5月8日って何の日?
2001年5月 長嶋洋一
ante diem VIII Idus May The Lemuria
This is one of the dies fasti (F), on which legal actions are permitted.
This is the second day of the Lemuria, the nine-day feast of the dead. On this day the Vestals would prepare the sacred mola salsa (salt cake) from the first ears of wheat of the season.
Augustus was adopted by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE.
This day also honors the goddess Mens, the personification of understanding.
May is named after the goddess Maia, the wife of Mars. May is a month of purification and religious ceremony in honor of the dead, and as such it is considered a very inauspicious time for marriage.
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- Historic events on May 8th (2001.5.8)
13 y. ago (1988) French Pres. Francois Mitterrand was elected to a second seven-year term, soundly defeating Jacques Chirac.
17 y. ago (1984) USSR announces it would not participate in LA Summer Olympics
20 y. ago (1981) Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
28 y. ago (1973) Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered
30 y. ago (1971) Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
31 y. ago (1970) Beatles release 'Let it Be' album
31 y. ago (1970) Knicks beat Lakers for basketball championship
33 y. ago (1968) Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins
40 y. ago (1961) 1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas
40 y. ago (1961) Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
43 y. ago (1958) VP Nixon was shoved stoned booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
47 y. ago (1954) 1st shot-put over 60 feet - Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, Ca
50 y. ago (1951) Dacron men's suits introduced
56 y. ago (1945) VE Day - Germany surrendered, WW II ends in Europe
59 y. ago (1942) Battle of Coral Sea ends
75 y. ago (1926) 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
99 y. ago (1902) Mt Pel馥 erupts, wipes out St. Pierre, Martinique
115 y. ago (1886) Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
155 y. ago (1846) 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
209 y. ago (1792) British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
460 y. ago (1541) Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
- Birthdays on May 8th (2001.5.8)
37 y. ago (1964) Melissa Gilbert, LA
58 y. ago (1943) Toni Tennille, only female Beachboy in Montgomery Ala
59 y. ago (1942) Angel Cordero Jockey
61 y. ago (1940) Peter Benchley, author (Jaws, The Deep)
61 y. ago (1940) Ricky Nelson, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
64 y. ago (1937) Sen Dennis DeConcini D-Ariz
66 y. ago (1935) Salome Jens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
71 y. ago (1930) Doug Atkins, NFL defensive end (Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans)
71 y. ago (1930) Gary Snyder, beat poet (Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems)
73 y. ago (1928) Theodore Sorenson, former presidential advisor
75 y. ago (1926) David Attenborough Environmentalist
75 y. ago (1926) Don Rickles, comedian
81 y. ago (1920) Sloan Wilson, American novelist
95 y. ago (1906) David Van Vactor, American Composer - Plymouth, Indiana
106 y. ago (1895) Fulton J Sheen, bishop
106 y. ago (1895) Jos??Gsmez (Joselito el Gallo), bullfighter
117 y. ago (1884) Harry S Truman, 32nd President (1945-1949)
172 y. ago (1829) Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist, Composer, New Orleans
173 y. ago (1828) Henri Dunant of Switzerland, founded Red Cross, YMCA (Nobel 1901)
177 y. ago (1824) William Walker, filibuster, president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
215 y. ago (1786) Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
264 y. ago (1737) Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
- 今日、生まれた人は・・・
- 1500: Peter Martyr [Pietro Martine Vermighi], Italian humanist
- 1521: St. Peter Canisius
- 1786: Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
- 1828: Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross Society and a
co-founder of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was co-winner of the first Nobel
Peace Prize in 1901
- 1829: Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born. Gottschalk was a New World
Liszt, famous for his flashy piano performances. His concerts were built around elaborate
variations on popular themes. He had a "rock star" sort of career complete with
love scandals and close escapes.
- 1884: The 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, near
Lamar, Missouri. Truman was the last of the nine presidents who did not attend college.
Admirers nicknamed him, "Give 'em Hell Harry". He became president on the death
of President Roosevelt.
- 19??: Steve Crawford (Anointed)
- 1926: Environmentalist Sir David Attenborough.
- 1926: Comedian Don Rickles
- 1928: Former Kennedy administration official (Ted) Theodore Sorenson
- 1932: Boxer Sonny Liston
- 1940: Actor-singer Rick Nelson (Rick Hilliard Nelson) was born in
Teaneck, New Jersey. Rick died in a plane crash near DeKalb, Texas, on New Year's Eve,
1985.
- 1940: Author Peter Benchley (JAWS)
- 1941: Singer John Fred (John Fred and His Playboy Band)
- 1941: Actor James Mitchum
- 1942: Jockey Hall-of-Famer Angel Cordero Junior
- 1943: Singer Toni Tennille
- 1944: Rock singer Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd)
- 1951: Singer Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire)
- 1951: Rock musician Chris Frantz (Talking Heads)
- 1953: Rock musician Billy Burnette (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1954: Actor David Keith
- 1954: Actor Stephen Furst
- 1955: Rock musician (drummer) Alex Van Halen
- 1958: Composer Yoichi Nagashima
- 1959: Football player Ronnie Lott
- 1964: Actress Melissa Gilbert
- 1964: Rock musician Dave Rowntree (Blur)
- 1968: Country musician Del Gray (Little Texas)
- 1975:Singer Enrique Iglesias
- 1985: Actress Julia Whelan (Once and Again)
- 今日、あった事は・・・
- 0615: Death of Pope Boniface IV
- 1147: Death of St. Peter of Tarentaise
- 1191: Richard I and his army land on Cyprus
- 1222: Coronation of Henry VII, King of Germany
- 1373: Dame Julian of Norwich experiences visions of the
Passion of Christ
- 1429: The siege of Orleans ended when French troops
stormed the English forts in the Hundred Years War.
- 1444: Island of St. Michael, Azores, discovered
- 1541: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the
Mississippi River.
- 1559: In England, the Act of Supremacy was passed by which
the new Queen Elizabeth I became ``Supreme Governor'' of the Church of England; the Act of
Uniformity was passed and a Common Prayer book was introduced.
- 1575: Marriage of Count Ferenc Nadasdy and Elizabeth
Bathory
- 1641: The House of Lords passes the Bill of Attainder
against the Earl of Strafford
- 1660: Charles II proclaimed King of England
- 1794: Antoine Lavoisier, the French chemist who discovered
oxygen and is considered the father of modern chemistry, was executed on the guillotine by
the Revolutionary Convention during France's Reign of Terror.
- 1846: The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought
at Palo Alto, Texas, resulting in victory for General Zachary Taylor's forces.
- 1847: Robert W. Thompson of England patented the rubber
tire.
- 1849: The first recognized international yacht race was
won by Pearl of Bermuda, beating the U.S. yacht, Brenda.
- 1852: The Treaty of London was signed by Britain, France,
Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden, guaranteeing the integrity of Denmark.
- 1873: John Stuart Mill, British pioneering political
economist and exponent of Utilitarianism, died.
- 1879: George Selden of Rochester, N.Y., filed for the
first patent for an automobile. It was granted in 1895.
- 1880: French novelist Gustave Flaubert, whose works
included ``Madame Bovary,'' died.
- 1886: Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented the
flavor syrup for "Coca-Cola." World wide consumption of Coke is currently over
12 million gallons daily.
- 1902: Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted and destroyed the
town of St. Pierre; over 30,000 people were killed.
- 1903: Paul Gauguin, French post-impressionist painter,
died in Tahiti.
- 1921: Sweden abolished capital punishment.
- 1929: Norway annexed Jan Mayen island.
- 1939: The electric starting gate, invented by Clay Puett,
was used for the first time at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California.
- 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ended when a U.S. fleet
turned back a Japanese invasion force heading for Port Moresby in New Guinea.
- 1944: A Czech-Soviet agreement was signed dealing with
possible entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia.
- 1944: The first "eye bank" was established, in
New York City.
- 1945: President Truman announced in a radio address that
World War Two had ended in Europe. He officially declared VE Day, the end of World War II
in Europe.
- 1945: King Leopold of Belgium was freed by the U.S. 7th
Army.
- 1947: Henry Gordon Selfridge, founder of Selfridge's
department store in London, died.
- 1948: Readers of "Sovietskaya Musica" were
getting their May edition, which included an attack on Shostakovich. It accused him of
"sadistic determination" in his Fourth Symphony. "Meaninglessness is
multiplied by meaninglessness," the critic huffed.
- 1952: William Fox, U.S. film producer, died; he founded
the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 which later became 20th Century Fox.
- 1956: Alfred E. Neuman (What, me worry?") first
appeared on the cover of Mad Magazine. He even got some votes in the Presidential
election, which was won by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.
- 1958: Vice President Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and
spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru.
- 1962: The musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum" opened on Broadway.
- 1970: Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on
New York's Wall Street.
- 1973: The siege of Wounded Knee in South Dakota ended
peacefully as militant Indians who had occupied the tiny prairie settlement for almost 10
weeks began to file out and surrender to the authorities.
- 1977: In Amsterdam, Peter Menten, a Dutch art dealer and
Nazi collaborator, went on trial for murdering Polish Jews in order to obtain their art
collections.
- 1978: David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn
courtroom to the six murder charges against him in the "Son of Sam" .44-caliber
shootings that had terrified New Yorkers.
- 1983: Secretary of State George P. Shultz wrapped up a
two-week tour of the Middle East, during which he had discussed with officials a plan for
withdrawing foreign troops from Lebanon.
- 1984: The Soviet Union declared it would NOT take part in
the Los Angeles Olympics, citing fears over security for its athletes.
- 1985: President Reagan addressed the European Parliament
in Strasbourg, France. About a third of the deputies walked out, waved protest signs or
booed as Reagan criticized the Soviet Union.
- 1985: The first cans of "New" Coke went on the
market on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola. The company soon realized that the
introduction was a mistake and its customers still preferred "The Real
Thing.""
- 1986: The premier of Soviet Ukraine, Alexander Lyashko,
told reporters that 84,000 people had been evacuated from settlements near the Chernobyl
nuclear plant.
- 1986: The Coca-Cola Company, celebrating the centennial of
its flagship beverage in Atlanta, announced it was revising the soft drink's labels.
- 1987: An angry and defiant Gary Hart, dogged by questions
about his personal life, including his relationship with Miami model Donna Rice, withdrew
from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
- 1988: French President Francois Mitterrand was elected to
a second seven-year term, defeating conservative challenger Jacques Chirac.
- 1988: Science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein died in
Carmel, California, at age 80. His works included ``Stranger in a Strange Land.''
- 1989: Former President Jimmy Carter, a leader of an
international team observing Panama's elections, declared that the armed forces were
defrauding the opposition of victory.
- 1989: Janos Kadar, the architect of modern Hungary, was
dropped from from his ceremonial post of Communist Party president and from his post on
the policy-making Central Committee of the party.
- 1990: Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich, head of the Roman Catholic
church in Ireland, died during a pilgrimage to the French shrine of Lourdes.
- 1990: The Estonian parliament voted to change the
country's name to Republic of Estonia from the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- 1990: One crewman was killed, 18 others injured in a
pre-dawn fire that broke out aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Conyngham during
routine operations in the Atlantic, about 100 miles southeast of Norfolk, Virginia.
- 1991: CIA Director William H. Webster announced his
retirement; he was eventually succeeded by Robert Gates.
- 1991: General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of American
forces in the Persian Gulf War, received a hero's welcome as he addressed Congress.
- 1991: Concert pianist Rudolf Serkin died in Guilford,
Vermont, at age 88.
- 1992: President Bush wound up two emotional days in
riot-ravaged Los Angeles, promising to work harder in Washington to enact a
"common-sense agenda" of conservative proposals to help urban America.
- 1993: The Muslim-led government of Bosnia-Herzegovina and
rebel Bosnian Serbs signed an agreement for a nationwide cease-fire.
- 1994: President Clinton announced a shift in U.S. policy
toward Haitian refugees, saying there would be offshore screening of boat people seeking
political asylum.
- 1994: Actor George Peppard died at age 65.
- 1995: On the 50th anniversary of Nazi Germany's
capitulation in World War II, leaders representing the victorious powers gathered in
Berlin to remember the dead and pledge peace for the future.
- 1995: A monster storm began dumping 18 inches of rain on
southeast Louisiana, flooding homes and killing five people.
- 1995: Germans and leaders of the main wartime Allies who
defeated them 50 years ago gathered side by side in Berlin to honor the dead of the Second
World War.
- 1996: Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel ``Dominguin,'' known
as the world's best bullfighter in the 1950s, died aged 69; his exploits inspired writer
Ernest Hemingway and who had a string of affairs with Hollywood stars.
- 1996: Postal inspectors wrapped up a two-year sting
operation in 36 states against the nation's biggest child pornography ring.
- 1996: South Africa took another step from apartheid to
democracy by adopting a constitution that guaranteed equal rights for blacks and whites.
- 1996: Julie Andrews declined her Tony Award nomination
after her show, "Victor/Victoria," was snubbed for best musical.
- 1996: Former Nazi SS captain Erich Priebke went on trial
in Rome charged with involvement in the killing of 335 men and boys in Italy's worst World
War II atrocity.
- 1997: President Clinton assured Central American leaders
during a summit in Costa Rica that they need not fear mass deportations of immigrants
who'd sought refuge in the United States during US-backed conflicts.
- 1997: After months of railing against Democrats for taking
foreign money, the Republican Party announced it had returned $122,400 in contributions
from a Hong Kong company.
- 1997: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi flew to impoverished
Niger in apparent defiance of a U.N. ban on flights from Libya.
- 1998: Big Tobacco settled with the state of Minnesota for
$6.6 billion as the state's lawsuit was about to go to a jury; Minnesota became the fourth
state to settle with the tobacco industry over the costs of treating smoking-related
illnesses.
- 1999: NATO expressed regret for a mistaken attack on the
Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, but pledged to pursue the bombing campaign. Demonstrators in
Beijing threw rocks and smashed cars at the U.S. Embassy.
- 1999: The Citadel, South Carolina's formerly all-male
military school, graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Ruth Mace.
- 1999: British actor Sir Dirk Bogarde died in London at age
78.
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2000: The remains of Cardinal John O'Connor were entombed inside New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral after a funeral Mass that drew thousands of mourners, including President Clinton.
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2000: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban discrimination based on weight or height.
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