May 5 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 230 days remaining until the end of time.
1260 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1816 American Bible Society is organized in New York
1862 French army is defeated in Puebla, Mexico. Last invasion by foreign troops in North America. We prefer doing it ourselves!
1865 In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1891 Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York with Pyotr Il’ych Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
1904 Throwing like a girl, Cy Young of Boston pitches first perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0) in the modern era
1955 "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1022 performances without the shower scenes
1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York. I couldn’t find a picture of Mike, but I did find a picture of who was drag racing against him.
1994 American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism. Bet he won’t do that again!
1997 "Married With Children" airs its final episode on Fox TV leaving poor David Faustino without a clear career path.
1821 Napoleon I Bonaparte, emperor France (1799-1815), rises high, falls low
2001 Cliff Hillegass, US businessman/invented Cliffs Notes, still leaves out important stuff
2001 Raymond Kessler, US wrestler, takes an early fall
2011 Arthur Laurents, 93, gay US playwright/librettist/stage director/screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story), reaches a turning point when he finally understands the way we were.
2011 Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last surviving combat veteran of World War I, won’t be back ‘til it’s over over there.
March 3 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 293 days remaining until the end of time.
1634 1st tavern in Boston opens by Samuel Cole, not Samuel Malone
1855 Congress approves $30,000 (almost $750,000 in 2009 dollars) to test camels for military use. They aren't very good marksmen.
1873 Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. Who reads books anymore?
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller so that Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke can win Oscars, and overlook the obvious sexual tension between them
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem
1933 Mount Rushmore is dedicated
1951 Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1966 Buffalo Springfield forms (Stephen must have a roll of quarters in his pants pocket, or something)
1972 Sculpted figures of the traitors Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia
1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis premieres on ABC-TV.
1991 Four Los Angeles Police severely beat Rodney King and captured on amateur video.
1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce. Oh dear, will she ever find love again? We know he will because he's hot!
1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, US track & field phenomenon/humanitarian from East St. Louis, Illinois
1963 Suzette Charles, Miss America Runner-Up who became the second black Miss America after soft-core lesbianic photos of Vanessa Williams are published in Penthouse
