May 10 - Dinosaur Book

Dinosaur Book

Overheard

At snacktime:
[E has a Letter of the Day Cookie]
D: You got a W! [looks around, sees Little Guy] Hmm, what starts with W?
E: Hmm. I don't know?
D: W makes a 'wuh' sound. Wuh-wuh-wuh...
E: Wuh. Wuh. Wuhwuh-wuh-wuh--[points at LG] Baby!

This Day In History

1497

Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.

1503

Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.

1534

Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.

1775

Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

1824

The National Gallery in London opens to the public.

1849

A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.

1869

The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.

1872

Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.

1893

The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

1954

Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

1960

The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.

1979

The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.

Famous Birthdays

1755

Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806)

1760

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (d. 1836)

1788

Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)

1838

John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)

1841

James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (New York Herald) (d. 1918)

1899

Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)

1902

David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)

1918

George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)

1920

Jeff Cooper, United States Marine, firearms instructor and writer (d. 2006)

1930

Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster

1955

Chris Berman, American sportscaster

1956

Paige O'Hara, American Broadway singer and actress

1957

Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)