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History's Happenings for May 5

Alan Shepard First American in Space!
1961

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Birth of Karl Marx
1818

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Napoleon Dies in Exile
1821

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Cy Young Pitches First No-Hitter
1904

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Scopes Arrested for Teaching Evolution
1925

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Japs Take Corregidor
1942

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Japs Bomb Oregon, Six Killed
1945

In the only Japanese attack on the American mainland resulting in fatalities, a minister's pregnant wife and five kids were killed when a Jap plane dropped a "balloon" bomb on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon.

Rural Life Sunday

This interesting holiday was founded in 1929 by a coalition of church groups in order to celebrate God's blessing of the seed, the fertile soil, and the hard working rural families who earn their living from the earth's bounty. It is a non-sectarian observance.

Today it has become a virtual impracticality for a small American farmer to make a living from the soil comparable to the many other vocational opportunities available to industrious folks. Most have to also work off the farm -- or have the family do so -- to make ends meet, and to avail themselves of self-defeating government largess.

Considering the debt we all owe the American farmer every time we pick up our fork, and considering some of the idiotic things for which we have set aside national days, weeks and months, we think this one -- along with Farmers Day in October -- deserves our reverence.

Celebrating it on a Sunday (the fifth after Easter) is indeed apropos.




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