At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand
and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first
explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at
29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Amid much public excitement, American explorers Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis, Missouri, from
the first recorded overland journey from the Mississippi River
to the Pacific coast and back. The Lewis and Clark Expedition
had set off more than two years before to explore the territory
of the Louisiana Purchase.

May 14, 1804: One year after the United States doubled its territory
with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition left
St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from
the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

ROSS SIMPSON

Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh)
(May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998)

Tammy Waynette was one of country music’s best-
known artists and biggest-selling female singers
during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s.

Wynette charted 20 number-one songs on the
Billboard Country Chart. She is credited with
having defined the role of women in country
music during the 1970s.

Tammy died on April 6, 1998, at the age of 55
while sleeping on her couch in her Nashville,
Tennessee, home. Her doctor from said she
died of a blood clot in her lung.