Adopt a Shelter Pet Day
Bugs Bunny Day *
Kiss of Hope Day *
Honesty Day
National Military Brats Day
Oatmeal Cookie Day
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYSPaganism – Beltane (Northern Hemisphere) and Samhain (Southern Hemisphere)
Voudon – Mangé Les Morts (feeding the dead)
Bonaire – Dia di Rincon
(end of harvest- Simadan – celebration)
Finland – Helsinki: Vappuaatto
(May Day Eve)
Germany & Sweden –
Walpurgisnacht (witches’ night)
Jordan – Labor Day
Mexico – El Día Del Niño
Scotland – Edinburgh:
Beltane Fire Festival
Sweden – King’s Birthday
Vietnam – Reunification Day
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On This Day in HISTORY642 – Chindasuinth is anointed by the bishops as Visigothic King of Hispania, after a pro forma election by the nobles once he overthrew his predecessor Tulga in a coup
1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny, French Chamberlain, coadjutor and minister to Philip IV the Fair, after successfully defending himself against charges by Charles of Valois of bribery and corruption, is hanged when Valois brings new charges of sorcery against him
1513 – Edmund de la Pole, son of Edward IV’s younger sister Elizabeth of York, and leading Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed by order of King Henry VIII, after being imprisoned by Henry VII since 1506
1517 – Evil May Day Riot, violence against foreigners living in London by about 1,000 apprentices congregate in Cheapside, then free prisoners locked up for previous attacks on foreigners, and march on the St. Martin le Grand section of London, home to many foreigners, and loot their houses; the Duke of Norfolk and possible the Early of Shrewsbury, lead a private army to quell the rioters
1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile
1598 – Juan de Oñate makes a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico
1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to
the Huguenots, French protestants
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office as the first elected President of the United States
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes Louisiana, the 18th U.S. state
1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation
1857 – Eugen Bleuler born, Swiss psychiatrist; pioneer in study of schizophrenics
1859 – A Tale of Two Cities, the novel by Charles Dickens is first published as a serial in a literary magazine
1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York’s first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use
1888 – John Crowe Ransom born, American poet and critic
1897 – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London
1898 – Katherine Amelia Towle born, American Colonel, 2nd director of the U. S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, 1st Director of Women Marines
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor, a long-time advocate of the westernization and destruction of Hawaii’s monarchy and culture. He helped write the “Bayonet Constitution” which curtailed the monarch’s powers and limited voting rights to wealthy, educated, mostly non-whites. While he declined to officially be part of the “Committee of Safety” which overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, he helped draft their declaration, and was named president of the Provisional Government
1901 – Simon Kuznets born in Russia, American economist/statistician; Nobel Laureate
1902 – Theodore Schultz born, American economist, Nobel Laureate for important studies of the human factor in the workplace
1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri
1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city
1916 – Robert Shaw born, American choral and orchestra conductor1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity
1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, the first U.S. women’s federal prison
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood
1937 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite on extending suffrage to Filipino women; over 90% vote in the affirmative
1938 – Bugs Bunny Day * – animated cartoon short “Porky’s Hare Hunt” debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny)1939 – Ellen Zilch born, composer, first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music (1983) for Symphony No. 1 “Three Movements for Orchestra”; commissioned by N.Y. Philharmonic to compose large-scale orchestral works: Symbolon (1988), Symphony no.2 “Cello Symphony” (1985), and Symphony no.3 (1992)
1939 – The 1939-40 New York World’s Fair opens
1939 – NBC debuts its regularly scheduled television service in NYC, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s N.Y. World’s Fair opening day ceremonial address
1941 – Charlie Parker records “Hootie Blues” with the Jay McShann group1945 – Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building
1945 – Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen
1947 – In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam for the second time
1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States (OAS) is established
1957 – The UN Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery goes into force
1957 – Elvis Presley records “Jailhouse Rock”1958 – American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is founded in Washington, D.C.
1960 – Fats Domino records “Walking to New Orleans”1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned
1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol, England, to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom
1970 – U.S. President Nixon announces the U.S. is sending troops into Cambodia
1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman have resigned
1975 – Communist forces gain control of South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon; the Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh
1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free
1993 —Top-ranked women’s tennis player Monica Seles, age 19, is stabbed in the back by a degranged male Steffi Graf fan, during a match in Hamburg, Germany
1997 — ABC airs the “coming out” episode of the sitcom “Ellen,” in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, admits she is a lesbian2003 – Mahmoud Abbas takes office as the first Palestinian prime minister
2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, in Russia, are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the last Tsar’s children, whose entire family was executed in Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks
2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
2009 – British forces withdraw from Iraq
2015 – The first national Kiss of Hope Day, sponsored by the Kiss of Hope Foundation, a fundraiser for its network of organizations which help families in need
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