On This Day In History
In May 1950 US poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize. In 1985 she became the first Black woman named the Library of Congress’s Consultant in Poetry. Many of her poems engage with political issues, incl civil rights. https://t.co/ZQAqHPp7hz pic.twitter.com/frXkIy02oU
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) May 22, 2022
On this day, the Amnesty Act of 1872 ended voting and office-holding restrictions against most Confederate troops who rebelled to preserve slavery—thus enabling them to maintain white supremacy. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/emZ0Li30MN
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) May 22, 2022
22 May 1885. Leading French novelist and poet, Victor Hugo, died (aged 83). His most famous novels are Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In France, he is also renowned for his poetry collections, such as The Contemplation and The Legend of the Ages. pic.twitter.com/n4XOH35jxc
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 22, 2022
22 May 1906. Two American brothers, Orville (left) and Wilbur Wright, were granted a US Patent for their “Flying Machine”. It’s generally credited with being world’s first successful motor-operated airplane. pic.twitter.com/sCqe4gDMM2
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 22, 2022
22 May 1915. 227 adults and 4 children were killed in Britain’s worst rail disaster at Quintinshill (Gretna Green), Scotland. Those killed were mainly Territorial soldiers heading to Gallipoli in the First World War. pic.twitter.com/ccBSwBUJxI
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 22, 2022
22 May 1969. The Lunar Module of Apollo 10 flew within 8.4 miles of the moon’s surface. It was called the F mission, a full “dress rehearsal” for the first Moon landing, with Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flying the Apollo Lunar Module for the first time. pic.twitter.com/Hp6AtcCZuL
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 22, 2022
22 May 2017. 22 people were killed, and up to 800 people injured, in an Islamist terrorist suicide bomb attack at the Manchester Arena, at the end of a concert by the US pop star, Ariana Grande. The perpetrator was also killed during the attack. pic.twitter.com/W6FDfOkMXn
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 22, 2022
Amazing colourised film of Cornwall in 1916. pic.twitter.com/fWvBsLFaC7
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 22, 2022
May 23rd
1618 Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window and amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70 foot (21m) fall. Triggers the Thirty Years' War.
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones
1958 Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China
1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
This day 274 years ago – 23 May 1744 – the Royal Hospital for Incurables was opened in Dublin.
It was established by the Dublin Charitable Musical Society of Crow Street, led by Richard Wesley, a politician and amateur violinist.
The hospital later relocated to Donnybrook. pic.twitter.com/wmQNpw2OGN
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) May 23, 2018
Influential textile designer in the 1970s for clients including @LibertyLondon, Susan Collier's prints 'cheat the repeat'. She set up @colliercampbell with sister Sarah: her mother was actor Patience Collier, daughter is poet and artist @SophieherX https://t.co/sxunEWGXrB pic.twitter.com/QU6WKonm6i
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) May 23, 2022
On this day in 1796, a newspaper ad was placed seeking the return of an enslaved Black woman, Ms. Judge, who fled George Washington's household while in Pennsylvania. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/9Y55FSpmqW
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) May 23, 2022
23 May 1430. Burgundian troops captured French heroine, Joan of Arc, as she was trying to relieve Compiègne from an English siege. She was put into English sanctioned captivity, for a price of 10,000 livres, then put on trial by a French church court and executed on 30 May 1430. pic.twitter.com/eH3LuYgqkV
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 23, 2022
23 May 1886. Leopold von Ranke died in Berlin (aged 90). He was the pioneer of archival source-based history, using footnotes. He undoubtedly helped to shape academic history in universities and pioneered student-led seminar teaching. pic.twitter.com/g1Q4UY0QaD
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 23, 2022
23 May 1934. The bank robbers and killers, Bonnie Parker (aged 23), and Clyde Barrow (aged 25), were ambushed and killed by a group of Texas rangers. The duo featured in the film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, which glamourised their crime spree. pic.twitter.com/FYpM8mAcKB
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 23, 2022
23 May 2017. Leading British TV and film actor, Roger Moore, died (aged 89). He starred in the TV serials The Saint, The Persuaders and Ivanhoe, before becoming James Bond 007. He also claimed he invented the Magnum ice cream lolly. pic.twitter.com/x5nOzohF2V
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 23, 2022
Quote from Anne On on May 23, 2022, 5:23 pm
23 May 2017. Leading British TV and film actor, Roger Moore, died (aged 89). He starred in the TV serials The Saint, The Persuaders and Ivanhoe, before becoming James Bond 007. He also claimed he invented the Magnum ice cream lolly. pic.twitter.com/x5nOzohF2V
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) May 23, 2022
Surely it was Clint Eastwood that invented Magnum ice cream ?🤔
May 24th
1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library
1738 John Wesley is converted, launching the Methodist movement; celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day
1844 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message
1941 German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive
1988 Section 28 passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality. Repealed 2001/2004