Wednesday, May 2, 2012

May 2 - Ladylike




Ladylike

Elanor Tea Time

Elanor sharing tea, coffee or cocoa with her guests.


This Day In History
1194
King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1536
Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559
John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.
1568
Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1611
King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1829
After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
1885
Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
1920
The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1955
Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1963
Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1969
The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
2000
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.


Famous Birthdays
1601
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1680)
1729
Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (d. 1796)
1802
Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
1843
Elijah McCoy, Canadian-born Inventor (d. 1929)
1890 
E. E. Smith, American science fiction author (d. 1965)
1892
Manfred von Richthofen, German World War I pilot – the Red Baron (d. 1918)
1895
Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
1897
J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1952
Christine Baranski, American actress
1959
Alan Best, Canadian animation director and producer
1972
Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor





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