Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War (May 8-9, UN)
No Socks Day
Birth anniversary of Harry S Truman, 33rd president of the US
Happy Birthday! Melissa Gilbert, Don Rickles, Toni Tennille
1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
1846 - The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, TX.
1847 - The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.
1879 - George Selden applied for the first automobile patent.
1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.
1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".
1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
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