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WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, May 23, 2022  1701 Scottish pirate, Capt. William ‘Billy the” Kidd was hanged. He had been commissioned by the King to hunt pirates, but instead became one, for which he was hanged

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WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 20, 2022  1927 The first ‘solo’ transatlantic flight by a man. Charles Lindberg, in The Spirit of St. Louis, left New York. He landed in Paris the following day. Five years later… 1932

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WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, May 19, 2022 1906 The Federated Boys’ Clubs was organized. It is now known as the Boys’ Clubs of America.  1910 The earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet. The comet’s

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WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, May 18, 2022  1860, Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for U.S. president at a convention in Chicago. 1927, Grauman’s Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood, California, with the premiere of Cecil B. De Mille’s “The King of Kings”. 001,

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WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, May 17, 2022  1792, The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street. 1845, the Rubber Band was patented. 1875 The first Kentucky Derby is run.

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WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 13, 2022  1866, Congress authorized minting the nickel Five-Cent Piece to replace the smaller silver piece known as the “Half-Dime”. 1960 Theodore Maiman emitted the world’s first laser light. The term “laser” is an acronym for

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WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 13, 2022  1637, Cardinal Richelieu of France invented the Table Knife.  Until then, people used daggers to cut their meat. Cardinal Richelieu had the points rounded off all the knives at his table.

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WAY BACK WHEN for Weds., May 11, 2022 1502 Explorer Christopher Columbus set sail on his fourth voyage to the “New World.” He was searching for a westward passage to the Indian Ocean mainland. 1659 The celebration of

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WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, May 9, 2022 1508 Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo began his work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. He completed the masterpiece 5 years later. 1869, America’s First Transcontinental Railroad was finished.  The

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WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, May 9, 2022 1899 The first Lawn Mower was patented. 1914 Then President Woodrow Wilson established the first Mother’s Day. 1960 The F.D.A. approved use of the birth control pill. 1992 The

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WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 6, 2022 1937 the Hindenburg blimp disaster took place in New Jersey, killing 36. The radio announcer on the scene yelled, ” Oh the humanity!” . . . which went on

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WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, May 5, 2022 1862, the Mexican army scored an upset victory over the invading French army at the Battle of Puebla.  It is celebrated today as Cinco De Mayo. FYI: It’s NOT

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WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, May 4, 2022 “Star Wars Day!” – “May the 4th be with you!”    1626, a Dutch colonist named Peter Minuit landed on the island of Manhattan.  He eventually bought the island from the Indians for

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WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1937 Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War novel “Gone with the Wind” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It sold a million copies in its first six months. 1973, the Sears