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| A Time Capsule of Significant Events in History for Virtually Everyday of the Year! You will definitely want to share this page with your friends and relatives. Sit back and take a day-by-day journey through history of the events (both inspiring and tragic) that have impacted and shaped our lives. Bookmark This Page! This invaluable resource page is brought to you by: nServices.com Go to: January l February l March l April July l August l September l October l November l December |
| May on this day... | ||
| Day | Year | Event |
| 1 | 1939 | Batman Comics hit the street. |
| 1941 | "Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premiers in NY. | |
| 1967 | Priscilla & Elvis Presley wed. | |
| 2 | 1519 | Leonardo Da Vinci artist/scientist, dies at 67. |
| 3 | 1936 | Joe DiMaggio made his major-league debut, got 3 hits. |
| 1973 | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out. | |
| 1991 | 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke. | |
| 4 | 1891 | Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls. |
| 1964 | "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV. | |
| 1970 | 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard. | |
| 5 | 1847 | American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia). |
| 1961 | Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7). | |
| 1965 | 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam. | |
| 6 | 1833 | John Deere makes 1st steel plow. |
| 1889 | Eiffel Tower in Paris, completed. | |
| 1937 | Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die). | |
| 1987 | PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God. | |
| 7 | 1915 | Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost. |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain. | |
| 8 | 1794 | US Post Office established. |
| 1886 | Coca-Cola 1st sold after syrup perfected by Dr John Styth Pemberton. | |
| 1987 | Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair). | |
| 9 | 1914 | Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day. |
| 1987 | Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry. | |
| 10 | 1863 | Gen Stonewall Jackson dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville. |
| 1986 | Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Crue marries Heather Locklear. | |
| 11 | 1981 | Bob Marley reggae singer, dies at 36 of brain & lung cancer. |
| 1850 | Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco. | |
| 1916 | Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented. | |
| 1947 | BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh. | |
| 1989 | 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired. | |
| 12 | 1932 | Lindbergh baby found dead. |
| 1966 | Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 innings. | |
| 13 | 1961 | Gary Cooper 2 time Acad award winning actor, dies at 60. |
| 1991 | Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0. | |
| 14 | 1853 | Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk. |
| 1987 | Rita Hayworth actress, dies at 68 of Alzheimer's disease. | |
| 1989 | Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs. | |
| 15 | 1940 | 1st nylon stockings sold in US. |
| 1972 | George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md. | |
| 16 | 1929 | 1st Academy Awards (Film-Wings, Actor-E Jennings Actress-J Gaynor). |
| 1984 | Andy Kaufman comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies at 35 of cancer. | |
| 1990 | Jim Henson muppeteer, dies of pneumonia at 53. | |
| 1990 | Sammy Davis Jr entertainer, dies at 64 from throat cancer. | |
| 17 | 1875 | 1st Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs, Aristides wins. |
| 1932 | Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico". | |
| 18 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln nominated for president. |
| 1980 | Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State. | |
| 19 | 1935 | NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936. |
| 20 | 1506 | Christopher Colombus explorer, dies in poverty in Spain at 55. |
| 1874 | Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz. | |
| 1989 | Gilda Radner comedienne (Sat Night Live), dies at 42 of cancer. | |
| 21 | 1832 | 1st Democratic party national convention. |
| 1881 | American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton. | |
| 1914 | Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota. | |
| 1927 | Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic. | |
| 1932 | 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands. | |
| 1980 | "Empire Strikes Back" premeirs. | |
| 1990 | Last episode of "Newhart" airs. | |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi Indian Prime Minster, assassinated. | |
| 22 | 1868 | Great Train Robbery; 7 men make off with $98,000 in cash. |
| 1900 | Associated Press organized. | |
| 1906 | Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane. | |
| 1980 | Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry. | |
| 1992 | Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show. | |
| 23 | 1430 | Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians, who sell her to English. |
| 1785 | Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals. | |
| 1934 | Bonnie & Clyde, bank robbers, killed by police ambush in La. | |
| 1937 | John D Rockfeller, industrialist, dies in Ormond Beach Fla. | |
| 1969 | The Who release the rock opera "Tommy". | |
| 24 | 1883 | Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland. |
| 1899 | 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston). | |
| 1986 | Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy. | |
| 1989 | "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premiers. | |
| 25 | 1927 | Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A). |
| 1983 | "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released. | |
| 1992 | Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show". | |
| 26 | 1896 | Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted. |
| 1933 | Jimmie Rodgers country singer, dies at 35. | |
| 1977 | Movie "Star Wars" debuts. | |
| 1978 | 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City. | |
| 27 | 1647 | 1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass. |
| 1844 | Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line. | |
| 1933 | Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released. | |
| 1941 | German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force. | |
| 1961 | Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon. | |
| 1987 | Jim & Tammy Bakker appears on "Nightline" after PTL scandal. | |
| 28 | 1664 | 1st Baptist Church organized (Boston). |
| 1843 | Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84. | |
| 1972 | White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Nat'l HQ at Watergate. | |
| 1989 | Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Simon & Simon). | |
| 29 | 1849 | Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln. |
| 1900 | Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co. | |
| 1911 | 1st running of the Indianapolis 500. | |
| 1987 | Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains. | |
| 30 | 1431 | Joan of Arc burned as a witch by the English at Rouen at 19. |
| 1868 | Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves. | |
| 1901 | Memorial Day 1st officially observed in US. | |
| 31 | 1678 | Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry. |
| 1790 | US copyright law enacted. | |
| 1879 | Madison Square Garden opens its doors. | |
| 1969 | John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance". | |
| 1969 | Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore". | |
| June on this day... | ||
| Day | Year | Event |
| 1 | 1861 | 1st skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va. |
| 1869 | Voting Machine patented by Thomas Edison. | |
| 1926 | Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Baker], actress (Some Like It Hot). | |
| 1938 | Superman Comics launched. | |
| 1968 | Helen Keller blind & deaf, dies at 87. | |
| 1971 | Ed Sullivan's final TV show. | |
| 1980 | Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting. | |
| 2 | 1941 | Lou Gehrig Yankee great, dies at 37 of ALS in Riverdale NY. |
| 3 | 1957 | Howard Cosell's 1st TV show. |
| 1963 | Pope John XXIII dies at 81. | |
| 4 | 1896 | Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit. |
| 1929 | George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY). | |
| 1990 | Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy. | |
| 5 | 1977 | 1st personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale. |
| 1981 | Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS). | |
| 6 | 1844 | Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London. |
| 1882 | Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC. | |
| 1933 | 1st drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ). | |
| 1942 | 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray). | |
| 1944 | D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France. | |
| 1968 | Robert F Kennedy (Sen-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan. | |
| 1976 | J Paul Getty oil magnate dies at 83 in London. | |
| 7 | 1968 | Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination. |
| 8 | 1824 | Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec. |
| 1948 | "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV. | |
| 9 | 1869 | Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila). |
| 1870 | Charles Dickens author, dies in England. | |
| 1934 | 1st Donald Duck cartoon, The Wise Little Hen, released. | |
| 1980 | Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine. | |
| 1981 | Allen Ludden game show host (Password), dies at 63. | |
| 10 | 1752 | Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock! |
| 1902 | Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan. | |
| 1966 | Janis Joplins 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF). | |
| 1977 | Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II. | |
| 1977 | James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison. | |
| 1985 | Coca-Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula. | |
| 11 | 1937 | Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released. |
| 1963 | Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks from registering at U of Alabama. | |
| 1979 | John Wayne actor, dies of cancer. | |
| 1982 | Movie "ET The Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film at time). | |
| 12 | 1839 | 1st baseball game played in America. |
| 1849 | Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky. | |
| 1917 | Secret Service extends protection of president to his family. | |
| 1923 | Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC. | |
| 1994 | Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman found murdered. | |
| 13 | 323 BC | Alexander the Great dies of fever at Babylon. |
| 1927 | Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC. | |
| 1986 | Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing, dies in NY at 77. | |
| 14 | 1801 | Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War general, dies in London. |
| 1834 | Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont. | |
| 1881 | Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass. | |
| 1942 | Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released. | |
| 1953 | Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn. | |
| 1954 | Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge. | |
| 1986 | Marlin Perkins "Wild Kingdom" host, dies near St Louis at 81. | |
| 15 | 1844 | Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber. |
| 1956 | John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the 1st time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner. | |
| 1973 | "American Graffiti" opens in NYC. | |
| 16 | 1903 | Ford Motors incorporates. |
| 1987 | Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens. | |
| 1987 | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him. | |
| 17 | 1946 | SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis. |
| 1950 | 1st kidney transplant (Chicago). | |
| 1972 | 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate. | |
| 18 | 1812 | War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain. |
| 1898 | Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ. | |
| 1980 | "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers. | |
| 19 | 1910 | Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash). |
| 1934 | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created. | |
| 1987 | Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. | |
| 20 | 1893 | Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass. |
| 1947 | Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal. | |
| 21 | 1876 | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 82. |
| 1982 | Prince Charles & Lady Di give birth to their baby "William". | |
| 22 | 1910 | 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland. |
| 1987 | Fred Astaire actor/dancer, dies at Century City Hospital in LA at 88. | |
| 1990 | Florida passes a law that prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit. | |
| 23 | 1979 | The Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia". |
| 1989 | The movie "Batman" premiers. | |
| 24 | 1908 | Grover Cleveland 22nd & 24th Pres, dies in Princeton, at 71. |
| 1915 | 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago. | |
| 1987 | Jackie Gleason actor (Honeymooners), dies at 71 in Fort Lauderdale. | |
| 25 | 1876 | Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn. |
| 1929 | Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam). | |
| 1951 | 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities. | |
| 26 | 1916 | Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game). |
| 27 | 1955 | 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois). |
| 1966 | 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiers. | |
| 28 | 1836 | James Madison 4th US pres, dies in Montpelier, Va. |
| 1975 | Rod Serling writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 60. | |
| 29 | 1863 | Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa. |
| 1916 | Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time. | |
| 1967 | Jayne Mansfield actress, dies in a car crash at 34. | |
| 1978 | Bob Crane actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59. | |
| 30 | 1936 | 40 hour work week law approved (federal). |
| 1952 | "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV. | |
| 1974 | Mrs Albert King mother of Martin Luther King, murdered in church. | |
| 1975 | Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman. | |
