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* Birthdays
B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser.
B05011907 Kate Smith, Singer
B05011916 Glenn Ford, Actor
B05011917 Danielle Darieux in France
B05011939 Judy Collins in Seattle Wash
B05011945 Rita Coolidge in Tennessee
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order."
B05021903 Dr. Benjamin Spock, Baby Specialist
B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner.
B05021946 Leslie Gore in Tenafly NJ, cries at her own party.
B05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
B05031898 Golda Meir, Israeli leader
B05031906 Mary Astor, New York Socialite
B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
B05031939 Samantha Eggar in England.
B05041796 Horace Mann, educator
B05041825 Biologist Thomas Huxley in England
B05041929 Audrey Hepburn in Brussels Belgium
B05041930 Roberta Peters, Opera singer, in New York City
B05041954 Julie Budd in Brooklyn NY
B05041961 Mary McDonough
B05051832 H. H. Bancroft, Yosemite Calendar
B05051867 Nellie Bly, name becomes a synonym for female star reporter.
B05051890 Christopher Morley, Author
B05051925 Monica Lewis
B05051926 Ann B. Davis in Schnectady NY - Brady Bunch maid
B05051927 Pat Carrol in Shrevport Louisiana
B05051942 Tammy Wynette, Country singer, Redbay Alabama
B05061818 Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto
B05061843 Grove Karl Gilbert, Yosemite Calendar
B05061856 Robert Peary, Arctic Explorer.
B05061856 Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalyst
B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, Actor
B05061931 The 'Say Hey Kid', Willie Mays, baseball player
B05061942 Tammy Wynette, Singer
B05071812 Robert Browning, poet
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
B05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer.
B05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman.'
B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid.)
B05071915 Orson Welles, Actor/Writer/Director
B05071919 Eva Peron, Argentine first lady.
B05071923 Anne Baxter in Michigan
B05071951 Janis Ian (Fink) in New York
B05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President.
B05081895 Fulton J. Sheen, bishop
B05081926 Comedian Don Rickles
B05081926 Environmentalist David Attenborough
B05081940 Peter Benchley, Author of "Jaws."
B05081943 Singer Toni Tennille, only female Beachboy in Montgomery Alabama
B05081964 Melissa Gilbert in Los Angeles
B05091860 James M. Barrie, Author of "Peter Pan," in Scotland.
B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen.
B05091918 News correspondent Mike Wallace.
B05091936 Albert Finney, Actor
B05091936 Glenda Jackson in Cheshire England
B05091940 James L. Brooks, Producer-director
B05091948 Billy Joel, Singer, in the Bronx, NY
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
B05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer.
B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
B05101921 Nancy Walker, Actress,  in Philadelphia Pa
B05101936 Glenda Jackson, Actress
B05101946 Candice Bergen, Actress
B05111888 Irving Berlin, Composer, dreaming of a White Christmas
B05111899 Fred Astaire, Dancer
B05111904 Salvador Dali, artist
B05111912 Phil Silvers, entertainer
B05111916 Camilo Jose Cela in Spain, author
B05121820 Florence Nightengale, inspiration to nurses everywhere.
B05121925 Yogi Barra, NY Yankee catcher
B05121929 Composer Burt Bacharach
B05121936 Tom Snyder, TV personality, nightcaster
B05121937 George Carlin, Comedian
B05121968 Prince, Rock Singer
B05121969 Kim Fields in Los Angeles
B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan in England, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame
B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight.
B05131919 Betty Comden in Brooklyn NY
B05131926 Bea Arthur in New York, "Maude", "Golden Girls"
B05131950 Peter Gabriel, rocker
B05131950 Stevie Wonder, singer
B05141686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, physicist
B05141919 Heloise and her helpful hints
B05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
B05141944 George Lucas, skywalker.
B05141946 Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
B05141950 Stevie Wonder, Singer
B05141952 David Byrne in England, rocker
B05151905 Joseph Cotten
B05151910 Constance Cummings
B05151918 Eddy Arnold, Country singer
B05151919 Wladziu Valentino Liberace, pianist
B05151923 Richard Avedon
B05151936 Actress-singer Anna Maria Alberghetti in Italy.
B05151937 Trini Lopez, Singer
B05151942 Lainie Kazan in Brooklyn, NY - Singer/actress
B05151953 George Brett, Kansas City Royals Baseball player
B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
B05161905 Henry Fonda, Actor, in Grand Island Nebraska
B05161905 Joseph Cotten, Actor
B05161940 Lainie Kazan, Singer-actress, in Brooklyn
B05161955 Debra Winger in Columbus Ohio
B05161955 Olga Korbut, gymnast, in Russia.
B05161966 Janet Jackson, Singer/Michael's Sister
B05171749 Edward Jenner in England, physician
B05171866 Erik Satie, composer.
B05171900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader.
B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan in Boyle Ireland
B05171918 Birgit Nilsson, Opera singer
B05171936 Dennis Hopper, an easy rider
B05171956 Sugar Ray Leonard, World Boxing Council middleweight champion
B05181872 Bertand Russell, Philsopher and Mathematician, in England.
B05181902 Meredith Willson, musician-composer (The Music Man).
B05181913 Perry Como, singer
B05181917 Dame Margot Fonteyn
B05181918 Pope John Paul II.
B05181930 Pernell Roberts, Bonanza
B05181946 Reggie Jackson, Baseball superstar
B05191795 Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist
B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer.
B05191935 David Hartman, Actor, TV host.
B05191941 Nora Ephron in New York, writer
B05191947 Glenn Close, actress
B05191952 Grace Jones in Jamaica, singer
B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812.
B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Company
B05201908 Jimmy Stewart, Actor
B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
B05201919 Comedian George Gobel
B05201944 Joe Cocker, Singer, in England.
B05201946 Cher Bono in California, "I got you babe"
B05201958 Jane Wiedlin (The GoGos)
B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph.
B05211898 Armand Hammer, Chairman of the Board.
B05211904 Fats Waller, Jazz Musician
B05211904 Robert Montgomery, Actor
B05211917 Dennis Day, Singer
B05211917 Raymond Burr, Actor, "Perry Mason."
B05211952 Mr T.
B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice).
B05221907 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor extrodinaire
B05221927 Michael Constantine
B05221934 Peter Nero, Composer
B05221938 Richard Benjamin, actor
B05221938 Susan Strasberg in New York City, actress
B05221942 Barbara Parkins in England
B05231707 Carolus Linnaeus, Botanist, in Sweden
B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader.
B05231923 Alicia de Larrocha, Pianist
B05231928 Rosemary Clooney in Kentucky, singer
B05231931 Barbara Barrie in Chicago
B05231933 Joan Collins in London, actress
B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer.
B05241819 Queen Victoria, British ruler
B05241934 Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago
B05241941 Bob Dylan in Minnesota, Folk Singer Robert Zimmerman
B05241943 Gary Burghoff, Actor, M*A*S*H
B05241944 Patti Labelle, Singer
B05241945 Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher.
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter.
B05251918 Claude Akins
B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz.
B05251929 Beverly Sills in Brooklyn NY, soprano
B05251943 Leslie Uggams in New York City
B05251947 Karen Valentine in Santa Rosa California
B05251955 Connie Sellecca in Bronx NY
B05261877 Isadora Duncan
B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer.
B05261907 John Wayne, Actor
B05261920 Peggy Lee in North Dakota, "Is that all there is?"
B05261923 James Arness, Actor
B05271819 Julia Ward Howe, poet
B05271837 Wild Bill Hickock
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective.
B05271911 Hubert Humphrey, U.S. Senator/Vice-President
B05271911 Vincent Price, Actor
B05271912 Sam Snead, Golfer
B05271923 Dr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary Of State
B05271935 Lee Merriweather, Miss America
B05281738 Dr Joseph Guillotin, (guess what he invented?)
B05281807 Louis Agassiz, Switzerland
B05281886 Jim Thorpe, Olympian
B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a odd job.
B05281931 Caroll Baker in Pennsylvania
B05281944 Gladys Knight in Atlanta Ga
B05281946 Madeline LeRouix in Wyoming
B05281947 Sondra Locke in Shellyville Tennessee
B05291736 Patriot Patrick Henry, who put his life where his mouth was
B05291826 Ebenezer Butterick inventor of the tissue paper dress pattern
B05291874 GK Chesterton, English novelist
B05291897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Movie composer
B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President from 1960 - 1963.
B05291956 LaToya Jackson, Singer
B05291963 Lisa Whelchel, Actress, in Ft Worth Texas.
B05301908 Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig.
B05301909 Bandleader Benny Goodman, swinger
B05301926 Pioneer transsexual Christine Jorgensen.
B05301927 Clint Walker, actor
B05301936 Keir Dullea, actor
B05301943 Gale Sayers, NFL Hall of Fame running back.
B05311819 Walt Whitman, Poet, in West Hills, NY
B05311898 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Evangelist/Author
B05311908 Don Ameche, actor
B05311923 Prince Rainier of Monaco
B05311930 Clint Eastwood, Actor/Mayor
B05311943 Joe Namath, Football Player
B05311943 Sharon Gless in Los Angeles
B05311950 Gregory Harrison
B05311950 Tom Berenger
B05311965 Brooke Shields, Actress-model, in New York City

* Events
E05011701 England, Wales and Scotland form Great Britain.
E05011840 First adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued.
E05011841 First wagon train leaves Independance, Mo for California.
E05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first U.S. skyscraper.
E05011926 Dodgers and Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings.
E05011931 Empire State Building opened in NY City.
E05011947 Radar for commercial and private planes first demonstrated.
E05011951 Mickey Mantle hits his first homer.
E05021881 President Garfield assassinated.
E05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published.
E05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130).
E05021945 Russia takes Berlin.
E05021946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die.
E05021954 Stan Musial hits 5 homers in a doubleheader.
E05021960 Caryl Chessman executed in California for kidnapping.
E05021968 Israeli television begins.
E05031765 First US Medical school opened.
E05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts.
E05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City.)
E05031951 Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning.
E05031952 First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole.
E05031971 National Non-commercial Network Radio Begins Programming.
E05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
E05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.
E05041942 Battle of the Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air.)
E05041970 Four students killed by National Guard at Kent State University.
E05041973 First TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine.
E05051891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
E05051922 Construction on Yankee Stadium begins.
E05051925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6.
E05051948 First air squadron of jets aboard a carrier.
E05051949 Council of Europe established.
E05051956 Jim Bailey - first 4 minute mile run in USA, Los Angeles, Ca.
E05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
E05061626 Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24.
E05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine."
E05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded.
E05061937 The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ.
E05061954 Roger Bannister breaks the 4 min mile in 3:59:4.
E05061962 First nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen.)
E05061985 Seventeenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth.
E05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
E05071915 British ship "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine, 128 Americans die.
E05071927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
E05071945 Nazis surrender to Eisenhower at Reims, France; World War II ends.
E05071947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres.
E05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles.)
E05081541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River.
E05081846 First major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas.
E05081886 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
E05081961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington.
E05081961 First practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas.
E05081970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album.
E05081971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden.
E05081984 USSR announces it will not participate in the LA Summer Olympics.
E05091502 Columbus leaves Spain on his 4th and final trip to the New World.
E05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles.
E05091913 17th amendment providing for election of senators by popular vote.
E05091926 Americans Byrd & Bennett make first airplane flight over North Pole.
E05091936 Italy annexes Ethiopia.
E05091946 First TV Variety show - NBC's "Hour Glass" premieres.
E05091961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow calls TV a `vast wasteland.'
E05101775 Col Ethan Allen captured Ft Ticonderoga, NY.
E05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for first time.
E05101775 Second Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania.
E05101869 The Transcontinential railroad is completed.
E05101923 J Edgar Hoover becomes head of the FBI.
E05101930 First planetarium opens to the public - Adler Planetarium, Chicago.
E05101940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister.
E05101960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of the globe under water.
E05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
E05111812 The Waltz is introduced into English ballrooms.
E05111858 Minnesota becomes the 32nd state.
E05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
E05111947 BF Goodrich manufactures the 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh.
E05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
E05111960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
E05111975 Israel signs an agreement with The European Economic Market.
E05121926 Airship Norge is first vessel over the North Pole.
E05121940 Nazi blitz conquest of France begins by crossing the Muese River.
E05121949 First foreign woman ambassador received in US - SVL Pandit, India.
E05121960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special.
E05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement.)
E05131804 Lewis & Clark begin expedition of La Purchase with Sacagawea.
E05131835 First foreign embassy in Hawaii is established.
E05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
E05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded.
E05131917 Three children see a vision of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal.
E05131950 The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.
E05131955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive homers of at least 463 feet.
E05141804 Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.
E05141811 Paraguay gains its independence.
E05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
E05141942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded.
E05141948 Prime Minster David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of Israel.
E05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab."
E05141981 Russians' Soyuz 40 is launched - First Rumanian in space.
E05151602 Cape Cod is discovered by the English navigator Batholomew Gosnold.
E05151911 Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil, saying it violates Antitrust Act.
E05151918 US Airmail begins between Wash DC, Philadelphia and New York.
E05151934 Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive.
E05151940 Nylon stockings on sale for the 1st time in the United States
E05151957 18000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launches a crusade.
E05151963 Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasts off aboard Faith VII, last Mercury flight.
E05151972 George C. Wallace is shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer.
E05161770 Marie Antoinette marries the future King Louis XVI of France
E05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece.
E05161868 Senate fails by 1 vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
E05161920 Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.
E05161948 Israel issues its first stamps.
E05161955 American author and critic James Agee dies in New York.
E05161956 "Kraft Theatre" presents an act from "Profiles in Courage."
E05161971 First Class postage raised to 8 cents from 6 cents.
E05171620 First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey.
E05171792 24 merchants form the NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
E05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
E05171814 Norway's constitution is signed providing for a limited monarchy.
E05171875 First Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs. Winner is Aristides.
E05171938 Radio quiz show `Information Please!' debuts on NBC Blue Network
E05171939 First sports telecast - Columbia vs Princeton - College baseball.
E05171960 First atomic reactor system is patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA.
E05181804 Napoleon becomes Emperor of France.
E05181917 US passes Selective Service act.
E05181933 TVA Act signed by President Roosevelt.
E05181951 United Nations moves into its New York City headquarters.
E05181953 First woman pilot faster than speed of sound - Jacqueline Cochran
E05181969 Apollo 10 is launched.
E05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State.
E05191536 Anne Boleyn executed.
E05191856 Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, speaks out against the pro-slavery people.
E05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law.
E05191928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" at Angel's Camp.
E05201506 Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
E05201861 NC secedes, Confederacy capital moves from Montgomery to Richmond
E05201902 The United States ends its occupation of Cuba
E05201926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies.
E05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
E05201932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland, first woman fly solo across Atlantic.
E05201939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service.
E05211832 First Democratic party national convention.
E05211881 The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton
E05211927 Lindbergh lands in Paris, after first solo across Atlantic.
E05211929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NY city.
E05211932 First transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed, AE Putnam
E05211941 First American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor.)
E05211955 First transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset.
E05221761 First life insurance policy in the US,issued in Philadelphia
E05221868 Great Train Robbery. Seven men make off with $98,000 in cash.
E05221939 Hitler and Mussolini sign `Pact of Steel.'
E05221947 First ballistic missile fired.
E05221947 The "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect aiding Turkey & Greece.
E05221963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
E05221967 Egyptian president Nassar closes the Straits of Tiran to Israel.
E05221970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus.
E05231430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sell her to the English.
E05231788 South Carolina becomes the eighth state of the Union.
E05231873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force is established.
E05231873 Postal Cards are sold in San Francisco for first time.
E05231898 First Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
E05231915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
E05231934 Bonnie and Clyde are shot in Louisana ambush.
E05241844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought?"
E05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Governor Cleveland.
E05241931 First air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad.
E05241935 First major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (vs Phila)
E05241954 First rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, NM.
E05241962 Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, aboard Aurora 7, is launched.
E05241964 Beatles third appearance on Ed Sullivan show.
E05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
E05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
E05251935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates.
E05251950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in New York City.
E05251973 Skylab 2's first mission is launched.
E05251978 The movie "Star Wars" is released.
E05251983 Movie "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
E05261781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia.
E05261896 Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted.
E05261913 Actor's Equity is organized in New York City.
E05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
E05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
E05261969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth
E05261980 Russians' Soyuz 36 is launched.
E05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.
E05271931 First full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va.
E05271937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
E05271941 German battleship Bismark sunk by British naval force
E05271975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars."
E05281530 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida.
E05281742 First indoor swimming pool opens at Goodman's Fields, London.
E05281774 First Continental Congress convenes in Virginia.
E05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
E05281929 First all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited, NYC
E05281946 First night game at Yankee stadium.
E05281953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody."
E05281959 First animals fired into space and rescued, Cape Canaveral.
E05291790 Rhode Island becomes the last of original 13 to ratify the Constitution.
E05291848 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state.
E05291849 A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.
E05291912 15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot"
E05291951 First North Pole flight in single engine plane - CF Blair.
E05291953 Edmund Hillary & Norkay of NZ become 1st to reach top of Mt. Everest.
E05291978 First Class postage raised to 15 cents from 13 cents.
E05301431 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen France at age 19.
E05301778 The French philosopher Voltaire dies.
E05301933 Patent on invisible glass installation.
E05301937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory.
E05301953 First major league network baseball game - Cleveland 7, Chicago 2.
E05301972 Terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport.
E05301982 Spain becomes the 16th member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization
E05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
E05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in the U.S.
E05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
E05311879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors.
E05311889 2000 people perish in a dam break in Johnstown Pa. flood
E05311913 17th amendment providing popular election of US senators.
E05311916 During WW I British & German fleets fight the Battle of Jutland.
E05311974 Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning the Golan Heights.
* Celebrations
C0501     May Day
C0501     A baseball club can re-sign their own free agents
C0505     Tango-no-sekku (Boy's Festival) -- Japan
C0506     National Nurse's Day
C0508-0   Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
C0509-0   Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
C0510     Native American Day is observed.
C0510-0   Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
C0511-0   Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
C0512-0   Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
C0512     National Limerik Day.
C0513     Leprechaun Day -- no blarney!
C0513-0   Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
C0514     Independence Day (in Paraguay).
C0514-0   Mother's Day.  Give her a call today.
C0515     'Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean' Day.
C0516     Armed Forces Day.
C0517     Norwegian Independence Day.
C0518     Visit Your Relatives Day.
C0521-1   Victoria Day -- Canada
C0522-1   Victoria Day -- Canada
C0523-1   Victoria Day -- Canada
C0523     BJ & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary! (M*A*S*H)
C0524-1   Victoria Day -- Canada
C0525-1   Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
C0526-1   Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
C0527-1   Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
C0528-1   Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
C0529-1   Memorial Day, a legal holiday.
C0530     The REAL Memorial Day, no matter what day of the week!
C0531     Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa.
C0531-1   Memorial Day, a legal holiday.