On this day in history.

[J. A.]

May 19th happenings:
1961 - ME

A belated "Happy birthday!" from me, too!

 

[scifan57]

May 20, 1873; blue jeans as we know them today are patented. Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for what became one of the world's most popular garments.

 

[zstairlessone]

1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India

1609 - Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London by the publisher Thomas Thorpe, (may have been done without his knowledge or permission)

1774 - Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio

1775 - Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain

1861 - North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union

And one for those on Laundry Detail...

1892 - George Sampson patents clothes dryer

 

[J. A.]

May 21, 1927: Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

 

[J. A.]

May 21, 1932: Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

 

[Richard Brown]

May 21, 1927: Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

May 21, 1932: Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

So that was 5 years between the events.

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[J. A.]

So that was 5 years between the events.

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Exactly.

 

[scifan57]

May 21, 1881; the American Red Cross is founded in Washington D.C. By Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons.

 

[zstairlessone]

1809 - Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon at the Battle at Aspern-Essling

 

[zstairlessone]

1840 - New Zealand becomes a British colony

1897 - the Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time (they may have been trying to locate A.A.)

 

[J. A.]

May 22, 1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

May 22, 1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.

 

[scifan57]

May 22, 1802; Martha Washington dies at Mt. Vernon.

 

[J. A.]

May 23, 2006: Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.

 

[J. A.]

May 23, 1958: Explorer 1 ceases transmission





Wikipedia

 

[scifan57]

May 23, 1934; Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas And Louisiana state police near Sailes, Louisiana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde

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