May 24

May 24

St. Sara, (gypsies)

Brothers Day, Hug Your Cat Day, National  Escargot Day

1833- Brooklyn Bridge opened

1844- Samuel Morse sent the 1^st public telegraph message

1929- 1^st Marx brothers film, The Coconuts, premiered in NYC

Birthdays:

Bob Dylan – 1941

Gary Burghoff – 1943

Jim Broadbent - 1949

“What hath God wrought!” __Samuel Morse -1^st public telegraph message

May 22

May 22

St. Julia, (Corsica, Portugal), St. Rita, (desperate cases; invoked against bleeding, infertility, loneliness, tumors, unhappy marriage)

National Maritime Day, UN International Day for Biological Diversity, Neighbor Day, (Rhode Island), Buy a Musical Instrument Day, (but maybe not in Rhode Island?)

1570 – First atlas published. It had 50 maps.

1803- First public library opened- in Connecticut

1931- Canned rattlesnake meat first went on sale in Florida. (sometimes you have to wonder….who keeps track of this stuff!!)

     

Birthdays:

Mary Cassatt – 1844

Arthur Conan Doyle – 1859

Johnny Olson - 1910

May21

May 21

St Andrew Bobola

Armed Forces Day, “I Need a Patch For That” Day, National Waitstaff Day,

1804 – Pere Lachaise cemetery opened in Paris

1927 –Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris

1979- Elton John became the 1^st rock star to perform in the USSR

Birthdays:

William Einthoven -1860

Fats Waller 1904

Raymond Burr 1917

“Well, I made it.”     ---- Charles Lindbergh

May 20

May 20

St. Bernardino of Siena, (advertising, public relations; invoked against hoarseness), St. Ethelbert, (invoked against thieves)

Eliza Dolittle Day, Pick Strawberries Day, International  Virtual Assistants Day, National Bike to Work Day, National Defense Transportation Day, (could those 2 be related/),  Weights and Measures Day

1874- Levi Strauss marketed blue jeans with copper rivets for $13.50/dozen

1939 – First Chelsea flower show in London

1961- Orient Express made its last run

     

Birthdays:

William Fargo 1818

James Stewart 1908

Cher 1945

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. ---Levi Strauss



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May 19

May 19

St. Celestine V (bookbinders), St. Dunstan, (armorers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, locksmiths), St Ivo of Kermartin, (Brittany, judges, lawyers, notaries, orphans), St Prudentiana, (Philippines)

Man Ray Day, Boy’s Club Day

1884-  Premiere of Ringling Brothers Circus

1911-First conviction by fingerprint –NYC

1928 -1^st annual “Frog Jumping Jubilee”- Angels Camp, CA

      

Birthdays:

Johns Hopkins – 1795

Nellie Melba – 1861

Malcolm X - 1925

“The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.”___Nellie Melba

May 18

May 18

St. Eric IX (Sweden), St. Theodotus, (innkeepers), St. Venantius, (of leaping; invoked against danger from falling)

International Museum Day, No Dirty Dishes Day,  Visit Your Relatives Day.

1953 -Jacqueline Cochran became the  1^st woman to break the sound barrier

1955 -1^st Wimpy bar opened in London

1975- Junko Tabei became the 1^st woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest

      

Birthdays:

Bertrand Russell -1872

Walter Gropius – 1883

Perry Como- 1912

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, never let it fade away….    

May 17

May 17

St. Madern, (invoked against lameness), St. Pascal Babylon, (shepherds)

Pack Rat Day!!!!  (Another holiday with me in mind!)

1620- First merry-go-round at a fair in Pilippapolis, Turkey

1792- 24 merchants formed the NY stock Exchange

1954-US Supreme Court declared public school segregation unconstitutional

      

Birthdays:

Edward Jenner- 1749

Erik Satie – 1866

Dennis Hopper 1936

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. -----Edward Jenner

May 16

May 16

St Brendan, (Ireland, sailors), St. Homoratus, (bakers, millers), St. John of Nipmuk, (Bohemia, bridges, bridge builders,  Czechoslovakia; invoked against detraction), St. Simon Stock (tanners)

Love a Tree Day, National Sea Monkey Day, Wear Purple for Peace Day

1571- Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, was conceived at 4:37am

1866-Charles Elmer Hires invented rootbeer

1891-George Hormel & Co. introduced Spam

      

Birthdays:

Henry Fonda – 1905

Studs Terkel- 1912

Liberace -1919

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
Studs Terkel


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May 15

May 15

St. Dymphna, (asylums, mental health workers; invoked against epilepsy, insanity, sleepwalking0, St. Hallvard, (Oslo, in defense of innocence), St Isodore, (farmers, ranchers)

National Chocolate Chip Day, Police Officers Memorial Day

1817-1^st private mental health hospital in US opened-The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, (now Friends Hosp)

1918- USPO began first regular air mail service

1930-1^st Air Stewardess, Ellen Church, cared for passengers on a flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyanne, WY.

     

Birthdays:

L. Frank Baum – 1856

Pierre Curie – 1859

Wavy Gravy-1936

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
— L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

May 14

May 14

St. Matthias, (invoked against alcoholism)

Dance Like a Chicken Day, International Migratory Birds Day

1932- “We want beer” parade in NYC

1942- Sugar rationing began in USA (maybe we should still have it???0

1989- Final episodes of “Family Ties” and “Moonlighting” on tv.

     

Birthdays:

Gabriel Fahrenheit- 1686

Bobby Darin 1936

Robert Jarvik- 1947

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. -----Robert Jarvik

May 13

May 13

St. Imelda, (first communicants), St Servas, (invoked against foot troubles, rats, vermin)

Blame Someone Else Day, Frog Jumping Day, Leprechaun Day

1916-First observance of Indian, (Native American), Day   

 1933- Nelson Rockefeller destroyed a Diego Rivera mural  1950-  1^st Diners Club card issued 

        

Birthdays:

Sir Arthur Sullivan- 1842

Daphne du Maurier 1907

Armistead Maupin - 1944

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ----Armistead Maupin

May 12

May 12

St. Francis Patrizi, (reconciliations), St. Pancras, (children, oaths, treaties). St. Tammany, (democracy)

Fatigue  Syndrome Day, International Nurses Day, Limerick Day

1777- 1^st ice cream advertisement

1935 – AA founded in Akron, Ohio

1963 – Bob Dylan refused to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show on the grounds that it was “too square”

      

Birthdays:

Edward Lear – 1812

Florence Nightengale – 1820

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1820

Limerick There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'	LimerickThere was an Old Man in a tree, Who was horribly bored by a Bee; When they said, 'Does it buzz?' He replied, 'Yes, it does!' 'It's a regular brute of a Bee!'

----Edward Lear from  www.poetry-online.org

May 11

May 11

St. Gengulf (invoked against unhappy marriage)

Eat What You Want Day, National Receptionist Day, School Nurse Day, Twilight Zone Day

 1811-Chang & Eng Bunker born in Siam 

1858 - Minnesota became the 32^nd state

1981 - The Musical “Cats” opened in London 

Birthdays:

Irving Berlin-1888

Salvador Dali – 1904

Phil Silvers - 1912

 “Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins”

                                                                   ____Victoria Billings

May 10

May 10

St. Cathal, (invoked against drought,hernia,storms), St. Job,(invoked against depression,ulcers), St Solangia (of children, shepherds; invoked for/against rain)

Clean Up Your Room Day

1752- Ben Franklin first tested the lightning rod

1754 -1^st newspaper cartoon in America, divided snake-join or die appeared

1869-Transcontinental railway completed

Birthdays:

John Wilkes Booth -1838

Fred Astaire- 1899

Ella Grasso - 1919

“I just put my feet in the air and move them around.”---Fred Astaire

May 9

May 9

St. Pachomius

World Red Cross/Red Crescent Day,  Lost Sock Memorial Day, National Train Day

1785- Joseph Bramah patented the beer pump handle

1887 -Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opened in London

1974- US House Judiciary Committee began impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon

Birthdays:

J.M. Barrie- 1860

Howard Carter – 1873

Candice Bergen- 1946

“Watergate is water under the bridge.”----Richard M. Nixon

May 8

St. Wro (Holland)

Iris Day, No Socks Day, V E Day

1847- Robert Thompson patented the rubber tire

1877- 1^st Westminster Dog Show was held

1952- The debut of Mad Magazine

Birthdays:

Harry S. Truman -1884

Fulton J. Sheen- 1895

Peter Benchly - 1940

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job;  it’s a depression when you lose yours.”  ______ Harry S. Truman

May 7

May 7

St. Domition, (invoked against fever), St John of Beverly

Astronomy Day, Birth Mother’s Day, National Tourism Day

1660- Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in the Hague, patented macaroni

1888- George Eastman launched his Kodak Camera

1947- Kraft Television Theater  premiered on NBC

Birthdays:

 Johannes Brahms- 1833

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky- 1840

Gary Cooper - 1901

“You push the button, we do the rest” ….George Eastman

May 6

St. Ava, (children learning to walk)

Beverage Day, International Tuba Day, Military Spouses Day, National Tourist Appreciation Day, National  Nurses Day, No Diet Day, Space Day

1626- Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhatten

1954-Roger Bannister broke the 4 Minute Mile barrier

1994 -The Channel Tunnel opened

      

Birthdays:

Sigmund Freud – 1856

Rudolph Valentino – 1895

Orson Welles- 1915

Female reporter:” If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything.”  …Citizen Kane

May 5

May 5

St. Avertine, (invoked against dizziness), St Judith, (Prussia)

Cinco de Mayo, National  Hoagie Day, Oyster Day

1494- Columbus discovered Jamaica

1865-1st US train robbery –near North Bend, OH

1961-Alan B. Shepard made 1^st US suborbital manned space flight

      

Birthdays:

Geradus Mercator -1512

John Stetson- 1830

Michael Palin - 1943

“I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay

I sleep all night and I work all day…”  Monty Python