Today in History Today is Thursday, May 15, the 135th day of 2014. There are 230 days left in the year. 1602, English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold and his ship, the Concord, arrived at present-day Cape Cod, which hes credited with naming. 1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance in Plane Crazy 1930, registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard an Oakland-to-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport (a forerunner of United Airlines). 1940 - McDonalds opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps, whose members came to be known as WACs. 1954, the Fender Stratocaster guitar, created by Leo Fender, was officially released. 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed by Arthur H. Bremer while campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, for the Democratic presidential nomination. (Bremer served 35 years of a 53-year sentence for attempted murder.)
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:20:05 +0000
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