May 5th
Today in America's Present Past
1741 | Physician John Archer is the first domestically educated doctor.
1775 | Frontiersman Alexander McNair was born.
1778 | War of Independence: General Washington appointed Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army.
1814| War of 1812: British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York.
1830 | Entrepreneur John Batterson Stetson was born.
1865 | Journalist Nellie Bly was born.
1873 | President McKinley assigned Leon Czolgosz, was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1891 | Music Hall (now Carnegie Hall) opens in New York City.
1893 | The Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1920 | POTUS: Democrat President Wilson outlaws the Communist Labor Party.
1925 | Dayton, Tennessee, teacher John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution.
1926 | Sinclair Lewis refused the Pulitzer Prize for a Novel for "Arrowsmith.”
1931 | The Battle of Everts started in Harlan County, Kentucky.
1942 | WWII: Democrat President Roosevelt began rationing sugar for domestic consumption.
1942 | Entertainer Tammy Wynette was born.
1945 | WWII: Elsie Mitchell and five children are killed by a Japanese “fire balloon,” making them the only domestic victims after Pearl Harbor.
1947 | Robert Penn Warren was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1951 | Golfer Leo Diegel died.
1952 | Herman Wouk was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1961 | Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
1980 | Psychologist Isabel Briggs Myers died.
1992 | The Twenty-Seventh Amendment is ratified (after introduction in 1789).
1978 | Moody Park riot starts in Houston, Texas.
1991 | Most Pleasant riots in Washington, D.C.
2001 | Publisher Cliff Hillegass died.