On this day in history.

[scifan57]

Happy birthday to me and John Wayne.

Should we start calling you "The Duke", now?

 

[KevinJS]

Should we start calling you "The Duke", now?

I've been called worse.

 

[leelai]

Happy birthday to me and John Wayne.

Happy Birthday Kevin! Have a wonderful day!

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Happy birthday to me and John Wayne.

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[J. A.]

May 27, 1937 – Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County





Wikipedia

 

[J. A.]

May 28, 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. (Wikipedia)

 

[scifan57]

May 28, 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. (Wikipedia)

Other cardinal dates could be when something like an appearance of Halley's Comet occurs.
I found this website that talks about using astronomy to date historical events. http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public/ask/2530

 

[J. A.]

May 28, 1999: In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.





Wikipedia

 

[J. A.]

May 29, 1953: Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.





Wikipedia

 

[scifan57]

May 30, 1431; Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy at Rouen, in English controlled Normandy.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joan_of_arc_miniature_graded.jpg

 

[KevinJS]

Congratulations and thanks to all of the members who have found such a variety of interesting facts. This thread has gone to a thousand replies.

 

[J. A.]

March 30, 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_9

 

[scifan57]

May 30, 1911; the first Indianapolis 500 is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Speedway Indiana.

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

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

 

[J. A.]

May 31, 1859: The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.

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






And:

May 31, 1852: Julius Richard Petri is born

Google Doodle:

 

[J. A.]

June 1, 1974: The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.