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May 4, 2015 On1806, May Revolutionary 19, 1836, during a raid, • On May •30, War veteran and Commanche Indians in Texas kid- Charles future President Andrew Jackson kills nap 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker Dickinson in a duel for printing libelous comand kill her family. Adopted into the ments about his wife, Jackson Commanche tribe,Rachel. she lived a happyhad married a woman notyears technically divorced, life withwho themwas for 25 until Texas Rangers recaptured herabandoned and forced her. even though her husband had her to live again among Anglo-Ameri• On May 28,Weakened 1902, Owen Wister's "The cans. by self-imposed star- Virginian" is vation, published. The book was the first "serishe died of influenza. ous" Western the Karol most influential in • On and May one 18, of 1920, Jozef Wojtyla is born in Poland. Wojtyla the genre. It became a sensation almost overnight, to become Pope copies John Paul selling went moreon than 1.5 million byII,1938 and history’s most well-traveled pope and inspiring four movies and a Broadway play. the first non-Italian to hold the position the Henry 16th century. Popehis John • On May 26,since 1927, Ford and son Edsel Paul II issued the Catholic Church’s drive the 15 millionth Model T Ford out of their apology for its actions during factory first on the final day of production. The Model World War II. T had a 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and • On May 21, 1932, aviator Amecould travel up to 45 mph. the first pilot lia Earhart becomes to 29, repeat Charles Lindbergh’s feat, • On May 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealanding her plane in Ireland after a land and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, be2,000-mile solo flight across the North come the first explorers to reach the summit of Atlantic. Mount Everest. News of their achievement broke • On May 23, 1941, Joe “The Brown around Bomber” the world on beats June Buddy 2, the Baer day to of Queen Louis Elizabeth II'shis coronation. retain heavyweight title at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Baer • On May 31, 1962, in through Israel, Nazi SS officer Adknocked Louis the ropes in olf Eichmann is executed for his crimes against the first round, but Louis clawed his humanity World War gutted II. Following the wayduring back and eventually out a victory. war, Eichmann was captured by U.S. troops, but On May 22, 1969, the legendary escaped •before having to face the Nuremberg actor, philanthropist and War Crimes Tribunal. Eichmann automofled to Argentibile enthusiast Paul Newman makes na, where he was found by agents of the Mossad, his onscreen racing debut in the film Israel's “Winning.” intelligenceThree service. years later, Newman launched a racing of his Lucas' • On May 25, 1977, the firstcareer of George own, driving a Lotus Elan in his first blockbuster Warsofmovies SportsStar Car Club Americahits race.U.S. theaters. Star Wars was soon a pop-culture phenomenon. • On May 24, 1971, at Fort Bragg, Over the years it has spawned feature films, North Carolina, an antiwarmore newspaper TV series and an entire industry's worth advertisement signed by 29 U.S. sol-of comic diers and supporting the Concerned Offibooks, toys video games. cers Movement appears. The ad was in • On May 27, 1994, decades after being exsupport of the two group’s members who pelled opposed from thetheSoviet Union, departure of theNobel carrier laureate USS Constellation Vietnam.to Russia. In Aleksandr Solzhenitsynforreturns • On May 20, 1995, President 1945, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to Bill eight years Clinton permanently closes the twoof hard labor for criticizing Stalin in a letter to a stretch of Pennsylvania Ave- Day in friend. block Foreign publication of his "One nue in front of the White House to all the Lifevehicular of Ivan Denisovich" hisfor expulsion traffic, citing led the to need from the USSRThe in 1974. security. road had been opened to © 2015 King Features Synd., Inc. traffic for nearly 200 years.
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