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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