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On this day in history.

Radio 3's breakfast show played the first movement of Grieg's piano concerto this morning in his honour - conducted by Mr Preview, but sadly with a different soloist.
 
TDIH for May 15th

1765
Parliament passes the Quartering Act

1800
President John Adams orders federal government to Washington, D.C.

1937
Madeleine Albright, America's first female secretary of state, is born

1941
First Allied jet-propelled aircraft flies

1942
Ronald Reagan applies for transfer to Army Air Force

1942
Legislation creating the Women's Army Corps becomes law

1942
Seventeen states put gasoline rationing into effect

1948
A three-year-old's brutal murder begins an unusual investigation

1970
Edward and Stephania Andrews mysteriously disappear (Chicago, Illinois USA)

1972
Alabama governor George Wallace shot

1976
A young woman and her married lover kill her family

1982
Ebony And Ivory begins a seven-week run at #1 on the pop charts

1988
Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan

2009
GE finally initiates cleanup of polluted Hudson River
 
 
TDIH for May 17th

I recommend the 1965 story about the song Louie Louie:

1552
Strange stuff from the sky (Dordrecht, Holland)

1756
The Seven Years' War begins

1792
The NYSE founded (Wall Street, New York City, New York USA)

1873
Writer Dorothy Richardson, pioneer of stream of consciousness, is born

1885
Apache leader Geronimo flees Arizona reservation, setting off panic

1943
The Memphis Belle flies its 25th bombing mission

1954
Brown v. Board of Ed is decided

1965
The FBI Laboratory weighs in on the dirty lyrics of Louie Louie

1970
Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl sails papyrus boat

1973
Televised Watergate hearings begin

1974
LAPD raid leaves six SLA members dead

1989
One million protesters take to the streets in Beijing

2000
Final episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 airs

2004
First legal same-sex marriage performed in Massachusetts
 
 
1990 – The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases

You read that right, 1990. Always good to see WHO on the cutting edge of social change.
 
Who Are You by the Who:



Sorry, PitPat, but I couldn't resist.


ETA: As we all know, this was the theme song for the very first CSI TV show. Very appropriate if you ask me.
 
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1849 Rear Admiral Sir Nesbit Josiah Willoughby died.

His remarkable career saw him wounded multiple times, court-martialled 4 times and dismissed from the Royal Navy in 1812. Thinking his naval career ended he fought with the Russian Army and was captured by the French.
Taken back in to the Navy he was knighted in 1827 and made rear-admiral in 1847

The Annual Register of his death noted: "He was eleven times wounded with balls, three times with splinters, and cut in every part of his body with sabre and cutlass. His face was disfigured by explosions of gunpowder, and he lost an eye and had part of his neck and jaw shot away and at Leipzig had his right arm shattered by cannon shot."

He was described as "undoubtedly violent".

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1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason

Which due to the butterfly effect resulted in:

1898 US Congress passes the Private Mailing Card Act, allowing private publishers and printers to produce postcards, which have to be labeled "Private Mailing Cards" until 1901, known as "souvenir cards"
 
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