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