1 May 07 - Tuesday
1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe engineer/architect (built Capitol)
1769 Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)
1830 Mary Harris Jones [Mother Jones], hell-raiser
1852 Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke] frontier adventurer/Indian fighter
1909 Ethel Jane Cain original UK Speaking Clock voice
1916 Jack Parr Canton OH, TV host (Jack Paar Show)
1927 Harry [Harold George Jr] Belafonte New York NY, calypso singer
(The Banana Boat Song)
1939 Judy Collins Seattle WA, singer (Send in the Clowns, Both Sides Now, Clouds)
1944 Rita Coolidge Nashville TN, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone)
1953 Felix Hanemann rocker (Zebra)
1954 Ray Parker Jr Detroit MI, rock guitarist/vocalist
(Ghostbusters-Who You Gonna Call?)
1966 Johnny Colt Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes-
Shake Your Money Maker)
1968 Mark Scott Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence MO for California
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1853 Argentina adopts its constitution
1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1864 Wilderness campaign
1869 ? colt reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord OH
1883 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1931 Empire State Building opens in New York NY
1935 Boulder Dam completed
1939 Batman Comics hit the street
1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1941 "Citizen Kane", directed by & starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York
1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1945 Paul Josef Goebbels Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide
1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII
1948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st homerun
1952 William Fox [Fried] US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73
1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1965 Spike Jones composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
1966 Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1967 Elvis Presley & Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas
1971 Amtrak railroad begins operation
1971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1989 David Webster South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered
1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public
1991 Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & heterosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
1997 Bebe AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
1997 Toni Blair elected PM of UK
1898 George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"
as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
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