This date in history

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1492​

Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies.

1524​

Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano.

1758​

Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate from a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems.

1808​

Bayonne Decree by Napoleon Bonaparte of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.

1861​

Virginia becomes the eighth state to secede from the Union.

1875​

The game "snooker" is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.

1894​

Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet premier is born (1958-64).

1929​

Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgson, a former member of the Ziegfeld Follies, get married.

1969​

Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

1970​

Apollo 13--originally scheduled to land on the moon--lands back safely on Earth after an accident.

1970​

The Beatles officially break up

 

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1676​

Sudbury, Massachusetts is attacked by Indians.

1775​

American revolutionaries Paul Revere and William Dawes ride though the towns of Massachusetts warning that "the British are coming."

1838​

The Wilkes' expedition to the South Pole sets sail.

1853​

The first train in Asia begins running from Bombay to Tanna.

1861​

Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down an offer to command the Union armies.

1923​

Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1.

1942​

James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

1943​

Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters.

1983​

A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.

 

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1764​

The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money.

1775​

The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.

1782​

The Netherlands recognizes the United States.

1887​

Ole Evinrude, inventor of the first successful outboard motor is born.

1934​

Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.

 

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1519​

Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.

1800​

The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.

1805​

U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates.

1833​

A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.

1898​

Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

1915​

Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.

 

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1789​

George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.

1803​

The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.

1812​

Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.

1931​

The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.

1945​

Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.

1975​

North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War.

 

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1598​

Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain's interference in France.

1776​

France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.

1808​

The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon.

1863​

Stonewall Jackson smashes Joseph Hooker's flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia.

1865​

President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of the Confederate President

1890​

The Territory of Oklahoma is created.

1892​

Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron), German fighter ace of World War I.

1919​

The first U.S. air passenger service starts.

1941​

Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country's pro-German faction.

1945​

Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.

1970​

Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.

 

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1986​

The release of Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer

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The Brilliant Stupidity of Robert Palmer’s 1986 No. 1 Hit, ‘Addicted to Love’

Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” — which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 35 years ago today — is best known for its brilliantly idiotic video, which features the singer performing in front of five stunning mannequin-like models bearing vapid facial expressions and holding musical...

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1494​

Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria.

1814​

British attack the American forces at Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York.

1818​

Karl Marx, German philosopher (The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) is born.

1821​

Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.

1862​

Union and Confederate forces clash at the Battle of Williamsburg, part of the Peninsular Campaign.

1912​

Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing.

1916​

U.S. Marines invade the Dominican Republic.

1943​

Michael Palin, actor and screenwriter (Monty Python's Flying Circus) is born.

1945​

Holland and Denmark are liberated from Nazi control.

1961​

Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.

1965​

173rd Airborne Brigade arrives in Bien Hoa-Vung, Vietnam, the first regular U.S. Army unit deployed to that country.

2000​

The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align - Earth's moon is also almost in this alignment - leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a 'grand confluence' occurs about once in every century.

 

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Actually two days ago, on May 5, 1961 I sat in my Second Grade class to watch NASA light Alan's Shepard's "Candle"...

 

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Actually two days ago, on May 5, 1961 I sat in my Second Grade class to watch NASA light Alan's Shepard's "Candle"...

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I wasn’t evan born yet. My only memory of a launch was when I watch the space shuttle explode

 

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coincidence Prez George asked me the other day, “where I been”. Besides that, Prez George approved this Weakfish Shot in 2003, thanks George... cellfish...
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1430​

Burgundians capture Joan of Arc and sell her to the English.

1701​

Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames.

1785​

Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.

1788​

South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1928​

Rosemary Clooney, singer is born

1934​

Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.

 

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0585​

Thales of Greece makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse.

1787​

The Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.

1803​

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher is born.

1878​

Bill "Mr. Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer is born.

1889​

Igor Sikorsky, American aviation engineer who developed the first successful helicopter is born.

1914​

The British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.

1925​

John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.

1946​

Jordan gains independence from Britain.

1953​

The first atomic cannon is fired in Nevada.

 

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1098​

Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey.

1539​

Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.

1808​

Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America is born.

1861​

Union troops defeat Confederate forces at Philippi, in western Virginia

1864​

Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.

1888​

The classic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat," written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

1923​

In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote.

1940​

The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs.

1965​

Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule.

1989​

The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested.

 

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D-Day by the numbers: Here's what it took 79 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history

The invasion of Normandy is unquestionably one of the greatest military undertakings in history. Here's what it took to pull it off.

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