Published on May 10, 2013
” In 1955, Mercedes-Benz sent a squad of cars to Italy. Their mission: win the Mille Miglia. A grueling 1000-mile race across public roads from Brescia to Rome and back, the Mille had a reputation for rewarding skill with hard-fought victory—and punishing hubris with spectacular failure. Sir Stirling Moss, winner of the ’55 Mille, recounts that banner race in this video.”
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Men Who Are Physically Strong Are More Likely To Have Right Wing Political Views
Right Wing
” Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study.
Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength.
Men’s upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.
The principal investigators – psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen, of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Daniel Sznycer, of the University of California in the U.S., believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behaviour today.
Professor Petersen said: ‘While many think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has – in a sense – always been with our species.’
In the days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of resources were not made in courthouses or legislative offices, but through shows of strength.
- Weaker men more likely to support welfare state and wealth redistribution
- Link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in our ancestors
- Strength was a proxy for ability to defend or acquire resources
- There is no link between women’s physical strength and political views”
Left Wing
‘Nuff Said
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Published on May 15, 2013
” “It is so broad that it turns every single student and every single faculty member on campus, at least arguably, into harassers,” warns Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
He’s talking about sweeping speech codes just imposed by the Departments of Justice and Education on virtually every college campus in the United States.
The new mandate was revealed in a letter from the DOJ and DOE to the University of Montana that states “sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as ‘any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” including “verbal conduct.” The new rules apply to all colleges and universities receiving any sort of federal money, including Pell grants, federally backed student loans, and more. The letter contends the conduct in question need not be offensive to an “objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation.” That means that there is effectively no check on what might count as harassment. Course materials, overheard comments, stupid jokes – it’s all potentially actionable.
Lukianoff, the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, hopes that “this is the last straw that causes the universities themselves to start pushing back against this ridiculous overregulation.”
About 3 minutes.
Produced by Anthony L. Fisher. Interview by Matt Welch. Camera by Jim Epstein and Fisher.
Special thanks to the Museum of Sex, New York City.
Scroll down for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV’s YouTube Channel to receive authomatic updates when new material goes live.”
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Understanding Minute of Angle (MOA) – Rifle Shooting Technique – NSSF Shooting Sportscast
” NSSF’s Ryan Cleckner explains the measurement term “minute of angle” (MOA) and how to use MOA adjustments on your scope for sighting in and to compensate for bullet drop at varying distances. For more information visit http://www.nssf.org/video/facts/MOA.cfm
(NSSF Video)”
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” In 9 days, we managed to raise over 1 million dollars to go towards buying back Tesla’s old laboratory, and with the $850,000 matching grant from NY state this puts us at 1.85 million bucks. At its peak, the campaign was raising $27,000 per hour, crashing Indiegogo, and probably setting some kind of land speed record in awesomeness. Indiegogo put together this infographic showing some interesting data points behind the campaign.
We’ve added some new perks to the campaign, including more t-shirts, hats, and posters signed by Tesla’s last remaining relative.”
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955 - Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope
1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 - Florence becomes a republic
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1571 - Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
1606 - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
1648 - Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki’s cosacks beat John Casimir
1763 - Samuel Johnson 1st meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1771 - The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called “The Regulators“, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1815 - The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains.
1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1860 - -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1862 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
1863 - Battle of Champion’s Hill, MS , bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)
1864 - Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
1864 - Last battles at Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
1866 - Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868 - By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1869 - Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
1872 - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
1874 - 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
1875 - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
1881 - World’s 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1882 - 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00
1884 - 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25
1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1894 - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
1903 - George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms
1911 - Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
1911 - Zeppelin “Deutscheland” wrecked at Dusseldorf
1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
1916 - 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jean D’arc) canonized a saint
1920 - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1921 - 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
1922 - White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage
1925 - 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1927 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
1929 - 1st Academy Awards – “Wings,” Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
1931 - 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8
1933 - Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1936 - 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59
1938 - 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued
1941 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1943 - -17th] RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
1943 - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
1944 - 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1945 - Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
1948 - CBS news correspondent George Polk’s body is found in Greece
1951 - The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1954 - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
1955 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 - Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
1957 - US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
1958 - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
1959 - 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
1964 - 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
1964 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1965 - The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1966 - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1967 - Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1969 - US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
1969 - Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
1970 - 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
1971 - 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
1972 - Greg Luzinski’s 500′ HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
1975 - Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest’s summit
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 - 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
1980 - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1980 - Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes
1981 - ”Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
1981 - 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
1984 - Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 - Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1986 - ”Top Gun,” premieres
1987 - 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
1987 - ”Bobro 400,” a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
1991 - Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
1992 - ”Smells Like Nirvana,” by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1992 - 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
1992 - Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
1994 - Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
1995 - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo’s subways two months earlier
1996 - Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning
1997 - St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
1998 - 124th Preakness
2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2004 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2005 - Kuwait permits women’s suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
1558 - Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)
1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1609 - Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
1641 - Dudley North, financier/economist
1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
1763 - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
1806 - George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1816 - Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
1819 - Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
1821 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
1824 - Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1831 - David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
1832 - Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
1845 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
1860 - Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)
1866 - Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
1904 - Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
1905 - Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
1906 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1907 - Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 - Margaret Sullivan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
1912 - Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud’s Place, Working)
1913 - Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author
1916 - Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)
1919 - Liberace, West Allis WI, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)
1921 - Harry Carey Jr, Saugus California, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), (d. 2012)
1923 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1929 - Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters), (d. 2012)
1931 - Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
1931 - Hana Brady, Killed during Holocaust
1934 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1937 - Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
1938 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor)
1944 - Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz drummer (Same Ole Love)
1944 - Danny Trejo, American actor
1945 - Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
1946 - Robert Fripp, guitarist (King Crimson)
1946 - Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1946 - Roger Earl, rocker (Foghat)
1947 - Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He’s So Fine)
1949 - William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)
1950 - Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1953 - Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ireland, actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)
1955 - Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
1955 - Olga Korbut, Grodno Belorussia, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
1957 - Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)
1959 - Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo’s Fire, Turner & Hooch)
1960 - Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)
1961 - Charles Wright, American professional wrestler known as “The Godfather”
1964 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)
1966 - Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael’s sister (Control)
1969 - Steven Earl Lewis, LA California, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1969 - Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
1969 - Tucker Carlson, American television commentator
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
1972 - Matthew Hart, cricketer (NZ lefty spinner 1994- )
1979 - McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
1981 - Jessica Ponzo, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1996)
1983 - Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Megan Fox, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, American actress (Transformers) and model
583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
942 - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
1434 - Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1569 - Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1691 - Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1777 - Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, signer of Dec of Ind , dies from wounds
1805 - Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
1819 - Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
1829 - William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
1830 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
1863 - Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1864 - Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
1892 - John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
1920 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
1942 - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
1944 - Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
1954 - Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
1955 - James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese’s (b. 1876)
1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
1959 - Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69
1975 - Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1984 - Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
1984 - Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1988 - Kay Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42
1989 - Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
1990 - Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando’s boyfriend killed by brother Christian
1990 - Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53
1990 - Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64
1993 - Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
1996 - Mike Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) commits suicide at 57
1996 - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72
2000 - Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
2001 - Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
2002 - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
2010 - Ronnie James Dio, American heavy metal vocalist (b. 1942)
2010 - Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (b. 1918)
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” Mythology shrouds each of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but none has been more mysterious than the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Archaeologists have never unearthed evidence of the soaring gardens, and scholars have questioned its very existence. Now, however, an Oxford University researcher says she knows why the Hanging Gardens of Babylon have proven so elusive. It’s because they weren’t in Babylon at all.
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II was said to have constructed the luxurious Hanging Gardens in the sixth century B.C. as a gift to his wife, Amytis, who was homesick for the beautiful vegetation and mountains of her native Media (the northwestern part of modern-day Iran). To make the desert bloom, a marvel of irrigation engineering would have been required. Scientists have surmised that a system of pumps, waterwheels and cisterns would have been employed to raise and deliver the water from the nearby Euphrates River to the top of the gardens.
However, Dr. Stephanie Dalley, an honorary research fellow and part of the Oriental Institute at England’s Oxford University, believes she has found evidence of the existence of the legendary Wonder of the Ancient World. In her soon-to-be-released book “The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced,” published by Oxford University Press, Dalley asserts that the reason why no traces of the Hanging Gardens have ever been found in Babylon is because they were never built there in the first place.”
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756 - Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain
884 - Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
1248 - Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral
1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1492 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1525 - German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants’ War.
1536 - Anna Boleyn & George Boleyn Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest
1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1625 - 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria
1648 - Treaty of Munster: Spain & Netherlands ratified
1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1702 - War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world’s 1st machine gun
1730 - Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)
1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
1800 - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1829 - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
1836 - Francis Baily observes “Baily’s Beads” during annular solar eclipse
1858 - Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
1862 - Battle of Drewry’s Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
1862 - Department of Agriculture created
1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia
1864 - Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)
1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms
1876 - 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25
1894 - 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
1902 - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded
1906 - NY Giants’ Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning
1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
1911 - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1912 - Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
1918 - 1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)
1918 - 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated
1918 - 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
1919 - 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4
1918 - Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1918 - The Finnish Civil War ends.
1926 - 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance in “Plane Crazy”
1929 - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
1930 - Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
1932 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d’état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
1933 - 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1934 - Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1937 - 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
1940 - German armour division moves into Northern France
1940 - USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.
1940 - McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1941 - 1st British turbojet flies
1941 - Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1
1942 - Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
1945 - World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948 - 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
1948 - 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4
1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1951 - AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders
1952 - Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1953 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago
1955 - Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
1955 - The first ascent of Makalu, the world’s fifth highest mountain.
1957 - 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1957 - 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik III
1959 - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest
1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
1962 - US marines arrive in Laos
1963 - Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1963 - Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1965 - 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
1966 - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1970 - Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
1970 - Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1971 - 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54
1972 - George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan’s 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
1974 - Ma’alot massacre: 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.
1976 - 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55
1980 - 1st trans-US balloon crossing
1981 - ”Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island” airs
1981 - 2nd City TV’s (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
1981 - SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC
1982 - 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma’s Ruler wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1987 - Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
1988 - Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan
1990 - ”Portrait of Doctor Gachet” by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $82.5 million
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
1991 - Pres Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A’s-Balt Oriole game
1992 - NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
1993 - 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6
1993 - Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
1997 - ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
1565 - Henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam
1567 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L’Orfeo)
1608 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
1720 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
1749 - Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1820)
1773 - Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince
1786 - General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
1802 - Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1810 - Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885
1819 - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1845 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children’s book author (Wizard of Oz)
1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
1859 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
1895 - Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
1899 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
1903 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
1904 - Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
1905 - Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
1909 - James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
1914 - Jack Pepys, immunologist
1915 - Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
1918 - Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Montreal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
1920 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet
1923 - Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
1924 - Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
1930 - Jasper Johns, Augusta, Ga, painter/sculptor (Green Target)
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer/actress (Cinderfella)
1936 - Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
1936 - Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
1937 - Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1940 - Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur’s Court)
1941 - K T Oslin, Crossett Ar, country singer (80′s Ladies)
1941 - Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
1942 - Anthony Wayne England, Indianapolis, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-F)
1944 - Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 - Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
1944 - Tich, rocker
1946 - Chazz Palminteri, Bronx NY, actor (Jade, Diabolique, Bronx Tale)
1947 - Graham Goble, Adelaide,Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1948 - Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, rock keyboardist/singer (On Land)
1949 - Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)
1953 - George Brett, WV, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)
1953 - Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
1954 - Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
1960 - Rob Bowman, American film director
1964 - Pamela Dukes, Bronx NY, discus thrower
1967 - John Smoltz, Detroit MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young)
1969 - Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
1969 - Holly McPeak, Manhattan Beach CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Prince Be, rapper (PM Dawn)
1971 - Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
1973- Tori Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 - Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)
1978 - Amy Chow, San Jose California, gymnast (Olympics-gold/silver-96)
1978 - David Krumholtz, NYC, actor (Billy Kulchak-Chicago Sons)
1980 - Josh Beckett, American baseball player
1981 - Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne
1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1984 - Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver
392 - Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
884 - Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies
913 - Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz
1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1174 - Nur ad-Din, King of Syria (1146-1174), dies at 56
1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1482 - Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1591 - Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8
1621 - Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam’s master builder, dies at 56
1622 - Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1685 - Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies
1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
1886 - Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55
1932 - Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1945 - Major Henry Alexius Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1948 - Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1964 - Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61
1967 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
1972 - Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47
1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian , Admiral (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1986 - Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
1988 - Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64
1991 - Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84
1992 - Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
1992 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
1994 - Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71
1994 - [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
2007 - Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
2007 - Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
2008 - Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
2008 - Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)
2010 - Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (b. 1950)
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” In the past two years, bourbon has become the highest-selling whiskey in America. As its popularity has grown, producers big and small have been hustling to bring new products to market. To help you navigate the rising tide of these fine spirits, we sniffed and sipped our way through this vast ocean to present the best bourbons for your budget and taste. So pour yourself a glass, relax, and read on to discover a whole new world of America’s finest.”
Photographs by wtrstudios
Cocktails by Chris Wilkins, Proof on Main
Location: Rollin’ Greens, Queens NY
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Homeland Security Does Anti-Terrorism Drill With Gun Owning Parents As Terrorists
” Homeland Security recently staged a training exercise at a Seattle fairgrounds where disturbed individuals went on a shooting rampage. For some reason the agency felt the need to specify who that the shooters were, and made them the most feared terrorists of all: homeschooling parents.
When the state of public education in America is so appalling that a student feels the need to request that his teacher actually do her job, and then so many people empathize that the video of him doing so goes viral, homeschooling parents should be some of the most sympathetic people around.”
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649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
1264 - Battle at Lewes during the 2nd Barons War: Simon van Leicester beats English King Henry III
1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France (“Charles l’Affable”).
1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1607 - 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
1664 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
1767 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1804 - Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
1853 - Gail Borden patents her process for condensed milk
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, MS takes place.
1868 - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1878 - Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
1885 - 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25
1886 - 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.50
1888 - 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00
1890 - 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45
1894 - Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
1896 - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
1904 - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
1908 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1910 - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53
1920 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06
1931 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world’s youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1942 - US Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
1944 - Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
1948 - Israel declares independence from under British administration
1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56
1949 - Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1961 - Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
1961 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix
1964 - Underground America Day is 1st observed
1965 - 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
1967 - Mickey Mantle’s 500th HR off Oriole’s Stu Miller
1969 - Last Chevrolet Corsair built
1970 - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1972 - In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
1973 - Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
1973 - Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
1973 - Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1975 - US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1976 - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1983 - ”She Blinded Me with Science” by Thomas Dolby hits #5
1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)
1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1986 - Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
1986 - Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.
1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
1988 - 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
1989 - 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1989 - 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing’s Tiananmen square
1989 - Final TV episode of “Family Ties” airs
1989 - Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
1991 - Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
1991 - World’s Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet’s 2nd most sr spiritual leader
1998 - Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)
2005 - The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2012 - Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye
1316 - Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355-78). Dies 1378
1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
1652 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1679 - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
1686 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [NS=5/24]
1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1710 - Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70)
1725 - Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
1814 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1830 - George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1836 - James Patrick Major, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1885 - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)
1897 - Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1898 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer
1904 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
1915 - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1916 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
1922 - Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1923 - Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper’s Bazaar)
1925 - Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
1928 - Will “Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
1928 - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
1936 - Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
1940 - ’H’. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
1942 - Lord McAlpine, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1943 - Elizabeth Ray, Marshall NC, congressman Wayne Hays’ lover
1943 - Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
1944 - George Lucas, Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
1946 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits-Kinda Hush)
1946 - Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
1947 - Al Ciner, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1947 - Tamara Dobson, Baltimore MD, actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones)
1951 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future)
1951 - Jay Beckenstein, saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1951 - Seasan Hubley, [Susan], NYC, actress (Vice Squad, Hardcore)
1952 - David Byrne, Dumbarton Scotland, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads-Burning Down the House)
1953 - Bill Meek, Upland PA, prone rifle (Olympics-8th-1996)
1953 - Tom Cochrane, Toronto Canada, rock vocalist/guitarist (Red Rider)
1956 - Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
1957 - William G Gregory, Lockport NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 67)
1961 - Tim Roth, London England, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent & Theo)
1962 - C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1964 - James M Kelly, Burlington Iowa, Capt USAF/astronaut
1966 - Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1969 - David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin’ You Forever)
1969 - Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress (Elizabeth, Galadriel-The Lord of the Rings)
1971 - Sofia Coppola, American director
1975 - Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
1976 - Terrance Cauthen, Trenton NJ, lightweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
1978 - Heather Brink, Lincoln Neb, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1983 - Amber Tamblyn, Santa Monica California, actress (Emily Bowen-Gen Hospital)
1983 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, White Plains, New York, American internet entrepreneur and founder of Facebook
1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
347 - Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
649 - Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
964 - John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1565 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1610 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56
1643 - Louis XIII, King of France (1610-43), dies at 41
1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1726 - Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
1761 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
1832 - John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried
1864 - William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies
1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63
1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 74
1925 - Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies
1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
1940 - Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies
1947 - John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
1959 - Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62
1968 - Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86
1970 - Billie Burke, comedienne (Glinda-Wizard of Oz), dies at 84
1982 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
1984 - Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies
1987 - Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 68
1991 - Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide
1992 - Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies of cancer at 43
1993 - William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician, dies of cancer at 62
1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, dies at 82
2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
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” The Mille Miglia had always been a race that favored Italian drivers. After all, it was a 1000-mile dash through their homeland, giving them home field advantage. But Stirling Moss was no local—he was an Englishman sent to win the Mille Miglia in a German car. And win he did, through a potent mix of determination, an inventive navigator, a fast car and sheer talent.”
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Byzantine Mosaic Unearthed In Southern Israel
” An exquisite 1,500-year-old mosaic has come to light in an excavation in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Sunday.
The mosaic appears to have been the floor of a public building in a thriving Byzantine-era village on the site, near the modern-day kibbutz of Beit Kama. The precise role of the building in the life of the community is unknown.”
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535 - St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
609 - Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church
641 - Eligius (Saint Eloy) becomes bishop of Doornik-Noyon
1106 - Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
1364 - Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven
1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
1559 - Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside
1607 - English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
1624 - Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
1637 - Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1643 - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1643 - Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
1648 - Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1654 - Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish
1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
1861 - Queen Victoria announces England’s position of neutrality
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1864 - -16] Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca Georgia
1865 - S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms
1887 - 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39.25
1890 - 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75
1891 - 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25
1911 - 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05
1913 - 1st four engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1916 - 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
1916 - Native American Day is 1st observed
1922 - 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6
1922 - 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6
1927 - ”Black Friday” on Berlin Stock Exchange
1930 - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
1933 - 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02
1939 - 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8
1939 - SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1940 - Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
1942 - Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
1943 - German occupiers confiscate all radios
1944 - 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2
1950 - Diner’s Club issues its 1st credit cards
1950 - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1958 - Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1958 - The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1959 - Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV
1965 - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1966 - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1967 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
1967 - Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1971 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
1972 - 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)
1978 - Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)
1978 - Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1979 - Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1983 - Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1985 - Phila Police bomb a house held by group “Move,” kills 11
1987 - Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
1989 - Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1991 - Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1992 - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
1992 - Final episode of “Night Court” airs on NBC-TV
1992 - Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
1993 - Arsenio Hall’s 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993 - KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR
1995 - New Zealand beats US for the America’s Cup
1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2005 - The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2006 - 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2012 - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1254 - Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
1314 - Sergius of Radonesh, Russian saint
1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
1592 - John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist
1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
1729 - Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
1795 - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1842 - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
1856 - Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1867 - Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
1883 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
1903 - Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer
1907 - Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
1907 - Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
1908 - Michael Richardson, commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)
1914 - Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
1924 - Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director
1926 - Beatrice Arthur, [Frankel], NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
1927 - Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
1927 - Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
1927 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1928 - Jim Shoulders, Champion rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
1931 - Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)
1937 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)
1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio
1938 - Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier)
1939 - Anthony Hide, racehorse trainer
1939 - Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
1941 - Joe Brown, singer/guitarist
1941 - Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
1941 - Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)
1942 - Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
1943 - Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
1944 - Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist
1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author
1945 - Magic Dick, [Richard Salwitz], harmonicaist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1947 - Pete “Overend” Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
1947 - Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul’s Bane)
1949 - Overend Watts, rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)
1951 - Paul Thompson, rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1951 - Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
1959 - Robert Earnshaw, racehorse trainer
1961 - Dennis Rodman, Trenton, New Jersey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1964 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
1964 - Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1965 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 - Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001)
1968 - Buckethead, Guitarist
1974 - Tim McMahon, American hardcore singer (Mouthpiece, Hands Tied, Triple Threat)
1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
1982 - Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
1986 - Robert Pattinson, London, English actor (Cedric Diggory-Harry Potter, Edward Cullen-Twilight)
384 - Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+
1162 - Géza II of Hungary
1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1381 - John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
1390 - Robert II the Steward, King of Scots (1371-90), dies
1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1776 - Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1839 - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1864 - Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1884 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1961 - Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
1962 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51
1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1985 - Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
1988 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83
1992 - Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
1996 - John “Jack” Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57
1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
2011 - Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (b. 1942)
2012 - Donald “Duck” Dunn, American bassist, dies at 70
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” The True Thomas Jefferson is not a formal biography, it is intended to be a series of sketches as graphic and as accurate as possible, without partisanship or prejudice, of a remarkable man.
Thomas Jefferson has been the subject of several able and distinguished biographers, friendly and unfriendly, for whom he left an abundance of material carefully arranged by his own hand. His writings, public and private, which are more voluminous than those of any other American statesman, have twice been published, and furnish direct evidence concerning his acts and opinions.
His views upon public questions have been carefully arranged in alphabetical order in an encyclopedia, to which the student of his life and times may turn with satisfaction and confidence. From these and many other original sources the information presented in this volume has been gathered and arranged in unconventional form in order that the reader may see the man as he actually was, and not as his partisans and opponents represent him.
The purpose of his life, which appears on almost every page, was to build a nation upon this continent with human freedom and equality as its foundations. In his efforts to accomplish this end he often incurred the criticisms of his friends as well as the condemnation of his enemies. His faults were as conspicuous as his abilities, and to form a correct estimate of his character both should receive equal and honest consideration.”
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Published on May 11, 2013
” Auburn University’s Southeastern Raptor Center released a bald eagle at the North Auburn Fisheries Pond on May 11, 2013.”
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254 - Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope
919 - Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich
1082 - Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr
1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
1328 - Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1459 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1525 - Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers
1534 - Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian
1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1640 - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1689 - England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1780 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina (Revolutionary War)
1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
1821 - The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
1862 - Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana
1863 - Battle of Raymond, Miss
1864 - Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)
1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Todd’s Tavern, VA (Sheridan’s Raid)
1864 - Butler attacks Drewry’s Bluff on James River
1864 - US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general
1865 - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
1875 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1890 - Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1897 - Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece
1900 - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
1909 - 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
1910 - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
1917 - 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
1917 - 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
1923 - 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6
1924 - 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2
1925 - Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
1926 - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
1926 - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
1933 - Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
1934 - ”Cocktails For Two,” by Duke Ellington hits #1
1934 - 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2
1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
1941 - Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1942 - David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
1942 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1943 - Axis forces in North Africa surrender
1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US
1944 - 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brux
1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
1951 - 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1960 - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
1963 - Bob Dylan walks out of the “Ed Sullivan Show”
1963 - Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
1967 - H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of SDS
1969 - Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
1970 - Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
1970 - Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
1970 - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1973 - Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92
1975 - US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
1977 - 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1978 - Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1979 - Chris Evert’s 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
1980 - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
1984 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
1986 - Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
1989 - Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1990 - 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
1992 - 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
1993 - Final episode of 6 year run of ABC’s “Wonder Years” in Netherlands
1993 - Last broadcast of “Knots landing” on CBS
1993 - Last broadcast of “Cheers” on NBC-TV
1995 - Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
1997 - Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1997 - Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida
2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.
2003 - Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
2008 - 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people
2012 - The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
1401 - Emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
1670 - Frederick Augustus I/ August II, the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)
1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect
1725 - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785)
1767 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
1806 - Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
1812 - Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
1812 - Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1820 - Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)
1906 - William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, Hartford CT, actress (Adam’s Rib, On Golden Pond)
1907 - Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
1912 - Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet
1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)
1914 - Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)
1915 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
1922 - Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter
1923 - Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire
1925 - Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, catcher/coach/manager (NY Yankees, Mets)
1928 - Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I’ll Never Fall in Love Again)
1930 - Pat McCormick-Keller, Lakewood California, diver (Oly-4 gold-1952, 56)
1936 - Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)
1937 - George Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash)
1939 - Ronald Ziegler, press secretary (Nixon)
1941 - Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1942 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear, US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo)
1942 - Ian Dury, Upminster Essex, rocker (Blockheads)/actor (Judge Dredd)
1942 - Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau La, rocker (I Can Help)
1945 - Willie Parnell, US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1946 - Ian McLagan, rocker (Faces)
1946 - L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author
1948 - Steve Winwood, England, rock bassist (A Higher Love)
1950 - Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don’t Say No)
1950 - Gabriel Byrne, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World)
1950 - Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1950 - Renate Stecher-Meissner, German DR, sprinter (Oly-gold-72)
1950 - Shozo Fujii, judoka
1951 - Gunnar Larrson, Sweden, 200m/400m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1955 - Kix Brooks , Shreveport La, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man)
1956 - Homer Simpson, fictional character from the long running television show “The Simpsons”
1958 - Christian Brando, son of Marlon/killed sisters boyfriend
1958 - Kim Greist, Stamford CT, actress (CHUD, Brazil, Payoff, Manhunter)
1959 - Ving Rhames, American actor
1962 - Amy Benz, Rochester NY, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile Classic-3rd)
1962 - Emilio Estevez, NYC, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)
1963 - Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver
1966 - Stephen Baldwin, actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)
1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
1969 - Kim Fields Freeman, LA California, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)
1969 - Kevin Nalty, famed YouTuber
1970 - James Michael Furyk, West Chester PA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
1970 - Samantha Mathis, American actress
1973 - MacKenzie Astin, LA California, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)
1973 - Travis Lutter, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1977 - Monique de Bruin, Porland Oregon, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1978 - Jason Biggs, American actor
1981 - James Graham – Founder HistoryOrb.com
912 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
1003 - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
1003 - Pope Sylvester/Silvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st French Pope (999-1003), dies
1012 - Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
1382 - Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1649 - Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1814 - Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
1852 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1864 - Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37
1871 - John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1897 - Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1932 - Lindbergh baby, found dead
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1962 - Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1980 - Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
1989 - Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1992 - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1995 - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71
1996 - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84
1996 - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35
1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
2007 - Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)
2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
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330 - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire
1189 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa & 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg
1310 - Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.
1421 - Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
1502 - Columbus begins 4th & last trip to “Indies”
1548 - Start of great fire in Brielle
1625 - Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper-Austria
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam.
1689 - Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
1745 - Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
1751 - 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America
1752 - 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
1772 - Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed
1792 - Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray
1812 - Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting & immoral. No wonder it caught on!
1812 - Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1814 - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh
1816 - American Bible Society forms (NY)
1820 - Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
1833 - ”Lady-of-the-Lake” strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
1841 - Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound.
1850 - Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
1858 - Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
1862 - Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA
1864 - Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA , Gen J E B Stuart is mortally wounded (Sheridan’s Raid, South Anna Bridge)
1865 - Jeff Thompson surrenders
1887 - 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39.25
1888 - 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49
1891 - The Otsu Scandal takes place.
1892 - 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41½
1893 - Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
1894 - American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
1900 - James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavyweight boxing title
1904 - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
1907 - A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.
1910 - Montana’s Glacier National Park forms
1912 - 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4
1916 - Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity presented
1918 - 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8
1921 - Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
1924 - Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies.
1926 - Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
1927 - Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
1928 - 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
1928 - 54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2
1928 - General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
1929 - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
1931 - Credit-Anstalt, Austria’s largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe
1935 - 61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4
1940 - 66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6
1940 - NY World’s Fair reopens
1941 - 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
1943 - US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
1945 - US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa
1946 - 72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4
1947 - BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
1949 - 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
1949 - By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1949 - Siam renames itself Thailand
1951 - Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
1956 - Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1959 - Elvis Presley’s 1st entry on UK charts with “Heartbreak Hotel”
1959 - Yankee catcher Yogi Berra’s errorless streak of 148 games ends
1960 - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
1963 - ”Puff (The Magic Dragon)” by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2
1963 - Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
1967 - 100,000,000th US phone connected
1968 - Students & police battle in Paris, 100s injured
1969 - Monty Python comedy troupe forms
1973 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1974 - ”Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” by Frank Sinatra hits #83
1974 - ”Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield hits #7
1974 - Steely Dan releases “Rikki Don’t Lose that Number”
1978 - Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps
1980 - Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies
1985 - 40 die and 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground, England
1985 - Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 - Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cin Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno
1987 - 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1987 - Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines
1988 - Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
1989 - 217th & final episode of “Dynasty” is aired
1989 - Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 - President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1997 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in chess
2009 - An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2012 - Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation
1568 - Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)
1571 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
1654 - Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian
1720 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)
1722 - Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
1752 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1799 - John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836)
1821 - [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1830 - John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1841 - Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
1854 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
1875 - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
1888 - Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas)
1888 - Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945)
1891 - Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)
1894 - Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
1894 - Martha Graham, Allegheny Penn, choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
1904 - Salvador Dali, Figueras Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion)
1911 - Doodles Weaver, LA California, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1912 - Foster Brooks, Louisville Ky, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy)
1912 - Phil Silvers, Bkln NY, comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
1918 - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965)
1920 - Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day)
1921 - Ian Percival, QC/MP
1923 - Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir (Army Nursing Services)
1923 - Lord Gordon “Gordy” White, English industrialist/multi-millionaire
1924 - Antony Hewish, radio astronomer
1926 - Ernest Harrison, CEO (Racal Electronics)
1927 - Mort Sahl, Montreal, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party)
1927 - Zilpha Keatly Snyder, US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid)
1927 - Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
1930 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
1930 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
1930 - William Carey, Baltimore, Maryland, American businessman and philanthropist (W.P. Carey & Co. LLC) (d. 2012)
1932 - Valentino [Garavani], Milan Italy, fashion designer
1933 - Louis Farrakhan, minister (black islam nation, million man march)
1939 - Milt Pappas, baseball pitcher
1941 - Eric Burdon, Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 - Graham Miles, English snooker player
1943 - Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
1943 - Nancy Greene, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Claude “Butch” Trucks, drummer (Allman Brothers)
1948 - Alfred Matt, Austria, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1952 - Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
1952 - Frances Fisher, English-born actress
1952 - Warren Littlefield, American television executive
1955 - Mark Herndon, Springfield Mass, country drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
1959 - Martha Quinn, Albany NY, MTV VJ (Tracey-Bradys)
1963 - Mark Breland, Bkln NY, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Natasha Richardson, London England, actress (Gothic, Handmaid’s Tale)
1964 - Drew Story, San Clemente California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1964 - John Parrott, snooker player
1964 - Katie Wagner, daughter of Robert Wagner/model/guest VJ (MTV)
1965 - Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor
1967 - Kenneth Gould, Chic Ill, Welterweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1973 - Michelle Venturella, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Patrick Sapp, NFL offensive linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler
1977 - Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
1978 - Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
1983 - Frédéric Xhonneux, Belgian decathlete
1983 - Holly Valance, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress (Felicity “Flick” Scully-Neighbours) and singer
1304 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies
1672 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
1742 - Francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70
1772 - Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged
1778 - William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69
1779 - John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68
1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
1871 - John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
1887 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
1891 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies
1927 - Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert’s Rules of Order), dies at 90
1927 - Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40
1929 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
1934 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1935 - Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78
1939 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1944 - Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37
1955 - G L Jessop, cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies
1956 - Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79
1960 - John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1979 - Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64
1981 - Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain & lung cancer at 36
1985 - Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84
1986 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
1988 - H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies
1992 - Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
1992 - Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
1994 - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
2003 - Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)
2008 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)
2008 - Bruno Neves, portuguese cyclist that died in competition (b.1981)
2009- Susan Herrlin , business woman , mother , DAR
2010 - Frank Frazetta, American fantasy and science fiction artist (b. 1928)
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Ancient Arctic Was Warm, Wet, And Green. What That Says About The Future.
” Working with a continuous record of Arctic climate reaching back 3.6 million years, researchers have documented a period when the region was significantly warmer and wetter than it is today and when the atmosphere’s inventory of carbon dioxide was comparable to today’s levels.
The period the team has analyzed covers the first 1.4 million years of the record, when the region’s climate shifted from warm and wet to conditions that signaled the start of ice ages.
This period is of interest in part because the warmth persisted despite periodic shifts in Earth’s orbit that reduced the intensity of sunlight reaching the region.
The evidence is captured in a 1,034-foot core sample the team drew from the bottom of Lake El’gygytgyn, known informally as Lake E. It formed 3.6 billion years ago after a meteor punched a crater in Russia’s northeastern Arctic. The crater filled to form a lake 7 miles across and some 560 feet deep. The area around the lake managed to remain ice free during the ebb and flow of continental ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages, allowing sediment layers – and the pollen and other climate indicators they contain – to build up uninterrupted for the last 3.56 million years.”
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How Much Control Does Supremacy Clause Give Feds? – Andrew Nappi #N3
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