Tuesday, May5

Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!  (What is it - The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.^[3][9] In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16.^[3][10]

Causes and Effects of World War II

Today in History

1821

Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena.

1891

Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.

1925

John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwinism.

1961

Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

1981

Bobby Sands of the Irish Republican Army died in a prison hospital on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

2004

Pablo Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" became the most expensive painting ever sold.