Today is Friday, May 5th, the 125th day of the year. There are 240
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Date Your Mate Month,
Foster Care Month, National Barbecue Month, National Bike
Month, National Blood Pressure Month, National Hamburger
Month, National Photograph Month, National Recommitment
Month, National Salad Month, Older Americans Month, National
Water Safety Month, Nurse’s Week , National Hoagie Day, Oyster
Day, Cinco De Mayo
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
LaPhonso Ellis, 53, basketball player
Harold Miner, 51, basketball player
Muhsin Muhammad, 50, football player
Raheem DeVaughn, 48, singer
Ike Taylor, 43, football player
DeMarr Johnson, 42, basketball player
Chris Brown, 34, singer
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Blind Willie McTell, 122, singer/guitarist (d. 1959)
Johnny Taylor, 89, singer (d. 2000)
Jim Kelly, 77, martial artist/actor
DEATHS
ON THIS DATE IN…
1798 – Date of Thaddeus Koscusko’s Will for education of Blacks.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Mexican and Black troops led by Ignacio
Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in the United States.
1897 – Black inventor, J.H. Smith patented the lawn sprinkler.
1905 – Robert Abbot founds the Chicago Defender with a capital
outlay of twenty-five cents.
1935 – Jesse Owens sets the long jump record at 26′ 8 1/2″.
1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks wins Pulitzer Prize in poetry for
Annie Allen.
1961 – Freedom Riders begin protesting bus segregation.
1966 – Willie Mays hits his 512th home run.
1988 – Eugene A. Marino installed as 1st Black US Archbishop.
1989 – Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in
Albany, NY.
HOROSCOPE
With your active mind and determination, there are few limits on your career potential. Business sense and practicality make you perfect for fields such as real estate, promotion, advertising or sales. On the other hand, your analytical mind could take you into the depths of intellectual thinking or philosophy, which was the path of Karl Marx, who was also born on May 5th. If you take time to develop your musical talents, your charms could be effective on stage, not unlike Adele, another of your celebrity birthday twins.
