Cinco de Mayo [commemoration of the Mexican army’s 1861 victory at Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War, US celebration of Mexican-American culture]
NATIONAL Oyster Day
NATIONAL Space Day [first Friday in May]
NATIONAL No Pants Day
NATIONAL Astronaut Day
NATIONAL Cartoonists Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1865 The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery, except for “duly convicted” prisoners
1891 Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing
1952 Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny" wins the Pulitzer Prize
1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
1979 Voyager 1 passed Jupiter
2000 The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align – Earth’s moon is also almost in this alignment – leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a ‘grand confluence’ occurs about once in every century
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