This Week in History

MAY 8

Marina Callaghan was born.

Donna Serrone Fajen was born.

Bob Killian was born.

Colleen Vielandi was born.

Eileen O’Callaghan was born.

1945 – V-E Day marks the European victory of the Allies in World War II.

MAY 9

Kathy Lehane Cawthorne was born.

Tim McElhinney was born.

1914 – Mother’s Day became a public holiday.

1994 – The South African parliament chose Nelson Mandela as president.

MAY 10

John L. Muldoon was born.

Laura Flower Bruns was born.

Karen Potter was born.

Meghan Anderson was born.

Suzanne Carson was born.

1924 – J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.

1940 – Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.

MAY 11

1997 – IBM’s supercomputer, Deep Blue, defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six-game chess match.

May 12

Coleen Lane was born.

Elise Heeran was born.

1932 – The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s kidnapped baby was found.

1943 – Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.

May 13

Lynn Heeran was born.

1940 – Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Rome.

May 14

Tricia Davey was born.

Tim Harkins was born.

Bernadette O’Brien was born.

Maureen Hayes was born.

Ginna Siegrist was born.

1904 – The Olympic Games were held in the United States for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri.

1998 – Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82.