This Day in History......

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May 22

• 1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of "The Tonight Show"
• 1963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
  
• 1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up

 

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May 24

• 1935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
• 1941 Bob Dylan [Robert Zimmerman], American singer-songwriter (Blowin' in Wind, The Times They Are a-Changin') and cultural icon, born in Duluth, Minnesota

 

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May 25

• 1986 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY

• 1977 Original "Star Wars" movie (Episode IV – A New Hope), directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford first released

• 1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"

 

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May 26

• 1896 Dow Jones index begins with an average of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)

 

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May 27

• 1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII
• 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins at Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida
• 1975 Stanley Cup Final, The Aud, Buffalo, NY: Philadelphia Flyers take back-to-back titles; beat Buffalo Sabres, 2-0 for a 4-2 series win

 

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May 28

• 1830 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the Army to force Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears

 

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May 29

1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year

1886 American chemist John Pembertonbegins to advertise Coca-Cola

 

[Covemastah]

On this day may 30 1930
The greatest movie bass ass was born !!
Happy 90th Clint Eastwood!!

 

[olroadbeech]

ya 8 children with 6 women.....something like that.

 

[Covemastah]

ya 8 children with 6 women.....something like that.

Well he was a "gun slinger "!!!!

 

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June 1

1861 1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House, Virginia

1925 Future NY Yankees Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig pinch hits for shortstop Pee-Wee Wanninge in a 5-3 loss to Washington; first of record 2,130 consecutive games

1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine

 

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June 2

1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy

1935 Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player

1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones), born in London, England

 

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6/4/40
The last of the Brits were evacuated from
Dunkirk




Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest.

 

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June 6

1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II

 

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My dads best friend , we called him uncle Leo ,,, survived this , then went on to liberate a death camp and straight to Berlin !! Rip uncle Leo and thank you , this buds for you !!

 

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June 7

1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan


1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples

 

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June 8


1969 MLB ledgend Mickey Mantle gives his farewell retirement speech during "Mickey Mantle Day" at Yankee Stadium, 60,096 see #7 retired

1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

 

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June 10

1974 Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof

1947 Saab produces its first automobile

1940 Italy declares war on France and Great Britain as part of its Axis alliance with Nazi Germany

 

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On June 11, 1979, John Wayne, an iconic American film actor famous for starring in countless westerns, dies at age 72 after battling cancer for more than a decade.

 

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The Duke was the man