1903 - Launch of the White Star Liner SS Ionic.

How the West was REALLY Won
 

All that so Mcbee can get Starbucks before going to work in the morning.:D

5/23
 

Starbucks...the source of most cases of dysentery :)

1430 - Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the English

5/23 Duke vs DUC
 

May 24
 

1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the US began service.

1878 - The first American bicycle race was held in Boston.

1881 - About 200 people died when the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sank near London, Ontario.

1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.

1994 - The four men convicted of bombing the New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.

5/24 Stuff we take for granted
 

May 25
 

585 BC - The first known prediction of a solar eclipse was made in Greece.

1895 - Oscar Wilde, a playwright, poet and novelist, was convicted of a morals charge and sentenced to prison in London.

1977 - "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" opened and became the largest grossing film to date.

1983 - "The Return of the Jedi" opened nationwide. It set a new record in opening day box office sales. The gross was $6,219,629.

1720 - The Ship "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, bringing Europe's last major plague outbreak. Kills around 100,000

Atomic Annie somehow relates to Shirley Temple?!!
 

May 26
 

1660 - King Charles II of England landed at Dover after being exiled for nine years.

1736 - The British and Chickasaw Indians defeated the French at the Battle of Ackia.

1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.

1998 - The Grand Princess cruise ship made its inaugural cruise. The ship measured 109,000 tons and cost approximately $450 million, making it the largest and most expensive cruise ship ever built.

Also at 26 of May:

1897 - Dracula by Bram Stoker is publish!

1907 - Marion Robert Morrison is born, best know as John Wayne!

1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy

1485 meets 2014
 

An update just in from today's paper: Richard III, found hastily buried in 2012, without coffin or shroud, under a present day parking lot over the old Greyfriars Church,. will be buried in the city of Leicester where he was dragged after his death at Bosworth-Britain's High Court has ruled. Distant relatives had pressed for internment at York where the late king "had strong ties"! "It is time for King Richard to be given a 'dignified reburial and finally laid to rest' the judges said. I love my history and the ol' hunchback just won't go away! He certainly had strong ties here! His hands were still tied and he suffered from scoliosis-a hunchback indeed! DNA evidence from two descendants proved the last Plantagenet king's identity beyond doubt. Crippled or not, even his Tudor foes admitted he died bravely "amid the press of his enemies".

5/27
 

1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in England