This Day in History for May 23rd:
1430 -- Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British.
1701 -- Captain Kidd hung in London after conviction of piracy & murder.
1785 -- Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
1788 -- South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution.
1827 -- The first nursery school in the U.S. was established in New York City.
1861 -- Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession.
1865 -- Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot.
1867 -- Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond, MO (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 -- Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
1873 -- Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for 1st time.
1879 -- The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University.
1900 -- Associated Press News Service forms in New York.
1903 -- 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin.
1922 -- "Daylight Saving Time" was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.
1922 -- Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films.
1928 -- Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die.
1934 -- Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
1937 -- John D. Rockefeller died.
1940 -- 1st great dogfight between Spitfires.
1945 -- Winston Churchill resigns as British PM.
1956 -- Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers.
1960 -- Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1965 -- Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150.
1970 -- Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of the US (England)
1977 -- Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell.
1982 -- Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles.
1983 -- Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghánistán Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air.
1994 -- 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia.
1995 -- The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished.
1999 -- In Kansas City, MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old.
1999 -- Gerry Bloch, at age 81, became the oldest climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He broke his own record that he set in 1986 when he was 68 years old.
I hope everyone enjoys this Day in History!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz*
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