Hello and welcome to your weekend.
To start your Saturday in a casual way, we like to take a little “scroll down memory lane.” It’s just a simple look back at some of the events that have happened on this day in the pages of history.
So, grab your favorite morning sippin’ drink and let’s start today….
Today is Saturday, May 22nd, the 142nd day of the year. There are 223 days until the end of the year.
On this day:
In 1803, the first public library opened in Salisbury, Connecticut.
In 1868, the Great Train Robbery took place in Marshfield, Indiana. Seven members of the Reno gang held up the train’s crew, unhooked the locomotive, and made off with 96-thousand dollars in cash, gold and bonds.
In 1939, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a “Pact Of Steel” that linked Germany and Italy to a military alliance.
In 1947, the first ballistic missile was fired.
In 1955, Jack Benny signed off his last live radio broadcast following a run of 23 years. His show then moved to television.
In 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin Myra.
In 1961, the Top Of The Needle restaurant in Seattle’s Space Needle opened as the first revolving restaurant.
In 1975, Baseball Hall-of-Famer Lefty Grove died at the age of 75.
In 1985, U.S. sailor Michael Walker was arrested aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz. He and his father, John Walker, were later convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
In 1990, Hall-of-Fame boxer Rocky Graziano died at the age of 71.
In 1992, after nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson ended his reign as host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” Carson’s final words to the audience were quote, “I bid you all a heartfelt good night.”
In 2002, a jury in Birmingham, Alabama found former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry guilty in the deadly 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Baptist Church which killed four young black girls. The verdict came almost 40 years after the crime. Cherry, 71, was immediately sentenced to life in prison. He was the last of a group of men to be brought to justice for the blast.
In 2011, severe storms ripped through the mid-section of the U.S. Joplin, Missouri was among the hardest hit cities.
In 2016, women who flew planes during World War Two were once again allowed to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. President Obama signed a bill allowing the ashes of female pilots who flew in the Women Airforce Service Pilots Program to be laid to rest at the military cemetery.
And that brings us here to this day.
So, whatever you have planned for your 5.22.2021 here’s hoping it’s one for the pages of your own personal record books.
Thanks for stopping by!
