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On This Day:
Saturday May 2, 2009
This is the 122nd day of the year, with 243 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Mother Goose
Who was Mother Goose? "Mother Goose" was first associated with nursery
rhymes in an early collection of songs and lullabies sung by British
nurses/caregivers, "Mother Goose's Melody" (or "Sonnets for the Cradle")
published in 1781 by John Newbery. The Newbery company may have derived the
name "Mother Goose" from the title of Charles Perrault's French collection of
fairy tales "Contes de ma mere l'oye," (or "Tales of Mother Goose" - which
means fairytales or old wives' tales) published in 1697.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Gennys, St. Athanasius, St. Mefalda, St. Wiborada, St.
Waldebert, Saints Exuperius and Zoe, and St. Ultan of Fosses.
Events
1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was sent to
the Tower of London.
1611 - The Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Version) was first
published.
1670 - The Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles II,
and it was made up of a group of French explorers who started the lucrative
North American fur trade to London merchants.
1776 - France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting
the British.
1863 - Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally
wounded by his own men; he died 8 days later.
1885 - "Good Housekeeping" magazine went on sale.
1887 - Hannibal W. Goodwin of Newark, New Jersey, applied for a patent
for celluloid photographic film.
1890 - The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1933 - The first sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was reported in a
Scotland newspaper.
1941 - The Federal Communications Commission agreed to regular scheduling
of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations; it was the start of what would
become network television.
1945 - The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies
announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1952 - The first jet airplane passenger service was launched (London to
Johannesburg, South Africa).
1965 - The Early Bird satellite was used to transmit television pictures
across the Atlantic Ocean.
Births
1729 - Catherine the Great (Ekaterina Alekseevna), German-born Russian
empress (1762-1796).
1810 - Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, English compiler of "Brewer's Dictionary
of Phrase and Fable."
1895 - Lorenz Hart, American composer, lyricist with Richard Rodgers.
1902 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, author.
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey), Anglo-Indian pop
singer.
Deaths
1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the FBI.
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