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On This Day In History for May 19, 2024
This is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining in 2024.
- It was on this date in 1886, that The pharmacist John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
- Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity was tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin on this date in 1919.
- It was on this date in 1950, that The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- That same date in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
- May 29, 1999, Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
- It was also this date in 2015 that One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opened.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- English mathematician and philosopher, Humphry Ditton, born on this date in 1675.
- German astronomer and selenographer, Johann Heinrich von Mädler was born 230 years ago today.
- Bob Hope, the English-American actor, singer, and producer was born 121 years ago today.
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States was born on that same date in 1917.
- English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Peter Higgs was born 95 years ago today.
- American animator, producer, and author, David Kirschner, born on this date in 1955.
Listener Birthdays
- 30 – Petri Lopia
- 31 – Troy Dunlavy
- 1 – Selganor
- 2 – Anthony Gartner (Enigmavb)
- 4 – Leo Schrauwen – history and pictures from Ekeren (Antwerp, Belgium) in Dutch
- 4 – Tara Parkman (daughter of Richard Parkman)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 29, 2024
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