History Blog

May 31

Happy Birthday RIP Walter “Walt” Whitman(1819–1892) Denholm Elliott(1922–1992) Dominic “Don” Ameche(Amici 1908–1993) ; Clinton Eastwood Jr–94 Sharon Gless–81 Joseph “Joe” Namath–81 Thomas Berenger(Moore)–75 Christopher Elliott–64 Lea Thompson–63 Corey Hart–62 Brooke Shields–59 Colin Farrell–48 Johnathan Tucker–42 ; 1921 – The Tulsa race massacre took place where mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa. This is also called the massacre of Black Wall Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre ; 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, the Watergate scandal’s whistleblower