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18, 19yo kids with guns vs 18, 19yo kids with rocks.  It was setup for something bad to happen.  Shouldn't have happened, but it wasn't a good situation on either side.

There actually was an informant or sumsuch that "supposedly" fired off a warning shot as some of the traveling deviants found out he was blowing the whistle on them. This shot did not help matters along at all,also there were spikes amongst other objects being thrown repeatedly at the guardsman before hostilities erupted that landed behind them and grazed a few. Just a damn shame the real culprits didn't get apprehended then keelhauled

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
First American in Space (1961)
In 1961, 23 days after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to be launched into space. Shepard's suborbital flight—part of the US space program Project Mercury—reached a height of 115 miles (185 km). He performed several maneuvers of his capsule, Freedom 7, but returned after only a 15-minute flight.

This day in history:
Most of you probably don't know this but back in the early 20th Century Mexico did not have any domestic mayonnaise production.  All of their mayonnaise was imported from Great Britain.  It is a little known fact that after dropping passengers at New York City the HMS Titanic was then supposed to go on to Veracruz and drop off passengers there as well.  Additionally, Mexico's entire supply of Mayonnaise was in Titanic's cargo hold.  Titanic hit an iceberg late on April 14, 1912 and sank on April 15, 1912.  Communication was slower back then so news of the disaster didn't reach the Mexicans until May 5.  It was such a shock to them that, ever since, the Mexicans have memorialized the date when they learned of the tragedy as Sinko-de-Mayo. 

I just got that as a text message...

Birthdays
1818 Karl Marx

1865 Nellie Bly - was the most famous female journalist of her time. In 1889 Bly set off in an attempt to beat the fictional journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg's in "Round the World in Eighty Days", which she did in a then record 72 days. (here I thought she may be Capt. Bly's wife,but that was spelled Bligh)

1943 Michael Palin

1988 Adele

Events
1646 English King Charles I surrenders in Scotland

1762 Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, ending the Seven Years' War

1778 George Washington appoints Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army

1865 First US train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio - damn Buckeyes always starting shyt

1877 Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles

1891 Carnegie Hall opens in New York City, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of the New York Music Society Orchestra

1893 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange

1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in "modern" baseball as the Boston Americans beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0

1920 US President Woodrow Wilson outlaws the Communist Labor Party

1921 Perfume Chanel No. 5 is released by fashion designer Coco Chanel

1945 World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases

1956 Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA, California

1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Freedom 7

1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign #1 NBA Draft pick, star UCLA center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

1978 MLB Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits

1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26-year-old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in Prison Maze. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.

1989 National release of "Field of Dreams", a sports fantasy drama film based on W. P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe"

2012 Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970

2018 Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product

May 6, 1975 -A tornado cut a path of destruction through a large section of west central Omaha on May 6, 1975.

More than 280 homes were destroyed and another 1,400 damaged. Three people were killed.

Damage estimates from the storm ranged from $250 million to $500 million.

Birthdays

1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1892 Josip Broz Tito
1919 Eva Perón
1933 Johnny Unitas
1950 Tim Russert

Events

1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army

1789 The first US presidential inaugural ball is held for George Washington in New York City

1824 Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, often regarded as his greatest work, premieres at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, Austria

1832 Greece becomes independent, Otto of Bavaria is chosen as king

1840 Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317

1847 American Medical Association founded in Philadelphia

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he receives for the explosive material

1877 Cincinnati Enquirer first uses term "bullpen" to indicate baseball field foul territory where late-coming spectators were herded like cattle

1895 Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates his invention - the world's first radio receiver in St. Petersburg.

1896 Serial killer H. H. Holmes executed by hanging( too kind - should have been drawn & quartered)

1912 Columbia University approves plans to award the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after establishment by Joseph Pulitzer

1913 British House of Commons rejects women's right to vote

1913 Plot by English suffragettes to blow up part of St Paul's cathedral thwarted when the bomb is discovered

1914 US Congress establishes Mother's Day (interesting string of events)

1915 American millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt died a hero on this day trying to save women and children aboard the liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German U-boat.

1917 In a testament to his pitching ability, future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth leads Boston Red Sox to a 1-0 victory against Washington Senators legend Walter Johnson

1925 MBA Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play

1928 United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21

1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines

1941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA Victor, the first record to be designated "gold"

1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion

1945 German Third Reich General Alfred Jodl signs documents of surrender to the Allies at Reims, France; Soviet Union refuses to recognize it

1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer

1957 MLB Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score is hit in the face by a line drive at Municipal Stadium; Score misses the rest of the season

1960 Leonid Brezhnev becomes Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

1975 US President Gerald Ford declares an end to the "Vietnam Era"

1980 Paul Geidel Jr, American murderer, and longest-serving prison inmate in the United States, paroled after 68 years, 296 days, at the age of 86

1992 Champion Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr. retires after winning 7,057 thoroughbred horse races

1995 Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes

1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the then largest industrial merger in history

2024 Vladimir Putin sworn in for his fifth term as Russian President at the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, in a ceremony boycotted by many world leaders


Fun Fact About Today
2012 Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth