died.

1492 Martin Behaim presents the world's first globe
The German geographer called his terrestrial globe Erdapfel, or Earth Apple. It is kept in a darkened room at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany.
 
Births On This Day, June 3rd 🎂

1986 Rafael Nadal
Spanish tennis player

1931 Raúl Castro
Cuban politician, 17th Prime Minister of Cuba

1926 Allen Ginsberg
American poet

1808 Jefferson Davis
American colonel, politician, President of the Confederate States of America

1770 Manuel Belgrano
Argentinian economist, lawyer, politician

Deaths On This Day, June 3rd 🪦

2016 Muhammad Ali
American boxer

2001 Anthony Quinn
Mexican/American actor, producer

1989 Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader, politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran

1924 Franz Kafka
Czech/German writer

1875 Georges Bizet
French composer
 

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