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THIS DAY IN U.S. HISTORY: May 5th

Posted by hannahadams on May 5, 2022 in Blogs, Featured, Latest News, This Day in US History, What's Hot, What's New

These historical events took place on May 5th:

1778: George Washington appoints Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army.

1840: Thomas Carlyle begins his famous lecture series “The Hero as Divinity”, later collected in his book “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History.”

1877: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles known as the Indian Wars.

1893: The panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

1917: Eugene Bullard gains his pilot’s license from Aéro-Club de France and becomes the first African-American military pilot working for the French Air Service.

1920: United States President Woodrow Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal.

1947: Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage.

1952: “Lucy Does a TV Commercial,” also known as “Vitameatavegamin,” episode of “I Love Lucy” premieres, garnering 68% of United States television viewers.

1958: The United States performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

1962: The “West Side Story” soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album.

2008: American/Columbia Records releases “Home Before Dark”, the twenty-seventh studio album by Neil Diamond; tops charts in the United States, United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

2017: Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue, is made a dame by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.

Posted in Blogs, Featured, Latest News, This Day in US History, What's Hot, What's New | Tagged Eugene Bullard, George Washington, I Love Lucy, Marshall Islands, Mississippi Valley, Neil Diamond, Siting Bull, Stock Exchange, Thomas Carlyle, Vogue, Woodrow Wilson

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