5 May 07 - Saturday
1813 Søren Kierkegaard Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism)
1818 Karl Marx philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
1883 Charles Bender only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
1899 Freeman Gosden Richmond VA, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
1900 Spencer Tracy actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1908 Rex [Reginald Carey] Harrison Huyton Lancashire England, actor
(My Fair Lady, Doctor Dolittle, Cleopatra)
1940 Eric Burdon Walker-on-Tyne England, rock singer (Animals)
1942 Tammy Wynette Redbay AL, country singer (Stand by your Man)
1943 Michael Palin Sheffield Yorkshire England, comedian (Monty Python,
Fish Called Wanda)
1948 Bill Ward Birmingham England, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath)
1953 Billy Burnette Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1961 Hiro Hase wrestler (NJPW)
1976 Sage Stallone Sylvester's son/actor (Rocky V)
1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
1504 Anton of Burgundy the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82
1780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
1821 Napoleon I Bonaparte emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena
1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend OH)
1867 Battle of Pueblo; Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
1893 Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange
1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication
1920 US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1944 Gandhi freed from prison
1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1969 Ben Alexander actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
1995 James Pack naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
- Bill Maher
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PS This will be my last blog for awhile. I'll be on tower guard for the next week and away from the computer. Some one else will be doing the board. I'll be back in about a week... thanx
