Facts for the Month of May

1.May 1st 1900:The first electric street car in St. John's started today at 12:30 p.m.from the railway station,up Duckworth St. and into Water Street by the way of Holloway St.
2.May 1st 1878:First license to sell Liquor was granted to Thomas Hall Benoits Cove.
3.May 3rd 1903: 20 English famers and their families, brought over by T.Mosley of Liecester England, arrived at St. John's enroute to Deer Lake to settle on farms.
4.May 5th 1796: William E.Cormac the first White man to cross Newfoundland , was born in St. John's.
5.May 6th 1889: The French took down a portion of the fence of Daniel Dennis of Bay St. George to supply themselves with wood.
6.May 7th 1891: First recorded Anglican Service conducted in Fox Roost-Margaree area by Rev, Wm L.Romilly.
7.May 7th 1906: A Pike adopted son of Capt. J.Pike drowned in a well at Channel.
8.May 11th 1891: The first demonstration of a phonograph in Newfoundland , in the Synod Hall ,St.John's to a large audience under the patronage of the Governor Sir Terance O'Brien.
9.May 13th 1944: The Cecilian Players staged to drama The Bishops Candelsticks , adapted from Victor hugo's Les Miserables in the Parish Hall in Corner Brook .
10.May 14th 1916: Daylight Savings Time was intruduced by Hon John Anderson .It was later termed Anderson's Time .
11.May 15th 1767: Capt. James Cook in St. Georges Bay-Found a tribe of Micmac Indians .
12. May 22nd.1928- The coastal steamer the Kyle left port in charge was Capt Burgess to relieve the Caribou on the Gulf service .
13.May 26th 1948: The Corner Brook Lions Club was established and was the first Lions Club formed in the Crown Colony of Newfoundland .
14.May 28th 1896: A passenger got off the S.S. Harlow at Port Aux Basque carring a bicycle ,all the people came out of their house to watch in wonderment as the man peddled the new contraption to Channel.
15.May 28th 1870: Large forest fire in Birchy Cove Rev. Rules house ,Church of England Parsonage and all its contents was lost .