May 18 History, Facts and TriviaMay 18 History Highlights1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.1860 – Abraham Lincoln won the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward.1953 – Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.If you were born on May 18th,You were likely […]
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Top 100 Thank You Songs: Gratitude, Appreciation, Friendship, and Tribute Music Thank you songs are made for the moments when ordinary words feel a little too small. They work for friends, family, teachers, parents, mentors, coworkers, volunteers, caregivers, veterans, coaches, partners, pastors, neighbors, and the people who quietly made life better without asking for a
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May 17 History, Facts and TriviaMay 17 History Highlights1756 – Seven Years’ War formally began when Great Britain declared war on France.1900 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, was first published in the United States.1954 – The US Supreme Court declared a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of
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May 16 History, Facts and TriviaMay 16 History Highlights1866 – The United States Congress established the 5-cent nickel.1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense.It was repealed on December 13, 1920.1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights began, between
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May 15 History, Facts and TriviaMay 15 History Highlights1911 – With Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. The United States, the United States Supreme Court declared Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and ordered the company to be broken up.1941 – Joe DiMaggio began a 56-game hitting streak.1970
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May 14 History, Facts and TriviaMay 14 History Highlights1607 – Jamestown, Virginia was settled as an English colony.1796 – Edward Jenner, “the father of immunology, administered the first smallpox inoculation.1948 – Israel was declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.If you were born on May 14th,You were likely conceived the
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May 13 History, Facts and TriviaMay 13 History Highlights1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 (C/1861 J1) was discovered,and it should return in 2063.1917 – The first reported apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.May 13, 19** Birthday (fictional) Barry Allen (The Flash), DC ComicsIf you were born on May 13th,You were likely
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May 12 History, Facts and TriviaMay 12 History Highlights1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers left Independence, Missouri for California, on what became a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.1847 – The Modern Odometer (Roadometer) was invented by William Clayton“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.” – Yogi BerraIf you were born on May
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May 11 History, Facts and TriviaMay 11 History Highlights1846 – President James K. Polk requested a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.1858 – Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd state of the United States1960 -Adolf Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina.The 1970 Lubbock tornado killed 26 people and causes $250
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May 10 History, Facts and TriviaMay 10 History Highlights1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette became King and Queen of France1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.Mother’s Day in Mexico is a set date of May 10th every year, unlike most other countries where
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May 9 History, Facts and TriviaMay 9 History Highlights1662 – The precursor to Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.1955 – West Germany joined NATO.1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gave his Television is a Vast Wasteland Speech.1974 – The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opened impeachment hearings against President
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Music About Your Mom: Mother SongsMother’s DayThe modern holiday of Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in West Virginia. There were Ancient versions of Mother’s Days, but they were more about fertility and birth. Anna’s idea to make Mother’s Day a real holiday in the
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May 8 History, Facts and TriviaMay 8 History Highlights1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sold his carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.1933 – Mohandas Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.1945 – Germany’s ‘second surrender’ with StalinMay 8, 21** Birthday (fictional) Katniss Everdeen,
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May 7 History, Facts and TriviaMay 7 History Highlights1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) was founded.1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit was first published by Geoffrey Dummer.2013 – The Dow Jones Index closed above 15,000 for the first time.If you were born on May 7th,You were likely conceived the week of…
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May 6 History, Facts and Trivia May 6 History Highlights 1527 – The Sack of Rome was carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was the first adhesive postal stamp. 1937 – The German
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May 5 History, Facts and TriviaMay 5 History Highlights1260 – Kublai Khan became the ruler of the Mongol Empire.1847 – The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded.1893 – Stock Market Crash of 1893, the second-worst economic crisis in American history, so far.1987 – Congressional televised hearings in the United States began over the Iran-Contra Affair.1904
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May 4 History, Facts and TriviaMay 4 History Highlights1776 – Rhode Island was the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.1904 – The United States began the construction of the Panama Canal.May 4 is Star Wars Day. “May the Fourth be with you.”May 4 Birthday (fictional) Alice, In WonderlandIf you were born
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May 3 History, Facts and TriviaMay 3 History Highlights1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 began in Jacksonville, Florida.1948 – CBS Evening News premiered with a 15 minute broadcast.1971 – National Public Radio began broadcasting1979 – Margaret Thatcher won the United Kingdom general election, and became the first female British Prime Minister the following day.1999
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May 2 History, Facts and TriviaMay 2 History Highlights1611 – The King James Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine began publication.1939 – Lou Gehrig’s playing streak ended with 2,130 consecutive games played since May 25, 1925.2011 – Osama bin Laden was killed by
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May 1 History, Facts and TriviaMay 1 History Highlights1707 – The Act of Union, uniting England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain took effect.1893 – The influential Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago.1939 – Batman debuted in Detective Comics #271956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was made available to the
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May History, Facts and TriviaMonth of May History HighlightsBirthstone: EmeraldFlower: Lily of the ValleyTaurus (April 21 – May 20)Gemini (May 21 – June 21)The first seven days in May is Choose Privacy WeekSpanish: En mayo, Italian: Mei, French: Mei, German: Mai, Polish: Maj, Latin: MaiusWhy so many June weddings? Maybe this old May warning was
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April 30 History, Facts and TriviaApril 30 History Highlights1938 – The cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuted in movie theaters, introducing ‘Happy Rabbit’ (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).1939 – The 1939/1940 New York World’s Fair opened.1939 – Franklin Roosevelt became the first US President to appear on Televsion, while appearing at the New York World’s
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April 29 History, Facts and TriviaApril 29 History Highlights1770 – James Cook arrived in Australia, and named Botany Bay.1945 – The Dachau concentration camp was liberated.1968 – Hair, a hippie/counter-culture and sexual revolution musical, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway.2011 – The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey
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April 28 History, Facts and TriviaApril 28 History Highlights1789 – The Mutiny on the Bounty took place.1967 – World boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) refused to be inducted into the US Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title.2001 – Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space, paying the Russian
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April 27 History, Facts and TriviaApril 27 History Highlights1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.1967 – Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Quebec.1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.2006 – Construction began on the Freedom Tower (now
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April 26 History, Facts and TriviaApril 26 History Highlights1954 – Polio vaccine trials began.April 26, 1968 Birthday (fictional) Lorelai Gilmore, TV Mom1986 – A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, created the world’s worst nuclear disaster.April 26, 19** Birthday (fictional) Donna Troy
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About 70s Music: Classic Rock, Disco, Funk, Soul, Singer-Songwriters, Punk, New Wave, Pop, and Songs That Took Over the RadioMusic of the 1970s was big, messy, emotional, danceable, loud, strange, and impossible to squeeze into one neat box. The decade gave us classic rock, disco, funk, soul, soft rock, singer-songwriters, Southern rock, progressive rock, punk,
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April 25 History, Facts and TriviaApril 25 History Highlights1901 – New York required the first license plates.1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson published Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed.If you were born on April
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April 24 History, Facts and TriviaApril 24 History Highlights1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, began publication.1800 – The Library of Congress was founded.1913 – The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, was opened.It was the tallest building in the world until 1930.1990 – The Hubble Space
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April 23 History, Facts and TriviaApril 23 History Highlights1516 – The Munich Reinheitsgebot, rules regarding the ingredients of beer, took effect in all of Bavaria.1635 – America’s oldest school, The Boston Latin School opened.1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.1940 -The Rhythm Club fire at a dance
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