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| | | | | Kennedy pledges man on Moon by The Ovi Team May 25th 1961; President John F Kennedy has called for millions of dollars to fund a space programme to get the first man on the Moon by 1970. In a speech to a joint session of Congress broadcast on TV... | | | Morse by The Ovi Team May 24th 1844; Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America's first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was "What hath God wrought?" | | | Bonnie and Clyde are killed by The Ovi Team May 23rd 1934; famed fugitives Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are killed in a police ambush near Sailes, Louisiana. A contingent of officers from Texas and Louisiana set up along the highway, waiting for Bonnie and Clyde... | |
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| | Nixon in Moscow by The Ovi Team May 22nd 1972; on this day, President Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for a summit with Soviet leaders. Nixon's second visit to Moscow in May 1972, this time as president, was for a more conciliatory purpose. During a week of summit meetings with Soviet | | | Savannah, a historic voyage by The Ovi Team May 22nd 1819; the steamship Savannah became the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The Savannah reached Liverpool in 29 days and 4 hours, a good but not exceptional time, due in part to bad weather. | | | Bomb kills Rajiv Gandhi by The Ovi Team May 21st 1991; Rajiv Gandhi, the 46-year-old former Indian prime minister, was assassinated. He was campaigning for the Congress Party on the second day of voting in the world's largest democratic election... | | | The Battle for Crete by The Ovi Team It began just after dawn on 20 May 1941. Many of the 7700 New Zealand soldiers stationed on Crete were finishing breakfast when hundreds of German transport aircraft - some towing gliders - rumbled in over the Mediterranean island. | | | Hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll by The Ovi Team May 20th 1956; the United States conducts the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb, dropping it from a plane over the tiny island of Namu in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. | | | Mary the Queen of Scots by The Ovi Team May 19th 1568; after being defeated by the Protestants, Mary the Queen of Scots, fled to England where she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth. Mary, Queen of Scots, was born in 1542 and was executed on 1587. | | | Jacqueline Cochran by The Ovi Team May 18th 1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet overCalifornia at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour. At the beginning of World War II... | | prev | | next | |
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