1215 • Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England, part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta
1821 • Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena, where he had been in exile.
1921 • Coco Chanel introduces Chanel No. 5
1925 • John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
1956 • Jim Bailey became the 1st runner to break the four-minute mile in the U.S. He was clocked at 3:58.5.
1961 • The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 • Alan Shepard becomes the 1st American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of fifteen minutes.
MjL 05 May 2013, 4:04 a.m.
Tracey has a coupon for Michael’s in Peoria so we had to go yesterday morning to get her some knitting stuff. Ended up she couldn’t find what she wanted so she didn’t get to use the coupon. We had breakfast at Hometown Buffet so it wasn’t a wasted trip.
We had supper at Ruby Tuesday’s with DD and Mom. Once again I got a well done steak after asking for a rare one. I guess I am going to have to ask for a raw steak to get one that isn’t hard and dry.
Ben is home now too! He arrived at the house after 9 last night. He will be here for only a couple weeks before he has to go back but it will be good!
MjL 05 May 2013, 6:17 a.m.
I am still on Jeff Teel’s list of bike trip report recipients and he recently sent out the 1st of many reports for his 2013 trip. He plans to make it to Kansas and Nebraska and has posted on overview of his plans on the
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