This Day in History, May 31

May 31 This Day in History Immemorial, A bad emperor meets his end, Walt Whitman, Dr. Petri, John Ringling, Madison Square Garden, the Titanic, race riots in Tulsa, Clint Eastwood, Corey Hart, Viktor Orbán, a Monday holiday for Memorial Day, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a tornado outbreak, and more this day in history, May 31. #history #thisdayinhistory #may31

This Day in History, May 30

Mastermind, King Henry VIII’s third wife, the first French newspaper, another duel, an assassination attempt, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Decoration Day, the Indy 500, Bob Evans, the Lincoln Memorial, Colm Meany, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Manny Ramirez, this day in history, May 30. #history #thisdayinhistory #may30

This Day in History, May 29

Alla prima, The end of the Byzantine Empire, Patrick Henry, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Coca-Cola, Max Brand, Bob Hope, John F. Kennedy, Al Unser, Mount Everest, La Toya Jackson, Space Shuttle Discovery, WWII Memorial, and more, this day in history, May 29.

This Day in History, May 28

Homologate, solar eclipse, more Henry VIII shenanigans, the Trail of Tears, Jim Thorpe, The Sierra Club, Ian Fleming, the Dionne Quintuplets, Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat, Volkswagen, John Fogerty, Marco Rubio, this day in history, May 28. #history #thisdayinhistory #may28

This Day in History, May 27

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This Day in History, May 26

Homophene, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Indian Removal Act, Montana, Articles of impeachment, Boston University, Nicholas II, the Dow, Dracula, John Wayne, Jay Silverheels, Troy Smith, Sonic Drive-ins, James Arness, Le Mans, Miles Davis, Ford Model T, Jack Kevorkian, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Apollo 10, the EU, Terry Nichols, the Murrah bombing, this day in history, May 26. #history #thisdayinhistory #may26

This Day in History, May 25

Metanoia, Halley's Comet, The Outlaw Martin Luther, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde, Babe Ruth, Sir Ian McKellen, Public Television, Tornado Season, Man on the Moon, the Gateway Arch, Star Wars, William Shakespeare, the Unabomber, a man and his car, nuclear espionage, blind man tops Mount Everest, this day in history, May 25 #history #thisdayinhistory #may25

This Day in History, May 24

This Day in History, May 23

Titular, Henry III and Catherine of Aragon, Captain Kidd, Franz Mesmer, war, The General German Workers Association, Canadian Mounted Police, Super Centenarian Jeralean Talley, NY Public Library, Rosemary Clooney, Joan Collins, Robert Moog, Bonnie & Clyde, Buck Showalter, Mitch Albom, Drew Carey, Jewel, this day in history, May 23. #thisdayinhistory #may23 #history

This Day in History, May 22

This Day in History, May 21

Pooh-bah, Albrecht Dürer, the Derby School, Henri Rousseau, Hans Berger, the American Red Cross, Great Atlanta Fire of 1917, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, fingerprints, the Demon Core, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, this day in history, May 21.

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This Day in History, May 20

Moloch, The first council of Nicaea, Shakespeare, Napoleon Bonaparte, Kentucky declares neutrality, the Homestead Act, Levi blue jeans, Krakatoa, Thomas Edison‘s kinetoscope, Cuba, Amelia Earhart, World War II news, Cher, Bobby Murcer, NSA, Tony Stewart, HIV AIDS, the fall of the Soviet union, May 20 2013 tornado outbreak, Moore Oklahoma, this day in history, May 20. #history #thisdayinhistory #May20

This Day in History, May 19

Arrant, an arranged marriage, a Royal Execution, a Royal Arrest, Johns Hopkins, Legion of Honor, the World’s First National Park Service, immigration law, Malcolm X, Lawrence of Arabia, Nora Ephron, Pete Townsend, Venera 1, Marilyn Monroe, MLK’s letter from jail, this day in history, May 19. #history #thisdayinhistory #May19

This Day in History, May 18

Errand, Emperor Constantine, Omar Khayyám, Heresy, slavery abolished in Rhode Island, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Plessy v. Ferguson, Frank Capra, Perry Como, first woman to break the sound barrier, Michael Tait, Mount Saint Helens, Pluto’s moons, this day in history, May 18 #history #thisdayinhistory #May18

This Day in History, May 17

Repugnant, Botticelli, Salem witchcraft trial, The Wonderful Wizard of OA, Brown -v- Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, Watergate, Chuck E. Cheese, this day in history, May 17. #history #thisdayinhistory #May17

This Day in History, May 16

Eftsoons, future French Royalty, Button Gwinnett, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, the nickel, President Andrew Johnson, Henry Fonda, Margaret Rey, Studs Terkel, the Sedition Act, Joan of Arc, Billy Martin, the first optical laser, Janet Jackson, nicotine addictive, women's suffrage, this day in history May 16. #history #thisdayinhistory #May16

This Day in History, May 15

Alfresco, Anne Boleyn, independence from Great Britain, the Criminal Lunatics Act 1800, the first private mental hospital in America, L. Frank Baum, Pierre Curie, CIBC, the National Women’s Suffrage Association, Emily Dickinson, Viva Las Vegas, Mickey Mouse, Madeleine Albright, McDonalds, Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio, Mike Oldfield, George Brett, Sputniks 3 and 4, the Mercury Atlas-9 mission, and more, this day in history, May 15. #history #thisdayinhistory #May15

This Day in History, May 14

Certes, Jamestown Colony, Louis XIV, Thomas Gainsborough, Smallpox, Congress moves to Washington DC, Lewis and Clark, Witchcraft trial, the Rockefeller Foundation, Israel, Skylab, this day in history, May 14. #history #thisdayinhistory #May14

This Day in History, May 13

Amain, Mother Julian, Cumberland Compact, Australian Penal Colony, war with Mexico, Great Comet of 1861, Edison's electric railway, Our Lady of Fatima, Queen Wilhelmina, Dennis Rodman, Kalamazoo County tornado, Bangladesh tornado, this day in history, May 13. #history #thisdayinhistory #May13

This Day in History, May 12

Indagate, The oldest university in the Americas, Edward Lear, Florence Nightingale, Katherine Hepburn, Mary Kay Ash, Yogi Berra, the first vessel to fly over the north pole, Burt Bacharach, the Lindbergh baby, George Carlin, British royalty, this day in history, May 12. #history #thisdayinhistory #May12

This Day in History, May 11

Sagacious, the oldest known printed book, the Mexican-American War, Minnesota becomes a state, Harriet Quimby, Irving Berlin, John Cadbury, Salvador Dali, Phil Silvers, Richard Feynman, dust storms, tornado season, Bob Marley, Deep Blue, and more this day in history May 11. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #may11​

This Day in History, May 10

This Day in History, May 9

Splanchnic, The Treaty of Windsor, Punch and Judy, an 8.8 earthquake, Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, Australian Parliament, Australia’s old Parliament house, Candace Bergen, Billy Joel, Rainier III Prince of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Tony Gwynn, The Pill, Australia’s New Parliament House, and more, this day in history, May 9. #history #thisdayinhistory #may9

This Day in History, May 8

Exemplum, Tax relief, Oscar Hammerstein I, Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Coca-Cola, Robert Johnson, Paramount Pictures, Bob Clampett, David Attenborough, Don Rickles, Ricky Nelson, roller coasters, Mount Everest, smallpox, and more, this day in history, May 8 #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #may8​

This Day in History May 7

Ombrifuge, Hagia Sophia, Louis XIV, Stockholm’s Royal Castle, City of New Orleans, The Cult of the Supreme Being, Robert Browning, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, The Great Natchez Tornado, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper? Popov’s Lightening Detector, Sony, Tim Russert, Integrated Circuits, Honda Accord, Space Shuttle Endeavour, “The Scream” returned, Daimler-Chrysler, and more, this day in history, May 7. #history #thisdayinhistory #may7

This Day in History, May 6

Impetuous, the sacking of Rome, English-language Bibles in churches, Louis XIV, Sigmund Freud, Arkansas secedes, Henry David Thoreau, the Eiffel Tower, Babe Ruth, Orson Welles, the WPA, the Hindenburg, John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath, Maria Montessori, Roger Bannister, the wedding of Princess Margaret, the Chunnel, "Friends," and more, this day in history, May 6. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #may6​

This Day in History, May 5

Juvenescent, Christopher Columbus, Karl Marx, Napoleon Bonaparte, European rail service, Cinco de Mayo, Nellie Bly, Memorial Day, Carnegie Hall, Cy Young’s perfect game, Fingerprint evidence, Pravda, Scopes Monkey Trial, Stan Goldberg, Michael Palin, Alan Shepard, Adele, This Day in history, May 5.

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This Day in History, May 4

Happy Star Wars Day! Senescent, The American Revolution, Horace Mann, Haymarket Riot, Panama Canal, Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Jackson, Al Capone, Jackie Jackson, The Old Man and the Sea, Randy Travis, Grammy Awards, Kent State, Margaret Thatcher, Greensburg Kansas Tornado, this day in history, May 4. #history #thisdayinhistory #May4

This Day in History, May 3

Ate, Niccolo Machiavelli, Total Solar Eclipse, Washington DC, Emmett Dalton, Bing Crosby, Pete Seger, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sales Tax, Ireland divided, James Brown, Frankie Valli, North Pole, the Kentucky Derby, The Fourteenth Amendment, the Brooklyn Dodgers, Anne Frank House Museum, Sears Tower, the first spam email, the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak, and more, this day in history, May 3. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #May3​

This Day in History, May 2

Acolyte, Leonardo da Vinci, Ann Boleyn, Benjamin Spock, General Motors, the Negro Leagues, Engelbert Humperdinck, Lesley Gore, James Dyson, Lou Gramm, Tennessee Williams, the Chernobyl disaster, GPS, The Scream, 😱, this day in history, May 2. 

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This Day in History, May 1

Clemency, Diocletian and Maximian retire, the Kingdom of Great Britain, Wedgewood Pottery, the Penny Black postage stamp, the Crystal Palace Exhibition, J. Alan Hynek, Pluto, the Empire State Building, the Polio vaccine, SpongeBob SquarePants, and more, this day in history, May 1. #history, #thisdayinhistory, #May1