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Full Version: This Week In History.
Patricia
Here are some events that took place this week in history:

5/30/1922 - The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.

5/31/1859 - Big Ben rang out in London. The clock is precise to within one second a day.

6/1/1938 - The first issue of Action Comics, featuring superman, was published.

6/2/1886 - Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. president to get married in the White House.

6/3/1937 - The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VII) married American Wallis Simpson after giving up the English throne.

6/4/1896 - Henry Ford took his car out for a test drive.

6/5/1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier gave the first successful balloon flight demonstration. Later that year they sailed the first manned hot air balloon over Paris.

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