- 1888] The 1st DJ: Contrary to popular belief it wasn't Cousin Brucie. It was Emile Berliner whose voice was heard on the 1st demo of a flat disc (5/16)...
- 1897] Count Dracula is born from the pen of Bram Stoker (5/18)...
- 1929] The first Academy Awards are presented. "Wings" starring Clara Bow and Gary Cooper is the "Movie of The Year" and Emil Jannings is the "Best Actor" for "The Last Command" and "The Way of Flesh" (5/16)...
- 1934] Congress approves the "Lindbergh Act" making kidnapping a capital offense (5/18)...
- 1939] Princeton beats Columbia 2-1 in 10 innings at Baker Field in the first televised baseball game on experimental W2XBS (5/17). This was the New York Times review of the coverage: "It is difficult to see how this sort of thing can catch the public fancy." Sixty-nine years later it's easier to see how it could 'catch the public fancy'...
- 1957] A brawl breaks out at the 29th birthday party for Billy Martin at the Copa (5/16). Billy, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Johnny Kucks, Hank Bauer and assorted spouses take part in a melee. Lots of fines are handed down and in four weeks Billy Martin wears a Kansas City uniform...
- 1970] Henry Aaron singles and homers in a game against the Reds giving him 3,000 hits and 570 home runs (5/17). Only two other players have done that (3,000/500): Willie Mays and Eddie Murray...
- 1990] 'Happy Trails': Sammy Davis Jr. loses his fight against throat cancer at 64 (5/16)...1990] "Muppets" creator Jim Henson dies less than 24 hours after being hospitalized for pneumonia (5/16). Henson was 53...1992] Bandleader Lawrence Welk dies from pneumonia at 89 (5/17)...1995] Elizabeth Montgomery, star of "Bewitched" passes away from colorectal cancer at 62 (5/18)...2002] The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, 38, are found (5/16) and will be returned to his wife...2004] Tony Randall passes away at 84 from complications brought about by pneumonia (5/17)...
- 1998] Perfecto: David Wells pitches a perfect game at Yankee Stadium in a Yankee win over Minnesota. It's just the 13th perfecto in the modern era (5/17)...2004] Twenty-seven batters face Arizona pitcher Randy Johnson and twenty-seven batters fail to reach first base. At the age of 40, Johnson becomes the oldest pitcher in history to pitch a perfect game (against Atlanta) (5/18)...
- 1998] "Murphy Brown" starring Candice Bergen ends its 10-year run (5/18)...
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