On
the 2nd May 1611, the King James
Bible was published for the first time in London, England by the printer Robert
Barker.
On
the 2nd May 1885, Good Housekeeping Magazine went on sale
for the first time.
The magazine was founded by
Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The magazine achieved a circulation
of 300,000 by 1911, at which time it was bought by the Hearts Corporation. In
1966 it reached 5,500,000 readers. Good
Housekeeping, features
articles about ‘women's interests’, product testing by The Good Housekeeping
Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known
for the "Good Housekeeping Seal," popularly known as the "Good
Housekeeping Seal of Approval."
But do not think slightingly
of the magazine. Writers who have contributed to the magazine include Somerset
Maugham, Edwin Markham, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Parkinson Keyes, A. J.
Cronin, Virginia Wolf and Evelyn Waugh.
The magazine advocated pure food as
early as 1905, helping to lead to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. It
prohibited the advertising of cigarettes in the magazine in 1952, 12 years
before the U.S. Surgeon General’s warning labels were required on cigarette
packs. During the 1930s, it endorsed the Ludlow Amendment, which sought to
require that any declaration of war, except in the event of an invasion, be
ratified by a direct vote of the citizenry.
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On the 2nd
May 1955, Tennessee Williams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
for his play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
On the 3rd May 1915 the poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
In Flanders
fields, the poppies blow
Between the
crosses, row on row,
That mark our
place and in the sky
The larks,
still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard
amid the guns below.
We are the
dead, short days ago,
We lived,
felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and
were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders
fields!
Take up our
quarrel with the foe:
To you from
failing hands, we throw
The torch; be
yours to hold it high.
If ye break
faith with us who die
We shall not
sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders
fields!
On the 3rd May 1937, Margaret Mitchell is awarded
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her only novel, Gone with the Wind.
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