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TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017

Today is Tuesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2017. There are 229 days left in the year.1939 — Food stamps issued1940 — Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers1940 — Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris1941 — Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia1941 — Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)1941 — Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors1942 — Transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma1943 — German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw1943 — Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting1944 — Military police attack gypsies

May 15, 2017

MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017

Today is Monday, May 15, the 135th day of 2017. There are 230 days left in the year. 1916 ― Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front1918 ― Greek troops lands at Smyrna1923 ― Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms1926 ― British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike1928 ― Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance1930 ― Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Fransisco to Cheyenne)1931 ― Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno1933 ― First voice amplification system to be used in US Senate1934 ― Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive 

May 14, 2017

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2017

Today is Saturday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2017. There are 232 days left in the year.1941 — Trial against resistance fighter comte d’Estienne d’Orves begins1943 — German & Italian forces in Africa surrender1943 — German occupiers confiscate all radios1946 — Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam1947 — Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions1952 — Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India1954 — Robin Roberts gives up a homerun then retires the next 27 men in a row1954 — U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak1955 — Mickey Mantle hits threer consecutive homeruns

May 12, 2017

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2017

Today is Friday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2017. There are 233 days left in the year.1943 — British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in US1943 — German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender1944 — Krim purged of Nazi troops1944 — Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat1948 — Queen Wilhelmina resigns1949 — West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade1950 — Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar" premieres in Paris France1952 — Charlton Playground named in the Bronx1956 — East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves1957 — Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open

May 11, 2017

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2017

Today is Thursday, May 11, the 131st day of 2017. There are 234 days left in the year.1966 — Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his second cello concert1967 — Expo opens in Montreal, Quebec1968 — Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title1968 — "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 performances1968 — Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands1969 — Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational1972 — Apollo 16 returns to Earth1972 — NYC Mayor John Lindsay appeals that John Lennon not be deported1973 — Kansas City Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0

May 10, 2017

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017

Today is Wednesday, May 10, the 130th day of 2017. There are 235 days left in the year.1940 — Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM1941 — Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland1941 — England’s House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz1941 — Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason1944 — Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan1945 — Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese1945 — Russian troops occupy Prague1946 — Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy1953 — Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open

May 9, 2017

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2017

Today is Tuesday, May 9, the 129th day of 2017. There are 236 days left in the year.1908 — Dirk Fock becomes Governor of Suriname1911 — Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland1914 — President Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day1915 — German & French fight the Battle of Artois1916 — British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey1925 — Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid11929 — New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates1933 — Spanish anarchists call for general strike1936 — Italy takes Addis Ababa, annexing Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

May 8, 2017

MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017

Today is Monday, May 8, the 128th day of 2017. There are 237 days left in the year.1916 — German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes1919 — Appingedam soccer team forms1921 — Sweden abolished capital punishment1924 — Memel territories given to Lithuania1924 — Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut1925 — French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco1926 — A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters1942 — Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack1942 — German summer offensive opens in Crimea

May 7, 2017

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017

Today is Saturday, May 6, the 126th day of 2017. There are 239 days left in the year.1914 — British House of Lords rejects women suffrage1915 — Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont1916 — Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa1919 — Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German Southwest Africa to South Africa1921 — American Soccer League formed1929 — American League announces it will discontinue MVP award1929 — New York to San Fransisco footrace begins1933 — Italy & USSR sign trade agreement1935 — British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee

May 5, 2017

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017

Today is Friday, May 5, the 125th day of 2017. There are 240 days left in the year.1891 — Carnegie Hall opens with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor1893 — Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange 1908 — Great White Fleet arrives in San Fransisco1912 — Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing1920 — German-Latvian peace treaty signed1920 — Polish troops occupy Kiev 1924 — Unions terminate Twentse textile strike1926 — Geldrop soccer team forms 1926 — Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"1927 — Dmitri Shostakovich’s first symphony premieres in Berlin

May 4, 2017

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