Today in History

Births On This Day, May 7th 🎂

1892 Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslav marshal, politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia

1861 Rabindranath Tagore
Indian author, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate

1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer

1812 Robert Browning
English poet

1711 David Hume
Scottish economist, historian, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, May 7th 🪦

2011 Seve Ballesteros
Spanish golfer

1940 George Lansbury
English politician

1840 Caspar David Friedrich
German painter

1825 Antonio Salieri
Italian composer

973 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
 

7th May

1663 The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, built by Thomas Killigrew, opened under a charter granted by Charles II.

1765 HMS Victory, the ship which became the flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson, was launched at Chatham. The ship is now preserved at Portsmouth.

1956 The Health Minister, RH Turton, rejected calls for a government campaign against smoking, saying no ill-effects have actually been proven.

1965 White voters in the African colony of Rhodesia have overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front which demanded independence from the UK.

2014 An international league table (Better Life Index) showed that people in Britain were 24 per cent more likely to go out of their way to help a stranger than the average inhabitant of the world’s other leading industrial countries.
 
8th May

1559 The Act of Supremacy was passed by which the new Queen Elizabeth I became "Supreme Governor" of the Church of England and a Common Prayer book was introduced.

1660 Charles II was proclaimed King of England. This was the restoration of the monarchy after the English Civil War and the reign of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector.

1701 English pirate Captain Kidd went on trial at the Old Bailey in London.

1933 Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi began a 21-day fast in a bid to highlight the plight of his country’s ‘untouchable’ community.

1961 Former British diplomat George Blake, was jailed for 42 years after being found guilty of spying for Russia.

1945 Rejoicing at end of war in Europe. The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, officially announced the end of the war with Germany.

1984 Twelve weeks before the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, the USSR has announced it was boycotting them.
 

1877
The 1st Westminster Dog Show was held with 1,200 dogs in Madison Sq Garden in NYC
1912
film& TV production distribution Paramount Studios is founded
1933
pacifist/spiritual leader, Mahatma Gandi begins his 21 day fast in protest of British oppression in India
1962
industrialist, Oskar Schnidler&his wife,Emile are honored fro saving 1,200 Jews during WWII in a ceremony in Jerusalem
1999
Nancy Mace becomes the 1st female cadet to graduate from military college, The Citadel in South Carolina
She became the 1st Republican woman to serve in U.S. House of Congress in 2022,re-elected in 2024
2013
former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi receives 4yr prison sentence for fraud
 
On This Day In History, May 9th

2012, the brand-new Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane crashed
The regional jet was the first airliner produced in Russia since the end of the USSR in 1991. The doomed flight was a demonstration tour carrying potential customers. All 45 people on board perished in the crash, which was caused by pilot error.

1997, Pete Peterson became the first U.S. ambassador to visit Vietnam after the end of the war
Peterson, a Vietnam veteran, devoted himself to promoting reconciliation between the two countries. About 2.5 million Vietnamese, most of them civilians, were killed during the war.

1979 Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed
An Islamic revolutionary tribunal had convicted him of “contacts with Israel and Zionism” and “friendship with the enemies of God”. His execution triggered a Jewish mass exodus from Iran.

1969 Carlos Lamarca began his fight against Brazil's military dictatorship
Lamarca was a member of the communist organisation Vanguardia Popular Revolucionária (VPR) and is well known for his urban guerrilla actions. Brazilian forces killed him in 1971.

1960: The first birth control pill is approved
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would add birth control as a new indication for the drug “Enovid”.
 
Births On This Day, May 9th 🎂

1949 Billy Joel
American singer-songwriter, pianist

1934 Alan Bennett
English actor, screenwriter, and author

1921 Sophie Scholl
German student, activist

1837 Adam Opel
German engineer who founded the Opel Company

1800 John Brown
American activist

Deaths On This Day, May 9th 🪦

2012 Vidal Sassoon
English/American hairdresser

1986 Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese mountaineer

1976 Ulrike Meinhof
German journalist, activist

1805 Friedrich Schiller
German poet, playwright, historian

1707 Dieterich Buxtehude
German/Danish organist, composer
 
9th May

1386 The Treaty of Windsor was ratified between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal. The Treaty of Windsor is significant as it is considered the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world that is still in effect.

1671 Irishman Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the British Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Despite being caught red-handed, he was pardoned by King Charles II.

1887 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opened in London. His cowboy themed shows also toured Europe as well as the United States.

1896 The first 'Horseless Carriage' Show opened at the Imperial Institute in London, when ten engine-powered models went on show to the public.

1941 The German submarine U-110 was captured by the Royal Navy. On board was the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later used to break coded German messages.

1945 World War II: The Channel Islands were liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.

1956 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden refused to reveal the details surrounding the disappearance of a naval diver during a goodwill visit by the Soviet leadership. It appears that Lionel Crabb was on a spying mission for MI6 - unbeknown to the prime minister. The statement by the Admiralty was an attempt to cover up the mission but when the Soviets claimed to have seen a frogman Sir Anthony Eden was forced to speak out. Sir John Alexander Sinclair, head of MI6 was subsequently forced to resign.

1972 Twelve Israeli soldiers disguised as maintenance staff have stormed a hijacked Sabena Boeing at Lod airport in Tel Aviv and released the 100 people on board.Two of the Arab hijackers were shot dead and their two female companions were captured.
 
On This Day In History, May 10th

1994, Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president
Mandela's inauguration came after more than 300 years of white rule. Before becoming president, he was a pivotal figure in the fight against the racist apartheid regime and was incarcerated for 27 years.

1954 Bill Haley releases “Rock Around the Clock”
It was the first rock song to top the Billboard charts and has become a classic of the early rock era.

1941, Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland to broker a peace agreement
Hess was captured and interrogated. He was the last in a long line of prominent figures to be incarcerated in the Tower of London. Hitler characterised his peace mission four years before the end of World War II as treason.

1933 Nazis ceremonially burn about 25,000 allegedly “un-German” books
The book burnings were part of the right-wing German Student Union's Action against the Un-German Spirit. Among the burnt books were works by Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka.

1869 In the United States, the first coast to coast railroad is completed
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad systems were joined at Promontory Summit in Utah, using a “Golden Spike”. This last spike is now housed in the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University.
 
Births On This Day, May 10th 🎂

1977 Nick Heidfeld
German race car driver

1960 Bono
Irish singer-songwriter, actor, activist

1957 Sid Vicious
English singer, bass player

1946 Donovan
Scottish/English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor

1899 Fred Astaire
American actor, singer, and dancer

Deaths On This Day, May 10th 🪦

1977 Joan Crawford
American actress

1897 Andrés Bonifacio
Filipino activist

1863 Stonewall Jackson
American general

1818 Paul Revere
American military officer

1774, Louis XV of France
 
10th May 2023
Rolf Harris, an Australian entertainer who reached #3 in America in 1963 with "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport", died of cancer at the age of 93.
He also enjoyed a string of Top Ten hits in the UK and was named as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Sadly, he suffered a spectacular fall from grace in 2014 when he was found guilty of several indecent assaults on women and young girls between 1968 and 1986, and was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison. Released three years later, he steadfastly maintained his innocence.
 
11th May

1068 Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

1812 British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated in the House of Commons. Perceval is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. He was shot by John Bellingham, a failed businessman with a grievance against the Government.

1820 The launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage to test his theories on evolution.

1963 British businessman Greville Wynne, aged 44, accused of spying for the West, was sentenced to eight years' detention by a Moscow tribunal.

1988 Kim Philby, the English born Soviet spy, died in the USSR.
 
Bretrick said:
10th May 2023
Rolf Harris, an Australian entertainer who reached #3 in America in 1963 with "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport", died of cancer at the age of 93.
He also enjoyed a string of Top Ten hits in the UK and was named as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Sadly, he suffered a spectacular fall from grace in 2014 when he was found guilty of several indecent assaults on women and young girls between 1968 and 1986, and was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison. Released three years later, he steadfastly maintained his innocence.
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1880
Queen Victoria issues charter granting city statue for Liverpool, England
1927
Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM studios, and 36 other film industry leaders, form Academy of Motion Picture,Arts & Science{AMPAS}
1934
dust bowl sweeps across U.S. &Canadian prairies due to severe drought in these areas. This storm lasted 2 days blew all the way to Chicago.Two days later the dust hit other East Coast cities
1969
British comedy troupe' Monty Python' is formed with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones,MIchael Palin
2015
a painting by Pablo Piccaso 'The Woman of Algiers{version O} sells for record price of $179 mil at Christies Auction House in NYC
 
12th May

1536 Sir Francis Weston, Mark Smeaton and several other alleged lovers of Anne Boleyn, wife of King Henry VIII, were tried for treason. Smeaton, Norris, Brereton and Weston were brought before the court but only Smeaton admitted guilt. The others maintained their innocence but were found guilty of adultery with the queen and sentenced to execution at Tyburn. Anne and her brother’s case was heard on 15 May and they were likewise found guilty of adultery and sentenced to execution.

1937 The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon became queen consort and was later known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

1971 The Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, married his fiancée Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias at the town hall in the French Mediterranean town of St Tropez.

1967 The British Government gave the green light to plans to convert Stansted into London's third airport.

1981 A second IRA hunger striker, 25-year-old Francis Hughes, starved to death in the Maze Prison near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
 
On This Day In History, May 13th

1989, Thousands of students began a hunger strike on Tiananmen Square in Beijing
The non-violent occupation of the square was part of anti-corruption and pro-democracy demonstrations. Some 3000 unarmed civilians were killed when the army cracked down on the protesters on June 3-4, 1989.

1981, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt
Turkish right-wing extremist Mehmet Ali Ağca fired two shots at John Paul II on St. Peter's Square. The Pope was seriously wounded but survived thanks to a 5-hour operation and went on to visit his attacker in prison.

1950 The first Formula One World Championship season kicks off
Giuseppe Farina won the first FIA World Championship of Drivers for the Alfa Romeo team.

1940, Igor Sikorsky pilots his VS-300 helicopter's maiden flight
The helicopter was the first successful model to use the single vertical tail rotor that most helicopters feature today.

1909 The Giro d'Italia cycle race is held for the first time
The Giro is considered one of the world's most important cycle races. Luigi Ganna won the first edition, which went from Milan to Naples and back.
 
Births On This Day, May 13th 🎂

1964 Stephen Colbert
American comedian, actor, and talk show host

1950 Stevie Wonder
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

1914 Joe Louis
American boxer

1842 Arthur Sullivan
English composer

1717 Maria Theresa
Austrian wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

Deaths On This Day, May 13th 🪦

2001 R. K. Narayan
Indian author

1977 Mickey Spillane
American mobster

1975 Bob Wills
American singer-songwriter

1930 Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel Prize laureate

1832 Georges Cuvier
French biologist
 
On This Day In History, May 14th


1973 Skylab blasts off into orbit
The United States' first space station crashed back to Earth on July 11, 1979, four years ahead of schedule. In its six years of service, the laboratory was used for many biomedical and technological experiments.

1970 The Red Army Faction (RAF) begins operations
The German left-wing activist group grew out of the peace and anti-imperialist movement of the 1960s. In reaction to the violent oppression by the German state, they later began operating as a terrorist cell and are responsible for several murders.

1955 The Warsaw Pact is established
Eight communist bloc countries signed the mutual defense treaty, which played an important role during the Cold War as an antagonist of NATO.

1948 Israel becomes an independent state
The announcement by Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, triggered a 10-month armed cusing material from a cowpox lesion. .onflict known as the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. It started the day after the proclamation as troops of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq invaded the young nation.

1796 The first smallpox vaccination is administered
The British physician, Edward Jenner, successfully inoculated an 8-year-old smallpox patient The word “vaccine” is derived from the Latin word for cow (vacca)
 
Births On This Day, May 14th 🎂

1984 Mark Zuckerberg
American computer programmer, businessman, and co-founder of Facebook

1977 Roy Halladay
American baseball player

1969 Cate Blanchett
Australian actress

1923 Adnan Pachachi
Iraqi politician

1922 Franjo Tuđman
Croatian general, politician, 1st President of Croatia

Deaths On This Day, May 14th 🪦

2015 B.B. King
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1998 Frank Sinatra
American singer, actor

1987 Rita Hayworth
American actress, dancer

1940 Emma Goldman
Lithuanian/American activist, writer

1881 Mary Seacole
Jamaican/English nurse
 
1787
delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up U.S. Constitution
1878
Vaseline is given a U.S. patent, was created by chemist, Robert Augustus Chesebrough in NYC
1938
movie' Adventures of Robin Hood',a swashbuckling film directed by Michael Curtiz& William Knightly It stars Errol Flynn as "Robin Hood', Olivia de Havaliand as' Maid Marian', Claude Rains as' Prince John,, Alan Hale, Sr'Little JOhn', Basil Rathbone as' Guy of Gisbourne' The movie won 3 Oscars, art direction,film editing, original score. Many consider it Flynn's greatest film role
1968
The Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp LTD.Its still in operation today, manages various aspects of the Beatles legacy e.g music, film
1998
series finale of NBC's comedy' Seinfeld' 76.3 million tuned in
2019
San Francisco 1st city to vote to ban facial recognition
 
15th May

1464 The Battle of Hexham (Northumberland). It marked the end of significant Lancastrian resistance in the north of England during the early part of the reign of Edward IV.

1536 The trial of Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was tried in the King’s Hall of the Tower of London in front of an estimated 2,000 spectators. A great platform had been erected in the hall so that everybody could see.

1718 The first machine gun was patented by London lawyer James Puckle. He was a keen fisherman and intended to use his weapon at sea - and as a side effect he believed the gun would "convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilisation".

1800 George III survived two assassination attempts in one day, the second coming from James Hadfield who fired a shot at the King during a performance at the Drury Lane Theatre in London.

1957 Britain's first hydrogen bomb was exploded on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The effect of the radiation on some of the British soldiers who watched the test only came to light many years later.
 
1905
city of Las Vegas is founded in Nevada, population then 2,000 today 670,352
1927
Roosevelt Hotel, a Los Angeles landmark was opened by actor Douglas Fairbanks, actress, Mary Astor,Stu Grauman. It was the site of the 1st Academy Awards ceremony in 1929
1940
Richard&Maurice Mc Donald open the 1st McDonald's restaurant in San Bernadino, Calif. It was demolished in 1972
1963
folk trio, Peter, Paul &Mary win their 1st Grammy for their version of "If I Had a Hammer' written by Pete Seeger
1972
Okinawa Island under U.S. military gov't since 1945 reverts to Japanese control
2019
Jeff Koons'Rabbit' sculpture sells for new record for a work by a living artist for $91.1 million at auction
 
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, 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
 

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