This Day in History for May 8th:
1521 -- Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther.
1541 -- Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River.
1784 -- Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
1792 -- British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier WA.
1792 -- US establishes military draft.
1794 -- US Post Office established.
1794 -- Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
1842 -- Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die.
1847 -- Robert Thompson patents rubber tire.
1864 -- Battle of Antietam VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)
1877 -- 1st Westminster Dog Show held.
1879 -- George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile.
1886 -- Atlanta pharmacist (Jacob's Pharmacy) Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained cocaine)
1902 -- Mount Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000.
1919 -- 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane.
1921 -- Sweden abolished capital punishment.
1926 -- 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
1942 -- Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack.
1943 -- Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
1944 -- 1st eye bank opens (NYC)
1945 -- U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
1949 -- West German constitution approved.
1952 -- Mad Magazine debuts.
1958 -- Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru.
1961 -- 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport TX.
1962 -- London trolley buses go out of service.
1967 -- Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army.
1970 -- Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street.
1973 -- Indians holding South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender.
1974 -- 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted.
1977 -- David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings.
1980 -- World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated.
1984 -- Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed.
1993 -- 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride.
1994 -- President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people.
1999 -- The first female cadet graduated from The Citadel military college.
I hope everyone enjoys this Day in History!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz*
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