TV actor Bill Hayes

Events in 1925 and 5-6

Events in US in the birth year of Bill Hayes

• Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
• Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
• Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
• Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

Birthday Bill Hayes (5-6) in history

• Day 5-6 year 1783: Inventors Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier first flew in a hot air balloon they invented successfully.
• Day 5-6 year 1884: Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
• Day 5-6 year 1933: The United States went off the gold standard.
• Day 5-6 year 1947: Sen. George Marshall proposed a plan (Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II.
• Day 5-6 year 1967: The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War began.
• Day 5-6 year 1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day.
• Day 5-6 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control published the first report about the disease that would later become known as AIDS.
• Day 5-6 year 2002: Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home.
• Day 5-6 year 2004: Former president Ronald Reagan died.
• Day 5-6 year 2013: The British newspaper the Guardian published the first of many stories based on leaks by Edward Snowden about the top-secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.