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MAY 7, 1915: The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German MAY 16, 1985: Margaret Hamilton passed away.
PhotograPhic Journey U-boat. 1945: Germany surrendered to the Allies in 1945. She was best known for the character she played in
The Wizard of Oz—the Wicked Witch of the West.
Birthdays include: Gary Cooper, 1901; Johannes Brahms, 1833;
This Month in Collecting History: Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1840; and NFL quarterback Hamilton was a Sunday School teacher at one time
and loved children. She was concerned about how her
and Super Bowl V champion Johnny Unitas, 1933. Unitas’
MAY 1960s game jersey sold for $103,500 at Hunt Auctions in 2015. performance may have affected them. During filming,
she was burned on her face and hand in the fire-
by Mike McLeod MAY 8, 1753: The reported birthday of Phillis Wheatley, the and-smoke scene when she left Munchkinland. Her
first female African poet to be published while a slave in stunt double was also burned. Hamilton was much
MAY 1, 1967: Elvis Presley America in 1767. Her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious more than her Witch character; she had 121 screen
married Priscilla Ann and Moral was published as a book on September 1, 1773. credits over her career (imdb.com). The Wicked Witch
Beaulieu in Las Vegas. In A two-page letter written and signed by her sold for $253,000 of West’s iconic hat sold for $208,250 in 2011 at
2016, Graceland Auctions at Swann Auction Galleries in 2005. Guernsey’s (abcnew.go.com)
sold a pair of Elvis’
prescription Nautic-style MAY 9, 1671: Thomas Blood and two men stole the Crown May 16, 1919: Birthday of Wladziu Valentino Liberace.
sunglasses by Neostyle Jewels from the Tower of London—but only for a little while. Known for his mastery of the piano and his flamboyant
for $8,750, and a 1969 They were captured nearby. For unspecified reasons, King style, one of Liberace’s custom pianos with mirrored
signed and autographed Charles II released Blood from prison without a trial—even tiles, a Baldwin Model L grand, sold for $42,500 in
photo of Elvis and Priscilla though the crown was hammered flat and the scepter sawn in 1988 at Christie’s (NYT.com, 4/11/1988).
in Hawaii sold for $4,750. half to make it easier to steal them.
MAY 17, 1620: A great day for youngsters—the first
MAY 2, 1519: The great Leonardo da Vinci passed MAY 10, 1904: Journalist and explorer Henry record of a merry-go-round; it was at a fair in Turkey
away. Reportedly, he requested 60 beggars to follow Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands) died (roughdaily.com). The highest price paid to date for a
his casket during his funeral. His manuscript or book in London. He found Dr. David Livingstone in carved carousel animal was not for a horse ($121,000
of scientific writings known as the Codex Leicester Africa and became famous for reportedly at Guernsey’s, 1989), but a St. Bernard for $172,000 in
is the most valuable manuscript in the world; it sold asking, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” His 1993 (nytimes.com, 7/3/94 and carouselhistory.com).
for $30+ million at Christie’s in 1994 (close to $50M 1874 book, How I Found Livingstone,
today) to Bill Gates. inscribed, sold for $17,600 at Christie’s in MAY 18 1897: Frank Capra was born in Sicily. Writer/
2004. Eight years later, another inscribed director of more than 50 movies, he is known for: It’s
MAY 2, 2012: One of Edvard Munch’s four versions copy sold for $30,000, also at Christie’s. A Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. Deeds
of The Scream, a pastel on board in its original frame, Goes to Town, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
dated 1895, was sold by Sotheby’s for $119,922,500. MAY 11, 1811: Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker w e r e (Imdb.com). It’s A Wonderful Life initially lost money,
born in Thailand. Exhibited around the world, they became but it was Jimmy Stewart’s favorite movie—and
MAY 3, 1937: Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer wealthy and settled in North Carolina. Each married, and the eventually America’s (Bizjournal.com, 12/10/2010).
Prize for Gone With The Wind (Pulitzer.org). AFI’S two had a total of 21 children. Chang died a few hours before Frank Capra’s Golden Globe for Outstanding Director
100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time lists #1 as, his brother, even though they were only conjoined by their of 1946 for the movie sold for $60,000 at Bonhams in
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” (AFI.com). And liver and cartilage. A carte de visite of Chan and Eng and two of 2015.
frankly, the word frankly was not in the book; it was their sons sold for $411 in 2012 at Cowan’s Auction.
added in the film. MAY 19, 1962: Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday
May 12, 1820: Englishwoman Florence Nightingale, the “Lady of Mr. President” to President Kennedy (ten days before
th
MAY 4, 1929: Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium the Lamp,” was born in her namesake city of Florence, Italy. She his birthday on the 29 ). The dress she wore sold for
of British parents. The iconic “little black dress” she saved countless lives through nursing and improving hygiene, $1,267,500 in 1999 at Christie’s.
wore in Breakfast at Tiffany’s sold at Christie’s in 2006 reducing the death rate in hospitals during the Crimean War
for $923,187. from 42% to 2% (Historic-UK.com). A 150-year-old brass desk MAY 19, 1777: Button Gwinnett died in a duel not
lamp that belonged to her sold in 2015 for £17,000 at Hanson’s long after signing the Declaration of Independence
MAY 5, 1961: Alan Shepard, Jr., blasted into space, Auctioneers in Derbyshire, UK. as a representative from Georgia. In 2010, one of his
the first American astronaut to do so. He was later rare signatures sold for $722,500 at Sotheby’s. Others
scheduled to fly on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission MAY 13, 1914: Joe Louis Barrow, the “Brown Bomber,” was have sold for less.
but was reassigned to Apollo 14. Shepard died on born in rural Alabama. Of his 69 professional fights, he won 66
July 21, 1998 at the age of 74. In 2011, RR Auction by knockout or TKO and was World Heavyweight Champion for MAY 20, 1908: Movie
sold a three-page letter for $106,228 that he wrote to 12 straight years (boxrec.com). star and WWII-medaled
his parents a few months before he was chosen as a A Joe Louis Soda Punch metal veteran Jimmy Stewart
Mercury astronaut. sign, 14 x 10 inches, sold for $275 was born in Indiana,
on eBay in 2016. A pair of 1940s Pennsylvania. AFI’s
MAY 6, 1931: Birth of the great Willie Mays. Joe Louis fight-worn purple satin 50 Greatest American
Mays slugged 660 home runs in his career. His trunks went for $15,535 in 2009 at Screen Legends listed
1951 Minneapolis Millers home jersey worn as he Heritage Auctions. him as #3 behind
transitioned from the Negro Leagues to the Giants hit Humphrey Bogart #1
$44,063 at Robert Edward Auctions in 2011. On May MAY 14, 1804: Lewis and Clark embark on their historic and Cary Grant #2 (afi.
12, 2016, a 1952 Topps Willie Mays #261 rookie card journey of exploration from St. Louis, Missouri. In 2012, com). Stewart rose
graded PSA Mint 9 went over the fence for $478,000 Heritage Auctions sold an 1809 land indenture document from private to colonel
at Heritage Auctions. signed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reportedly the during the war and flew bombing missions into
only known document in private hands signed by both, for Germany. He only won one Oscar during his career
MAY 6, 1937: LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire while $110,000. An 1814 book created from the journals of Lewis and (Philadelphia Story); an honorary Oscar was awarded
landing in Lakehurst, N.J.; 36 people lost their lives. Clark by Paul Allen titled, History of the Expedition under the in 1985 (Imdb.com). In 2006, Bonhams auctioned
A scorched Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, sold at Sotheby’s for a sketch of Harvey the Invisible Rabbit drawn by
envelope $218,500 in 2012. Stewart and signed by “both” and Stewart’s signed
with four photo for $1,195. In 2006, a three-sheet movie poster
German MAY 15, 1856: L. Frank Baum was for Vertigo (1958) fell for $7,475, and in 2007, a one-
75pf born. He wrote fourteen novels about sheet Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) left for
stamps Oz, including The Wonderful Wizard of $15,535, both at Heritage Auctions.
that were Oz; other authors have written dozens
canceled on more. In 2013, Bonhams auctioned a first MAY 21, 2016: Julien’s Auctions sold Elvis’ Gibson
board sold edition, first issue of the book for $87,500; Dove guitar for $334,000 and Michael Jackson’s Beat
for $15,000 it was one of two known to be signed and It jacket from the History Tour for $256,000.
at Robert Siegel Auctions in 2007. inscribed by Baum and the illustrator. Continued→