Thought for Today

  History: 1669: Last entry in Samuel Pepys' Diary 1790: US Copyright Law enacted 1837: Astor Hotel opens in NYC--Waldorf-Astoria 1879: Madison Square Garden opens [named for James Madison] 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" 1889: Johnstown PA flood kills 2209 1911: Titanic launched 1921: Race riot in Tulsa--150-200 blacks are killed 1930: Bobby Jones wins British Amateur, first leg of the Grand Slam 1968: Jimmy Stewart retires from the Air Force after serving 27 years 1977: Trans Alaska Pipeline completed 2007: Billy Graham Library dedicated--Presidents Bush and Clinton attend 2015: Harriet Thompson completes a marathon at age 92 2019: Disgruntled employee kills 12 in Virginia Beach Born: Walt Whitman, Emily Bissell [founded Christmas Seals], Norman Vincent Peale, Don Ameche, Clint Eastwood, Johnny Paycheck, Joe Namath, Laura Baugh, Jim Craig [goalie, Miracle on Ice], Brook Shields, Colin Ferrell Died: Joseph Grimaldi [greatest clown], Elizabeth Blackwell ...

 History: 1431: Joan of Arc burned at the stake 1806: Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo goes into effect. US gets New Mexico, California and parts of Utah, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado for $15 million 1868: Decoration Day first observed in Northern States--Memorial Day 1906: Milton Hershey opens Hersheypark for use of his employees 1911: First Indy 500 1922: Lincoln Memorial dedicated 1935: Babe Ruth's final MLB at bat 1961: AJ Foyt wins his first of 4 Indy 500 races 2022: EU agrees to a plan to block 2/3rds of Russian oil Born: Benny Goodman, Mel Blanc [Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig], Bob Evans [restaurants], Clint Walker, Gale Sayers, Wynonna Judd, Billy Donovan, Idina Menzel,  Died: Alexander Pope, Voltaire, Wilbur Wright, Boris Pasternak,  Thought: Reading 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 this morning, much of which is underlined, bracketed, or marked with an asterisk in my Bible. I am pondering verse 12. "We have not received ...

  History: 1765: Patrick Henry says, "If this be treason, make the most of it." 1912: Curtis Publishing fires 15 young women for dancing the "turkey trot" during lunch break 1919: Patent for pop-up toaster filed 1922: Supreme Court say baseball is not a business and thus exempt from anti-trust laws 1942: Bing Crosby records "White Christmas" 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Everest 1954: Diane Leather is first woman to run sub-5 minute mile 1977: Janet Guthrie is first woman to drive in Indy 500 2004: WWII Memorial dedicated in Washington DC 2018: ABC cancels "Roseanne" after she posts "racist" tweet 2019: Transgender no longer classified as mental illness Born: Patrick Henry, Bob Hope, John Kennedy, Fay Vincent, Al Unser, John Hinckley, Annette Benning, Camelo Anthony,  Died: William Gilbert [Gilbert & Sullivan"], Mary Pickford, Barry Goldwater, Dennis Hopper, Manuel Noriega Today is Memorial Day, a day set aside...

  History: 1703: St. Petersburg founded by Peter the Great 1896: Tornado hits St. Louis killing 255 1930: Richard Drew invents masking tape 1930: Chrysler Building opens as tallest building in the world 1940: Operation Dynamo begins--Miracle at Dunkirk 1969: Construction begins at Walt Disney World 1994: Larry King ends his radio show 1995: Christopher Reeve paralyzed after falling from horse 2020: Covid death toll passes 100,000 Born: Francis Beaufort [Beaufort wind scale], Julia Ward Howe, Wild Bill Hickok, Dashiell Hammett, Rachel Carson, Hubert Humphrey, Sam Snead, Herman Wouk, Christopher Lee, Henry Kissinger, Lee Meriwether, Ramsey Lewis, Louis Gossett Jr.,  Died: John Calvin, Jerome Carlton [laziest man in history; inherited fortune at 19 and stayed in bed for the next 70 years], Luther Bridges ["There's Within My Heart a Melody"], Gregg Allman, Bill Buckner Thought: Reading First Corinthians 1:18-25. Have you ever thought about the foolishness of this world? We pa...

  History: 1538: Geneva expels John Calvin--lasts 3 years 1647: Alse Young is first person executed as a witch in American colonies 1805: Lewis and Clark sight the Rocky Mountains 1864: Territory of Montana formed 1868: Senate fails to impeach Andrew Johnson by 1 vote 1897: Bram Stoker publishes "Dracula" 1908: Mr & Mrs. Jacob Murdock and their children are the first family to cross America by car--LA to NYC in 32 days, 5 hours and 25 minutes in a Packard 1923: First 24 hours of Le Mans race 1927: Last Model T built 1940: First successful helicopter flight in the US 1959: Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings--loses in the 13th 1972: SALT accord signed by Brezhnev and Nixon 2004: Terry Nichols found guilty in Oklahoma City bombing 2021: 9 people killed by co-worker in public transit facility in San Jose CA Born: Isadora Duncan [dancer], Al Jolson, Estes Kefauver, John Wayne, Jay Silverheels [Tonto], Peter Cushing, Peggy Lee, James Arness, Miles Davis, Jack Kevorkian, S...

 History: 1521: Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers 1721: John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent 1784: Jews expelled from Warsaw 1787: Constitutional Convention opens 1842: Christian Dopler presents the Dopler Effect 1878: Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" premiers 1932: Dippy Dog first appears in Mickey's Revue--later became Goofy 1935: Jesse Owens breaks 4 world records in a 45 minute period at the Big Ten Track Meet 1951: Willie Mays hits his first major league home run 1961: JFK announces goal of placing a man on the moon by the end of the decade 1962: Isley Brothers release "Twist and Shout" 1965: Ali knocks out Sonny Liston 1968: Gateway Arch dedicated 1977: "Star Wars" released 2001: Erik Weihenmayer is first blind person to summit Everest 2011: Last Oprah Winfrey Show 2017: "Wonder Woman" premiers Born: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bill Robinson [Mr. Bojangles], Igor Sikorsky [helicopter], Lindsey...

  History: 1738: John Wesley converted at Aldersgate 1775: John Hancock elected President of the Continental Congress 1830: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" first published 1844: Samuel Morse taps, "What hath God wrought"--first telegraph message 1883: Brooklyn Bridge opens  1954: Lufthansa Airlines formed 1974: Last "Dean Martin Show" airs 1976: First commercial flight of the SST-Concorde 1978: Term "glass ceiling" coined by Marilyn Loden 1989: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" premiers Born: Daniel Fahrenheit, Queen Victoria, HB Reese [invented Reese's], George Nakashima [furniture maker], Jimmy Demaret, Theodore Hesburgh [President Notre Dame and friend], Bob Dylan, Gary Burghoff [Radar on MASH], Patti LaBelle, Priscilla Presley, Rosanne Cash, Kristin Scott Thomas, John C Reilly, Joey Logano,  Died: Copernicus, John Foster Dulles, Duke Ellington, Dick Martin [Rowan & Martin],  Thought: Reading Romans 14:13 this morning. "Ther...

  History: 1430: Joan of Arc captured and sold to the English 1785: Ben Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 1863: Seventh-day Adventist Church organized in Battle Creek Michigan 1873: First Preakness race  1900: William Harvey Carney is first African-American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in the Civil War 1922: Walt Disney incorporates his first film company--Laugh-O-Gram Films 1934: Bonnie and Clyde killed in Louisiana 1958: Mao starts "Great Leap Forward" in China 1958: First use of Cliff Notes 1980: "The Shining" released 2018: NFL adopts rule requiring players to stand during National Anthem if they are on the field Born: Carl Linnaeus, Ambrose Burnside [Sideburns], Douglas Fairbanks, John Bardeen [co-inventor of transistor], Rosemary Clooney, Mason Rudolph, John Newcombe, Marvin Hagler, Drew Carey, Ken Jennings, Aaron Donald Died: William Kidd [pirate], Kit Carson, Henrik Ibsen, John D Rockefeller, Heinrich Himmler, Sam Snead, Roger Mo...

 History: 1370: Jews are expelled and massacred in Brussels 1803: First public library in US--Connecticut 1807: First fruit flavored carbonated drinks sold 1819: Savannah leaves Georgia as the first steam-powered ship to cross the Atlantic 1843: First wagon train leaves Independence MO for Oregon 1849: Lincoln is the only President to receive a patent--device to lift a boat over shoals 1872: Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners 1892: Dr. Sheffield invents toothpaste tube 1915: Lassen Peak erupts--Only volcano other than Mt St. Helens to erupt in continental US in the 20th century 1947: First US ballistic missile fired 1961: First revolving restaurant--Seattle 1964: LBJ presents the "Great Society" 1973: Nixon admits role in Watergate cover-up 1992: Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show 2002: Jury convicts Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed 4 young girls 2003: Annika Sorenstam is the first...

  History: Thanks to my fact-checker, Jay Sellers, my post from yesterday was incorrect. Secretariat still holds the record time for the Preakness 1:53.  325: First Council of Nicaea 1310: First shoes made for right and left feet 1609: Shakespeare's sonnets first published 1830: D Hyde patents fountain pen 1862: President Lincoln signs Homestead Act 1873: Levi Strauss patents first blue jeans with copper rivets 1892: George Sampson patents clothes dryer 1910: 9 kings sit for a picture at the funeral of Edward VII 1916: Codell Kansas hit by a tornado--it is hit again on the same day in 1917 and 1918 1927: Charles Lindbergh departs on his flight across the Atlantic 1942: Navy permits black recruits to serve 1961: Mob attacks Freedom Riders in Montgomery 1969: US troops capture Hamburger Hill in Viet Nam 1978: Affirmed wins Preakness on the way to the Triple Crown 1980: Families evacuated from the Love Canal area 1990: First Hubble telescope photos 2013: Church of Scotland allows...

 History: 1536: Anne Boleyn beheaded 1662: Act of Conformity causes 2000 Puritan ministers in England to be forced from the church for refusing to accept the Book of Common Prayer 1883: Bill Cody opens Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show 1884: Ringling Brothers circus premiers 1906: Boy's Club of America organizes 1919: Volcano eruption on Java kills 5,160 1928: First Frog Jumping Jubilee in California 1935: NFL adopts college draft to begin in 1936 1943: Berlin declared "free of Jews" 1960: Alan Freed and 8 others accused of taking payola 1964: 40 secret microphones found in US Embassy in Moscow 1973: Secretariat wins Preakness in record time [later broken] 1977: "Smokey and the Bandit" premiers 2018: Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle 2019: Robert Smith announces he will pay off college loans for students at Morehouse College Born: Johns Hopkins, Ho Chi Minh, Nicholas Winton ["British Schindler" save 600 children from Nazis], Malcolm X, Curly Neal [Glo...

 History: 1642: Montreal founded 1652: Rhode Island enacts first law declaring slavery illegal 1804: Napoleon named Emperor of France 1863: Siege of Vicksburg begins 1896: Supreme Court decides Plessy v. Ferguson--Separate but equal 1917: Congress passes Selective Service Act--compulsory enlistment 1920: Man O'War wins the Preakness 1927: Slide Lake collapses--just outside Jackson Hole. Beautiful drive and lake. 1927: Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood 1933: TVA Act signed by FDR 1953: Jacqueline Cochran is first woman to break the sound barrier 1965: Ray Dolby founds Dolby Laboratories 1974: "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 1980: Mt. St. Helens erupts 1995: "Braveheart" premiers Born: Omar Khayyam, Bertrand Russell, Frank Capra ["It's a Wonderful Life"], Perry Como, Margot Fonteyn [ballet], John Paul II, Jack Whitaker, Pernell Roberts ["Bonanza"], Brooks Robinson, Reggie Jackson, Joe Bonsall [Oak Ridge Boys], Jari Kurri,...

  History: 1620: First merry-go-round seen at a fair in Turkey 1792: 24 merchants form the New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street 1861: First color photograph--a tartan ribbon 1875: First Kentucky Derby 1900: L Frank Baum publishes "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" 1904: Ravel's "Sheherazade" premiers 1915: National Baptist Convention chartered 1939: First televised baseball game--Princeton v. Columbia 1946: Truman takes control of the railroads 1954: Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education 1973: Senate Watergate hearings begin 1990: World Health Organization removes homosexuality from list of mental illnesses 1992: Betsy King wins her 5th Major--LPGA Championship 1993: Intel Pentium processor unveiled 2009: "Minecraft" released 2018: Michigan State agrees to pay $500 million for Larry Nassar sex abuse Born: Edward Jenner [smallpox vaccine], Horace Dodge, Cool Papa Bell [baseball player so fast they said he could hit the light switch and be in ...

  History: 1860: Republicans select Abraham Lincoln as Presidential candidate 1866: Congress authorizes nickel to replace half-dime 1868: Senate fails to impeach Andrew Johnson by one vote 1876: Hires Root Beer presented at the Centennial Exposition 1891: George Hormel establishes Hormel Foods 1918: Sedition Act passed by Congress--illegal to criticize government 1943: Dambuster Raid--bouncing bombs 1965: SpaghettiO's introduced 1966: Beach Boys release "Pet Sounds" with "Sloop John B", "Wouldn't it be Nice", and "God Only Knows" 1986: "Top Gun" premiers 2019: Last episode of "The Big Bang Theory" 2020: JC Penney files for bankruptcy after 118 years Born: William Seward ["Seward's Folly"], H.H. Holmes [serial killer of 27], Henry Fonda, Woody Herman [jazz], Liberace, Billy Martin, Pierce Brosnan, Debra Winger, Olga Korbut, Janet Jackson, Tucker Carlson,  Died: Charles Perrault ["Tales of Mother Goose...

  History: 1718: James Puckle patents first machine gun 1817: First mental health hospital  opens--Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason. How big would the hospital need to be today to contain those who meet this definition? 1862: Department of Agriculture created 1869: Susan B Anthony and Cady Stanton found National Woman Suffrage Association 1897: First LGBT rights organization formed in Berlin 1918: Walter Johnson pitches 18-inning game and wins 1-0 1928: Mickey Mouse makes his first film appearance--"Plane Crazy" 1930: Ellen Church is first female stewardess--United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne 1940: First McDonald's opens 1941: Joe DiMaggio begins 56-game hitting streak 1944: 14,000 Hungarian Jews taken to Auschwitz 1957: Billy Graham launches crusade before 18,000 at Madison Square Garden 1972: Assassination attempt on George Wallace 2008: California becomes second State to legalize same-sex marriage 2020: Germany in recession...

  History: 1777: First ice cream advertisement printed in the NY Gazette 1792: William Carey publishes "An Inquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens." It becomes the manifesto for Protestant missions. 1932: Body of Lindbergh baby is found 1942: 1500 Jews killed with gas at Auschwitz 1942: Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at the mouth of the Mississippi 1951: First test of the hydrogen bomb 1978: Commerce Department says hurricanes will no longer be limited to female names 2002: Jimmy Carter visits Fidel Castro in Cuba 2020: Russia confirms 232,000 Covid cases Born: Florence Nightingale, Henry Cabot Lodge, Katherine Hepburn, Howard K Smith, Mary Kay Ash [cosmetics], Julius Rosenberg [1st U.S. citizen executed for espionage], Yogi Berra, Burt Bacharach, Tom Snyder, George Carlin, Ron Ziegler, Steve Winwood, Homer Simpson, Vanessa Williams, Jim Furyk, Mike Weir, Died: JEB Stuart, Robert Reed [Mike on the "Brady Bunch...

  History: 609: Pope Boniface I turns the Pantheon into a Catholic Church 1607: Jamestown colonist attend first prayer service in Virginia 1828: Evangelist David Marks asks the audience what he should preach on. Someone shouts "nothing." He preaches on the fact that without Christ we can be nothing and we have nothing. 1830: Republic of Ecuador founded 1865: Battle of Palmito Ranch is last battle of the Civil War 1913: First 4-engine airplane built and flown 1916: Lafayette Escadrille sees first combat action at Verdun 1917: First reported appearance of Mary to the children at Fatima 1950: Diner's Ckub issues first credit cards 1958: Velcro trademark registered 1973: Bobby Riggs beats Margaret Court on Mother's Day 1978: Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on two wheels 1981: Pope John Paul II shot and critically wounded 2004: Final episode of "Frasier" 2019: Felicity Hoffman pleads guilty in college admissions scandal 2020: Every African country repor...

  History:  1752: First fire insurance policy issued in US 1816: American Bible Society forms 1910: Glacier National Park formed 1926: First long chat between C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien--Lewis converted 5 years later 1942: Faulkner's "Go Down Moses" published 1947: Goodrich announces development of tubeless tire 1949: Israel becomes member of U.N. 1953: Tornado kills 114 in Waco 1960: Adolph Eichmann captured in Buenos Aires 1969: Monty Python forms 1978: Margaret Cole is first female Marine Corps General 1981" "Cats" premiers 1987: First heart-lung transplant Born: Irving Berlin, Martha Graham [choreographer], Salvador Dali, Phil Silvers, Denver Pyle, Mort Sahl, Louis Farrakhan, Cam Newton,  Died: John D Rockefeller Jr., Bob Marley, Douglas Adams ["Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"], Floyd Patterson, Dottie Rambo, Jerry Stiller Zena Loftis was born on this day in 1881 in Gainesboro TN. Moved to Kansas at age 7 and converted at age 13. He taug...

 History: 1267: Vienna's church orders Jews to wear special garb to identify themselves 1427: Jews expelled from Bern Switzerland 1503: Columbus discovers Cayman Islands 1508: Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 1775: Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga 1797: First U.S,. ship launched--the "United States" 1865: Jefferson Davis captured in Georgia 1869: Golden Spike driven at Promontory Point 1972: Victoria Woodhull is first woman nominated for President 1883: First appendectomy in the US 1908: First Mother's Day observed---Philadelphia 1924: J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI 1940: Churchill becomes Prime Minister 1960: Triton sub completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe 1983: Last episode of "Laverne and Shirley" 1994: Nelson Mandela becomes first black President of South Africa 1996: "Twister" premiers 2016: In India, 70 year-old woman gives birth to a baby boy 2020: Covid cases exceed 4 mi...

 History: 328: Athanasius elected Patriarch Bishop of Alexandria 1788: British Parliament accepts abolishment of slave trade 1868: Reno Nevada founded 1887: Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild Wets Show opens in London 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother's Day 1941: Alan Turing breaks German codes after capturing Enigma Machine 1945: Baseball adopts balata ball--50% livelier 1958: "Vertigo"released 1961: Television called a "vast wasteland" 1980: Liberian freighter hits Skyway Bridge in Tampa-35 die 1980: "Friday the 13th" released 1992: Final episode of "Golden Girls" 2012: President Obama officially states his support for same-sex marriages Born: Dante Alighieri ["Dante's Inferno",  "Divine Comedy"], John Brown [Harper's Ferry], Harry Vardon, Henry Kaiser, Hank Snow, Mike Wallace, Pancho Gonzalez, Albert Finney, Glenda Jackson, Ralph Boston, Candice Bergen, Billy Joel, Tony Gwynn,  Died: William Bradford [Plymouth Col...

  History: 1541: Hernando DeSoto discovers the Mississippi River 1792: George Vancouver sights and names Mt Ranier 1835: Publication of the 1st installment of Hans Christian Andersen's "Fairy Tales" 1877: First Westminster Dog Show 1879: George Selden files first patent for a gas powered automobile 1886: Jacob's Pharmacy sells 1st Coca Cola 1902: Mt. Pelee on Martinique erupts killing 30,000--2 survivors 1912: Paramount Pictures founded 1945: Germany surrenders 1963: Dr. No premiers 1973: Indians holding Wounded Knee surrender 2019: Georgia Governor signs "heart beat" abortion law 2020: Two White House staffers test positive for Covid Born: Edward Gibbon ["Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire"], Phyllis Wheatley [1st African American woman poet to be published], Harry Truman, Francis Quimet [US Open 1913], David Attenborough, Don Rickles, Peter Benchley, Ricky Nelson, Toni Tennille, Stephen Furst, Bill Cowher, Ronnie Lott, Bill de Blasio, Melissa Gilb...

  History: 1541: Henry VIII orders an English Bible be placed in every church--they had been in Latin 1794: Haiti revolts against France 1837: John Deere creates first steel plow 1851: Linus Yale patents the Yale lock 1861: Tennessee and Arkansas secede from the Union 1889: Paris World's Fair opens with Eiffel Tower as the entrance arch 1837: Hindenburg disaster--Oh the humanity 1940: Steinbeck wins the Pulitzer for "The Grapes of Wrath" 1941: Bob Hope performs his first USO Show 1954: Roger Bannister is first to run a sub 4 minute mile 1957: Last telecast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS 1994: Channel Tunnel opens between France and England 2002: Elon Musk founds Space X 2020: Organization in Ireland sends over $2 million to the Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation remembering $170 sent to Ireland by the Choctaw Nation during the potato famine Born: Robespierre, Robert Peary, Sigmund Freud, Amadeo Giannini [founded Bank of America], Rudolph Valentino, Daniel Gerber, ...

 History: 1778: Washington appoints von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army 1816: American Bible Society organized 1847: American Medical Society organized 1891: Carnegie Hall opens 1904: Cy Young pitches first perfect game in modern baseball 1912: "Pravda" begins publishing 1921: Coco Chanel releases Chanel No. 5 1943: Postal Zone system invented 1947: Robert Penn Warren wins Pulitzer for "All the King's Men" 1961: Alan Shepard is 1st American in space 1973: Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby in fastest time ever Born: Karl Marx, John Stetson, Chief Bender [only American Indian in the Baseball HOF], Ann B Davis [Alice on the Brady Bunch], Tammy Wynette, Adele Died: Napoleon, Elise Mitchell and 5 Sunday School students [only people killed on US soil by Japanese during WWII--fire balloon], Dana Wynter Thought: Yesterday we looked at Jesus' prayer that we be sanctified in truth. In John 18: 38, Pilate asks Jesus, "What is truth?" Today, yo...

  History: 1521: Martin Luther taken into protective custody 1535: Three monks and two priests are hung, drawn and quartered for refusing to recognize Henry VIII as head of the Church of England 1856: Mount Vernon church reluctantly accepts Dwight Moody into membership, having rejected him once because he was completely ignorant of Christian truth 1893: Bill Pickett invents bulldogging 1904: Construction of the Panama Canal begins 1942: Battle of the Coral Sea begins 1953: Hemingway wins Pulitzer for "The Old Man and the Sea" 1959: First Grammy Awards--Ella Fitzgerald and Perry Como 1970: National Guard kills 4 at Kent State 1979: Margaret Thatcher is the first female Prime Minister 2007: Greensburg Kansas destroyed by F5 tornado 2020: World leaders pledge $8 billion to research treatment and vaccine for Covid Born: Horace Mann [pioneered public schools], Elmer Layden [4 Horsemen, HOF], Betsy Rawls [4 US Opens], Audrey Hepburn, George Will, Randy Travis, Dawn Staley,  Died: W...

  History: 1802: Washington DC incorporated 1845: First African American lawyer admitted to the bar 1901: Fire destroys 1700 buildings in Jacksonville, FL 1915: John McCrae writes "In Flanders Fields" 1936: Joe DiMaggio makes his major league debut 1937: Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer for "Gone with the Wind" 1941: Whirlaway wins Kentucky Derby on the way to the Triple Crown 1948: First broadcast of CBS Evening News 1963: High pressure hoses turned on children in march in Birmingham 1971: NPR begins broadcasting 1978: First bulk unsolicited commercial email --SPAM 1999: F5 tornado hits Oklahoma City killing 42 2002: "Spiderman" movie premiers 202: Mike Pompeo says China responsible for Covid Born: Machiavelli, Francoise Coty [perfume], William Whiting ["Eternal Father Strong to Save", the Navy Hymn], Golda Meir, Mary Astor, Pete Seeger, Sugar Ray Robinson, James Brown, Ron Popeil, David Koch, Greg Gumble, Brooks Koepka,  Died: Earl Woods, Wally ...