Happy Birthday Harry Truman
President Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884.
World War II
1939 New York World’s Fair
On April 30, 1939, the New York World’s Fair opened at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York.
Happy Birthday, Thornton Wilder
Playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin.
Birth of Henry Luce
Magazine magnate Henry Robinson Luce was born on April 3, 1898, in Tengchow, Shandong, China.
Birth of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892, in Rockland, Maine.
Happy Birthday, Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Happy Birthday, Gene Autry
“The Singing Cowboy,” Orvon Grover “Gene” Autry was born on September 29, 1907, in Tioga, Texas.
JFK Saves His PT-109 Crew
On August 2, 1943, future president John F. Kennedy saved the majority of his PT-109 crew after a Japanese destroyer rammed them.
American Scientists Series
On May 4, 2005, the USPS issued the first set of stamps in the American Scientists Series.