On This Day In History
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/HuqicYRbnu
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) May 4, 2023
4 May 1780. The first Derby, Britain’s premier flat horse racing classic, for 3 year old colts and fillies, was run at Epsom in Surrey. The winner was the 6-4 favourite, Diomed, owned by Sir Charles Bunbury, and ridden by Sam Arnull. pic.twitter.com/56tAprifON
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 4, 2023
4 May 1919. Approximately 3,000 students, from 13 colleges in Beijing, held a mass demonstration against the decision of the Versailles Peace Conference to transfer former German territory in Shandong province to Japan, and the Chinese government’s acquiescence with this decision pic.twitter.com/NbLK0lwKOB
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 4, 2023
4 May 1938. Carl von Ossietzky (aged 48), an anti Nazi German journalist and the winner of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing clandestine German re-armament in the Weimar era, died of Tuberculosis while in police custody in Berlin. pic.twitter.com/HUJGfEYfBK
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 4, 2023
4 May 1974. Tony (”AP”) McCoy was born in Moneyglass. Northern Ireland. He was Champion National Hunt Jockey for a record 20 consecutive years, and is regarded as the greatest National Hunt Jockey of all time. He is also the first jump jockey to be knighted. pic.twitter.com/KbaWEKXQdS
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 4, 2023
4 May 1980. Yugoslavian Communist leader, Josip Broz (“Tito”) died (aged 87). He had been the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans during the Second World War and had served as the President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1953 until his death. pic.twitter.com/0dAdZtWYDh
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 4, 2023
4 May 2013. The wreck of the 19th century Russian warship, Lefort, was found between the islands of Gogland and Bolshoy Tyuters. On 22 September 1857, the ship sank in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 people on board. pic.twitter.com/JiqeGjoLzU
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 4, 2023
4 May 1989. Golf star, Rory McIlroy, was born in Holywood, Northern Ireland. He’s won 4 of the major golf tournaments: PGA Championship (2) US Open (1) and The Open Championship (1). He’s also won 23 PGA and 15 European titles. pic.twitter.com/cn91iNWuTu
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 4, 2023
#RIP #OTD in 1970, the Kent State shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, caused four deaths https://t.co/okxYjvNLWD pic.twitter.com/B4GeBseypa
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) May 4, 2023
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 Prison. 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
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, 2023
5 May 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St Helena (aged 51), where he had been in exile since 1815. He was not only a political leader but one of the best generals. His attempt to dominate Europe by force ended with defeat in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo. pic.twitter.com/dlAmnrsKt5
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 5, 2023
5 May 1821. The 1st edition of The Manchester Guardian was published. It changed its name to The Guardian in 1959. The paper's readership is generally on the centre-left of British politics. Frequent typographical errors led Private Eye magazine to call it the "Grauniad". pic.twitter.com/gsz6tKXNY4
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 5, 2023
5 May 1864. Nellie Bly was born in Cochrans Mills, Pennsylvania, USA. She’s best known for her attempt to travel the world in less than 80 days, inspired by Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas Fogg, in Around The World in Eighty Days. Bly completed her journey in 72 days. pic.twitter.com/ZHocQO7Oiq
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 5, 2023
5 May 1882. Sylvia Pankhurst, a leading campaigner for the suffragist movement in the UK, was born in Manchester. Once votes for women was achieved, she took up socialist causes and spent much of her later life campaigning for aid for Ethiopia, where she eventually moved. pic.twitter.com/Gu8MUMvtAp
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 5, 2023
5 May 1930. Amy Johnson departed from Croydon Airport in the plane, G-AAHH, on the first solo flight to Australia by a woman. She landed at Darwin, Northern Territory on 24 May 1930 having travelled 11,000 miles. pic.twitter.com/5upRqfDsPA
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 5, 2023