THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Posted by Eric Robert Scalzo
on May 09, 2011
First Transcontinental Railroad Finished--1869
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies--1863
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens--May 9, 1887
B.F. Goodrich Co. announces development of tubeless tire--1947
Jamestown founded--1607
William Fetterman joins the U.S. Army--May 14, 1861
Nolan Ryan pitches first no-hitter--1973
Susan J. Bissonette