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MAY 18: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA1964: The Animals recorded "House of the Rising Sun."1968: Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was released. It was!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 17: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdusyjiuvY1875: In Louisville, the first Kentucky Derby was run.1958: Jerry Lee Lewis Day was held in his hometown of Farriday,!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 16: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NbkvJQq-s1888: The first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner.1929: The first Academy Awards!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 15: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-53tzx69fM1928: Mickey Mouse made his first ever appearance in the silent film "Plane Crazy."1930: Ellen Church became the first female!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 14: The Daily Flashback
Happy birthday, David ByrnePhotograph by Martin Benjamin1897: At a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled, John Phillip Sousa's "The Stars and!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 11: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY1924: Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Robert Frost.1927: Louis B. Mayer formed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 10: The Daily Flashback
Photograph of Donovan by Tim Raab1775: Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold led an attack on the British Fort Ticonderoga and captured it from the British.1872:!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 9: The Daily Flashback
Happy 72nd birthday to Schenectady native Steve Katz (Blood, Sweat & Tears, the Blues Project)Photograph by Andrzej Pilarczyk1754: The Pennsylvania Gazette!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 8: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx01794: The United States Post Office was established.1886: Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 7: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA9oay2e4Zg1824: Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. Its final movement incorporates Friedrich Schiller!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 4: The Daily Flashback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lztZMFzl9fo1776: Rhode Island declared its freedom from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.1886:!-->!-->!-->…
MAY 3: The Daily Flashback
Pete SeegerPhotograph by Thomas D. Lindsay1888: Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Works.1937: Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…