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This week in History

Written on: May 18th, 2009 by: in News, Reviews

May 19th:

• 1935, T.E. Lawrence dies in England as the result of a motorcycle crash
• 1890, Birth of Ho Chi Minh
• 1925, Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska.
• 1536, Execution of Ann Boleyn, 2nd wife of England’s King Henry VIII

May 20th:

• 1927, Charles LIndbergh sets off on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• 1932, Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to do same
• 1969, U.S. forces seize Apbia Mountain- “Hamburger Hill”– in Vietnam
• 1992, NBC broadcasts the final episode of “Cheers”

May 21st:

• 1969, murders of Harvey Milk and Dan White in San Francisco
• 1956, successful test of the first airborne Hydrogen Bomb over Bikini Atoll
• 1921, birth of Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel peace prize winning Russian dissident
• 1999, Susan Lucci wins a daytime Emmy, finally. No link, because there aren’t any books about Susan Lucci, sadly.

Dates courtesy of the excessively useful NYT “on this day” website.