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The New Editor: On This Day
May 23 ...
In 1623 British politician, antiquary, and the unfortunately named Elias Ashmole was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. In 1701 Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder. In 1785 in a letter...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 11:01pm -07:00T (276 words)
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The New Editor: 390 and 20 Years Ago Today...
390 years ago on this date in 1623, British politician, antiquary, and the unfortunately named Elias Ashmole was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.
Also on this date, 20 years ago in 1993, more than 1.5 million Cambodians ignore Khmer Rouge th...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 11:01pm -07:00T (54 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 22 ...
In 337 AD Roman Emperor Constantine the Great died. In 1856 South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southe...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 10:15pm -07:00T (224 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 21 ...
In 1542 explorer Hernando de Soto died along the Mississippi River while searching for gold. In 1688 poet Alexander Pope was born in London. In 1892 the opera Pagliacci, by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, was first performed in Milan, Italy. In 1904 j...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31pm -07:00T (324 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 20 ...
In 1259 King Henry III of England gave Normandy to France. In 1303 the Treaty of Paris restored Gascony to the British in the Hundred Years War. In 1506 Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain. In 1536 King Henry VIII of England marri...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 12:45am -07:00T (367 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 19 ...
In 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery. In 1568 after being defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, fled to England where she was imprisoned by Queen Eli...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:30pm -07:00T (199 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 18 ...
In 1048 Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Omar Khayyam was born. In 1642 the city of Montreal was founded. In 1804 the French Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte emperor. In 1896 the Supreme Court endorsed "separate but equal" rac...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:01pm -07:00T (152 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 17 ...
In 1444 Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy. In 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, inventor of the concave reflecting telescope, first saw the belts on Jupiter's surface. In 1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marque...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 10:45pm -07:00T (254 words)
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The New Editor: 340 and 40 Years Ago Today...
340 years ago on this date in 1673, Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette began exploring the Mississippi River.
Also on this date, 40 years ago in 1973, the Senate opened its hearings into the Watergate scandal....
Dateline: 2013-05-16 10:45pm -07:00T (36 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 16 ...
In 1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15. In 1868 the Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson when it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against J...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 11:01pm -07:00T (240 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 15 ...
In 1602 Cape Cod, MA, was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold. In 1856 L. Frank Baum, author of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was born in Chittenango, NY. In 1886 poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst, MA. In 1911 the Supreme Co...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 10:16pm -07:00T (280 words)
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The New Editor: Someone Needs to Tell Chris Matthews and John Heilemann...
See, when those of us out here were talking about 'Chicago politics,' we weren't, ya know, talking about race.... we were, ya know, talking about Chicago politics....
Does the last week or so kinda make that a little bit more clear for you?...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 11:15am -07:00T (42 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 14 ...
In 1643 Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. In 1796 English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox to an 8-year-old boy. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark expediti...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 10:31pm -07:00T (271 words)
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The New Editor: On This Day
May 13 ...
In 1607 the English colony at Jamestown, VA, was settled. In 1842 composer Arthur Sullivan, half of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan duo, was born in London, England. In 1846 the United States declared that a state of war already existed agai...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 10:30pm -07:00T (154 words)
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The New Editor: Run, Run, Run Away!
As mentioned below, 10 years ago on this date in 2003, fifty-four Texas Democratic Party lawmakers went into hiding in order to prevent a quorum from convening in the Texas House for a debate, and therefore a vote, on a congressional redistricting plan pr...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 1:00pm -07:00T (98 words)
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