![]() ![]() was convicted of 10 counts of murder in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings that targeted poor, young Black women over two decades. In 2016, former Los Angeles trash collector Lonnie Franklin Jr. In 2014, a narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings. In 2009, Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. In 1994, Singapore caned American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence was reduced from six lashes to four in response to an appeal by President Bill Clinton. Today in History: May 19, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis passes away Denmark and the Netherlands were liberated as a German surrender went into effect. In 1945, in the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children. In 1942, wartime sugar rationing began in the United States. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.) ![]() Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. In 1494, during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica. ![]() became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. Today is Friday, May 5, the 125th day of 2023. ![]()
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