On this day in history.

[J. A.]

May 24, 1962: Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.




Wikipedia

 

[J. A.]

May 25, 1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.

 

[zstairlessone]

1787
The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in order to establish a new U.S. government.

1925
John Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

Edit: while in Ft. worth, I got to hold and read a signed first edition of "on The Origin of Species". Made history a little closer to home.

 

[scifan57]

May 25, 1977; Star Wars premiers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star_Wars_Logo.svg

 

[J. A.]

May 26, 1897: "Dracula" is published, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker





Wikipedia

 

[scifan57]

May 26, 1927; Ford ModelT production officially ends, with Henry Ford and his son, Edsel driving the 15,000,000th Model T off the assembly line.

 

[scifan57]

May 26, 1907; Marion Michael Morrison is born in Winterset, Iowa. You may know him better as John Wayne.

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

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

 

[KevinJS]

Happy birthday to me and John Wayne.

 

[Richard Brown]

Happy birthday to me and John Wayne.

Happy Birthday 2Ux3.

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[J. A.]

Happy birthday to me and John Wayne.

Happy birthday to you!

 

[J. A.]

Happy Birthday 2Ux3.

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What's "x3"?

 

[scifan57]

What's "x3"?

It could refer Kevin, John Wayne and someone else sharing the same birthday.

BTW, happy birthday, Kevin.

 

[Richard Brown]

What's "x3"?

Repeat 3x. However after the second repeat there should be "Happy Birthday dear Kevin".

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[scifan57]

Repeat 3x. However after the second repeat there should be "Happy Birthday dear Kevin".

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The mystery has been solved!

 

[zstairlessone]

Happy birthday to me and John Wayne.

!!! !!! !!!