Spacetime for the week of 5/30/07

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

By Ed Bushnell

May 30
1539: Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida.

1971: Thirty-six are hospitalized during a Grateful Dead concert after drinking LSD-laced apple juice.

1971: Willie Mays hits his 638th homerun and sets a National League record of 1,950 runs scored.

May 31
1678: Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in protest of taxes.

1930: Clint Eastwood born in San Francisco, Calif.

1991: Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia, making her the world’s oldest bride.

June 1
1495: The first written record of Scotch whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller.

1938: “Superman” makes his debut in the comics.

1968: Helen Keller dies at 87.

June 2
1924: U.S. citizenship is granted to all American Indians.

1925: NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive-game streak.

1941: Lou Gehrig, Yankee great, dies at 37 of ALS in Riverdale, N.Y.

June 3
1918: The Supreme Court rules child labor laws are unconstitutional.

1976: Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” goes gold.

1980: President Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination.

June 4
780 BC: The Chinese log the first reliable recording of a total solar eclipse.

1912: Massachusetts passes the United States’ first minimum wage law.

1972: Angela Davis, black activist, is acquitted of killing a white guard.

June 5
1661: Isaac Newton is admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.

1938: Marion Chapman, the smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g), is born.

1940: The first synthetic rubber tire is exhibited in Akron, Ohio.
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