Today in History
Listings for Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
- 1825 J.J. Balmer --1898
- 1830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser
- 1909 Kate Smith
- 1916 Glenn Ford
- 1918 Jack Paar
- 1924 Terry Southern
- 1939 Judy Collins
- 1945 Rita Coolidge
- 1974 Antoine de Bouverie
Events:
- May Day
- 1840 1st adhesive postage stamps (English "Penny Blacks") issued.
- 1850 John Geary becomes 1st mayor of City of San Francisco.
- 1860 1st school for the deaf founded.
- 1869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
- 1884 Construction begins in Chicago on the 1st skyscraper.
- 1892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
- 1898 Dewey sinks the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay
- 1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
- 1964 Two Dartmouth professors give birth to the BASIC programming language
That's all for today.
