On This Day In History
Did You Know?
"The Don't Make A Wave Committee," a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the "Greenpeace Foundation"
Today in History in 1972
Would You Believe?
Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
Today in History in 1893
This day 183 years ago – 4 May 1836 – the Ancient Order of Hibernians was founded at St James’s Church, New York.
It has been described by historian Jonathan Bardon as a “Catholic mirror image of the Orange Order.”
Members must be both Roman Catholic and of Irish descent. pic.twitter.com/cp0nZGYy9t
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) May 4, 2019
This day 131 years ago - 4 May 1889 - Dr Patrick Henry Cronin, a Cork-born physician and Clan na Gael member, was stabbed to death in Chicago.
Cronin had had a rivalry with Clan na Gael leader Alexander Sullivan.
The criminal trial that followed was the longest in U.S. history. pic.twitter.com/TZkNVDq51I
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) May 4, 2020
This day 96 years ago – 4 May 1925 – Oonagh Keogh, aged 22, became the first woman stockbroker in the world when she was admitted to the Dublin Stock Exchange.
In contrast, the first women were admitted to the New York and London Stock Exchanges in 1967 and 1973, respectively. pic.twitter.com/MNdqwVGwmp
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) May 4, 2021
#OTD in 1897, 126 people died and 200 were injured in the Bazar de la Charité Fire in Paris. All but five of the dead were women, whose fashionable clothes were not only restrictive but highly flammable. An memorial mass is held on the site every year. https://t.co/YCKCWeie1a pic.twitter.com/7vncV9NSWC
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) May 4, 2022
On this day in 1921, the Chicago Real Estate Board vowed to maintain residential segregation and voted to expel any member who sold property to Black people where white people lived. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/HuqicZ8epu
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) May 4, 2022
Ten years ago today, Adam Yauch of the @beastieboys died at age 47.
The other Beasties — Ad-Rock and Mike D — took some time away to write down the group's story. @tompowercbc had the chance to speak to them when their book came out a few years ago. https://t.co/QDCYDDQKRG
— q (@cbcradioq) May 4, 2022
May 5th
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building
1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
Did you Know?
Perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel
Today in History in 1921
Would You Believe?
"West Side Story" soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
Today in History in 1962
This day 100 years ago - 5 May 1918 - an anti-conscription rally was held in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon.
15,000 people were in attendance.
At the rally, Éamon de Valera, the leader of Sinn Féin, and John Dillon, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, shared a platform. pic.twitter.com/e3Ff6pnYed
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) May 5, 2018
#OTD in 2018, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrice Cullors spoke at the United State of Women symposium. She, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi founded #BLM in 2013 after the killing of Trayvon Martin. In 2021 they were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. https://t.co/77po6BKSqY pic.twitter.com/P5m2vBBVKz
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) May 5, 2022
On this day in 1943, California enacted a statute requiring all marriage licenses to indicate each party’s race, in order to prevent interracial marriage. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/hgbMMNNMcq
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) May 5, 2022
May 6th
1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods, believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape
1840 World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain
1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground
1941 Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union, replacing his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov
Did You Know?
During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque
Today in History in 2001
Would You Believe?
Samuel Pierpont Langley flies his unpiloted Number 5 aircraft using a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River, USA. The aircraft travels almost 3/4 of a mile - ten times further than any previous heavier-than-air flying machine.
Today in History in 1896
This day 181 years ago – 6 January 1839 – Ireland was hit with the worst storm it experienced in recorded history, the Night of the Big Wind.
Between 300 and 800 people are estimated to have died, though many more may have died from pneumonia or frostbite in its aftermath. pic.twitter.com/fb8fONGlYj
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) January 6, 2020
#OTD in 2021 Joanne Anderson became the first female Mayor of Liverpool & the UK’s first directly elected black female mayor. “Liverpool has always been a city of firsts —one that does things differently and charters its own path. Today, we made history.” https://t.co/UFjO2Q8fwT pic.twitter.com/YrVpJDjG95
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) May 6, 2022
On this day in 1882, President Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act—banning immigrants from China for 10 years and prohibiting them from becoming citizens. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/vJpN9dcETu
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) May 6, 2022
Remembering Marlene Dietrich who died on this day pic.twitter.com/3QsEBunNyp
— ClassicActorsOfHollywood (@CAOH110291) May 6, 2022
May 7th
1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel Patents Dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material
1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer
1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost
1939 Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1945 World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims
1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer
2017 Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen
Did You Know?
First printed copies of "Poems" by Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë received, published under pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell (2 copies sold)
Today in History in 1846
Would You Believe?
Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth
Today in History in 2012