World War I

Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born on May 21, 1878, in Hammondsport, New York.  He became interested in bicycles as a young man and was a champion racer, riding bikes he had designed and built.

On May 10, 1908, the first official Mother’s Day celebration was held in Grafton, West Virginia.

On May 9, 1918, the US War Department created the Military Postal Express Service (MPES) to handle military mail in Europe during World War I.  It was the first postal system in the world to be created by an Army.

Journalist Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864, in Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania.

Playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin.

On March 29, 1638, the New Sweden Colony was established, encompassing parts of present-day Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan was born on March 22, 1868, in Morrison, Illinois.

Joseph Warren Stilwell was born on March 19, 1883 in Palatka, Florida.

Famed golfer Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. (Bobby Jones) was born on March 17, 1902, in Atlanta, Georgia.