On This Day:
Friday May 2, 2014 This is the 122nd day of the year, with 243 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Philly cheesesteak Harry and Pat Olivieri invented the Philly cheesesteak in 1933. A Philly cheesesteak is made up of thinly sliced beef sauteed in oil and placed into a fresh torpedo, grinder, or sub roll. Raw or grilled onions, hot peppers, ketchup, mustard, and relish can be added. Nowadays Cheez Whiz is also slathered on it, but that was not part of the recipe until 1955. Legend has it that Harry and Pat were tired of eating hot dogs at their hot dog stand in Philadelphia, so they fried up some beef and onions. A cab driver who was a regular customer of theirs came for his hot dog, smelled the sandwich, and wanted one. Harry told the customer that the sandwich was his own dinner, but then agreed to sell it to the cab driver. In 1940 the brothers founded Pat's King of Steaks, and the rest is history.
Holidays Feast day of St. Gennys, St. Athanasius, St. Mefalda, St. Wiborada, St. Waldebert, Saints Exuperius and Zoe, and St. Ultan of Fosses.
Events 1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was sent to the Tower of London.
1611 - The Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Version) was first published.
1670 - The Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles II, and it was made up of a group of French explorers who started the lucrative North American fur trade to London merchants.
1776 - France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.
1863 - Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men; he died 8 days later.
1885 - "Good Housekeeping" magazine went on sale.
1887 - Hannibal W. Goodwin of Newark, New Jersey, applied for a patent for celluloid photographic film.
1890 - The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1933 - The first sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was reported in a Scotland newspaper.
1941 - The Federal Communications Commission agreed to regular scheduling of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations; it was the start of what would become network television.
1945 - The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1952 - The first jet airplane passenger service was launched (London to Johannesburg, South Africa).
1965 - The Early Bird satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic Ocean.
Births 1729 - Catherine the Great (Ekaterina Alekseevna), German-born Russian empress (1762-1796).
1810 - Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, English compiler of "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable."
1895 - Lorenz Hart, American composer, lyricist with Richard Rodgers.
1902 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, author.
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey), Anglo-Indian pop singer.
Deaths 1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the FBI.
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