...for Mark "jingle guy" Holland, who has a birthday, today.
Elsewhere in history:
May 1 1776
Adam Weishaupt founds the Bavarian Illuminati, the secret society which
controls your mind as part of its plot to overthrow organized religion
and control the global economy. If you don't believe it, ask yourself
what novus ordo seclorum is doing on your dollar bill.
May 1 1863
The Confederate Congress decrees that captured Negro soldiers from the
Union Army are to be summarily put to death, on the grounds that they
have already "incited servile insurrection."
May 1 1889
The first of May is designated "International Workers Day," in
commemoration of Chicago's Haymarket riots of 1886. The new holiday is
actually an appropriation of the banned Beltane (Day of Fire), or May
Day, traditionally celebrated by encircling a phallic maypole with
delectable fertile virgins.
May 1 1942
The 215th and final hanging occurs at California's San Quentin maximum
security prison. Subsequent executions utilize the facility's gas
chamber, and ultimately, inmate's choice of that or lethal injection.
May 1 1945
Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda tell their six children they are
about to receive inoculation shots, but the injections actually contain
poison. The parents then exit the Fuhrerbunker, where an SS man shoots
them both in the back of the head.
May 1 1960
The Soviet Union fires a SAM-2 surface-to-air missile at the U-2 spy
plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers. The aircraft crashes inside
Russian territory, near Sverdlosk. For whatever reason, Powers opts not
to swallow his suicide pill and is taken into custody.
May 1 1993
During a May Day rally, Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa and
his retinue of bodyguards are blown to bits by a Tamil Tiger suicide
bomber.
May 1 1997
Sportscaster Frank Gifford is caught on video having sex with TWA flight
attendant Suzen Johnson at the New York Regency Hotel. On the tape,
Johnson is heard moaning: "Oh, God that's so good. Oh my, you're so big.
I knew you would be -- I just knew you would be." A tabloid paid Johnson
$75,000 to fornicate with Gifford, and she later goes on to pose nude in
Playboy for a six-figure check.
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