Monday, May 25th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n 1803<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong>, an American poet and philosopher was born and lived in Massachusetts, but later in life, health issues caused him to move to South Carolina, then he moved to Florida, then he moved to . . . well, they don\u2019t exactly know where, and thus the game \u2018Where\u2019s Waldo?\u2019<\/strong> was born.<\/p>\n 1925<\/strong> \u2013 In the \u2018Monkey Trial\u2019<\/strong>, John T. Scopes<\/strong> was indicted for teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee classroom. Within the state the event\u00a0was more commonly referred to as the \u2018If-I-Divorce-My-Wife-Is-She-Still-My-Sister Trial\u2019.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> – After 25 years, Oprah Winfrey<\/strong>, weighing in at 223 pounds, aired her last TV show as she finally ran out of fad diets to promote.<\/p>\n Tuesday, May 26<\/u><\/p>\n 1936 – T<\/strong>he House Un-American Activities<\/strong> Committee begins its first session of searching for subversives in the U.S. and had to go no further than their own congressional chambers to find some. 1946 – <\/strong>A patent was filed in the United States for the\u00a0H-bomb<\/strong>.\u00a0 Later, when \u2018Hell\u2019 was more readily accepted into the American lexicon, it was replaced by the \u2018F-bomb\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – In what turned out to be a\u00a0‘Bad’ ‘Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love’,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0weds Elvis’ daughter,\u00a0Lisa Marie Presley.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday, May 27<\/u><\/p>\n 1927 – <\/strong>After 15 million cars, the Ford Motor Company<\/strong> ceases manufacture of the \u2018Model T\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>and begins to retool plants to make way for the car that will change Ford’s history, the Edsel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 1941 – <\/strong>U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/strong> declared an “unlimited national emergency”<\/strong>. Yes, in May not on Dec 7th. Conspiracy theorists say that when no one really paid attention to Roosevelt\u2019s declaration, he staged Pearl Harbor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Thursday, May 28<\/u><\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> \u2013 The women of Greece<\/strong> are granted the right to vote. Yes, in 1952!!!\u00a0 Sixty-four years later in 2016 Saudi Arabia<\/strong> put the \u2018woman\u2019s vote\u2019 up for consideration, but it was voted down –\u00a0BY AN ALL MALE ELECTORATE!<\/strong><\/p>\n The ‘all male’ voting rule also exists today in\u00a0Vatican City<\/strong>,\u00a0which only allows cardinals under the age of 80 to vote and since canon law does not allow women to be ordained as priests, there are no women cardinals and thus they have been able to both age and gender discriminate\u00a0with one simple law.<\/p>\n 1987 <\/strong>– 60th<\/strong> National Spelling Bee<\/strong>: Stephanie Petit wins spelling \u2018staphylococci\u2019 \u2013 she beat out future Vice President Dan Quayle<\/strong>, who just barely missed the spelling of \u2018potato\u2019.<\/p>\n Friday, May 29<\/u><\/p>\n 1916 <\/strong>\u2013 To get a pre-season \u2018patsy\u2019 game win under its belt and warm up before entering World War I<\/strong>, the U.S. invades the Dominican Republic<\/strong><\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – Einstein’s<\/strong>\u00a0theory of relativity (the light-bending prediction part, my personal favorite) in 1916 is confirmed by Arthur Eddington; I’m sure you’re more-than-familiar with this simple formula below. 1942<\/strong> – Bing Crosby<\/strong>\u00a0records Irving Berlin’s White Christmas<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and it becomes the best-selling single in history. Today he would have to also record \u00a0Black<\/em>\u00a0Christmas, Brown Christmas <\/em>and\u00a0Rainbow Coalition Christmas<\/em>. \u00a0In a separate, but related story, in an effort not to slight the Smurfs, Elvis records\u00a0Blue Christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – Edmund Hilary<\/strong>\u00a0and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay<\/strong>\u00a0become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest<\/strong>\u00a0where they find the world\u2019s first Starbucks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I hope these events will help you feel a little more connected to this week and get you through it with a smile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow I\u2019m starting a new feature here at From A Bird\u2019s Eye View, which will occur whenever we haven’t traveled anywhere or we temporarily run out of other things to write about. This feature will recount some historical … read more![\"oprah\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oprah-150x150.jpeg\")
<\/a>1997<\/strong> \u2013 At age 100, Senator Strom Thurmond<\/strong> retires as the oldest serving senator in\u00a0U.S. history; he had actually passed away three years earlier, but the first \u2018Do Nothing Congress\u2019<\/strong> thought he was just sleeping at this desk again.<\/p>\n![\"jackson\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jackson-150x150.jpeg\")
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<\/a>1997<\/strong> \u2013 The U.S. Supreme Court<\/strong> rules that Paula Jones<\/strong>\u00a0can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton<\/strong> while he is in office. Unfortunately she had to get into a line that stretched for a half a mile down Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n![\"Quayle\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Quayle.jpeg\")
<\/a>1972 \u2013 <\/strong>White house \u2018plumbers\u2019 break into the Democratic National HQ at the Watergate Hotel<\/strong> and while searching through George McGovern\u2019s<\/strong> room, find a poster of Bernie Sanders<\/strong>\u00a0above his bed.<\/p>\n![\"einstein\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/einstein-300x115.jpeg\")
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