‘Greatest Show’ is over

Canada was established at Windsor, N.S.

In 1780, Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister, prison reformer and nurse, was born in Norwich, England. The great public work of her life dates effectively from the formation of the association for the improvement of the female prisoners in Newgate prison in April, 1817. Today there are Elizabeth Fry Societies in many countries, including Canada, working with and for women and girls in the justice system.

In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

In 1923, prohibition took effect in Prince Edward Island.

In 1927, American Charles Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget Field outside Paris after his historic solo flight across the Atlantic. Lindbergh’s trip from Long Island, N.Y., lasted 33-and-a-half hours. It’s considered one of the great milestones in aviation history.

In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.

In 1956, the first U.S. hydrogen bomb to be dropped from an airplane was released over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In 1969, a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Sirhan Sirhan to death for the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy the previous June. Sirhan’s sentence was later commuted to life in prison.

In 1985, Patti Frustaci of Riverside, Calif., gave birth to septuplets — seven babies — after receiving fertility drugs.

In 2017, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, that wowed crowds for 146 years with its “Greatest Show on Earth,” performed its last show, at the Nassau County Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y.