[angelicpower]

May 22

• In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great defeated Persian King Darius III at Granicus, Turkey.
• In 1868, seven members of the Reno gang stole $98,000 from a railway car at Marshfield, Ind. It was the original "Great Train Robbery."
• In 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon became the first U.S president to visit Moscow.
• In 1992, Johnny Carson ended his nearly 30-year career as host of "The Tonight Show" with what NBC said was the highest-rated late-night TV show ever
• In 1993, France, Great Britain, Russia, Spain and the United States approved a joint policy calling for a negotiated settlement of the war in Bosnia. However, the Muslim president of Bosnia rejected the plan.
• In 1998, a federal judge ruled that members of the U.S. Secret Service could be required to testify before a grand jury investigating U.S. President Bill Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
• In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law requiring cable TV systems to limit sexually explicit channels to late-night hours.
• In 2002, authorities in Birmingham, Ala., convicted the fourth and final suspect in the 1963 church bombing that killed four young black girls. Bobby Frank Cherry, 71, a former Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to life in prison.
• In 2003, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft orbiting Mars took a unique photo of Earth, the first from another planet, showing Earth as a tiny world in the vast darkness of space.
• In 2005, officials said about 100 U.S. military installations in Iraq will be consolidated into four heavily fortified, strategically located air bases.

[angelicpower]

Busy day for me, but a fun one. Still May 23rd here.....

• In 1900, U.S. Army Sgt. William H. Carney became the first black to win the Medal of Honor, for his efforts during the Civil War battle of Fort Wagner, S.C., in June 1863.
• In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and spirited him back to Israel, where he was tried, convicted and hanged.
• In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld federal regulations prohibiting federally funded women's clinics from discussing or advising abortion with patients.
• In 1994, four men convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
• Also in 1994, former U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was laid to rest next to her first husband, President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
• In 2006, Amnesty International claimed in its annual report that U.S. anti-terror policies worldwide had undermined human rights in 2005.
• In 2007, authorities said newly declassified U.S. intelligence showed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to set up bases in Iraq to launch attacks on the United States in 2005.

[angelicpower]

May 24

• In 1626, the Dutch West Indies Trading Co. bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians, paying with goods worth about $24.
• In 1844, the first U.S telegraph line was formally opened between Baltimore and Washington.
• In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan Island.
• In 1935, the first night major league baseball game saw the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
• In 1962, Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times.
• In 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled private religious schools that practice racial discrimination are not eligible for church-related tax benefits.
• In 1987, 250,000 people jammed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge on its 50th anniversary, temporarily flattening the arched span.
• In 1991, Israel began a mass evacuation of 14,500 Ethiopian Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. The operation took 36 hours.
• In 2003, residents of Kirkuk in northern Iraq went to the polls in what the U.S. commander of the region called "the beginning of the process of democratization" for the post-war country.
• In 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate passed legislation to give the Bush administration $100 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Also in 2007, the U.S. Congress voted to increase the minimum wage for the first time in 10 years, going from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 over a three-year period.

[angelicpower]

May 26

• In 1864, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, anxious to create new free territories during the Civil War, signed an act establishing the Montana Territory. Montana became a state 25 years later.
• On May 26th, 1897, Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" went on sale in London.
• In 1940, the evacuation of Dunkirk began. Sailing vessels of every kind were pressed into service to ferry across the English Channel the British, French and Belgian soldiers trapped by advancing German forces in northern France. All 200,000 were safely across by June 2.
• In 1972, at a Moscow summit, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pact limiting nuclear weapons.
• In 1985, a cyclone struck the Bay of Bengal, killing 1,400 people in Bangladesh.
• In 1994, the United States and Vietnam resumed diplomatic relations.
• In 2000, Canadian medical researchers reported they had transplanted insulin-producing cells into eight diabetic patients, freeing them from insulin injections.
• In 2003, a plane crash in Turkey killed all 74 aboard, including 62 Spanish soldiers returning from peacekeeping duties in Afghanistan.
• In 2004, Terry Nichols, serving a life sentence after a federal conviction in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was found guilty of 161 killings in a state court.
• In 2006, U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was accelerating its nuclear program to try to become an exporter of nuclear fuel.
• Also in 2007, al-Qaida remained determined to create nuclear weapons for mass destruction, a former U.N. weapons inspector said.
• And, a lightning strike during a fierce storm at a school in southwest China killed seven children and injured 39 others.

[angelicpower]

May 27

• In 1703, Czar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as the new capital of Russia.
• In 1930, Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for his adhesive tape, which was later manufactured by 3M as Scotch tape.
• In 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was opened. An estimated 200,000 people crossed it the first day.
• In 1968, the U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion disappeared in the Atlantic with 99 men aboard.
• In 1988, the U.S. Senate voted 98-5 in favor of the U.S.-Soviet treaty to abolish intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
• In 2004, a federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld Oregon's law authorizing doctors to help their terminally ill patients commit suicide.
• In 2006, a major earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java, killing a reported 5,000 people and leaving an estimated 200,000 homeless.

[Day Dreamer]

In 1968, the U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion disappeared in the Atlantic with 99 men aboard...

they did end up finding it....months down the road..

[angelicpower]

Originally Posted by DREAMER

In 1968, the U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion disappeared in the Atlantic with 99 men aboard...

they did end up finding it....months down the road..

I was wondering about that..Thanks woman!

[angelicpower]

May 28

• On May 28th, 1588, the Spanish Armada began to set sail for the English Channel.
  
• In 1798, the U.S. Congress empowered President John Adams to recruit an American army of 10,000 volunteers.
  
• In 1934, the Dionne sisters, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile, Maria and Annette, first documented set of quintuplets to survive, were born near Callander, Ontario, and soon became world famous. Emilie died in 1954, Maria in 1970 and Yvonne in 2001.
  
• In 1961, Amnesty International was founded in London by lawyer Peter Berenson.
  
• In 1987, West German Mathias Rust, 19, flew a single-engine plane from Finland through Soviet radar and landed beside the Kremlin in Moscow. Three days later, the Soviet defense minister and his deputy were fired.
  
• In 1995, Bosnia's foreign minister and five other people were killed when Serb forces downed their helicopter.
  
• In 1998, Pakistan conducted five underground nuclear tests, prompting U.S. President Bill Clinton to impose economic sanctions against the Asian nation.
  
• Also in 1998, in a first, digitized pictures taken by the Hubbell Space Telescope seemed to show an image of a planet outside the solar system. The planet circled two stars in the constellation Taurus.
  
• In 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law his modified tax reduction plan which lowered the tax rate for upper- and middle-income taxpayers and trimmed rates on capital gains and dividends.
  
• In 2007, diplomats from the United States and Iran met in Baghdad in the first formal talks between the two nations in 27 years.
  

[angelicpower]

May 30

• In 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at age 19. She had been convicted of sorcery.
• In 1783, the "Pennsylvania Evening Post" became the first daily newspaper published in the United States.
• In 1806, future U.S. President Andrew Jackson took part in a duel, killing Charles Dickinson, a Kentucky lawyer who had called Jackson's wife Rachel a bigamist.
• In 1868, the first major Memorial Day observance was held to honor those killed during the Civil War. It was originally known to some as "Decoration Day."
• In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington.
• In 1943, the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu off the Alaskan coast were retaken by U.S. forces after being occupied by Japanese troops during World War II.
• In 1972, the unmanned U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on a mission to gather scientific data on Mars, ultimately sending back valuable information and becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than the Earth.
• In 2002, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the FBI would have expanded powers to monitor religious, political and other organizations as well as the Internet as a guard against terrorist attacks.
• Also in 2002, the massive cleanup was completed in the ruins of New York's World Trade Center, destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
• In 2007, U.S. President George Bush asked Congress for an additional $30 billion to fight AIDS globally.
• Also in 2007, in a Gallup poll of U.S. adults, one-third of respondents said they believed the Bible was literally true.

[uaelitetrack4]

how about in 2008 they found the existence of a tribe that has never had outside human contact!