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Every Year NATIONAL ROSE MONTH BEGINS BORN : OSCAR THE GROUCH (CHARACTER ON SESAME STREET) 1630s 1638: EARTHQUAKE SHOOK PLYMOUTH, MA 1790s 1792: KENTUCKY ADMITTED INTO THE UNION AS THE 15TH STATE 1796: TENNESSEE ADMITTED INTO THE UNION AS THE 16TH STATE225 Years Ago 1810s […]
MEMORIAL DAY The custom of honoring ancestors by cleaning cemeteries and decorating graves is an ancient and worldwide tradition, but the specific origin of Memorial Day, or Decoration Day as it was first known, are unclear. In early rural America, this duty was usually performed […]
www.IMS.com INDIANAPOLIS (Friday, May 28, 2021) – Actor, director and producer Milo Ventimiglia will serve as honorary starter for the 105th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, waving the green flag and sending the field of 33 NTT INDYCAR SERIES drivers on their epic quest for […]
1820s BORN 1820: PIERRE-JOSEPH-OLIVIER CHAUVEAU (FIRST PREMIER OF QUEBEC AFTER CONFEDERATION) 1840s 1848: U.S. AND MEXICO RATIFICATIONS OF TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO EXCHANGED AT QUERETARO. (TREATY WAS ORIGINALLY SIGNED ON FEB. 2, 1848.) 1860s 1868: FIRST U.S. NATIONAL CELEBRATION OF MEMORIAL (DECORATION) DAY TOOK PLACE […]
1500s DIED 1500: BARTHOLOMEU DIAS (PORTUGUESE DISCOVERER OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE) 1730s BORN 1736: PATRICK HENRY (PATRIOT) 1790s 1790: RHODE ISLAND RATIFIED THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. THEY WERE THE LAST OF THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES TO DO SO. 1790: RHODE ISLAND BECAME THE 13TH […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song “When a Man Loves a Woman“, a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, […]
1810s BORN 1818: AMELIA BLOOMER (REFORMER) 1830s BORN 1837: “WILD BILL” HICKOK (FRONTIERSMAN) 1840s DIED 1840: NICCOLÒ PAGANINI (COMPOSER) 1900s BORN 1907: RACHEL CARSON (CONSERVATIONIST) 1910s BORN 1912: JOHN CHEEVER (WRITER) 1930s 1937: GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IN SAN FRANCISCO OPENED TO PEDESTRIANS ONLY 1940s 1941: […]
FULL FLOWER MOON Flowers spring forth in abundance this month. Depending on the Native American tribe, May’s Full Moon was called the Full Flower Moon as well as Mother’s Moon, Milk Moon, and Corn Planting Moon. The May Moon marked a time of increasing fertility […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Reverend Fr. Stephen Theodore Badin (born Étienne Théodore Badin on July 17, 1768 – April 21, 1853) was the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States. He spent most of his long career ministering to widely dispersed Catholics in Canada and in what […]
VICTORIA DAY (CANADA) Victoria Day commemorates the May 24, 1819, birthday of Britain’s Queen Victoria (who since has had a whole era named for her–the Victorian era). The British have always celebrated the birthday of the ruling monarch. After Queen Victoria’s death in 1901, the […]
