This Week in History

MAY 7

Seanie McConnell was born.

Fallon McConnell was born.

Megan Prendergast-Millard was born.

Rosemary Munro was born.

1915 – The British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in World War I off the coast of Ireland.

2000 – Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as Russia’s president.

MAY 8

Billy Blum was born.

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.

Jonathan Lazo 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.

Katherine Varno 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.