May 15th Recollections - Dave’s Midwestern Ohio Memories

A Series of Guest Blogs by an out-of-state Fish Report reader originally from this area about fond memories of growing up in Midwestern Ohio during the 50’s & 60’s

May 15th Recollections

Today is special to me because it is the day I met my wife 47 years ago as documented in this previous blogpost. It happens to also be the birthday of her father who would be 89 today if he were still living. And my wife’s grandfather’s death occured on this date in 1976. So all those events make the day especially memorable to our family. Here’s some other notable events that happened on May 15th over the years:

1862 - First baseball game in an enclosed park held in Union Grounds, Brooklyn, NY

1869 - Susan B. Anthony starts the Women’s Suffrage movement that eventually led to women being able to vote

1905 - Las Vegas founded

 

1918 - 1st US airmail postal service between NY, Philadelphia & Washington, D.C.

 

1919 - Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0 (Reds went on to win the World Series)

1940 - McDonald’s opens it’s first restaurant in San Bernardino, CA

1941 - Joe DiMaggio starts 56 game hitting streak

1953 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott

1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45 (current record 26,616, almost 10x)