This Week in History

MAY 29

Jen LaPrice was born.

1790 – Rhode Island became the 13th state, the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.

1953 – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

MAY 30

John Manning was born.

Deirdre Cori O’Donoghue was born.

Sean Carroll was born.

Casey Collins was born.

1431 – Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic.

1911 – The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun.

MAY 31

Kathleen Baumann was born.

Alison Boyle was born.

Lynn Olsen-Pagano was born.

1962 – Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel.

June 1

1938 – The first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, was published.

1968 – Helen Keller, blind and deaf author-lecturer, died.

1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) debuted.

June 2

Brynn Coursey Heegan was born.

1886 – Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. president to get married in the White House.

1941 – Baseball great Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

June 3

Grace Miller was born.

Brendan Gallagher was born.

1937 – The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) married Wallis Simpson.

1989 – Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini died.

June 4

Helen Timlin-Kilgallen was born.

Victoria Barber was born.

Jessica McCormick was born.

1896 – Henry Ford took his first car out for a test drive.

2003 – Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading.