Today in History

May 14th Birthdays:
1924
Brad Anderson- cartoonist' Marmaduke'
1943
Jack Bruce- Scottish bassist/singer songwriter with band' Cream' 'Sunshine of Your Love, White Room
1944
George Lucas- film director/producer/screenwriter' American Graffiti, Star Wars&Indiana Jones movies
1952
Robert Zemeckis- film director 'Back to the Future movies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump
1984
Mark Zuckerberg- co founder of Facebook
Deaths:
1919
Henry John Heinz- founder of prepared foods HJ Heinz Company- 57 Varities 74
1982
Hugh Beaumont- actor best known TV role' Ward Cleaver' in CBS sitcom "Leave it to Beaver' 73{heart attack}
1998
Frank Sinatra- singer/ actor 'My Way, Strangers in the Night, The Summer Wind actor' From Here to Eternity{ best supp actor Oscar}, Guys&Dolls, Von Ryan's Express nickname 'Ol' Blue Eyes' 82
2015
BB King- blues guitarist/ singer'The Thrill is Gone' 89
 

On This Day In History, May 15th

1948 Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, and Iraq invade Israel
The First Arab-Israeli War was initiated by Israel's proclamation of independence on the day before the invasion. It lasted nearly 10 months and caused thousands of casualties on both sides.

1940 The first McDonald's fast food restaurant opens
Maurice “Mac” and Richard “Dick” McDonald opened McDonald's Bar-B-Q in San Bernardino. Today, McDonald's is the world's largest fast-food chain.

1930 The first airline stewardess goes on duty
Ellen Church and her team served snacks on a United Airlines flight from Oakland to Chicago. The flight attendants were also responsible for refueling the aircraft, handling luggage, and checking tickets.

1928 The first Mickey Mouse film is screened
The 6-minute film “Plane Crazy” directed by Walt Disney shows Mickey trying to fly an airplane in reference to Charles Lindbergh. Today, Mickey Mouse is one of the world's most recognized cartoon characters and the official mascot of the Walt Disney Company.

1718 The world's first machine gun is patented
British lawyer, James Puckle, invented the 25.4 mm caliber “Puckle Gun” for use on ships. It was designed for two bullet types: round bullets for Christians and (more damaging) square bullets for Turks.
 


Births On This Day, May 15th 🎂

1987 Andy Murray
Scottish tennis player

1981 Patrice Evra
French footballer

1948 Brian Eno
English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, producer

1856 L. Frank Baum
American author

1773 Klemens von Metternich
German/Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire

Deaths On This Day, May 15th 🪦

2012 Carlos Fuentes
Mexican author

1978 Robert Menzies
Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia

1967 Edward Hopper
American painter

1956 Austin Osman Spare
English painter, magician

1886 Emily Dickinson
American poet
 
On This Day In History, May 16th

1975 Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to conquer Mount Everest
The ascent by the Japanese adventurer came 22 years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit.

1966 In China, the Cultural Revolution begins
The publication of the May 16 notification marks the beginning of the political campaign, which was initiated by Mao Zedong and lasted ten years. Its objective was to strengthen communism by removing capitalist, traditional and cultural elements from Chinese society.

1960 Theodore Maiman fires the first functional laser
The American physicist's invention, an advancement of earlier research by scientists in the U.S. and the Soviet Union, was patented in 1967.

1929 The Oscars are awarded for the first time
The first Academy Awards were presented at a private dinner with about 270 attendees. Today, it is the world's most important entertainment awards ceremony.

1919 Albert Cushing Read takes off on the first transatlantic flight in history
The crossing from New York State, USA to Lisbon, Portugal on a Curtiss NC-4 flying boat took 19 days.
 
Births On This Day, May 16th 🎂

1966 Janet Jackson
American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, actress

1953 Pierce Brosnan
Irish/American actor, singer, producer

1919 Liberace
American singer, pianist, actor

1905 Henry Fonda
American actor, singer, producer

1831 David Edward Hughes
Welsh/American scientist, co-invented the microphone

Deaths On This Day, May 16th 🪦

2012 Maria Bieşu
Moldovan opera singer

1990 Jim Henson
American puppeteer, director, and producer, founded The Company

1990 Sammy Davis, Jr.
American actor, singer, dancer

1977 Modibo Keïta
Malian politician, 1st President of Mali

1953 Django Reinhardt
Belgian guitarist, composer
 
16th May

1220 Henry III of England laid the foundation stone of a new Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, thus beginning the new abbey-church which was completed in 1245.

1532 Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England. He opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church and refused to accept the King as Supreme Head of the Church of England. He was imprisoned in 1534, tried for treason in 1535 where he was convicted on perjured testimony and beheaded.

1568 A small fishing boat carrying Mary Queen of Scots set sail from Scotland for English shores. After months of conflict and turmoil in Scotland, she had decided to entrust her fate to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England. She crossed the River Solway and landed at Workington, Cumbria, spending her first night at Workington Hall.

1908 Britain’s first diesel submarine was launched. HMS D1 was built by shipbuilding company Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness and was the secret prototype for the D-Class the Royal Navy's first diesel powered submarine.

1943 The famous ‘Dam Busters’ raid by the 617 Squadron of Lancaster bombers led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson breached the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany using the ‘bouncing’ bombs developed by Dr Barnes Wallis. The Dambuster Pilots practiced their techniques at the Derwent Dam in Derbyshire where there is this memorial to them
 
1866
U.S. Congress authorizes 5 cent nickel piece replacing silver half dime
1884
Italian inventor Angelo Moriondi receives patent for 1st espresso machine
1929
The 1st Academy Awards were held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. The winners were:
Wings- Best Picture, Emil Jannings- Best Actor "The Last Command', Janet Gaynor- Best Actress' 7th Heaven, Frank Borrage- director '7th Heaven' The ceremony lasted 15 min
1939
U.S.Food Stamps were 1st issued in Rochester, NY
1965
Campbell Soup Company introduces 'SpaghettiO's under its 'Franco-American brand
1981
Kim Carnes's single' Bette Davis Eyes' hits #1 on music charts, stays there for 9 weeks
2019
series finale of CBS long running {12 yrs}sitcom' The Big Bang Theory' airs 18 million tuned in
 
On This Day In History, May 17th

1999 Ehud Barak becomes Prime Minister of Israel
During his tenure, Barak attempted to revive the peace negotiations with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). However, his efforts were unsuccessful.

1990 The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases
Precisely 14 years later, the first same-sex marriages in the United States were performed as Massachusetts became the first state to legalize them.

1972 Germany ratifies the Treaty of Warsaw
Chancellor Willy Brandt signed the treaty, by which Germany gives up any territorial claims and guarantees the Oder-Neisse line as the valid border to Poland.

1954 The U.S. Supreme Court declares racially segregated public schools unconstitutional
Despite this landmark decision, de facto racial segregation was upheld for years in some areas of the United States.

1943 The Royal Air Force Dambusters wreck three German dams
The RAF squadron used revolutionary bouncing bombs to avoid the torpedo nets protecting the dams. The audacious air raid was depicted in a 1954 war film.
 
Births On This Day, May 17th 🎂

1956 Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer, actor

1946 Udo Lindenberg
German singer-songwriter, drummer

1936 Dennis Hopper
American actor, director

1866 Erik Satie
French pianist, composer

1836 Wilhelm Steinitz
Austrian/American chess player

Deaths On This Day, May 17th 🪦

2011 Harmon Killebrew
American baseball player

1996 Johnny "Guitar" Watson
American singer, guitarist

1875 John C. Breckinridge
American general, politician, 14th Vice President of the United States

1829 John Jay
American justice, politician, 1st Chief Justice of the United States

1510 Sandro Botticelli
Italian painter
 
17th May

1215 The country was in a state of Civil War and English barons, in revolt against King John, took possession of London.

1590 Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen of Scotland.

1649 Cromwell's troops captured 300 Levellers and locked them up in Burford church. (The Levellers believed in civil rights, a 'level' society and religious tolerance and Cromwell was determined to crush them.) Three of the Levellers were executed on Oliver Cromwell’s orders in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire.

1978 The coffin containing the body of Charlie Chaplin, missing since his grave was pillaged nearly two months previously, was found. It was dug up from a field about a mile away from the Chaplin home in Corsier near Lausanne, Switzerland.

2010 Four weeks after a volcanic ash cloud disrupted flights over much of Europe, restrictions were lifted at all UK airports after the volcanic ash cloud moved away from UK airspace.
 
1875
The 1st Kentucky Derby, jockey Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2 min 37 secs
1900
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is published with illustrations by William Wallace Denslow
1954
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Brown vs Board of Education Topeka racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Linda Brown a young African-American girl was denied admissions to her elementary school because of the color of her skin
2007
trains from North&South Korea crossed the 38th Parallel in a test run by both govt's. It was the 1st time since 1953 trains crossed the Demilitarized Zone
2020
Michael Jordan's autographed Air Nike 1's trainers from 1985 sells for record $560,000 in online auction
 
May 17th Birthdays:
1911
Maureen O'Sullivan- Irish actress "Tarzan, Pride&Prejudice,Hannah&Her Sisters, mother of actress Mia Farrow
1936
Dennis Hopper- actor Blue Velvet, Easy Rider, Hoosiers
1955
Bill Paxton- actor True Lies,Apollo 13, Twister, Titantic,Edge of Tomorrow
1961
Enya- Irish singer/ songwriter Orinoco Flow,Only Time
Deaths:
1829
John Jay- U.S. statesman, 1st U.S. Chief Justice 83
1886
John Deere- blacksmith/ manufacturer founder of Deere&Company 82
1992
Lawrence Welk- accordionst /orchestra leader 89
2005
Frank Gorshin- comedian/ impersonator best known TV role' The Riddler' in 60's TV show' Batman' 72
2019
Herman Wouk- novelist' The Caine Mutiny, Winds of War 103
 
On This Day In History, May 18th

2009 The Sri Lankan Civil War ends
The 25-year conflict between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers had claimed up to 100,000 lives. It ended with the Tigers' defeat.

1980 Mount St. Helens erupts
The eruption killed 57 people. A large part of the previously cone-shaped volcano was replaced by a massive crater; its summit is now some 1300 feet (400 meters) lower than before the eruption.

1927 45 people die in the United States' worst school massacre
In the Bath school disaster, a disgruntled school board member set off several bombs at the Bath Consolidated School and other locations in Michigan.

1848 The first German National Assembly gathers in Frankfurt
The assembly constituted the first freely elected parliament of Germany. It produced a constitution that provided the basis for today's constitution of Germany (Grundgesetz).

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is appointed Emperor of the French
Even today, the French leader, a native of Corsica, is widely known for his successful military campaigns - and his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
 

Births On This Day, May 18th 🎂

1920 Pope John Paul II
1912 Perry Como
American singer, actor

1897 Frank Capra
Italian/American director, producer, screenwriter

1895 Augusto César Sandino
Nicaraguan rebel leader

1868 Nicholas II of Russia

Deaths On This Day, May 18th 🪦

2004 Elvin Jones
American drummer

1955 Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator, activist

1911 Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer

1909 Isaac Albéniz
Spanish pianist, composer

1799 Pierre Beaumarchais
French playwright
 
1897
chemical industralist, Herbert Henry Dow founds Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan
1933
the 1st MLB All-Star Game was announced it would be played during Chicago's Worlds Fair on July 6th at Comiskey Park, fans would pick the players
1980
Mount Saint Helens in Washington State erupts causing the largest landslide in history,killed 57 people, damage over $1 billion
1999
'Millennium' 3rd studio album by "Back Street Boys' is released. It becomes one of the best selling albums of all time with 30 million copies sold
2012
Facebook,world's largest social network held its IPO{ Initial Public Offering} 1 share cost $38,it raised $16 billion which gave company $104 billion market value 1 share today costs $120
 
May 18th Birthdays:
1897
Frank Capra- film director 'it Happened One Night, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Its a Wonderful Life'
1909
Fred Perry -British tennis player, won 8 Grand Slam Singles Titles, 6 Grand Slam Doubles Titles
1920
John Paul II- Roman Catholic Pope 1978-2005
1928
Pernell Roberts- actor best known TV roles' Adam' on NBC western' Bonaza' "Trapper John MacIntyre' in CBS medical drama' Trapper John, MD'
1934
Dwayne Hickman- actor/ CBS exec best known TV role' Dobie Gillis' in 60's sitcom' The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis'
1970
Tina Fey- actress/comedienne SNL{2000-2006}, 30 Rock
Deaths:
1963
Ernie Davis
U.S. College Football Hall of Fame halfback at Syracuse Univ, 1st African-American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961 23
1975
LeRoy Anderson
composer- Syndicated Clock, Sleigh Ride 66
1988
Daws Butler
animated voice actor 'Yogi Bear, Huckelberry Hound' 71
1995
Elizabeth Montgomery- actress, best known TV role' Samantha/Serena in ABC 60's sitcom' Bewitched' 62{cancer}
 
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