From My Mind to....

May 2

Officially, I'm 4 years old on WDC today.  I thought it might be interesting to find out what happened on this date in history.

May 2, 1670:  The Hudson's Bay Company is chartered.

May 2, 1863:  Confederates deliver blow to Union at Chancellorsville.

May 2, 1918:  GM buys Chevrolet to become the largest auto company in the world.

May 2, 1936:  Manuscript of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Conversations at Midnight destroyed in hotel fire.  She re-creates it and publishes it the following year.

May 2, 1945:  German troops in Italy surrender to the Allies ending World War II in Europe.

May 2, 1972:  An era ends at the FBI: J. Edgar Hoover dies.

May 2, 2008:  Iron Man is released AND I join Writing.Com.  Whoo Hoo!! 

May 2, 2011:  Osama bin Laden is killed by U.S. forces.

Pulitzer prizes awarded on May 2:

1932 to Pearl S Buck (The Good Earth)
1938 to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1949 to Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)
1955 to Tennessee Williams (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1960 to Allen Drury (Advise & Consent)


On another note, yesterday, I receive my first rejection letter.  Actually, it was an email, and a short one at that.  So this paragraph pairs up with "Finally...." .  Time to send off another story.  I must get organized. 

And speaking of organized--time to get ready for the work day.  Write on!