Cinco de Mayo , (Spanish for "Fifth of May") is a yearly celebration
held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 which was led by General
Ignacio Zaragoza.
Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín (1829 – 1862)
Anonymous paintings depicting the Battle of Puebla.
At Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, a bomb was thrown at
a squad of policemen attempting to break up what had begun as
a peaceful labor rally. The police responded with wild gunfire,
killing several people in the crowd and injuring dozens more.
The demonstration, which drew some 1,500 Chicago workers,
was organized by German-born labor radicals in protest of the
killing of a striker by the Chicago police the day before.
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)
Clark Gable for CBS Radio program, Silver Theater, and
the performance of ‘For Richer, For Richer,’ December
1939. The sponsor was the International Silver Company.
Silver Theater was a radio dramatic anthology series. Originating
in Hollywood, California, carried on CBS and on the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation.
First broadcast October 3, 1937, its last broadcast was August 17,
1947.
Rosalind Russell and James Stewart for their performance
on Sunday Afternoon Silver Theater.
On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fired their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another. The tragedy was a watershed
moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam, and
further galvanized the anti-war movement.
