May 22 brings us to a cold day , again, in the metroplex. Some of my elephant ears have come up, the morning glory's are blooming, dark purple, pink and blue, no lilies yet.
1819 - The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SFz9ZUoZflg
1843 - 1st wagon train, 1000+ departs Independence MO for Oregon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7MJu34sQk&feature=player_detailpage
1868 - The Reno Gang makes off with $98.000 in cash, bonds and gold in the greatest train robbery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7-tFmJVjzb8
1891 - 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2NxVMcf6TFc
1914 - Lassen Peak erupts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GpGn5uhLcys
1943 - Germany beats the U.S. launching the 1st jet fighter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hkwBCwQryOo
1956 - The "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gjxRPPOnu5Y
1945 - Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Uj_o1L-e0&feature=player_detailpage
1961 - Seattle's "Top Of The Needle" in Seattle Washington is opened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=v87qPjs8L-A
and
"Touchables In Brooklyn" hits the charts at #42.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pJKFA5dplvM
(Anyone remember Nick Danger Third Eye and Farsign Theater?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XfXECpU6w&feature=player_detailpage
1964 - LBJ gives his "Great Society"speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZtPpKp6vFtk
and Nikita Krushchev his - "You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands."
1965 - 5000 protesters march against U.S. policies in Vietnam, at Berkeley University in California
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WHhUuzBodQc
1966 - Percy Sledge makes it up the charts to #1 on Billboard charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7lp7FtJXp7k
1968 - Disraeli Gears by Cream is certified gold. ( I danced on stage at the Cellar in Ft. Worth one night to this)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hftgytmgQgE
1971 - The Rolling Stones release the album "Sticky Fingers" with a real working zipper.
[video=youtube;4NXOm1eJkeg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4NXOm1eJkeg[/video]
2011 - A EF5 hits Joplin Mo. Killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
(This was my sons first time with Operation BBQ. They set up their smokers and feed many thousands each day for over a week. He also was at the one in Moore in 2013. It was weird to me that my son was there helping in the place I wanted to go back to. He said they sat up in a Sam's parking lot and the manager came out and asked if they needed anything, opened the store and told them to get what all they needed. If you look at the photo's of Operation BBQ my son is the good looking one LOL. In once scene they show one smoker and it has writing on it, and I recognized it as his. It looks just like his dads and his son)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GH0n_FgMx4&feature=player_detailpage
there is a news bulletin going across the bottom of the screen - Jodi Arais jury declared a mistrial in guilt phase.