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GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS FRIDAY, May 08, the 129th day of 2020 with 237 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:30 and sunset is @ 7:51. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
ON THIS DAY IN: 1096 – Peter the Hermit and his army reached Hungary. They passed through without incident.
1450 – Jack Cade’s Rebellion-Kentishmen revolted against King Henry VI.
1541 – Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1794 – Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
1794 – The United States Post Office was established.
1846 – The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, TX.
1847 – The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.
1879 – George Selden applied for the first automobile patent.
1886 – Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called “Coca-Cola.”
1914 – The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
1915 – H.P. Whitney’s Regret became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby.
1919 – The U.S. Navy’s first transatlantic flight took off with three Curtiss NC flying boats.
1921 – Sweden abolished capital punishment.
1933 – Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1939 – Clay Puett’s electric starting gate was used for the first time.
1943 – The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 – U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
1954 – Parry O’Brien became the first to toss a shot put over 60 feet. O’Brien achieved a distance of 60 feet 5 1/4 inches.
1956 – Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of “Mad Magazine” for the first time.
1958 – U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1959 – Mike and Marian Ilitch founded “Little Caesars Pizza Treat”.
1960 – Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union resumed.
1961 – New Yorkers selected a new name for their new National League baseball franchise. They chose the Mets.
1970 – Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City’s Wall Street.
1973 – Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
1984 – The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.
1984 – Joanie (Erin Moran) and Chachi (Scott Baio) got married on ABC-TV’s “Happy Days.”
1985 – “New Coke” was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
1986 – Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.
1997 – Larry King received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 – A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia’s capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.
1999 – The first female cadet graduated from The Citadel military college.