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On this day in history.

TDIH for May 9th

1373
The English mystic, Lady Julian of Norwich, wrote about a dream (Norwich, England)

1671
Irish adventurer Captain Blood steals crown jewels

1887
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens

1914
Woodrow Wilson proclaims the first Mother's Day holiday

1915
Allies launch dual offensive on Western Front

1926
Explorer Richard Byrd claims to have flown over the North Pole

1950
L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics

1960
FDA approves the pill

1964
An unlikely challenger ends the Beatles' reign atop the U.S. pop charts

1970
President Nixon meets with anti-war protesters at the Lincoln Memorial

1974
House votes to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Nixon

1978
Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is found dead

1988
Woman convicted of killing two in Excedrin tampering

1997
Andrew Cunanan continues murder spree
 
  • 1901 In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4
Hey, they can't all be interesting.
 
1941 a boarding party under SLt David Balme from HMS BULLDOG captured a Naval Enigma machine from U-110 after depth charging her to the surface.
This revealed the extra rotor and allowed the Naval Enigma code to be broken for the first time and undoubtedly saved thousands if not millions of lives.

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TDIH for May 10th

1773
British parliament passes unpopular Tea Act

1775
Second Continental Congress assembles as Americans capture Fort Ticonderoga

1863
Confederate general Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson dies

1865
Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union forces

1869
Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States

1871
Treaty of Frankfurt am Main ends Franco-Prussian War

1908
First Mother's Day celebrated in churches in West Virginia and Pennsylvania USA

1924
J. Edgar Hoover begins his 48-year tenure as FBI director

1940
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

1970
Photographer captures soaring Stanley Cup champion Bobby Orr in iconic image

1980
Government gives Chrysler $1.5 billion loan

1990
China releases 211 prisoners arrested during Tiananmen Square protests

1994
Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first Black president, is inaugurated

1996
Eight climbers die on Mt. Everest
 
  • 1946 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
Oh how far we've come. Or devolved, depending.
 
1940 Germany invaded the Netherlands.
The start of nearly 5 years of brutal colonisation, oppression, persecution, fear, starvation and death.
 
1982 HMS Sheffield sank while under tow after being hit by an Exocet missile 6 days earlier and suffering massively fire damage.


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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

Needed more cowbell.
 
TDIH for May 11th

1812
British prime minister Spencer Perceval assassinated

1858
Minnesota enters the Union

1864
Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded

1894
A gopher turtle, encased in ice, fell (Bovina, Mississippi USA)

1934
Dust storm sweeps from Great Plains across Eastern states

1947
B.F. Goodrich Co. announces development of tubeless tire

1949
Evidence found against French serial killer known as The Queen of Poisoners

1950
The first well-attested UFO photo was taken (McMinnville, Oregon USA)

1961
President Kennedy orders more troops to South Vietnam

1969
Bloody 10-day battle at Hamburger Hill begins

1972
Labor organizer and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez begins hunger strike

1981
Reggae star Bob Marley dies at 36

1985
Fire kills 50 at soccer stadium

1987
Butcher of Lyon, former Nazi Gestapo chief, charged with war crimes

1997
Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess match
 
1935 Doug McClure was born.

You may remember him from such films as, 'At the Earth's Core', 'The People That Time Forgot' 'Warlords of Atlantis' and 'The Erotic Adventures of Hercules'
 
 
 
1941 Joe Brown born.

Big pal of George Harrison.

Here he is singing one of George's songs and playing the Ukulele George gave him.

 
TDIH for May 21st

1539
Black Spanish explorer Estevan is reported killed

1542
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto dies in American wilderness

1758
Lenape Indians abduct Mary Campbell from western Pennsylvania

1881
American Red Cross founded

1901
Connecticut enacts first speed-limit law

1911
French troops occupy Fez, sparking second Moroccan Crisis

1924
Murderers Leopold and Loeb gain national attention

1927
Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight

1932
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make solo, nonstop transatlantic flight

1940
Nazis kill unfit people in East Prussia

1942
Thousands of Jews die in Nazi gas chambers; IG Farben sets up factory

1956
United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1960
Huge earthquake hits Chile

1969
Donald Crowhurst disappears during a round-the-world race (Pacific Ocean)

1992
Long Island Lolita is arrested

1997
Avian flu kills young boy

1999
Soap star Susan Lucci wins first Emmy after 19 nominations

2000
Former president James Garfield's spine put on display
 
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