![]() ![]() In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened public hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. In 1970, President Richard Nixon made a surprise and impromptu pre-dawn visit to the Lincoln Memorial, where he chatted with a group of protesters who’d been resting on the Memorial steps after protests against the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings. In 1965, Russian-born American pianist Vladimir Horowitz performed publicly for the first time in 12 years with a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. ![]() In 1962, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in reflecting a laser beam off the surface of the moon. conducted its first thermonuclear experiment as part of Operation Greenhouse by detonating a 225-kiloton device on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific nicknamed “George.” officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately. In 1945, with World War II in Europe at an end, Soviet forces liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. ![]() Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland. ![]()
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