1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
Yup I remember it very well. End of an era and beginning of another for the survivors in that sad land...and while the forced indoctrinations and proscriptions by the North are gone....and relations improved between fromer foes. They were not pleasant memories for a then young corporal who could have very easily been sent there in 1972.
In many senses they still are not.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
S. T. Friedman
Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'
May 1st: 1751 - 1st American cricket match is played 1778 - American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. 1822 - John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston 1841 - 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif 1844 - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate 1848 - The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. 1850 - John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor 1857 - William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy 1862 - Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died) 1863 - Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi 1863 - Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars" 1863 - Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers 1864 - -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign) 1864 - Atlanta campaign, GA begins 1864 - Wilderness campaign 1866 - American Equal Rights Association forms 1867 - Howard University chartered 1867 - Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration 1873 - 1st US postal card issued 1884 - Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) 1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. 1886 - US general strike for 8 hour day, begins 1889 - 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International 1892 - US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay 1893 - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago 1898 - George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila 1900 - Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah 1901 - Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo 1915 - German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight mpleted 1936 - FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis 1937 - FDR signs act of neutrality 1943 - Food rationing begins in US 1948 - Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes" 1957 - US give Poland credit of $95 million 1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba 1966 - US troops shooting targets in Cambodia 1982 - 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens 1985 - US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua 1989 - US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting 2006 -
The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42
other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow. 2007 -
The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police
Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter
of controversy.
Forgot one, May first, 2008. The military half of my family takes over the hamlet of Silicum.
"Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces".
Unknown.
May 2nd: 1670 - King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company 1776 - France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels 1863 - South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va 1863 - Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men 1865 - Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis 1878 - US stops minting 20 cent coin 1890 - Territory of Oklahoma created 1916 - US president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act 1919 - 1st US air passenger service starts 1926 - US military intervenes in Nicaragua 1946 - Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die 1956 - US Methodist church disallows race separation 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 2000 - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. 2011 -
Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11
attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States
special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
May 3rd: 1765 - 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia 1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city 1861 - Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 - Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights) 1863 - Battle of Salem Church, VA 1864 - 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault 1921 - West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax 1926 - US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 1943 - US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia 1944 - Meat rationing ends in US 1971 - Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days 1983 - US bishops condemn nuclear weapons 2001 -
The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for
the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
May 4th: 1776 - Rhode Island declares independence from England 1780 - American Academy of Arts & Science founded 1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty 1847 - NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration 1851 - 1st major SF fire 1858 - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz 1862 - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia 1862 - Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as
it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church 1863 - End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1864 - -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia 1864 - Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee 1865 - Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders 1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL 1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss) 1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen 1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal. 1923 - NY state revokes Prohibition law 1942 - Food 1st rationed in US 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1961 - CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 2007 - Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
Before the Fall: On May 4, 1893, the city of Everett incorporated. Local residents didn't have much time to celebrate, as the New York stock market tumbled the next day, sending the nation into a deep economic depression that would last four years.
May 5th: 1809 - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw) 1814 - British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY 1816 - American Bible Society organized (NY) 1847 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) 1855 - NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration 1861 - Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city 1862 - Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA 1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS 1864 - Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke 1864 - Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern) 1864 - Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA 1865 - 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio) 1877 -
Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid
harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. 1891 - Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor 1893 - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange 1920 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1921 - 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired 1922 - Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) 1924 - Unions terminate Twentse textile strike 1925 - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 1942 - US begins rationing sugar during WW II 1947 - Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1965 - 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site 1971 - Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC) 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 6th: 1787 - 1st Black Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston 1835 - 1st edition of NY Herald (price 1 cent) 1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald. 1853 - 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut) 1861 - Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th state to secede from US 1861 - Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy 1861 - American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union. 1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA 1864 - Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured 1864 - General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration 1890 - Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)] 1960 - Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean 1975 - 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska 1981 - US expels Libyan diplomats 1986 - Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
May 7th: 1700 - William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation 1718 - The city of New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville . 1789 - 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in NYC) 1792 - Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington) 1800 - Indiana Territory organized 1864 - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500) 1867 - Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans 1873 - US marines attack Panama 1912 -
Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in
several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer 1914 - US Congress establishes mother's day 1943 - Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched 1943 - US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia 1943 - US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia 1947 - General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1992 - US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour) In WA state history:
May 8th: 1784 - Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC) 1792 - British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash 1792 - US establishes military draft 1846 - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas 1858 - John Brown holds antislavery convention 1861 - Richmond Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy 1862 - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va 1871 - English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute 1950 - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1958 - Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock 1958 - VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru 1960 - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations 1963 - JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression 1967 - Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army 1984 - USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics 1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 lands 1990 - Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
May 9th: 1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die" 1837 - "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies 1846 - Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande 1862 - Battle of Farmington, MS 1862 - Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS 1862 - US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI 1864 - -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia 1864 - Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling) 1864 - Battle of Dalton, GA 1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded. 1944 - 1st eye bank opens in New York 1944 - Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana 1960 - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally 1960 - US send U-2 over USSR 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1979 - US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons 1997 - 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
May 10th: 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia government begins 1775 - 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander 1861 - Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI 1862 - Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (Plum Point Bend) 1864 - Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia 1864 - Skirmish at Ny River Virginia 1865 - Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville Georgia 1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president 1876 - Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia 1879 - Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa 1908 - 1st Mother's Day observed (Phila) 1960 - US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip 1960 - USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site In WA state history:
May 11th: 1751 - 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) 1752 - 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia) 1814 - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh 1816 - American Bible Society forms (NY) 1850 - Work starts on 1st brick building in SF 1858 - Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state 1862 - Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA 1864 - Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge) 1864 - Gen J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern 1865 - Jeff Thompson surrenders 1894 - American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co 1907 - Bank of SF incorporated 1911 - The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1943 - US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured) 1945 - US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1962 - US sends troops to Thailand 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 12th: 1780 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina 1780 - Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War) 1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses 1863 - Battle of Raymond, Miss 1864 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling) 1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia 1864 - Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid) 1864 - Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River 1864 - US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general 1865 - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas 1871 - Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky 1874 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1986 - President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator 2002 -
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit
with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or
out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
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