Spacetime for the week of 5/16/07

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

By Ed Bushnell

May 16
1868 – Andrew Jackson is acquitted by one vote during Senate impeachment hearings.
1929 – “Wings” wins Best Picture at the First Academy Awards.
1939 – Food stamps are first issued.
 
May 17
1845 – The rubber band is patented.
1875 – The first Kentucky Derby is held.
1985 – Les Anderson catches a 97-pound, 4-ounce Chinook salmon off the coast of Alaska.

May 18
1852 – Massachusetts rules that all school-age children must attend school.
1927 – The Slide Lake “dam” collapses, releasing an onslaught of Gros Ventre river water toward Kelly.
1986 – David Goch completes 55,682 miles worth of laps in a 25-yard pool.

May 19
1992 – Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
1992 – Vice President Dan Quayle says Murphy Brown is a poor example of family values.
1995 – The world’s youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates from Mount Sinai.

May 20
1986 – “The Flintstones 25th Anniversary” airs on CBS.
1989 – Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF and Harley Pace for the trademark name, “King.”
1993 – “Cheers” airs its final episode.

May 21
1945 – They had it all: Bogey and Bacall wed.
1979 – Elton John becomes the first Western rocker to perform in the U.S.S.R.
1980 – “The Empire Strikes Back” premieres.

May 22
1761 – The first life insurance policy in the colonies is issued, in Philadelphia.
1849 – Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device.
1892 – Dr. Washington Sheffield invents the toothpaste tube.


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