Also on April 26th in 1606- An expedition of English colonists went ashore at Cape Henry, Va., to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. (They later settled at Jamestown.)

O April 27th in 1521- Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.

Also on April 27, 1861, U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus...

On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.

"Well his name was Captain Adam Troy
And he sailed the "Kon-Tiki"
Now the captain's gone but he won't be forgotten
Nor his likes will we ever see"

Jimmy Buffett

Also 0n April 28, 1789, a mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift...

On April 29, 1913, Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper...

Also on April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

Also on April 30, 1900, Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express..."

On May 1, 1889, Asa Candler published a full-page advertisement in The Atlanta Journal, proclaiming his wholesale and retail drug business as "sole proprietors of Coca-Cola ... Delicious. Refreshing. Exhilarating. Invigorating." Mr. Candler did not actually achieve sole ownership until 1891 at a cost of $2,300...

On May 2, 1776, France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British...

Also on May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

may 2nd 1930

President Hoover in a speech said that the stock market crash of last year was just a temporary setback and would soon pass and that the economy would soon bounce back ( this was 6 months after the stock market crash and the great depression of the 1930's would continue and worsen over the next 5 years )

On May 3, 1971, anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.

Also on May 3, 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising...

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On May 4, 1970, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Allison Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer died...

On May 5, 1862, the Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day...

Which oddly means nothing down here south of the border.

Also on May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

On May 6, 1840, the first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain...

Also on May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

On May 7, 1912, the first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD...

On May 8, 1886, pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola..."

On May 9, 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time...

On May 10, 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

On May 11, 1967, the siege of Khe Sanh ended...

On May 12, 1970, Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs, hit his 500th home run...

On May 13, 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip left Britain for Australia. He successfully landed eleven ships full of convicts on January 18, 1788, at Botany Bay. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson...

On May 14, 1878, the name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough...

On May 16, 1618, Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law...

On May 16, 1939, the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League...

On May 17, 1948, the Soviet Union recognized the new state of Israel...

On May 18, 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped...

On May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden...

On May 20, 1861, North Carolina became the eleventh state to secede from the Union...

On May 22, 2011, the world failed to end.:)

Lindy

Getting back to reality, on May 24, 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published proof of a sun-centered solar system...

Also on May 24th, in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic.

On May 25, 1925, John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school...

Also on May 25th in 1935- Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.

On May 26, 1946, a patent was filed in the United States for an H-bomb...

Also on May 26th, in 1868, the Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.

On May 27, 1896, 255 people were killed in St. Louis, MO, when a tornado struck...

On May 28, 1957, National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco...

On May 29, 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Washington, DC. to demand cash bonuses they were not scheduled to receive for another 13 years...

Also on May 29th, in 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, left, and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.

On May 30, 1889, the brassiere was invented...

Also on May 30th, in 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

On May 31st in 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa.

On May 31, 1962, Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust...

Double tap.

On May 31, 1927 Ford Motor Company made the LAST Model T.

On June 1, 1935, the Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney...

On June 2nd in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

Also on June 2, 1851, Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol...

On June 3rd in 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to “walk” in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.

Also on June 3, 1856, Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine...

On June 4, 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris giving "complete independence" to Vietnam...

Also on June 4th in 1989, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement; hundreds – possibly thousands – of people died.

On June 5, 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died early the next morning...

On June 6, 1813, the U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario...

thanks :thumbsup:

On June 7, 1966, Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape recorder. The black and white only unit sold for $995...

On June 8, 632, the prophet Mohammed died...

On june 9th, in 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy’s attack on a member of Welch’s law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

Also on June 9, 1934, Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen..."

On June 10, 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith...

Also on June 10th in 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire... which ended all hostilities in the region ever after.

On June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem...

Also on June 11th in 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.

On June 12, 1667, the first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy...

On June 13, 1912, Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi...

Also on June 13th, in 1966, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.

On June 14th, In 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.

Also on June 14, 1940, the Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland...

On June 15th , in 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City’s East River.

On June 15, 1752, Benjamin Franklin experimented by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. The result was a little spark that showed the relationship between lightning and electricity...

On June 16, 1883, the New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day...

Also on June 16th in 1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid.

On June 17, 1872, George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.''

On June 18, 1936, Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution...

Also on June 18th in 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

On June 19, 1903, the young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland...

Also on June 19th in 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

On June 20, 1756, in India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta..."

Also on June 20th, in 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.

On June 21st in 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.

Also on June 21, 1913, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane...

Also on June 21st, in 1788, the U.S. Constitution formally went into effect as New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify.

On June 22, 1611, English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers...

Also on June 22nd in 1940, during World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.

On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer..."

Ok, I give... what's a typewriter?

Also on June 23rd in 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

On June 24, 1869, Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA...

Also on June 24th in 1997, the Air Force released a report on the so-called “Roswell Incident,” suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.

On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand..."

Beat me to it and stole my story this morning. No more Scotch and Cokes for you Phil!

Also on June 25th in 1957 The last Packard--the classic American luxury car with the famously enigmatic slogan "Ask the Man Who Owns One"--rolls off the production line at Packard's plant in Detroit, Michigan.

On June 26, 1819, the bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr...

Also on June 26th in 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).

On June 27, 1693, "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page..."

Also on June 27th in 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.