On June 11, 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease
agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II. This was a result
of Hitler breaking his word and invaded the Soviet Union.
On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in
LA after winning the CA presidential primary. Kennedy was shot several times
by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
On May 24, 1899, the first public parking garage in the United States was
established in Boston, Massachusetts & was advertised as a “stable for
renting, sale, storage, and repair of motor vehicles.”
On May 21, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his single engine plane entitled the
Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, France, completing the first solo airplane
flight across the Atlantic Ocean. It took 33.5 hours.
On May 9, 1960, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the 1st
commercially produced birth-control bill-Enovid-10 ending a struggle that
began in 1916 by Margaret Sanger.
On May 7, 1915, during World War I the passenger ship the Lusitania is sunk
by German submarines off the coast of Ireland. The boat sinks in just 20
minutes killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans.
On May 2, 1945, approx. 1 million Nazi soldiers lay down their arms as part
of the Nazi unconditional surrender & in Berlin the Soviets take 134,000
German soldiers prisoner – ending WWII in Europe
On May 1, 1960, during the Cold War, an American U-2 spy plane, run by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is shot down while conducting espionage
over the Soviet Union
On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the
Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire sent
radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died instantly.
On April 24, 1800 John Adams approves $5,000 to purchase “such books as may
be necessary for the use of Congress,” thus establishing the Library of
Congress. Today it has over 17 million books.