DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE May 31, 2003: Grand opening of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Contemporary Arts Center in downtown Cincinnati designed Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid. May 31, 2004 – Depressed over the death of his wife, Alice, Akron native Robert Quine, 52, commits suicide. A former tax lawyer who played guitar, Quine collaborated with greats like Lou Reed and Brian Eno. He is No. 80 on Rolling Stone’s top 100 guitarists of all time.

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Sojurner Truth

May 29, 1851 - Former slave Sojurner Truth, mother of 13 children - most were taken from her and sold to other slaveowners - delivers a feminist speech on human rights in Akron to the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention. “Ain’t I a woman?” she asks.
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Ohio Woman's Rights Convention

May 28, 1851 - The Ohio Woman's Rights Convention meets in Akron and notes the following statistics: the average seamstress earns between $.75 and $1.50 per week for 15-18 hours of daily labor. Female school teachers earn $21.49 per year, about half that of male counterparts.
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Edson B. Olds

May 27, 1862 – Members of the Ohio delegation to Congress petition President Abraham Lincoln to order the release of Ohioans seized and imprisoned without charges, who are under the jurisdiction of the War Department. Arrested was Edson B. Olds, a physician, merchant and politician who had served in Congress as a Democrat (1849-55). During his imprisonment Olds was elected to the state legislature and took his seat upon his release.
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Roy Landsberger

May 26, 1976 – Roy Landsberger of Kensington catches a farm pond, state record largemouth bass that is 13.13 pounds and 25 1/16 inches long. Clearly, May is the month to go fishing in Ohio.
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Johnson’s Island

May 25, 1862: First Lieutenant R.M. Ray is the first Confederate soldier to die in the Union prison camp on Johnson’s Island in Sandusky Bay. Ray, captured in February 1862 during the battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee, is followed in death by 266 others before the camp closes in 1865.
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TRIPLE PLAY

TRIPLE PLAY May 24, 1967 – Judson Holton of Chillicothe catches a 50-pound, 40-inch carp from Paint Creek Lake for a state record. In 1981, Ronald Stone of Wooster catches a state-record 4.5 pound 18 1/8 inch black crappie. Maybe this is a good day to go fishing in Ohio. May 24, 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolically throws the switch in Washington D.C. for the first night game in baseball at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field.
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Seip Mound

Seip Mound, about two miles east of Bainbridge on U.S. 50 in Ross County is a classic Hopewell Indian mound.
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Barry Bishop

May 22, 1963: Cincinnati native and photographer Barry Bishop reaches the summit of Mount Everest as part of the first American team to do so, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. He later addresses a celebratory assembly at his old high school, Walnut Hills, whose motto is Sursum ad Summum – Latin for Rise to the Highest.
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Ronald Isley

May 21, 1941 – Ronald Isley is born in Cumminsville in Cincinnati, later moving to Lincoln Heights before leaving for New Jersey and a New York recording career. He would lead the Isley Brothers to international fame and have Billboard top 10 songs in five decades. A tax evasion conviction from 2007 put the now-ailing Isley into a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., through April 2010.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE May 20, 1891 – John William Lambert builds a three-wheeled gas-powered car in Ohio City. The first automobile accident in the United States is here after Lambert's Buckeye Gasoline Buggy hits a tree stump and bounces into a hitching rack. May 20, 2007: The wreck of the S.S. Anthony Wayne is found in Lake Erie eight miles off Vermillion. The ship, which sank on April 28, 1850, is rumored to hold $100,000 in gold coins.
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Not for Waylon

On one of these fine spring mornings in the 1980s, country singing star Waylon Jennings decides to bring a gift to his old buddy Johnny Cash at Cincinnati’s University Hospital. Conceal-carry? Not for Waylon. He just walks into the hospital with a pearl-handled, long-barrel .45 hanging in his hand at his side. He was in full Waylon regalia, too, long black outlaw coat and black cowboy hat. Wotta world...
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Ezzard Charles

May 18, 1954 – Cincinnati's Ezzard Charles trains for a heavyweight title fight with Rocky Marciano to be held in June. Charles, the Cincinnati Cobra, went the distance but lost on points. He was also a double bass player, who played with some of the nation's jazz greats at Birdland in Harlem. He died in 1975 at 53 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's Disease.
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Donald DeFreeze

May 17, 1974: Donald DeFreeze, a Cleveland-born criminal who became radicalized in a California prison and, upon his escape, assumed leadership of the Symbionese Liberation Army that kidnapped Patty Heart, killed himself when trapped in a shoot-out with Los Angeles police. His badly burned remains were returned to Cleveland and buried at Highland Park Cemetery.
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Matt Amedeo

May 16, 2006: Matt Amedeo of Akron latches onto a vicious, 31.64 pound, 47-inch Tiger Muskie while fishing Turkeyfoot Lake south of Tire Town. It’s a state record.
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Hocking Hills Canopy

Take a trip to the Hocking Hills Canopy Tour in Rockbridge about 40 miles southeast of Columbus (740-385-9477) for a two-hour, treetop view of the Buckeye State on a zip line network through the trees.
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Dan Auerback

May 14, 1979 – Guitarist Dan Auerback of Akron is born. His vocal leads bring The Black Keys of Akron international attention. Albums include "Rubber Factory" and "Magic Potion."
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Music Explosion

May 13, 1967: "Little Bit O' Soul," an irresistibly hummable garage-band-y single from Mansfield, Ohio's Music Explosion, enters the Billboard charts. It will eventually reach #2, the only Top 40 release for these one-hit wonders.
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Trent Reznor

May 12, 1986 – Budding thrash musician Trent Reznor joins the Cleveland band Exotic Birds, gets a part-time job sweeping up and doing handyman work at the former Right Track Studio (now Midtown Recording) where he convinces owner Bart Kostner to let him record a few songs he’d written. The songs would later form the basis for Pretty Hate Machine and Reznor’s band Nine Inch Nails was born.
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Greg Dulli

May 11, 1965 – Greg Dulli is born in Hamilton, the musical home waters of Roger Troutman LeRoy Sugarfoot Bonner and others. Dulli played pick-up games with African-Americans who lived in the nearby Second Ward, where he was exposed to Hamilton funk. Dulli founded the Afghan Whigs, a grunge rock band, and played on the soundtrack for the movie Backbeat, about the early years of the Beatles.
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Amanda Borden

May 10, 1977 – Amanda Borden is born in Cincinnati. She took up gymnastics at the age of 7, would graduate from Finneytown High School and win a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics.
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Timothy Cory Hively

May 8, 2005 – Not quite weighing in at a pound, the .99 pound 10 5/8 inch green sunfish caught in a Clermont County farm pond near Cincinnati puts Timothy Cory Hively of Bethel into the Ohio fish record books. Maybe it's a good idea to go fishing in Ohio in the first week of May!
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE May 9, 1896 - Akronite Ferdinand Schumacher dies. In his life, he figured out how to precook then dry oat flakes for cereal. He created the Quaker Oats Co. and became an American Oatmeal King. His silos, which once held 1.5 million bushels of grain, are now hotel rooms and dorms. May 9, 1987 – Christopher Boling of Montpelier catches an 11.69-pound 33.25-inch state record Bowfin fish from Nettle Lake.
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Teresa Brewer

May 7, 1931 – Teresa Brewer of Toledo is born. One of the most popular singers of the 1950s with songs like Bo Weevil, Bell Bottom Blues and Skinnie Minnie, she will get her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Bernard Alexander

May 6, 1982 – Bernard Alexander, born in Dayton, plays the guitar lead on The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Known on stage as Little Axe, this 1982 release goes down in history as one of the most transforming pieces of music in the nation’s history: "Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge…” Hip Hop is born.
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DAILY DOUBLE

May 5, 1970: In a voter backlash for having sent National Guard troops to college campuses, favored Governor James Rhodes is defeated by Robert Taft in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate.
May 5, 1865 – First train robbery in the United States at North Bend, west of Cincinnati. Some believe it was led by Frank James, who often stayed in expensive Cincinnati hotels and boasted that he was the first train robber in America.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE - Did a renegade CIA agent - one of Nixon's plumbers - start the shooting at Kent State University in 1970? Four are dead in Ohio.
May 4, 2001 – Rosemary Shaver of Logan catches a 31 inch, 17.68-pound striped hybrid bass at Deer Creek Lake for a state record.

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John Nause

May 3, 1988 – John Nause of Fremont hooks a state record white perch at 1.42 pounds that is 14 1/16 inches long. He was fishing Green Creek.

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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE May 2, 1934: WLW, owned by Cincinnati entrepreneur Powel Crosley, begins transmitting at 500,000 watts when President Franklin Roosevelt activates the station via remote control from the White House. It broadcasts to 13 states at that power until 1939, when the FCC and Congress end the experiment. May 2, 1976 – Roger Trainer, Waverly, catches a 5.25-pound, 21-inch spotted bass from Lake White for a state record.
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Jacob Sechler Coxey

May 1, 1894 – Massillon mayor Jacob Sechler Coxey and 20,000 followers pilgrimage from Ohio to Washington D.C. to demand public construction work for unemployed Americans. The quest ends when Coxey is arrested for stepping on the White House lawn.
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