TMN Staff
May 5, there are 5775 hours left in this year.
1809
Mary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman granted a patent. The patent was for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
1821
Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena.
1891
Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.
1925
John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwinism.
1961
Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
1981
Bobby Sands of the Irish Republican Army died in a prison hospital on the 66th day of his hunger strike.
2004
Pablo Picasso’s “Boy with a Pipe” became the most expensive painting ever sold.
Birthdays
1813– Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher/religious thinker
1818– Karl Marx, philosopher, co-author of The Communist Manifesto
1914– Tyrone Power, actor, Mark of Zorro (1940)
1921– Arthur L. Schawlow, physicist, co-inventor of the laser
1942– Tammy Wynette, country singer, Stand By Your Man (1968)
1988– Adele, Grammy Award winning singer