Posted on 05/02/2005 11:20:12 AM PDT by Asphalt
This is the 122nd day of the year, with 243 days remaining in 2005.
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. 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 agree 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, NJ, 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 -- 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.
Births 1729 - Catharine 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, composer, lyricist with Richard Rodgers.
1902 - Benjamin Spock, US pediatrician, author.
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey), singer.
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