May 15, 2022
QUOTE
Forever is composed of nows.
--Emily Dickinson
BIRTHDAYS
1397 – Sejong the Great, Korean king
1720 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian priest and astronomer
1902 – Richard J. Daley, Lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago
1918 – Eddy Arnold, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
IN MEMORY
1886 – Emily Dickinson, Poet and author
2003 – June Carter Cash, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
2020 – Fred Willard, Actor, comedian, and writer
IN ON THIS DAY
1602 – Cape Cod sighted by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.
1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion.
1905 – The city of Las Vegas founded
1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
1940 – Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald’s restaurant.