Every day marks the anniversary of something, no matter how big or small. So in this nerd game, list any event(s) that happened on each day in history. Starting today......
May 9, 1960 The FDA approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control bill (Enovid-10), made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.
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oh yes, you must always satisfy the monkey. Strong and Beautiful smells like a monkey
May 9, 1914 marks the day President Woodrow Wilson asked Americans to give public expression of reverence to mothers through the celebration of Mother's Day.
Way to go Woody!
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"The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." -Cicero
1955 - Sam and Friends debuts on a local U.S. television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and the Muppets.
May 10, 1869 The Transcontinental Railroad was completed. Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railways Presidents meet in Promontory, Utah and drive a ceremonial spike joining the two lines, making transcontinental rail travel possible for the first time in the US.
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oh yes, you must always satisfy the monkey. Strong and Beautiful smells like a monkey
May 12, 1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
May 14th 2007 - sparky wondered what TC is keeping us guessing at, after all we know she was born November 29th 1970, her mum was born September 22nd 1937 and her brother was born September 27nd 1968.
Oh I get it.
Now we have to guess when her dad was born.
Wouldn't that be a different thread called the guessing game?
May 14th 2007 - sparky wondered what TC is keeping us guessing at, after all we know she was born November 29th 1970, her mum was born September 22nd 1937 and her brother was born September 27nd 1968.
Oh I get it.
Now we have to guess when her dad was born.
Wouldn't that be a different thread called the guessing game?
dad is gone. sorry......april 20. guess what next I might post.. it could be anything.
On May 14, 1607, English settlers arriving under the authority of the Virginia Company of London chartered by King James I established the first permanent British settlement in North America at a place they named Jamestown, Virginia."We landed all our men," George Percy wrote in his account of the event, "which were set to worke about [i.e., on] the fortification, and others come to watch and ward as it was convenient."1
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"The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." -Cicero
Lyman Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was born on May 15, 1856, in Chittenango, New York. The son of a successful entrepreneur, Baum embarked on many careers before beginning to write for children. In his youth, he ran a small printing press to produce a monthly magazine for family and friends. As an adult, his creative work as an actor, playwright, and journalist was interspersed with commercial pursuits including poultry farming, store keeping, and window dressing.
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"The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." -Cicero
May 19, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln writes to anti-slavery Congressional leader Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on this day in 1864, proposing that widows and children of soldiers should be given equal treatment regardless of race.
Lincoln shared many of his friend Sumners views on civil rights. In an unprecedented move, Lincoln allowed a black woman, the widow of a black Civil War soldier, Major Lionel F. Booth, to meet with him at the White House. Mary Booths husband had been killed at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in April 1864 by a Confederate sniper. The massacre of African-American Union forces that followed the subsequent fall of the fort was considered one of the most brutal of the Civil War. After speaking with Mrs. Booth privately, Lincoln sat down and wrote a letter of introduction for Mrs. Booth to carry to Sumner and asked him to hear what she had to say about the hardships imposed on families of black soldiers killed or maimed in battle. The letter introduced Booths widow and said she makes a pointwidows and children of colored soldiers who fall in our service [should receive the same] benefit of the provisions [given] to widows and orphans of white soldiers.
As a result of his meeting with Mrs. Booth, Senator Sumner influenced Congressional members in 1866 to introduce a resolution (H.R. 406, Section 13) to provide for the equal treatment of the dependents of black soldiers. According to the Library of Congress, though, there are no records that Mrs. Booth ever applied for or received a widows pension after the bills passage.
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oh yes, you must always satisfy the monkey. Strong and Beautiful smells like a monkey
oh yes, you must always satisfy the monkey. 
And your point is???? Don't have one? Well then shut up and I'll give you one!
