Today in History

This day in History May 23rd

1929 Australia Gold Rush
A new gold rush is starting in Australia as gold has been found just 3 feet below the surface and claims are now being made all over the area in South West.

1934 U.S.A. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and gunned down with over 100 rounds of ammunition by police in Black Lake, Louisiana.

1940 U.S.A. "I'll Never Smile Again"
"I'll Never Smile Again" was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers.

1953 U.S.A. Flooding in Lake Charles Louisiana
Following the flooding in Lake Charles Louisiana which is now starting to recede the threat of Typhoid is increasing which could increase the death toll caused by the flooding and medical teams are on hand to provide typhoid shots.

1998 Northern Ireland Referendum
A referendum on the Good Friday peace agreement held in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic yesterday ended with 3 to 1 support. The Good Friday peace agreement paves the way for devolution from Westminster with a new all-inclusive Northern Ireland Assembly.
 

1785
Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of the bifocals
1900
William Harvey Carney,a soldier in the American Civil War,is 1st African American to be given the Medal of Honor Medal for his gallantry.He saved the regimential American flag during the Battle at Fort Wagner
1934
bank robbers, Bonnie Parker,Clyde Barrow were killed in an ambush by cops near Sailes,Louisana
2014
Russia&China vetoed United Nation Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria
2019
The last slave ship,"The Clotilda' which smuggled slaves from Africa to America which was sunk in 1860 is discovered in Mobile River in Alabama
 
This day in History May 24th

1883 The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan over the East River opens to traffic.

1934 Month Long Drought in Midwest continues

1941 German Battleship Bismarck Sinks HMS Hood

1961 Two buses carrying 27 'Freedom Riders' 25 *****es and two whites were arrested by city police officers in Jackson Mississippi and charged with disobeying an officer and breach of peace.

1976 Air France from Paris and British Airways from London simultaneously began Concorde service to Dulles Airport, Washington cutting the travel time from 7 hours to 3 1/2 hours.
 

24th May

1530 A list of heretical books was drawn up in London. Tyndale's Bible was burnt.

1689 Parliament introduced the Toleration Act. The Act granted freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e dissenting Protestants) and granted them their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers, subject to acceptance of certain oaths of allegiance.

1930 Amy Johnson landed at Darwin, Australia and became the first woman to fly from England to Australia.

1941 World War II The German battleship Bismarck sank the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of more than 1,400 lives.
 
1830
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale was 1st published
1844
inventor,Samuel Morse demonstrated in front of members of U.S. Congress dispatched the world's 1st telegraph message,'What hath God wrought' from the U.S.Capitol to Alfred Vail at a railroad station in Baltimore,Maryland
1915
Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone recorded conversations
2001
15 yr old sherpa Temba Tshexi becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest
 
This day in History May 25th

1895 Playwright Oscar Wilde was found guilty of gross indecency in London and sentenced to two years of hard labor.

1925 A high school science teacher, John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching the theory of evolution in his classes, as the Tennessee state law prohibits the teaching of evolution in public schools.

1935 Jesse Owens broke three world records at the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan including broad jump, the 220-yard dash, and the low hurdles.

1961 President Kennedy has asked Congress for $531 million to help the US put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. On July 21st, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon.

1968 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis standing 630 feet tall, and 630 feet wide at its base is dedicated

1977 First Of The Star Wars Movies Opens
 
1927
Henry Ford announces ending of production of the Model T Ford
1968
The "Gateway Arch' in St Louis,Missouri is dedicated,took 2 years to construct at a cost of $13mil
75% of Federal funds,25% of city funds to complete it
1977
the orignal'Star Wars' movie, now known as{Episode,IV,'A New Hope} was released,starring Harrison Ford,Mark Hamill,Carrie Fisher,directed by George Lucas.Its opening weekend it made $11mil,for the year world wide take was $775 mil
2012
A SpaceX Dragon becomes the 1st commerical spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
 
1887
race track betting becomes legal in New York State
1927
Ford Motor Company produces the last,15th million Model T Ford
1967
EMI releases,The Beatles'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album.It was #1 in U.K. for 22 weeks,#1 in U.S. for 15 weeks
1977
George Willig climbs the South Tower of NYC's World Trade Center.He was famously charged 1 cent for each of the 110 stories he climbed
 
This day in History May 27th

1923 First Le Mans 24 hour race

1937 Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California is opened to pedestrian traffic and more than 200,000 pedestrians walked across on the opening day.

1941 The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the Atlantic by the Royal Naval ships Dorsetshire, King George V, and Rodney

1997 F5 tornado ( Winds Greater Than 260 MPH )and almost 800 feet wide strikes Jarrell, Texas, destroying the town and killing 27 people.
 
1930
Richard Drew invents masking tape
1941
The British Royal Navy sinks German battleship,"Bismark' killing over 2,000 near France in North Atlantic.Adolph Hitler launched the 823 foot ship in 1939 in hopes the state of the art battleship would re establish Germany's surface battle fleet
1985
Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
 
This day in history May 28th

1937 Spain Civil War
The Civil War in Spain is now also being fought in the air as both sides are using more than 70 airplanes to bomb and ravage the cities of Valencia and Santander in some of the worst destruction ever seen by the use of aircraft in a war with civilians being the biggest casualties.

1951 U.S.A. Macy's / Gimbals Price War
The two biggest retailers in New York City are planning to go head to head with an old-fashioned price war Macy's the world's largest department store and Gimbals who have said they will not be undersold. Macy's has stated they will cut 6% off of a quarter of its products throughout the store.

1965 India Mine Explosion Dharbad Kills 375
A mine explosion caused by the ignition of a build-up of methane gas near Dhanbad, India kills 375 people and injures hundreds more.

1967 Great Britain Francis Chichester
British sailor Francis Chichester arrives back in Plymouth after sailing round the world single-handed in his boat Gipsy Moth IV.

1977 U.S.A. Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire
A fire takes hold and fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky killing 165 people. When the fire began it is believed over 3,000 were in the club and the combination of lack of sprinkler systems and audible automatic fire alarms together with poorly marked fire exits resulted in a large number of deaths that night.
 
1889
Andre&Edouard Michelin form Michelin Tire Company
1892
The Sierra Club is formed in San Francsico by environmental philospher,John Muir and others for conservation of nature
1952
Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn,Ohio. The park's 'Little Dipper' which was built by Allan Herschell Company is the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America
1982
Pope John Paul II becomes the 1st reigning Pope to visit Great Britain
 
KNOW YOUR HISTORY: Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated.

Thanks to Abstrakt Goldsmith for this nugget of history that most of us never learned in school.
Note: I can’t confirm this, but it sounds possible.
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This day in History May 29th

1932 World War I veterans known as the " Bonus Army " begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years be paid early to allow them to survive

1942 Bing Crosby records the world's top-selling record White Christmas

1953 Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal become the first explorers to reach the top of Mount Everest

1985 Heysel Stadium Disaster in Belgium
 
1787
Thomas Jefferson proposes at the Constitutional Convention his'Virginia PLan' to have a national government with 3 branches legislative, executive,judicial
1886
John Pemberton,U. S. chemist/pharmacist begins to advertise his invention'Coca-Cola"
1942
singer/actor,Bing Crosby records'White Christmas' ,the world's best selling single,estimated 100 million copies sold
1980
Larry Bird of Boston Celtics beats out his rival,Magic Johnson of L.A. Lakers to win NBA 'Rookie of the Year'
2019
the world's smallest baby'Saybie' who was born at 23 weeks,weighing 8.6 oz{245 grams} was discharged after spending 5 months in hosptial.Today she is a healthy infant
 
Tish said:
1934 U.S.A. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and gunned down with over 100 rounds of ammunition by police in Black Lake, Louisiana.
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My family lived in north Louisiana at the time, my aunt and uncle remembered seeing the bodies laid out at the Church. They were meant to teach a lesson, how you could end up if you went wrong... My mother was too young to go. My grandfather met and spoke with Bonnie, she was not so well known as Clyde at the time and could go out shopping and the like without notice. He found her pretty unattractive, with a Jake leg, he assumed from bad liquor. Hearing the Bonnie and Clyde stories made some vivid childhood memories.
 
Alligatorob said:
My family lived in north Louisiana at the time, my aunt and uncle remembered seeing the bodies laid out at the Church. They were meant to teach a lesson, how you could end up if you went wrong... My mother was too young to go. My grandfather met and spoke with Bonnie, she was not so well known as Clyde at the time and could go out shopping and the like without notice. He found her pretty unattractive, with a Jake leg, he assumed from bad liquor. Hearing the Bonnie and Clyde stories made some vivid childhood memories.
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Wow, that is amazing, thank you for sharing that gem of history.
 
This day in History May 30th

1911 The first-ever running of the Indianapolis 500

1922 The Lincoln Memorial built to honor Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States, is dedicated by Former President William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C.

1937 The Memorial Day Massacre takes place when Ten union demonstrators are killed and 84 are wounded when police opened fire in front of the South Chicago Republic Steel plant.

1959 The first full-size hovercraft, the SR-N1, designed by Sir Christopher Cockerell, is launched and tested at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
 
1498
Christopher Columbus departs with 6 ships on his 3rd voyage to America
1821
James Boyd patents rubber fire hose
1848
William G. Young patents ice cream freezer
1922
former Pres,William Howard Taft dedicated the Lincoln Memorial on Washington Mall in D.C
When he was President in 1911,he signed the bill to create the memorial as a symbol of national unity.Lincoln's surviving child,78 yr old Robert Todd Lincoln attended the ceremony that paid tribute to his father
 
1381 The Peasants' Revolt also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion. The first great popular rebellion in English history. It's immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax. The rebellion drew support from several sources and included well-to-do artisans and villeins as well as the destitute.

1431 Joan of Arc, the French peasant girl who became a national heroine leading French troops against the English, was burnt at the stake in Rouen for heresy.

1842 An assassination attempt was made on Queen Victoria.

1948 The British Citizenship Act conferred the status of British subjects on all Commonwealth citizens.
 
This day in History May 31st

1859 Big Ben rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, England for the first time.

1889 Dam Break Johnstown, Pennsylvania kills thousands

1916 The Battle of Jutland during World War I

1935 Earthquake hits Northwestern India leaving an estimated 20,000 people dead in Quetta.

1970 An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale 30 km off the coast of Casma, Peru in the Pacific Ocean causes the destabilized the northern wall of Mount Huascarán causing an avalanche that buries the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca. Due to the speed, the avalanche traveled at more than 100 miles per hour little warning was given and an estimated 50,000 people in the two cities lost their lives making it the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru.
 
1879
Madison Square Garden opens in New York City,it was named after of 4th U.S. President,James Madison
1884
Dr. John Kellogg patents'flaked cereal'
1941
1st issue of'Parade' goes on sale,it regularly appears in most U.S. Sunday newspapers
1968
actor James Stewart retires from U.S. Air Force after 27 years of service,his military ranking was Major General
2005
in a Variety magazine article it was revealed Mark Felt was "Deep Throat' the source for Washington POst reporters,Bob Woodward,Carl Bernstein's reporting of the Watergate scandal which ended with the resignation of Pres Richard Nixon.Felt's job was FBI assistant director.The Washington POst won Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for their coverage
2015
Harriet Thompson age 92 becomes the oldest woman to compete in San Deigo,Calif marathon
 

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