Familiarity
1631 English colony Massachusetts Bay grants Puritan voting right
1792 Russian troops invade Poland.
1802 Britain declares war on France.
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
1860 Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president.
1896 The Supreme Court’s decision on Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the “separate but equal” policy in the United States.
1917 U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight in World War I.
1921 Following a case of Typhus, Ellis Island was put under quarantine. More than 1,700 immigrants who may have come in contact are also in quarantine while the island is fumigated and cleaned up, it will take several days before the island is opened again for immigration.
1950 12 nations agree to the creation of North AtlanticTreaty Organisation / NATO; a permanent organisation for the defense of the United States and Europe. The 12 nations included in the beginning were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States.
1953 American Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington approves repeal of the Butler Act (or “Monkey Law”) – prohibiting the teaching of evolution, upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial.
1969 Apollo 10 launches from Kennedy Space Center and later transmits the 1st color pictures of Earth from space.
1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1980 After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours.
1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of ‘illegal aliens’ legal status under an amnesty program.
1994 Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip.
1998 United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
2001 Saudi Arabia selects eight foreign companies to take part in its “Gas Initiative,” three core venture gas projects that have an anticipated worth of $25 billion.
2014 Swiss voters reject a $25 per hour minimum wage.
FYI: May 18 is National Cheese Souffle Day – AND – I love Reese’s Day.
Note: stopped at 2014 because didn’t want to add to the list instances of mass shootings and those of a certain orange-faced unhinged pathological liar.
