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May 27...
1818, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, reformer. Women's rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born on this day in 1818. Bloomer is most famous for her stand in favor of dress reform. (She often appeared wearing trousers, or "bloomers," under a skirt.) This site offers information about her life.
Mid-19th century America was in some respects an age of perfectionism. People believed religious, moral, social, or political perfection was obtainable. Many different reform causes attracted dedicated adherents. Mental health. Temperance. Education. Abolition. Utopian socialism. Diet. Seances. Fashion. Suffrage. Less serious issues competed with the more serious for a place on the public policy agenda. Disparate efforts under the umbrella of reform were united by one overriding goal: to assure that American reality matched American ideals. American women were leaders in reform movements. Some made names for themselves espousing particular reforms, while others supported a host of different reforms. Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to improve the care of the insane. Sarah and Angelina Grimke crusaded for abolition. Lydia Maria Child wrote about the right of a married woman to make a will. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the dramatic Seneca Falls Convention. Into this scene stepped Amelia Bloomer. Before she exited, she would affect popular culture and the public agenda.
Bloomer's battles both reflected and influenced gender roles in the 19th century as America debated social reforms and constitutional rights: the right to petition, the right to vote , among others. An avid volunteer, Bloomer challenged the existing social and political culture. She led a civic life that affected the nation's public agenda. She would shape and be shaped by political institutions, the media, and individual reformers with whom she shared the stage.
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/bloomer_suffrage_petition/bloomer_suffrage_petition.html
1819, Julia Ward Howe, author and reformer
1837, Wild Bill Hickok, frontiersman, marksman, and law enforcement officer
1907, Rachel Carson, marine biologist and author
1911, Hubert Humphrey, vice president of the United States
1647, The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.
1935, the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1936, the Cunard liner Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage
1937, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, opens; at the time of its completion, it is the longest suspension bridge in existence.
1941, amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency."
1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy; some three dozen paintings were ruined or damaged.
1994, Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.
1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a truce with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, leader of the breakaway state of Chechnya, although fighting continues on both sides.
Missing in Action
1965 LYNN DOYLE W. ALIQUIPPA PA AA HIT CRASH TARGET AREA NO PARA
1966 MONAHAN ROBERT W. 01/01/67 RELEASED
1966 SCALES THOMAS R. 01/01/67 RELEASED REFNO 0347 DECEASED
1967 BLACKWOOD GORDON B. PALO VERDE CA PROB DEAD---REMAINS RETURNED ID 11/20/89
1970 LEE GLEN H. HONOLULU HI REMAINS ID'D 8/23/94 DPMO SP GLENN
1971 KNUCKEY THOMAS W. WHARTON NJ REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93
1971 TAYLOR PHILLIP C. GRAND ISLAND NY REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93
1972 LATENDRESSE THOMAS B. YAKIMA WA 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
May 28…
1779, Thomas Moore, poet
1888, Jim Thorpe, athlete
1908, Ian Fleming, British novelist, best known as creator of the popular suspense-fiction character James Bond, British secret service agent 007. Born in London, Fleming was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, which he left after a year to study languages in Munich, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland. He served as Moscow correspondent for the Reuters news agency from 1929 to 1933. He was then a banker and stockbroker in London until the outbreak of World War II (1939-1945), when he became personal assistant to the director of British naval intelligence. After the war Fleming worked as foreign manager of The Sunday Times, in London.
The suave, thrill-seeking Commander James Bond is the protagonist of 12 best-selling espionage novels written by Fleming, including Casino Royale (1953), From Russia with Love (1957), Dr. No (1958), Goldfinger (1959), Thunderball (1961), and The Man with the Golden Gun, published posthumously in 1965. Scottish actor Sean Connery and English actor Roger Moore, among others, have played the role of James Bond in several successful motion pictures based on Fleming's novels.
1929, On With the Show, the first talking movie that is all in color debuts at New York City's Winter Garden Theater.
1934, The identical Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario, Canada; the girls are made wards of the government and put on display at a themepark called Quintland.
1961, The human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International (AI) was founded. The organization's official Web site offers information on human rights issues throughout the world.
The state of the world's human rights
During 2004, the human rights of ordinary men, women and children were disregarded and grossly abused in every corner of the globe. The Amnesty International Report 2005, covering 149 countries, is a detailed picture of these abuses.
http://www.amnesty.org/
1980, The first Islamic parliament, the Majlis, opens in Iran.
1987, West German Mathias Rust flies a private plane unchallenged through Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's historic Red Square.
1991, The 17-year Marxist rule which brought famine and war to Ethiopia ends when rebel tanks storm the nation's capital, Addis Ababa.
Missing in Action
1968 HILL JOSEPH A. TAYLORVILLE IL
1968 INGVALSON ROGER D. AUSTIN MN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1971 CHAVIRA STEPHEN WASCO CA
1971 URQUHART PAUL D. MC MURRAY PA
May 29…
1736, Patrick Henry, American orator and statesman, and a leading patriot of the American Revolution. Henry was one of the most eloquent advocates of individual freedom and states’ rights in the early years of United States history. His famous words, “Give me liberty or give me death!” have become a part of the American heritage.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, president of the United States (1917)
1453, Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1790, Rhode Island becomes the 13th U.S. state; it is the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1854, U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories; settlers of the territories would determine the legality of slaveholding.
1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain
1972, In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow, and on this day Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev issued a joint communiqué. Visit The Moscow Times online for current news on Moscow, Russia, and the world.
Missing in Action
1967 GARNER JOHN H. CHARLESTON HEIGHTS SC
1972 MORROW LARRY K. LOWELL NC
May 30 …
1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida.
1883, 12 people were trampled to death when a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a stampede.
1896, Howard Hawks, film director, writer, and producer
1899, Irving G. Thalberg, motion-picture executive
1901, Cornelia Otis Skinner, actor
1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States. The Project for Excellence in Journalism presents a series on the challenges facing American newspapers today.
1903, Countee Cullen, American poet, novelist, playwright, and educator. Cullen was one of the best-known black poets of the first half of the 20th century and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Many details of Cullen’s early life, including his place of birth, are unknown. He was chiefly raised by Elizabeth Porter, who may have been his paternal grandmother, until her death in 1918. The teenager was then informally adopted into the family of Reverend Frederick Cullen, minister of the largest church in New York City’s predominantly black Harlem neighborhood.
Countee Porter Cullen attended the city’s prestigious De Witt Clinton High School, where he served as editor of the school newspaper and the literary magazine The Magpie. He earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1925. While in high school and college, Cullen won a number of poetry contests. Soon after graduating he published his first volume of poetry, Color (1925). After earning a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1926, Cullen became assistant editor of Opportunity magazine. In 1927 he published a second collection of verse, Copper Sun. That same year Cullen also compiled and edited The Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets.
1909, Benny Goodman, jazz clarinetist and orchestra leader
1934, Alexei A. Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut and artist
1911, Indianapolis saw its first 500-Mile Race; Ray Harroun was the winner.
1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971, the American space probe Mariner Nine blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars.
Missing in Action
1962 GERBER DANIEL A. TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1962 MITCHELL ARCHIE E. ELLENSBURG WA TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1962 VIETTI ELANOR A. HOUSTON TX TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1966 HATCHER DAVID B. MT. AIRY NC 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 MEHL JAMES P. BELLE HARBOR NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 IODICE FRANK C. 06/01/68 ESCAPED
1968 POTTER ALBERT J. 06/01/68 ESCAPED DECEASED
1968 SMITH LEWIS P. II BELLEFONTE PA
1970 DUKE CHARLES R.
1970 ISHI TOMOHARA JAPAN NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST.
1970 MARK KIT T.
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