History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Miguel Hidalgo 1753, Jean Henri Dunant 1828, Oscar Hammerstein 1847


Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States, Bishop Fulton Sheen 1895, Don Rickles 1926 - Comedian


1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.


1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.


1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.


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".


1984 - The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.


1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.