There’s so much to write about today, that I can’t decide which of the things should get my full attention and my bloggish words. There can only be so many, otherwise, I could drone on forever, and that would be bad for you.
There’s the May 15th in 1536. That’s when Anne Boleyn and her brother George, Lord Rochford, were accused of adultery and incest. Like together. She received a “showy” trial, and they decided to whack her head off. Which they did. But the truth of things? Old Henry was having other ideas of his own all along.
What about the May 15th that happened in 1618? That is when German astronomer Johannes Kepler made yet another discovery. This one was the third of his three planetary laws — his “harmonics law.” Not like a harmonica that you play on the porch. This law— (the Harmonic Law) — relates the orbital period of a planet. That means the time it takes a planet to complete one orbit around the Sun. To its mean distance from the Sun. What Kepler was really saying is that the closest planets travel at the greatest speeds and have the shortest orbital periods. Mercury, zoom, zoom. Uranus, booooga, booooga.
In 1800, on that May the 15th, someone tried to assassinate King George III of England. This was the second time someone tried to assassinate him. A guy named James Hadfield took a shot at King George III while the national anthem was being played. I’m thinking James was angry with George. But. It’s reported that after missing his target, Hadfield then said to the King: “God bless your royal highness; I like you very well; you are a good fellow.” The thing of it is, it happened at a theatre on Drury Lane. That’s the same street where the Muffin Man lives. I think he may have had a hand in this.
One of the biggest May 15ths, happened in 1829. That religious man Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and the Latter Day Saints? He was ordained on that date by none other than John the Baptist. That was all according to Joseph Smith, himself. The sticky hitch with that one is that John the Baptist, like Ann Boleyn, was beheaded. I’m not firm on that date, but his head showed up on a silver platter. So the baptism in 1829 of Smith might have been a bit awkward.
Then there is the good May 15th in 1869. That’s when two swinging kinds of gals put their heads together and really started thinking. They were none other than Cadie Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. They formed a little group called the National Woman Suffrage Association that day. The work for a woman’s right to vote got rolling with this group, eventually.
A brief stop on the May 15th in 1897. That is when Gay Activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee. In Berlin, Germany. It was the first-ever LGBT rights organization. That’s 1897.
There’s so much more. Like Ty Cobb belting a fan who was heckling in New York. Or Amy Johnson flying from South Africa to England in four days. Or England testing the first Hydrogen Bomb. Not in the same year as Amy Johnson was flying high in the sky.
May 15 is some kind of a day, I’ll tell you. So much. going on.
But then again, aren’t they all? Really.
Boom, chucka lucka lucka. Boom, chucka lucka lucka.
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
— George Washington
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
— Winston Churchill
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