Issue 44: May 2017 Edition
PAM MAY 2017 TRIVIA
On May 5, 1961, he became the first American in space, piloting Freedom 7 during a 15-minute, 28-second suborbital flight that reached an altitude of 116 miles above Earth.
a) Scott Carpenter
b) John Glenn
c) Alan Shepard
d) Gus Grissom
The American Red Cross was founded by her on May 21, 1881. Today the organization provides volunteer disaster relief in the U.S. and abroad.
a) Clara Barton
b) Florence Nightingale
c) Mary Breckinridge
d) Jane Delano
Telegraph inventor Samuel Morse sent the first official telegraph message from Washington, D.C., to this city on May 24, 1844.
a) Philadelphia
b) New York
c) Boston
d) Baltimore
The first daily newspaper published in America, on May 30, 1783, was the…
a) Connecticut Courant
b) Pennsylvania Evening Post
c) Boston Post Boy
d) New-England Chronicle
