Welcome Home to Sister Kat from Osaka, Japan
May 16
1578 - Everard Digby ~ English conspirator
1641 - Dudley North ~ Financier & Economist
1710 - William Talbot ~ English Politician
1763 - Louis Vauquelian ~ Discovered chromium & beryllium
1801 - William Seward ~ Secretary of State, purchased Alaska for 2 cents per acre and took a knife attack into the face from Lewis Powell; Booth chum
1831 - David Hughes ~ invented the microphone & teleprinter
1832 - Philip Armour ~ Founder of Armour Foods....no relation to Tommy
1861 - H.H.Holmes ~ Serious Serial Killer...quite
~ from the goodie basket ~
in 1532, Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chanceller
in 1568, Mary Queen of Scots flees to England
in 1606, 2,000 foreigners are murdered in Russia
in 1792, Denmark abolishes slave trade
in 1804, French Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
in 1817, Mississippi River Steamboat service begins
in 1866, Charles Elmer Hires invents Root Beer
in 1866, US Congress authorizes the Nickel 5 cent piece to replace the Silver Half Dime
in 1866, by one vote, Congress fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
in 1872, Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for the first time
in 1891, George Hormel & Co introduce $PAM
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