Today in History

2nd May

1559 Scottish clergyman John Knox returned from exile to become the leader of the 'Scottish Reformation'. The movement led to the ousting of Mary of Guise, who governed the country in the name of her young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots.

1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Loch Leven Castle in Perth and Kinross with the help of her jailer's family. She was imprisoned there in 1567 and had been forced to abdicate as queen.

1611 The Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Version) was first published and became the standard English language Bible. 📖

1933 The modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster was born when a sighting made local news. Several London newspapers sent correspondents to Scotland, and a circus offered a £20,000 reward for capture of the beast. 🐉

1942 World War II: HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea off the Norwegian coast. Its cargo of gold bars lay in 800 feet of water until salvaged in 1981.

2015 The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her second child (Charlotte Elizabeth Diana), a sister to Prince George.
 

Fascinating history Pam, I love the Loch Ness story.
Here's a few more:

Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, whose works, notably the painting Mona Lisa, were among the most famous in the world, died in Cloux, France, on this day in 1519.

Henry VIII had his second wife, Anne Boleyn, committed to the Tower of London on charges of adultery and incest, on this day in 1536. Although likely innocent, she was later convicted and beheaded.

In 1803 The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a rate of less than three cents per acre for 828,000 square miles. Some bargain.

On this day in 1997, British Labour Party leader, Tony Blair, became prime minister of the United Kingdom; he was the youngest person to hold the office since 1812.

In 2011 Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks, notably the September 11, 2001, attacks, was killed by U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
 
1885
Good Housekeeping Magazine is 1st published
1945
more than 1 million German soldiers offically surrender to Western Allies in Italy&Austria
1955
playwright, Tennessee Williams receives Pultizer Prize for his play'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof'
2011
Osama bin Laden,mastermind behind the Sept 11 attacks is killed by special U.S.forces in Abbottabad,Pakistan
2019
cleanup on Mt Everest removal of 6,613 pounds of trash and 4 bodies in just 2 weeks
 

May 2nd Birthdays:
1892
Manifred von Richtofen,'The Red Baron' WWI fighter ace
1895
Lorenzo Hart-composer 'My Funny Valentine'
1924
Theodore Bikel -actor/singer on Broadway/film 'Fiddler on The Roof',' The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming'
1936
Englebert Humperdink{real name Arnold Dorsey} British singer 'Release Me, After The Loving'
1946
Lesley Gore- singer/songwriter'Its my Party, You Don't Own Me'
1950 Lou Graham- singer/songwriter with band' Foreigner' 'Cold As Ice,Hot Bloodied'
1975
David Beckham-British soccer player
Deaths:
1519
Leonardo da Vinci- Italian painter/sculptor 67
1964
Nancy Astor- U.S. born British politican,1st woman MP in House of Commons 84
1972
J.Edgar Hoover- 1st director at F.B.I '24-'72 77
2003
George Wyle- composer 'Ballad of Gilligan's Island',"Its The Most Wonderful Time of the Year' 87
2010
Lynn Redgrave- British actress' God &Monsters, Georgy Girl' 67,younger sister of actress, Vanessa Redgrave
2014
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr actor -TV shows' 77 Sunset Strip,The F.B.I. 95
 
On this day in History, May 3rd

1999 A tornado produces the highest wind speeds ever recorded
The F5 tornado hitting parts of Oklahoma City caused a record wind speed of about 301 mph (484 km/h). 45 people were killed, and 665 were injured.

1979 Margaret Thatcher is elected British Prime Minister
The conservative politician was the first female head of state in Europe. During her 11-year reign, her sweeping economic reforms polarized the British public and her toughness earned her the nickname The Iron Lady.

1978 The Digital Equipment Corporation sends the world's first spam email
A representative sent out 600 emails and sold computers for $12 million. Unsolicited bulk emails have since become a scourge of the digital age as spammers attempt to achieve similar success.

1958 Truman Capote's book Breakfast at Tiffany's is published
The novella is one of the U.S. author's most popular works. The 1961 film of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn is classic in its genre.

1913 The first Indian full-length feature film is premiered
The release of Raja Harishchandra marked the birth of the Indian film industry, the world's largest in terms of films produced and ticket sales.
 
Births On This Day, May 3rd 🎂

1933 James Brown
American singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1921 Sugar Ray Robinson
American boxer

1919 Pete Seeger
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1898 Golda Meir
Israeli educator, politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel

1469 Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian historian, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, May 3rd 🪦

2014 Jim Oberstar
American politician

1999 Godfrey Evans
English cricketer

1987 Dalida
Egyptian/French singer, actress

1916 Patrick Pearse
Irish activist

1481 Mehmed the Conqueror
Ottoman sultan
 
3rd May

1951 King George VI opened the Festival of Britain. It was built on an old bomb site near Waterloo Station in London.

1956 Granada TV broadcast for the first time at 7.30 p.m. With the ending of the BBC's monopoly on broadcasting, viewers saw their first television advertising and four days later Granada did the first sports outside broadcast.

1968 The first heart transplant in Britain was carried out at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London. It was undertaken on an unnamed 45-year-old man.

1999 The body of missing English climber George Mallory was found near the summit of Mount Everest. He had gone missing more than 60 years earlier.

2014 An ornate golden crown that went onto the coffin of Richard III when he was re-buried in Leicester Cathedral (26th March 2015) was displayed at Tewkesbury Abbey. The crown 'gold with sapphires, diamonds, garnets, studded with jewels' was commissioned and paid for by the historian Dr John Ashdown-Hill who helped identify the king's remains.
 
1921
Northern Ireland was created by UK Govt of Ireland Act,which partioned off 6 northern eastern counties with a Protestant majority
1941
future Hall of Fame Jockey Eddie Arcaro riding horse,'Whirlaway' wins The Kentucky Derby, the 1st leg of 'Triple Crown' in horse racing.
1944
movie'Going My Way' directed by Leo McCary is released. It starred Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise Stevens, Gene Lockhart. The movie won 5 Oscars picture,director,actor{Crosby} supp actor{Fitzgerald} best song'Swinging On a Star"
1948
debut of CBS Evening News which is longest running network news show
2007
British girl,Madeline MC Cann age 7 disappears from her bed at a holiday apartment her family was staying at in Prara da Luz, Portugal,she's never been found
 
May 3rd Birthdays:
1874
Francois Coty- French perfume manufacturer
1903
Bing Crosby-singer/actor 'Going My Way,High Society, "Road to' pictures with Bob Hope,Dorothy Lamour
won Best Actor Oscar for'Going My Way', recording of 'White Christmas'
1919
Pete Seeger-folk singer/activist in group'The Weavers' helped create modern American folk music movement
1932
Robert Osborne- U.S.film historian was host on Turner Classic Movies Channel '94-'17
1951
Christopher Cross- singer/songwriter 'Sailing,Think Of Laura, Arthur's Theme' ,He won 5 Grammys for his debut album in '79, won an Oscar for co -writing Best Song' Arthur's Theme ' with Burt Bacharach,Carole Bayer Sager,Peter Allen from movie' Arthur'
Deaths:
1940
Henry Ossian Flipper- former slave, 1st African-American to graduate from West Point Military Academy 84
1996
Jack Weston- actor' Dirty Dancing,The 4 Seasons 71
2011
Jackie Cooper actor/director' Skippy,Superman' 88
 
On This Day in History May 4th

994 Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord to ensure Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho
Together with Shimon Peres, the two leaders received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. A year later, Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.

1959 The Grammy is presented for the first time
It is one of the most prestigious awards in the music industry. Winners of the first edition included Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, and Frank Sinatra.

1953 Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize
The American author was awarded the prestigious accolade for his novel The Old Man and the Sea. The story about a fisherman and his battle with a large marlin also earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1904 The United States takes over the construction of the Panama Canal
French engineers had begun digging a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1881, but they had to abandon the project after about 22,000 lives had been lost to accidents and disease.

1675 King Charles II of England commissions the Royal Observatory in Greenwich
The observatory was built on the prime meridian. The mean solar time at this location is the basis for Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
 
Births On This Day, May 4th 🎂

1989 Rory McIlroy
Irish golfer

1929 Audrey Hepburn
Belgian/English actress, singer

1928 Hosni Mubarak
Egyptian air marshal, politician, 4th President of Egypt

1916 Jane Jacobs
American/Canadian journalist, author, activist

1825 Thomas Henry Huxley
English biologist

Deaths On This Day, May 4th 🪦

2014 Elena Baltacha
Ukrainian/Scottish tennis player

1980 Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslav marshal, politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia

1924 E. Nesbit
English author

1903 Gotse Delchev
Bulgarian activist

1799 Tipu Sultan
Indian army officer, king
 
4th May

1471 The Battle of Tewkesbury, a significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian Army and killed Edward, Prince of Wales

1896 The first British halfpenny newspaper, the Daily Mail, was published. It was the first paper to sell more than one million copies and was heralded as the birth date of modern journalism.

1904 A provisional agreement was signed in Manchester’s Midland Hotel by the Hon. Charles Rolls, seller and repairer of motor cars, and Henry Royce, electrical engineer and builder of a single motor car. In 1907 the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost was the first of their many luxury models.

1982 Twenty sailors were killed when the destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. The Falklands National Monument in Cardiff bears the names of the 255 sailors, soldiers and airmen who died on the UK side.

2014 Science students at the University of Leicester concluded that the wooden puppet Pinocchio (who was prone to telling tales and whose nose would double in length for each lie) could only have told a maximum of 13 lies. After 13 lies it was concluded that the nose would be 140 metres long and the force exerted downwards would cause his neck to snap.
 
1780
American Academy of Arts&Science founded in Boston,Mass John&Samuel Adams, James Bowden founding members
1942
The 1st naval battle fought solely in air between U.S, Japanese,Australian Navy&Air Forces for the Battle of the Coral Sea
1970
The National Guard shoots at group of anti-war protestors,killing 4 at Kent State Univ in Ohio
Crosby,Stills&Nash,Young had hit single "4 Dead in Ohio'
1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1 woman Prime Minister in United Kingdom 1979-1990
1992
U.S. Army&Marine Corp forces called in to Los Angeles to end the rioting following the aquittal of 4 L.A cops who were accused of beating motorist, Rodney King The damage caused $1 billion,63 people were killed
 
May 4th Birthdays:
1796
Horace Mann- U.S. educator/author who pioneered public schools
1909
Howard Da Silva- actor "The lost Weekend, Blue Dahlia', he played' Ben Franklin in the Broadway musical' 1776,in the film version with most of the original Broadway cast
1929
Audrey Hepburn- actress, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 'Wait Until Dark, My Fair Lady, Robin&Marian,Always
1989
Rory McIllroy- Irish PGA golfer,he has won PGA Championship'12, U.S. Open'11,British Open '14. The only major slam tournament he's never won is the Masters
Deaths:
1975
Moe Howard- comedian with 'The Three Stooges' 77
1987
Cathryn Damon- actress,her best known TV role' Mary Campbell in ABC show'Soap' 56
2011
Sada Thompson-actress nest known TV role' Kate Lawrence' in ABC drama'Family' co star with James Broderick{Matthew's dad} 83
 
Mar. 1, 2019

Marshall County couple caught in Wisconsin pile up involving 100+ cars​

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This Day in History May 5th

1980 The British Special Air Service (SAS) terminate the Iranian Embassy siege in London
Six gunmen had held 26 people, hostage, for six days, demanding the release of Iranian Arab prisoners. Two of the hostages were killed.

1955 West Germany regains full sovereignty after World War II
The Federal Republic of Germany had been established in 1949. Its provisional capital was Bonn. After the 1990 reunification of East and West Germany, Berlin was declared the country's capital.

1949 The Council of Europe is founded
The organization was the first to work for European integration. It has 47 member countries and is a completely separate entity from the European Union (EU).

1934 The first Three Stooges film is released
The comedy trio soon became famous, especially in the U.S., for their short films featuring slapstick humor.

1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern major league baseball
A game is considered perfect when none of the opposing players reach the first base. Young's team, the Boston Americans, won 3-0 over the Philadelphia Athletics
 
Births On This Day, May 5th 🎂

1988 Adele
English singer-songwriter, musician

1943 Michael Palin
English actor, screenwriter

1830 John Batterson Stetson
American businessman founded the John B. Stetson Company

1818 Karl Marx
German philosopher

1813 Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher, author

Deaths On This Day, May 5th 🪦

2013 Greg Quill
Australian/Canadian singer-songwriter, journalist

2000 Gino Bartali
Italian cyclist

1995 Mikhail Botvinnik
Russian chess player

1977 Ludwig Erhard
German politician, 2nd Chancellor of West Germany

1821 Napoleon
Corsican/French military officer, political leader
 
1847
American Medical Association is organized in Philadelphia,PA
1921
perfume,Chanel No 5 is released by fashion designer, Coco Chanel
1936
Edward Ravenscroft patents screw on bottle cap with a pour lip
1952
Herman Wouk receives Pulitzer Prize for his book'The Caine Mutiny'
1986
The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Foundation selects Cleveland, Ohio as future site of their Hall of Fame Museum
2018
an electric cigarette kills a man in St .Petersburg,Fla,1st death from a vaping product
 
May 5th Birthdays:
1818
Karl Marx- German philosopher
1903
James Beard- U.S. culinary expert/author
1926
Ann B. Davis- actress- best known TV roles,'Schultzy' on 'Bob Cummings Show', 'Alice' on 'Brady Bunch'
1943
Michael Palin -English actor/comedian with "Monty Python' 'A Fish Called Wanda'
1959
Brian Williams- U.S journalist, was NBC Nightly News Anchor '04-'15. hosted MSNBC show'The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 2016-2021, he left the network in Dec '21
1973
Tina Yothers- actress best known TV role' Jennifer' on NBC sitcom,'Family Ties'
1988
Adele- British pop singer/songwriter 'Hello,Rolling in the Deep, Someone like You' has won 15 Grammys, co wrote Best Song Oscar 'Skyfall' from James Bond movie of same name
Deaths:
1821
Napoleon Bonaparte- French military leader,died in exile on remote island of Saint Helena 51
1902
Bret Harte- novelist'Outcasts of Poker Flats' 65
2008
Irv Robbins- co-founder of ice cream parlor chain 'Baskin/Robbins' 90
2011
Dana Wynter- actress 'Airport,Invasion of Body Snatchers 79
 
On This Day in History, May 6th

2004 The final episode of Friends is aired
The immensely popular sitcom about Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, and Ross had been produced since 1994. The final episode “The Last One” was watched by 52 million viewers.

1994 The Channel Tunnel linking the United Kingdom with France is opened
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurated the “Chunnel”. It measures just over 50 km (31 mi) and is the tunnel with the world's longest undersea portion.

1976 A massive earthquake hits northeast Italy
939 people died and 157,000 were left homeless in Italy's worst earthquake, which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale.

1954 Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes
The British athlete took 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds to cover 1609 meters. The current record by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj stands at 3:43.13 (as of February 2014).

1937 The Hindenburg zeppelin filled with hydrogen goes up in flames
The footage showing a colossal fireball engulfing the German airship during a landing attempt in Lakehurst, NJ, has become iconic for the end of the zeppelin era. 35 lives were lost in the crash.
 
Births On This Day, May 6th 🎂

1961 George Clooney
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

1953 Tony Blair
Scottish/English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1915 Orson Welles
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

1856 Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist

1758 Maximilien de Robespierre
French lawyer, politician

Deaths On This Day, May 6th 🪦

1992 Marlene Dietrich
German/American actress, singer

1952 Maria Montessori
Italian physician, educator

1919 L. Frank Baum
American author

1862 Henry David Thoreau
American writer, philosopher

1859 Alexander von Humboldt
German geographer, explorer
 
6th May

878: 6–12 May - The Battle of Edington, a village in Wiltshire. The arrival of a Danish great army in East Anglia in 865 marked the start of a new phase of Viking attacks on Britain. Previously, the Vikings had come to raid and settle around the coast, but this force came to conquer. Only the victory of Alfred the Great against the Viking Guthrum the Old saved Anglo-Saxon independence. Guthrum was forced to withdraw from Wessex and agree to the division of England.

1536 Henry VIII ordered that English language Bibles be placed in every church.

1840 The first postage stamps, the ‘Penny Black’ and two-penny ‘blues’, which were the brainchild of Roland Hill, became valid for postage.

1959 Icelandic gunboats fire lived ammunition at British trawlers during a Cod War between Britain and Iceland over fishing rights in the North Sea.

1960 Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, married Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey in London. It was the first televised royal wedding and was watched by more than 20 million viewers.

2019 The Duchess of Sussex gave birth to a boy, the first child for Prince Harry and his wife Megan. The baby was delivered at 05:26 BST and weighed 7lbs 3oz (3.2kg). At his birth, he became 7th in line to the throne.
 
1837
Deere Company founder/blacksmith, John Deere creates the 1st steel plough in Grand Detour,Ill
1851
Linus Yale patents the Yale lock
1941
entertainer,/comedian Bob Hope performs his 1st USO Show at March Fields in Calif
1970
thousands of U.S. college students around the country walk out of their classes in protest over the 4 Kent St students killed in Ohio by National Guard
2002
Elon Musk founds company, SpaceX
 
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