May 20th
On this date in 1927 Charles Lindberg took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island on the first successful solo Transatlantic flight. He landed the following day in Paris. Following this flight he became perhaps [...]
May 19th
On this date in 1962 Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy at a birthday salute held at Madison Square Garden in New York. Monroe's breathless rendition was played frequently on the news [...]
May 18th
On this date in 1926 Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Ocean Park Beach near Los Angeles. What happened next continues to be a matter of controversy. "Sister Aimee" was a radio evangelist with millions of followers. Her Foursquare [...]
May 17th
On this date in 1990 homosexuality was removed from the list of psychiatric diseases by the World Health Organization. Fourteen years later on this date the first legal same sex marriages were performed in Massachusetts. [...]
May 16th
On this date in 1861 Herman Webster Mudgett was born. Mudgett is better known by his alias Dr. H. H. Holmes, one of America's first modern serial killers. At the time of the 1893 World Columbian [...]
May 15th
On this date in 1905 the city of Las Vegas was founded. The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad auctioned off 110 acres in what is now downtown Las Vegas to start the city. [...]