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MAY 

ON MAY 1:

In 1918, Tonight Show host Jack Paar was born. He hosted the Tonight Show from 1957-1962…

... Though they were still using his jokes last night...

In 1860, the first school for the deaf was founded...

... Of course nobody heard about it for years...

In 1890, May Day was first officially observed...

... If it's such a nice day, why do pilots scream it when they're crashing...?

In 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, it was announced that Admiral Karl Doenitz had succeeded Hitler as leader of the Third Reich...

... Bad career move, Karl...

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ON MAY 2...

In 1946, pop singer Lesley Gore, who sang "It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To," was born...

... Good luck getting anybody to show up for that birthday dinner...

In 1903, the late pediatrician and author Dr. Benjamin Spock was born. He died in 1998...

... What if he was reincarnated -- then he got spanked with his own book...

In 1997, police arrested transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy...

... It turns out that Beverly Hills cops work harder than Eddie thought...

In 1932, Jack Benny's first radio show made its debut on the NBC Blue Network. The comic genius started working for a salary of $1,400...

... Now we know why he acted so cheap...

In 1997, Donald Trump & Marla Maples announced they were separating...

... And Marla's lawyers announced Donald and a lot of his money were separating...

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ON MAY 3...

In 1903, the late crooner Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was born...

... "Happy buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-irthday to you...."

In 1988, the White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities...

... That astrologer was a cancer on the presidency, well, a Gemini or a Cencer, I can't remember which...

... "Your moon's in Virgo, so lie about any knowledge of an arms deal with the Contras..."

In 1937, Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "Gone With the Wind"...

... Frankly, my dear, who gave a damn...?

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ON MAY 4...

In 1956, singer and actress Pia Zadora (real last name: Schipani) was born...

... She's a singer and actress like her real last name is Zadora...

In 1968, McDonald's Big Mac hamburger debuted...

... In fact I think I was served one of the originals yesterday...

In 1975, Moses Horwitz, otherwise known as "Moe" Howard of the Three Stooges, died. He was 77...

... Turns out that hammering a guy on the head thing... NOT as funny in real life...

In 1989, fired White House aide Oliver North was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes and acquitted of nine other charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair. However, the three convictions were later overturned on appeal...

... They didn't have a shred of evidence -- they had THOUSANDS of shreds of evidence...

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ON MAY 5 (CINCO DE MAYO)...

In 1990, Taylor Ann Hasselhoff, daughter of Pamela Bach & David Hasselhoff, was born...

... After Pam had the baby it was DAVID who grew stretch marks...

In 1818, Karl Marx, author of "The Communist Manifesto," was born...

... But since the USSR crumbled, he's become about as historically important as Zeppo Marx...

In 1925, John T. Scopes, a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of state statute. His trial was called “the Monkey Trial” and became the play and movie "Inherit The Wind"...

... The trial was won when the missing link between man and lower species was found -- we call them lawyers...

In 1941, commercial television was introduced...

... The next day -- re-runs...

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ON MAY 6...

In 1961, actor George Clooney was born...

... He exited the womb in four minutes, and spent the next 4 decades trying to get back in as much as possible...

In 1856, psychoanalysis founder Dr. Sigmund Freud was born. He died on Sept. 23, 1939...

... But his family claims it's just a phase he’s going through...

In 1941, dictator Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov...

... Did they do it over friendly cocktails or Molotov cocktails...?

In 1994, former Arkansas state worker Paula Corbin Jones filed suit against President Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991...

... He asked if she'd like to join his staff...

In 1997, David Duchovny, the investigator of Fox's "The X-Files," married Tea Leoni, star of the NBC comedy "The Naked Truth."...

... Which is a REAL case of the unexplainable...

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ON MAY 7...

In 1962, daredevil motorcyclist Robbie Knievel, son of Evel, was born...

... He flew out of his mother at a 45-degree angle, over three buses, and landed perfectly...

In 1968, Nora Louise Kuzma -- later known as porn star Traci Lords, was born. After about 70 adult films, she went on to act in "Roseanne" and "Melrose Place"...

... "Melrose Place?" Doesn't this girl have ANY morals...?

In 1929, "Scarface" Al Capone punished three of his cronies by beating them to death with a baseball bat after they had all eaten dinner at the Hawthorn Hotel in Cicero, IL...

... "Yer outta' there!!!"

In 1987, Shelley Long made her last appearance as a regular on the NBC sitcom "Cheers." She went on to pursue a movie career...

... "And now nobody knows her na-a-ame..."

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ON MAY 8...

In 1926, comedian Don Rickles was born. He was last seen as Mr. Potato Head in “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2”...

... He looked the same as Mr. Potato Head, except Mr. Potato Head has more hair...

In 1886, Coca Cola was introduced by pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton, who accidentally created it while working on a new patent medicine, a headache and hangover remedy...

... Personally I get WORSE hangovers and headaches from drinking Coke...

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ON MAY 9...

In 1940, producer/director, screenwriter James L. Brooks was born. He co-created “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Taxi,” and directed “Terms Of Endearment,” “Broadcast News,” and “As Good As It Gets”…

... Which are all about "As Good As It Gets"...

In 1991, William Kennedy Smith, nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Mass., was charged with rape and assault in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was later acquitted and graduated from medical school...

... Line up for a physical, ladies...

In 1936, the first scheduled transatlantic dirigible flight is completed when the Hindenburg lands at Lakehurst, N.J...

... The blimp version of Valujet...

In 1944, the first eye bank opened in New York City...

... I have a blind trust there...

In 1960, 40 years ago, the public sale of the first oral contraceptive, the pill, was approved by the FDA…

... Second oral contraceptive? Saying "no"...

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ON MAY 10...

In 1991, Emily Katherine McEnroe, the daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe, was born...

... "You didn't pin the tail on the donkey! That was WAY OUTSIDE! I can't believe how incompetent you are!!!"

In 1955, cartoon character Homer Simpson was born...

... He was a normal, healthy baby -- yellow skin, three fingers...

In 1982, at John Hinckley Jr.'s trial for shooting President Reagan and others, a psychiatrist who had treated him in Colorado said Hinckley never showed one symptom of mental illness...

... Now the victim, on the other hand...

In 1986, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee married actress Heather Locklear...

... I know they videotaped the wedding -- waiting to hear how many people videotaped the honeymoon...

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ON MAY 11...

In 1811, original siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker were born in Siam (now Thailand). They died in 1874...

... I hope they didn’t die too long after one another -- that would be kind of gross...

In 1967, ceremonies marking the installation of the 100 millionth telephone in the U.S. were held...

... The ceremony was put on hold when the installer was his usual eight hours late installing the phone...

In 1981, the Broadway hit "Cats" premiered at the New London Theater...

... The actors were finally put to sleep about ten years later...

In 1984, eight teen-agers were killed when fire broke out inside the Haunted Castle attraction at the Six Flags Great Adventure Park in Jackson Township, New Jersey...

... Which made the ride even MORE popular...

In 1994, Arkansas put to death two convicted murderers; it was the first time a state executed two people on the same day since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to restore the death penalty in 1976...

... Do you think they had to sterilize the needle between executions...?

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ON MAY 12...

In 1907, the creator of "The Saint," author Leslie Charteris, was born. He died in 1993...

... And began spinning in his grave with the release of that Val Kilmer movie...

In 1937, comedian George Carlin was born...

... He's so old that his new routine is the seven dirty words you can't REMEMBER to say on TV...

In 1896, New York City passed the first ordinance making it unlawful to spit on the sidewalks...

... Unfortunately they forgot to include the things that RHYME with spit...

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ON MAY 13...

In 1939, Harvey Keitel was born...

... There are no birth photos -- making that the ONLY time he didn’t appear naked in front of a camera...

In 1961, NBA forward Dennis Keith "Worm" Rodman was born...

... You can tell how old he is by counting the rings in his ear...

TV actress Leslie Winston, who played the Waltons' Cindy Brunson Walton, then went on to become a XXX-rated actress, was born...

... "Good night, John-Boy -- and don’t look in my bedroom..."

In 1958, Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela...

... That's the only time Venezuela has ever been 25 years ahead of the United States...

In 1930, a farmer was killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas. It was the only known fatality due to hail...

... It'll be a cold day in hail before that happens again...

In 1881, the revised edition of the Bible's New Testament goes on sale in the U.S. with 800,000 copies ordered the first day...

... A special edition, with restored X-Rated scenes of Bathsheeba...

In 1988, Guglielmo Marconi, Groucho Marx, Benny Goodman, Edward R. Murrow, Orson Welles, Alan Freed, and 13 others were inducted into the newly created Radio Hall of Fame...

... Ironically, nobody showed up because it wasn't broadcast on TV...

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ON MAY 14...

In 1944, George Walton Lucas Jr., creator of the "Star Wars" trilogy, was born...

... A long, long time ago, but in the same galaxy...

In 1951 (or 1952 if you believe his publicist), writer/director Robert Zemeckis, who gave us “Romancing the Stone,” “Back to the Future,” Forrest Gump,” and “Contact,” was born...

... He also wrote "1941," but why bring that up and spoil his birthday...?

In 1856, the first camels were imported commercially in the U.S., arriving in Texas. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis wanted to test them as pack animals, but abandonded the idea because of their bad tempers and smell...

... It's also why he abandoned the idea of the Southern troops...

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ON MAY 15...

In 1989, Jack Henry Robbins, son of Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins, was born...

... "Before I make my birthday speech and cut the birthday cake, I'd like to read a prepared statement about world hunger..."

In 1930, Ellen Church, the first airline flight attendant (then called "air hostess"), went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming...

... And her first customer is STILL waiting on that drink...

In 1940, nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States in Wilmington, Delaware...

... Just think, before that thieves had to rob banks with bloomers over their heads...

In 1973, the first issue of "Playgirl" went on sale (600,000 copies are sold)...

... The next day, 600,000 horrified men return the magazine, saying they should have looked closer when they tried to pull a "Playboy" out of the adult section...

In 1995, Dow Corning Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing potentially astronomical expenses from liability lawsuits for silicone implants...

... "Look at the size of those lawsuits..."

In 2006, President Bush will announce plans on Monday to deploy thousands of National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border to support efforts to catch more illegal immigrants...

... If the troopers' attendance in the National Guard was anything like Bush's, they didn't catch ANYBODY...

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ON MAY 16...

In 1953, former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan was born... ... Pierce likes his prune juice shaken, not stirred...

In 1973, actress Tori Spelling, who played Donna Martin on "Beverly Hills 90210" and is the daughter of executive producer Aaron Spelling, was born...

... Aaron just signed her in a multi-million dollar deal to be his daughter for three more years...

In 1984, actor/comedian/intergender wrestler Andy Kaufman, who played Taxi's Latka Gravas, died. He was 35...

... After that Jim Carrey film he's either spinning in his grave or WISHING he was dead, depending on who you believe...

In 1988, Surgeon general C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine...

... That's why I try not to snort my cigarettes...

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ON MAY 17...

In 1911, actress Maureen O'Sullivan was born. She played Jane in the Tarzan movies and was Mia Farrow’s mother in real life...

... How would you like to be Woody Allen’s mother-in-law AND grandmother-in-law...?

In 1956, Bob Saget was born...

... I bet it would have made for one funny birth video...

In 1993, the first computers using Intel's new microprocessor, the Pentium, were unveiled...

... Meaning your computer could screw up hundreds of times more quickly...

In 1995, the Senate Ethics Committee concluded that Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., had to face a full-scale Senate investigation of charges that included making improper sexual advances toward women in his office...

... As opposed to PROPER sexual advances in the office...?

... They also concluded that he was going to have to change his last name from Packwood and his home address from Beaverton, or there would be way too much material for Democratric jokewriters...

In 1996, President Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in…

... I wonder if he notified his neighbors in New York this year...

In 1965, the Vatican denounced the movie character James Bond as a man of "violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex…"

... Sounds like a lot of the popes...

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ON MAY 18...

In 1897, director Frank Capra was born. He died in 1991...

... It is a wonderful life -- but that death part sure sucks...

In 1959, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa was on the cover of "LIFE"...

... His face was plastered on everything that year -- then later they plastered his face PERMANENTLY... In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for president by the Republican Party at its convention in Chicago. He was the second Republican presidential candidate... ... The first? Bob Dole...

In 1984, a small growth was discovered in President Reagan's colon, but a White House spokesman said an examination showed the polyp was benign, and it was not removed...

... If they did would it have left him with a semicolon...?

... And they said there was no growth during Reagan's presidency...

In 1993, President Clinton received a haircut, which reportedly cost $200, while Air Force One sat on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport for an hour, tying up other planes...

... It's not the first time he's caused problems over getting a little trim...

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ON MAY 19...

In 1941, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. was born...

... He was a chip off the old block -- in dad's case, a cement block...

In 1922, cowboy actor David McLean, the "Marlboro Man," was born. He died in 1995...

... On the bright side, he hasn’t smoked since...

In 1959, Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson's murdered wife, was born...

... Where’s the knife to cut the cake? Oh yeah -- O.J. still has it...

In 1964, the State Department announced the U.S. embassy in Moscow had been illegally bugged, after a network of more than 40 bugs embedded in the walls had been found...

... They find 40 bugs in every suite in DC, too -- but not the same kind...

In 1992, in San Francisco, Vice President Dan Quayle denounced what he called the "poverty of values" in America's inner cities, and criticized the T.V. show "Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock...

... In a related quote, he also criticized the Professor for not finding a way off Gilligan's Island...

In 1992, in Massapequa, New York, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by teen-ager Amy Fisher, who claimed to be having an affair with Mrs. Buttafuoco's husband, Joey...

... It's hard not to have affairs when every time you say you're last name to a woman it sounds like a sexual act...

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ON MAY 20...

In 1946, singer/actress Cherilyn Sarkesian La Pierre -- now known as Cher -- was born...

... Her nose, cheeks, breasts and rear end were created much more recently...

... "They say we're young and we don't -- oops, better change that lyric..."

In 1958, former ballet dancer Ronald Prescott Reagan Jr., son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, was born...

... He learned to dance from dad, who was good at tap dancing around questions at press conferences...

In 1995, President Clinton announced that the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House is permanently closed to motor vehicles...

... That way Hillary couldn't drive up unexpectedly...

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ON MAY 21...

In 1952, Lawrence Tero -- now known as Mr. T -- was born...

... No word on any Mrs. T or small T's...

In 1960, the late serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey L. Dahmer was born. He was beaten to death in prison in 1994...

... Or as he called it, "tenderized"...

In 1925, Beer became available in Canada...

... Now it's a requirement...

In 1990, Bob Newhart bowed out of his second TV series, as innkeeper Dick Loudon of CBS's "Newhart" turned to be a character in a dream of psychiatrist Bob Hartley, lead character of the star's previous hit, "The Bob Newhart Show"...

... His next two series proved to be nightmares...

In 1908, the first horror film -- "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" -- was released in Chicago...

... It was almost as horrifying in 1908 as Chicago...

In 1929, the electric guitar was invented...

... "Yes We Have No Bananas" ROCKED...

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ON MAY 22...

In 1849, Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock, a device designed for "buoying vessels over shoals." Mr. Lincoln was the first U.S. President to receive a patent...

... Too bad he didn’t invent a bullet-proof stovepipe hat...

In 1892, Dr. Washington Sheffield, a British dentist, invented the toothpaste tube...

... And judging by most of the teeth in Great Britain, the first prototypes didn't work too well...

In 1990, Microsoft presented Windows 3.0...

... Named that because with all the bugs in the software, people usually ended up throwing the computer OUT of their windows...

In 1992, Johnny Carson stepped down as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" after a reign of nearly 30 years, telling his audience, "I bid you a very heartfelt good night." Carson's co-stars Ed McMahon and Doc Severinsen also stepped down...

... Carson stepped down and Ed entered a 12-step program...

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ON MAY 23...

In 1953, Cliff's Notes, which digest and explain novels and other books for easier reading, were first used in schools...

... I’d like to see Cliff’s school grades before I look at his notes...

In 1995, a man with an unloaded handgun climbed over a fence and ran toward the White House. He was tackled by one Secret Service agent and shot and wounded by a second...

... The gun wasn't loaded but he probably was...

... They must have been in President Clinton’s elite "Jealous Husband Alert" squad...

In 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana...

... Proving crime DOES pay -- it's just not a very long career...

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ON MAY 24...

In 1887, disgraced silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was born. He died in 1933...

... He's a lot thinner now...

In 1909, the late Congressman Wilbur D. Mills was born. He is infamous for his affair with stripper "Fanne Foxe, The Argentine Firecracker." One booze-filled night in 1974, Foxe, Mills and a couple of friends were stopped on their way home for speeding by the U.S. Park Police. Foxe jumped out of the car and dove into the nearby Tidal Basin, where she had to be rescued. Mills was bleeding from his nose and scratches on his face, and Foxe had two black eyes, according to sources at St. Elizabeths Hospital where she was taken after her rescue from the Tidal Basin. Mills was eventually checked into a rehab center...

... Today he'd be the president...

Thomas Chong of Cheech and Chong was born...

... His mother refused painkillers, which made it the last drug-free event in his life...

In 1995, Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call-girl ring that catered to the rich and famous...

... Some fine -- she then signed a multi-million dollar book deal, a film deal, and got ten times that in hush money... In 1997, actor Tim Allen was arrested for drunk driving in Michigan... ... How drunk was he? He was supposed to be driving in California...

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ON MAY 25...

In 1963, "Wayne's World" and "Austin Powers" star Mike Myers was born...

... One character swings, one schwings...

In 1986, an estimated 7 million Americans participated in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country from Los Angeles to New York to bring attention to and raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless. The event raised $24.5 million...

... Mostly for pickpockets who robbed the participants' pockets while their hands were busy...

In 1997, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond became the longest-serving senator in US history, marking 41 years and ten months of service...

... Actually 41 years, nine months and 29 1/2 days of dozing, and about six hours of service...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon "before this decade is out." The first man landed on the moon in 1969...

... The goal was to beat both the Soviet Union and Alice Kramden...

In 1977, the motion picture "Star Wars," (now Chapter IV after the prequels), opened in theaters and broke all box office records...

... Almost longer ago than a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Shaquille O'Neal, The 7-foot-1, 325-pound NBA center, was sworn in as a U.S. deputy marshal... …

... The REAL long arm of the law...

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ON MAY 26...

In 1907, Marion Michael Morrison, later known as actor John Wayne, was born...

... How many western roles do you think he would've gotten with a name like "Marion"...?

In 1962, actress Genie Francis, who plays General Hospital's Laura Vining Falkner Webber Baldwin Spencer Cassadine Spencer, was born...

... She was married more times on the show than co-star Liz Taylor was in REAL LIFE...

In 1995, In the tobacco industry's largest recall ever, Philip Morris USA halted sales of several cigarette brands, including some versions of top-selling Marlboro, because some filters were contaminated...

... They weren't healthy for people, like the cigarettes were...

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ON MAY 27...

In 1894, mystery author Dashiell Hammett was born. He created the characters of Sam Spade & Nick and Nora Charles. Hammett died in 1961... ... Now he’s MUCH thinner than the Thin Man... In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton while he is in office...

... You know -- affairs of state...

In 1981, John Hinckley attempted suicide by overdosing on Tylenol...

... How was he going to kill a president -- he couldn't even off HIMSELF right...

... He then tried to shoot himself in the head but survived -- and thanks to all the Tylenol, he didn't even get a headache...

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ON MAY 28...

In 1934, the Dionne Quintuplets; Annette Lilianne Marie, Cecile Marie Emilda, Emile Marie Jeanne, Marie Reine Alma, and Yvonne Edouilda Marie, were born...

... Canada’s population practically doubled in one night...

In 1908, James Bond creator Ian Lancaster Fleming was born. He died in 1964...

... He was shaken by heart attack, and has not stirred since...

In 1987, Mathias Rust (mah-TEE'-uhs rust), a 19-year-old West German pilot, stunned the world as he landed a private plane undetected in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses...

... Now the big question: Why would you WANT to fly into Moscow? (He was sentenced to four years of hard labor.)

In 1941, cartoonists began their strike at the Disney studios...

... And found they couldn't draw any salaries...

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ON MAY 29...

In 1975, Melanie Janine "Scary" Brown, of the Spice Girls, was born...

... Soon she’ll be Old Spice...

In 1987, a jury in Los Angeles found "Twilight Zone" movie director John Landis and four associates innocent of involuntary manslaughter in the movie-set deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children...

... The JURY must have been in the Twilight Zone...

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ON MAY 30...

In 1908, the late actor and cartoon voicist Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was born. He was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe Le Pew, Tasmanian Devil, Man from Mars, and Woody Woodpecker. He died in 1989...

... "Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks..."

In 1926, transexual soldier Christine (George Jr.) Jorgensen was born. Christine was the U.S. Army private who had 1st sex change operation in 1952...

... He/she lost her private parts...

In 1889, The brassiere is invented...

... It took a while to gain support...

In 1989, David Letterman's stalker, Margaret Ray, plead guilty to breaking into "her husband's" house...

... Is it any wonder why he had heart problems...?

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ON MAY 31...

In 1930, Clint Eastwood was born...

... "Make my 32,850th day..."

In 1678, tax protester Lady Godiva rode naked on her horse through Coventry...

... Tax collectors saw her naked chest and charged a "flat" tax...

In 1956, Buddy Holly saw the John Wayne movie, "The Searchers" and the line "that'll be the day" inspires him to write the classic rock n’ roll song...

... And finishing the line, "That'll be the day that I die," inspired him to take that last plane flight...

In 1995, Republican Sen. Bob Dole accused Hollywood of promoting violence, rape and casual sex in music and movies, and said "the mainstreaming of deviancy must come to an end..."

... Twenty years later it's the resumé of the Republican presidential candidate...

In 1990, "Seinfeld", a TV sitcom starring Jerry Seinfeld, premieres as a summer series on NBC as "The Seinfeld Chronicles". It was seen as a pilot the previous July. Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star...

... Network execs said a show about nothing wouldn't work -- it turned out that it did and THEY wouldn't be working...

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