History

May 31 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 31 History Highlights1909 – The National Negro Committee, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convened for the first time.1911 – The RMS Titanic was launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.1971 – Observation of Memorial Day occurred on the last Monday

May 30 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 30 History Highlights1842 – John Francis attempted to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London.1854 – The US territories of Kansas and Nebraska were established.1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ended with Ray Harroun in his Marmon

May 29 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 29 History Highlights1886 – John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, in The Atlanta Journal.1919 – Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was tested (and later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.1953 – Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing

May 28 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 28 History Highlights1830 – President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which denied Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocated them.1934 – In Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets were born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne1936 – Alan Turing published On Computable Numbers.1961 – Peter

May 27 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 27 History Highlights1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.1933 – The Century of Progress World’s Fair opened in Chicago.1941 – The British navy sank the German battleship, Bismarck, in the North Atlantic near France, killing over 2,000 Germans.1972 – The Anti-Ballistic

May 26 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 26 History Highlights1868 – The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal by a single vote.1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held.1927 – The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.1967 –

May 25 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 25 History Highlights240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.It will next appear in mid-2061.1925 – John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.1977 – 1977 – Star Wars (now Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) opened Memorial Day

May 24 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 24 History Highlights1626 – Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Lenape Indians for “60 guilders worth of trade,” approximately $1,143 in 2020 dollars.1844 – Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first public telegraph message – ‘What Hath God Wrought?’ through the Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph line.1958 – United Press

May 23 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 23 History Highlights1430 – 1430 – Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians1788 – South Carolina officially became the eighth US state.1995 – The first version of the Java programming language was released.1873 – The Canadian Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police, later named the

May 22 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 22 History Highlights1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began, from St. Charles, Missouri.US President #16 Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to receive a patent, on his floating drydock on May 22, 1849, US patent #6469.1906 – The Wright brothers were granted US

May 21 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 21 History Highlights1881 – The American Red Cross was established by Clara Barton in Washington, DC.1972 – Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was damaged by a mentally disturbed Hungarian, Laszlo Toth.2001 – French Taubira law officially recognized the Atlantic slave trade and slavery

May 20 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 20 History Highlights1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.1883 – Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.1940 – The first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp.1956 –

May 19 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 19 History Highlights1848 – Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day US states to the United States for $15 million.1962 – Marilyn Monroe sang her famous Happy Birthday to President John

May 18 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 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

May 17 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 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

May 16 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 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

May 15 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 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

May 14 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 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

May 13 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 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

 May 12 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 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