On this day in history.

[J. A.]

May 17, 1970: Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

 

[Richard Brown]

17th May, 1943 is the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid when 3 dams in Germany were attacked. BBC Radio 2 is dedicating special programmes in memory today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/dambusters.html

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[scifan57]

17th May, 1943 is the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid when 3 dams in Germany were attacked. BBC Radio 2 is dedicating special programmes in memory today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/dambusters.html

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I've got the Dambusters movie on DVD. I've also read Guy Gibson's book Enemy Coast Ahead.

 

[Richard Brown]

I've got the Dambusters movie on DVD. I've also read Guy Gibson's book Enemy Coast Ahead.

Johnny Johnson, now aged about 90, was interviewed yesterday. He looks very fit.

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[scifan57]

May 17, 1943; the B-17 bomber "Memphis Belle" and it's crew become the first to complete 25 bombing missions.

 

[J. A.]

May 18, 2005: A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra.

May 18, 1910: Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

 

[scifan57]

May 18, 1980; Mount St. Helens erupts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens

 

[J. A.]

May 19, 1961: Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).

May 19, 1971: Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.

 

[MemphisMark]

May 19th happenings:

1536 - Anne Bolelyn loses her head.
1848 - Mexican-American War ends.
1962 - Maryln Monroe sings "Happy birthday Mr. President" to JFK.
2001 - The first two Apple stores open in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California at Glendale Galleria.

Births:

1890 - Ho Chi Minh
1910 - Nathuram Godse (Assassin of Gandhi)
1925 - Malcolm X and Pol Pot
1934 - Jim Lehrer
1935 - David Hartman
1939 - Nancy Kwan and Dick Scobee (Commander of the Shuttle Challenger when it exploded)
1944 - Peter Mayhew (Chewbaca)
1945 - Pete Townsend (The Who)
1946 - André the Giant
1948 - Grace Jones
1949 - Dusty Hill (ZZ Top) and Archie Manning
1951 - Joey Ramone
1955 - James Gosling (invented Java)
1961 - ME
1981 - Yo Gotti (A rapper from Memphis, TN)

Deaths:

1536 - Anne Boleyn
1935 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
1994 - Jackie Kennedy Onassis

 

[J. A.]

May 19, 1911: Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.

 

[J. A.]

May 20, 1927: At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.

 

[scifan57]

May 19, 1935; Lawrence of Arabia dies. T.E. Lawrence dies as the result of a motorcycle accident suffered 6 days earlier.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Te_lawrence.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T.E.Lawrence,_the_mystery_man_of_Arabia.jpg

 

[zstairlessone]

May 19th happenings:

1536 - Anne Bolelyn loses her head.
1848 - Mexican-American War ends.
1962 - Maryln Monroe sings "Happy birthday Mr. President" to JFK.
2001 - The first two Apple stores open in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California at Glendale Galleria.

Births:

1890 - Ho Chi Minh
1910 - Nathuram Godse (Assassin of Gandhi)
1925 - Malcolm X and Pol Pot
1934 - Jim Lehrer
1935 - David Hartman
1939 - Nancy Kwan and Dick Scobee (Commander of the Shuttle Challenger when it exploded)
1944 - Peter Mayhew (Chewbaca)
1945 - Pete Townsend (The Who)
1946 - André the Giant
1948 - Grace Jones
1949 - Dusty Hill (ZZ Top) and Archie Manning
1951 - Joey Ramone
1955 - James Gosling (invented Java)
1961 - ME
1981 - Yo Gotti (A rapper from Memphis, TN)

Deaths:

1536 - Anne Boleyn
1935 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
1994 - Jackie Kennedy Onassis

Hmmm, thought you'd sneak that little 1961 entry by, well Happy Day Late Birthday wishes!

 

[Richard Brown]

May 19, 1935; Lawrence of Arabia dies. T.E. Lawrence dies as the result of a motorcycle accident suffered 6 days earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=41849"/> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Te_lawrence.jpg

<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=41850"/> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T.E.Lawrence,_the_mystery_man_of_Arabia.jpg

The film about him is excellent. He died about 20 miles from where I went to college.

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[scifan57]

The film about him is excellent. He died about 20 miles from where I went to college.

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Have you seen the monument at the side of the road, where he had his accident? I bought a copy of his book, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, at a used book store some time ago.