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MAY 22
1795 Scottish explorer Mungo Park sets forth on his first voyage to Africa.
— May 24, 2026 06:50AM
1795 Scottish explorer Mungo Park sets forth on his first voyage to Africa.
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JUNE 1
How reconcile this world of fact with the bright world of my imagining? My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer daylight world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
The deaf and blind author Helen Keller who died today, 1968.
— 5 hours, 19 min ago
How reconcile this world of fact with the bright world of my imagining? My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer daylight world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
The deaf and blind author Helen Keller who died today, 1968.
Judi
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MAY 31
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.
Jan Smuts, Boer general, at the Boer War peace conference, 1902.
— 18 hours, 56 min ago
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.
Jan Smuts, Boer general, at the Boer War peace conference, 1902.
Judi
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MAY 30
1640 Death of Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most influential figures in Baroque art in northern Europe.
— Jun 01, 2026 07:04AM
1640 Death of Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most influential figures in Baroque art in northern Europe.
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MAY 29
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Women's Rights", with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Victoria, Queen of England, in a letter, 1870.
— Jun 01, 2026 06:33AM
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Women's Rights", with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Victoria, Queen of England, in a letter, 1870.
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MAY 28
1837 Death of Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist whose theories introduced the concept of the inferiority complex.
— May 31, 2026 08:00AM
1837 Death of Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist whose theories introduced the concept of the inferiority complex.
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MAY 27
Virtuoso's final bow
1849 The illustrious Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini went to his Maker today — though opinion is divided on jusgh which maker that might be. Many are convinced e that the Devil himself played Paganini's violin for him. His skill was sheer wizard — he could give stunning performances on only one string — and his music and dark good looks mesmerized audiences, not least people's ...
— May 30, 2026 03:54PM
Virtuoso's final bow
1849 The illustrious Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini went to his Maker today — though opinion is divided on jusgh which maker that might be. Many are convinced e that the Devil himself played Paganini's violin for him. His skill was sheer wizard — he could give stunning performances on only one string — and his music and dark good looks mesmerized audiences, not least people's ...
Judi
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MAY 26
1791 The French Assembly forces Louis XVI to hand over the crown and state assets.
— May 30, 2026 07:00AM
1791 The French Assembly forces Louis XVI to hand over the crown and state assets.
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MAY 25
Owens' record busting day
1935 Jesse Owens, a 21-year-old black student athlete from Alabama,, set five new world records and equalled a sixth this afternoon — a world record in itself for a single day's achievement. In fact, Owens did it all in a single hour. He equelled the 100 yard record, then set new records for the long jump, 220 yards and 220-yard hurdles, relentlessly breaking the 200 m records...
— May 28, 2026 06:57AM
Owens' record busting day
1935 Jesse Owens, a 21-year-old black student athlete from Alabama,, set five new world records and equalled a sixth this afternoon — a world record in itself for a single day's achievement. In fact, Owens did it all in a single hour. He equelled the 100 yard record, then set new records for the long jump, 220 yards and 220-yard hurdles, relentlessly breaking the 200 m records...
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MAY 24
1814 Pope Pius VII, exiled by Napoleon Bonaparte, retuns to Rome.
— May 27, 2026 04:58PM
1814 Pope Pius VII, exiled by Napoleon Bonaparte, retuns to Rome.
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MAY 23
Sun loses libel case to 6\-year-old
1991 A disabled English boy, six-year-old Jonathan Hunt, today won "substantial" libel damages from the Sun newspaper — which had dubbed him "the worst brat in Britain". He is the first British child to sue for libel. In an article in July 1989, the San said that Jonathan had set the furniture alight, cut his ear off, killed the cat in a washing machine, painted the dog...
— May 25, 2026 07:49AM
Sun loses libel case to 6\-year-old
1991 A disabled English boy, six-year-old Jonathan Hunt, today won "substantial" libel damages from the Sun newspaper — which had dubbed him "the worst brat in Britain". He is the first British child to sue for libel. In an article in July 1989, the San said that Jonathan had set the furniture alight, cut his ear off, killed the cat in a washing machine, painted the dog...
