Interesting things that happened May 15th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1859 Pierre Curie, physicist
In 1905 Joseph Cotten, radio announcer, actor (Citizen Kane, et al)
In 1910 Constance ***mings, actor (Movie Crazy, American Madness)
In 1918 Eddy Arnold, singer
In 1919 Wladziu Valentino Liberace, pianist
In 1923 Richard Avedon, photographer
In 1924 Ursula Theiss, actor (Monsoon, Bandido)
In 1926 Anthony Shaffer and Peter Shaffer, playwrights, twin brothers
In 1936 Paul Zindel, playwright
+ Anna Maria Alberghetti (in Italy), actor, singer
In 1937 Trini Lopez, singer
In 1942 Lainie Kazan (in Brooklyn, NY), singer, actor
In 1948 Brian Eno, singer, songwriter
In 1953 George Brett, baseball player (Kansas City Royals)
In 1955 Lee Horsley, actor
Events worth noting:
+ Hug Your Cat Day
+ Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day
+ (Why? Because it may be waving at you.)
In 1602 Cape Cod was discovered by the English navigator Batholomew
Gosnold.
In 1856 Second San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized.
In 1862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia.
In 1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia.
+ Battle of Resaca, Georgia.
In 1886 American poet Emily Dickinson died.
In 1911 Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil. It violates Sherman
Antitrust
Act.
In 1918 US Airmail begins between Wash DC, Philadelphia and New York.
In 1930 A United Air Lines flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyenne, WY
carried
the first airline "air hostess" (stewardess) -- Ellen Church.
In 1933 First voice amplification system to be used in US Senate.
In 1934 Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or
alive.
In 1940 Nylon stockings on sale for the first time in the United States.
In 1941 Yanks win 13-1; Joe DiMaggio starts 56 game hitting streak.
In 1948 State of Israel established; "Independence Day" or "The
Catastrophe", depending on your side of the fence.
In 1957 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden -- Billy Graham launched a
crusade.
In 1958 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik III.
In 1963 L. Gordon Cooper blasts off aboard Faith VII, last Mercury
flight.
In 1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court.
In 1970 2 dead, several injured after Jackson State Univeristy tragedy.
In 1972 George C. Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer.
In 1975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4.
In 2004 41st Mersenne prime (2^24,036,583 - 1) is discovered.
And remember ...
Better Sleep Month
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