This date in history

Actually two days ago, on May 5, 1961 I sat in my Second Grade class to watch NASA light Alan's Shepard's "Candle"...

Actually two days ago, on May 5, 1961 I sat in my Second Grade class to watch NASA light Alan's Shepard's "Candle"...

I wasn’t evan born yet. My only memory of a launch was when I watch the space shuttle explode

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coincidence Prez George asked me the other day, “where I been”. Besides that, Prez George approved this Weakfish Shot in 2003, thanks George... cellfish...
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[HEADING=2]1430[/HEADING]
Burgundians capture [Joan of Arc]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/joan-of-arc') and sell her to the English.

[HEADING=2]1701[/HEADING]
Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames.

[HEADING=2]1785[/HEADING]
[Benjamin Franklin]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/benjamin-franklin-americas-inventor.htm') announces his invention of bifocals.

[HEADING=2]1788[/HEADING]
South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

[HEADING=3]1928[/HEADING]
Rosemary Clooney, singer is born

[HEADING=2]1934[/HEADING]
Gangsters [Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/bonnie-clydes-revenge-on-eastham.htm') are killed by Texas Rangers.

[HEADING=2]0585[/HEADING]
Thales of Greece makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse.

[HEADING=2]1787[/HEADING]
The Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia with [George Washington]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/george-washington') presiding.

[HEADING=3]1803[/HEADING]
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher is born.

[HEADING=3]1878[/HEADING]
Bill "Mr. Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer is born.

[HEADING=3]1889[/HEADING]
Igor Sikorsky, American aviation engineer who developed the first successful helicopter is born.

[HEADING=2]1914[/HEADING]
The British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.

[HEADING=2]1925[/HEADING]
[John Scopes]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/scopes-trial.htm') is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.

[HEADING=2]1946[/HEADING]
Jordan gains independence from Britain.

[HEADING=2]1953[/HEADING]
The first atomic cannon is fired in Nevada.

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[HEADING=2]1098[/HEADING]
Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey.

[HEADING=2]1539[/HEADING]
Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.

[HEADING=3]1808[/HEADING]
[Jefferson Davis]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/jefferson-davis'), President of Confederate States of America is born.

[HEADING=2]1861[/HEADING]
Union troops defeat Confederate forces at [Philippi]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/battle-of-philippi'), in western Virginia

[HEADING=2]1864[/HEADING]
Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the [Battle of Cold Harbor]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/cold-harbor') in Virginia.

[HEADING=2]1888[/HEADING]
The classic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat," written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

[HEADING=2]1923[/HEADING]
In Italy, dictator [Benito Mussolini]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/the-importance-of-being-mussolini.htm') grants women the right to vote.

[HEADING=2]1940[/HEADING]
The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs.

[HEADING=2]1965[/HEADING]
Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule.

[HEADING=2]1989[/HEADING]
The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested.

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[HEADING=2]0632[/HEADING]
[Muhammad]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/muhammad-the-warrior-prophet.htm'), the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies.

[HEADING=2]0793[/HEADING]
The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England.

[HEADING=2]1861[/HEADING]
Tennessee votes to [seced]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/secession')e from the Union and join the[ Confederacy]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/confederacy').

[HEADING=2]1862[/HEADING]
At the Battle of Cross Keys, Confederate Gen. Richard Ewell and his men defeat Union Gen. John C. Fremont, setting up [Stonewall Jackson]('https://www.historynet.com/stonewall-jackson') to move the next day against Union forces at nearby Port Republic.

[HEADING=2]1863[/HEADING]
Residents of [Vicksburg]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/battle-of-vicksburg') flee into caves as [General Ulysses S. Grant]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/ulysses-s-grant')'s army begins shelling the town.

[HEADING=3]1867[/HEADING]
Frank Lloyd Wright, influential American architect is born.

[HEADING=2]1904[/HEADING]
U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.

[HEADING=2]1953[/HEADING]
The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.

[HEADING=2]1965[/HEADING]
[President Lyndon Johnson]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/lyndon-b-johnson') authorizes commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat.

[HEADING=2]1966[/HEADING]
Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.

[HEADING=2]1968[/HEADING]
James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of [Martin Luther King, Jr.]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/martin-luther-king-jr'), is captured at the London Airport.

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Damn your late

National Flag day was created

[HEADING=2]1381[/HEADING]
The Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury.

[HEADING=2]1642[/HEADING]
Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies.

[HEADING=2]1775[/HEADING]
The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops.

[HEADING=2]1777[/HEADING]
The Continental Congress authorizes the "stars and stripes" flag for the new United States.

[HEADING=2]1789[/HEADING]
Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied.

[HEADING=2]1846[/HEADING]
A group of settlers declare California to be a republic.

[HEADING=2]1893[/HEADING]
The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day.

[HEADING=2]1907[/HEADING]
Women in Norway win the right to vote.

[HEADING=2]1919[/HEADING]
[John William Alcott and Arthur Whitten Brown take off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/browns-great-adventure-the-first-transatlantic-flight.htm')
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[HEADING=2]1922[/HEADING]
[President Warren G. Harding]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/book-review-the-strange-deaths-of-president-harding-robert-h-ferrell-ah.htm') becomes the first president to speak on the radio.

[HEADING=2]1940[/HEADING]
German forces occupy [Paris]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/dark-days-in-paris-the-city-of-light.htm').

[HEADING=2]1944[/HEADING]
Boeing [B-29 bombers]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/book-review-blankets-of-fire-us-bombers-over-japan-during-world-war-ii-kenneth-p-werrell.htm') conduct their first raid against mainland Japan.

[HEADING=2]1945[/HEADING]
[Burma is liberated]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/burma-campaign-seizing-imphal-and-kohima-in-world-war-ii.htm') by the British.

[HEADING=2]1951[/HEADING]
UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr.

[HEADING=2]1954[/HEADING]
Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.

[HEADING=2]1982[/HEADING]
Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War.

Flag Day. When a bunch of politicos stole it from the rightful Birth of the United States Army.

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[HEADING=2]0240[/HEADING]
Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of Earth using two sticks.

[HEADING=2]1778[/HEADING]
[General George Washington]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/george-washington')'s troops finally leave Valley Forge after a winter of training.

[HEADING=2]1821[/HEADING]
The Ottomans defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.

[HEADING=2]1846[/HEADING]
The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the [first baseball game]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/baseball-in-the-west-2.htm') at Elysian Field, Hoboken, New Jersey.

[HEADING=2]1862[/HEADING]
[President Abraham Lincoln]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/abraham-lincoln') outlines his [Emancipation Proclamation]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3027081&action=edit'). News of the document reaches the South.

[HEADING=2]1867[/HEADING]
Mexican Emperor Maximilian is executed.

[HEADING=2]1885[/HEADING]
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France.

[HEADING=3]1897[/HEADING]
Moe Howard, comic actor, one of the Three Stooges is born.

[HEADING=2]1903[/HEADING]
The young school teacher, [Benito Mussolini]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/the-importance-of-being-mussolini.htm'), is placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland.

[HEADING=2]1933[/HEADING]
France grants Leon Trotsky political asylum.

[HEADING=2]1942[/HEADING]
[Prime Minister Winston Churchill]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/churchill-charges-forth-with-sword-and-pen.htm') arrives in Washington D.C. to discuss the [invasion of North Africa]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/world-war-ii-north-africa-campaign.htm') with [President Franklin Roosevelt]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/franklin-d-roosevel').

[HEADING=2]1944[/HEADING]
U.S. Navy carrier-based planes shatter the remaining Japanese carrier forces in the Battle of the Marianas.
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[HEADING=2]1951[/HEADING]
[President Harry S. Truman]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/harry-s-truman') signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extends [Selective Service]('http://historynet.wpengine.com/whats-your-number.htm') until July 1, 1955 and lowers the draft age to 18.

[HEADING=2]1958[/HEADING]
Nine entertainers refuse to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism

[HEADING=2]1961[/HEADING]
Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain.

[HEADING=2]1963[/HEADING]
Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space.

[HEADING=2]1987[/HEADING]
The U.S. Supreme Court voids the Louisiana law requiring schools to teach creationism.

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*Just after 3 a.m. on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched [Operation Barbarossa]('https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/operation-barbarossa-and-germanys-defeat-in-the-east/F6A6D6C530FA3B02E3A382169062BD1E'), the largest invasion in the history of warfare.

Over 3.5 million Axis troops, along with more than 3,400 tanks and 2,700 aircraft, blitzed across the 1,800-mile border separating the Axis powers from the Soviet Union.*

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