This day in history

[Mr. Shaman]

April 30​

1349: Jewish community, at Radolszell, Germany, exterminated.

1492: Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet.

1562: First French-colonists in U.S.; Jean Ribaut & Hugenots - Parris Island, NC

1563: Jews are expelled from France, by order of Charles VI

1598: First theater-performance in America; Rio Grande (Spanish comedy).

1722: The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant.

1763: London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower.

1789: George Washington inaugurated as 1st President of U.S.

1798: Department of the Navy is established.

1803: U.S. doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase; $15 million.

1808: 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri.

1838: Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation.

1861: President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory.

1864: New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting-license fee.

1871: Apaches, in Arizona, surrender to White & Mexican adventurers; 144 die.

1885: Boston Pops Orchestra forms.

1888: Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi, India.

1889: 1st U.S. National Holiday; Centennial of Washington's Inauguration.

1900: U.S. annexes Hawaii.

1904: Ice-cream-cone makes its debut.

1921: American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron, OH

1935: World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul.

1943: Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, for Jews, placed under SS command.

1945: Concentration camp München-Allag liberated. Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building, in Berlin.

1952: "Mr. Potato Head" is first toy advertised on television.

1955: West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages.

1961: San Francisco Giant Willie Mays hits 4 homeruns (in single-game).

1967: Highest tower in the world completed; 537 meters - USSR

1973: Richard Nixon announces resignation of H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman.

1975: Last US helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds in Vietnam; Saigon surrenders.

1980: Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London.

1991: Cyclone kills over 131,000 & leaves 9 million homeless; Bangladesh.

1992: 208th & final episode of "The Cosby Show".

1997: 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY......WILLIE NELSON!!!!!!!!!



GET 'EM, WILLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

......And, now.....the REST O' THE (Original) STORY!!​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

May 1​

1006: Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus.

1544: Turkish troops occupy Hungary.

1682: Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory.

1704: Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper-ad.

1840: 1st adhesive postage-stamps issued; "Penny Blacks", from England.

1841: 1st emigrant wagon-train leaves Independence, MO, for California.

1844: Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic-message.

1857: William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy.

1863: Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars". Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers.

1866: American Equal Rights Association forms.

1867: Howard University chartered.

1869: A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, OH.

1873: 1st U.S. post-card issued.

1875: 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities.

1883: "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show. - Baseball returns to Philadelphia; 1st National League game since 1876.

1884: Moses Walker became 1st black player in the major league.

1886: U.S. general strike for 8-hour-day, begins.

1889: Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form; Germany.

1915: RMS Lusitania leaves New York, for Liverpool.

1920: Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee homerun & 50th of career; Polo Grounds.

1926: Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League.

1927: 1st British-airliner to serve cooked meals; Imperial Airways.

1928: Pitcairn Airlines (later, Eastern Airlines) begins service.

1931: Empire State Building opens in New York, N.Y.

1935: Canada's 1st silver-dollar is circulated.

1937: FDR signs act of neutrality.

1939: Batman Comics first issued.

1940: 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship.

1941: General Mills introduces Cheerios.

1943: Food rationing begins in U.S.

1944: Messerschmitt Me-262 Sturmvogel (first operational jet-aircraft) makes 1st flight.

1948: North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea.

1950: Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize; poetry.

1951: 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany.

1957: Larry King's 1st radio-broadcast.

1959: West Germany introduces 5-day work-week.

1960: Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.

1961: Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee; "To Kill a Mockingbird".

1964: 1st BASIC program runs on a computer; Dartmouth.

1966: Last British concert by the Beatles; Empire Pool in Wembley.

1971: Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar".

1979: Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel.

1981: Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3

1985: U.S. President Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua.

1986: Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap.

1989: U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting.

Happy Birthday!!

Louis Nye

Joseph Heller

Harry Belafonte Jr.​

 

[The Scotsman]

1986: Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap.

I can still see them landing those poor firemen on top of the remains of the containment building dressed in what looked like leather tunics and running ou with shovels pushing all the radioactive gunk back onto the reactor core........poors sods! As I recall they all died?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

As I recall they all died?

Yeah...that's what I remember.

Who knows....the-powers-that-be might have convinced them that the risks were minimal.

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[Mr. Shaman]

May 2​

1536: King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery & incest.

1776: France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels.

1833: Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs.

1865: President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis.

1878: U.S. stops minting 20¢ coin.

1885: "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published.

1887: Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic-film.

1890: Territory of Oklahoma created.

1902: The 1st science fiction film, "A Trip To The Moon", is released.

1909: Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs.

1916: U.S. President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act.

1920: 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis.

1924: Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR.

1926: U.S. military intervenes in Nicaragua.

1933: In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.

1941: FCC approves regularly-scheduled commercial-TV broadcasts to begin July 1.

1952: 1st scheduled jet-airliner passenger-service begins with a BOAC Comet.

1953: Faisal II installed as King of Iraq. - Hussein I installed as King of Jordan.

1954: Stan Musial hits 5 homeruns, in a doubleheader.

1955: Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams; "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof".

1960: House investigating committee, looking into payola questions.

1964: Beatles' "Second Album" goes #1; stays #1 for for 5 weeks.

1965: Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service.

1974: Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred.

1975: Apple Records closes down.

1979: "Quadrophenia" premieres in London.

1980: Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa.

1981: Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes.

1983: 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga. CA

1988: Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an umpire.

1990: South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end Apartheid.

1994: Dr. Kevorkian found innocent on assisting-suicides.

1997: Republic of Texas security-chief Robert Scheidt surrenders.

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Happy Birthday!!

Goldy McJohn (keyboardist)​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

YOUR turn........

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[Mr. Shaman]

1964: Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_American_Life; Anti-intellectualism.​

"In many ways, Anti-intellectualism in American Life was a commentary on the increasing influence of Protestant evangelicalism, political egalitarianism, and the rising cult of practicality as the new criteria for assessing the private and public worlds. Hofstadter accused religion, politics, and the public schools of fostering in common people a resentment and suspicion of intellect, of the life of the mind, and of those who devote their lives to it. He charged that local evangelical preachers and small town lawyers and businessmen masked their bias against intellect with the rhetoric of morality, democracy, utility, and practicality. Thus, as the twentieth century chipped away at village culture, it was regrettable though not surprising that common folk, made suspicious of urbanity and learning by community leaders, reacted with a "righteous" vengeance to change and those who celebrated it."​

1970: National Guard kills 4 at Kent State.​

"Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. However, other students who were shot had merely been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance."​

Vietnam War: College Protests​

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

1958: Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru.​

"Hopefully, someone in Washington will scream as Ike did to the British: “Wake Up! It’s over.”

The American Century lasted 60 years. Biden could help redefine U.S. relations -- partnership, not domination -- with Latin America. What a relief that would be -- for almost everyone."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

1973: The Genesis Of The Nixon Legacy!!!

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"The Committee played a pivotal role in gathering evidence that would lead to the indictment of forty administration officials and the conviction of several of Nixon's aides for obstruction of justice and other crimes. Its revelations prompted the introduction of articles of impeachment against the President in the House of Representatives, which led to Nixon's resignation."​

......and, there was no SEX, involved!!

Imagine that!!!!

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[Mr. Shaman]

1926: Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies.​