BOSTON ARRIVAL — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Flying Fish, an 87-foot long coastal patrol boat homeported in Boston, Mass., enforces the Naval Protection Zone and provides a security umbrella as the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy enters the port of Boston, May 19, 2005. The Mayport, Fla.,-based Kennedy is visiting Boston in support of Armed Forces Day. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lisa Hennings

John's latest update on his bicycle ride...

Cuthbert, Georgia, is a crossroads here in the southwest corner of Georgia. It rained last night, but i was high and dry on the porch of the Baptist Church in Sasser, back about 25 miles. Today it is nice and cool. I'm making real good time. Terrain has slacked off to nice and flat farmlands with an occasional hill. But without the heat, today is a godsend. Sleeping well. Getting as shower every evening. Only hassle is that my diet hasn't stablized yet. But I'm working on it...

This is Day 6. Slowly I am gaining my strength after wintering over in South Carolina.

Date is May 21.

Way to go, John. Keep on rollin'!

1804 - Lewis & Clark begin their expedition.
1832 - The first Democratic National Convention takes place in Baltimore
1846 - The first steamship arrives in Hawaii.
1856 - Pro-slavery forces capture and sack Lawrence, KS.
1861 - North Carolina becomes the tenth state to secede from the Union.
1871 - 17,000 die when French regular troops attack the Commune of Paris.
1881 - Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross.
1917 - Leo Pinckney becomes the first WWI American draftee.
1918 - The House of Representatives amends the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
1927 - Lindbergh lands in Paris after successfully completing the first transatlantic solo air flight.
1932 - Amelia Earhart completes the first transatlantic solo flight by a woman.
1940 - The Allies counterattack at Atrecht (North-France).
1941 - The SS Robin Moore becomes the first American ship sunk by a U-boat; the German airforce occupies the airport at Maleme Kreta; Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau.
1944 - Hitler begins an attack on English/American "terror pilots."
1945 - Heinrich Himmler is captured.
1950 - Vietnamese troops attack Cambodia.
1953 - The French government of Mayer resigns.
1954 - A proposed Amendment to give 18-year-olds voting rights fails.
1956 - The U.S. explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll.
1957 - The French government of Mollet resigns.
1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquer Morotai Island.
1964 - In Chesapeake Bay, the first nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations; U.S. intelligence flights above Laos begin.
1968 - The Scorpion, an American nuclear sub with 99 men aboard, is reported missing. It is later found at the bottom of the ocean off the Azores.
1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer - Sirhan Sirhan - is sentenced to death.
1970 - The National Guard is mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
1971 - The National Guard is mobilized to quell a riot in Chattanooga, TN.
1979 - Elton John becomes the first western rocker to perform live in the U.S.S.R.
1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is the first woman to graduate from a U.S. service academy.
1981 - François Mitterrand becomes President of France.
1982 - British troops land in the Falkland Islands.
1991 - Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia's Marxist president, resigns.
1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor is sentenced to life.
1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen.

Birthdays
427 BC - Plato (Aristocles)
1527 - Philip II, King of Spain & Portugal
1822 - Confederate Major General Dabney Herndon Maury; Confederate General Mosby Monroe Parsons
1825 - Union Brevet Major Genreal George Lafayette Beal
1835 - Union Brevet Major Genreal Newton Martin Curtis Brevet Major General
1878 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American inventor of the hydroplane.
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist, human rights worker, Nobel prize winner
1941 - Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1942 - Robert C. Springer, Colonel USMC / astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)

Passings
1481 - Christian I, King of Denmark/Norway/Sweden
1542 - Hernando de Soto, while searching for gold near the Mississippi River
1703 - Roemer Vlacq, Dutch Admiral, in battle
1935 - Jane Addams, ACLU co-founder
1993 - John Frost English, Lieutenant-Colonel (operation Market Garden 1944
1994 - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/American resistance fighter
1995 - Les Aspin, US Secretary of Defense

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Brace, Ernest C., civilian, USAID; Released by PL March, 1973 - alive and well in 1998

1966
Buckley, Louis, Jr., US Army (MI)
Thackerson, Walter A., US Army (AL)

1967
Simpson, Walter S., US Army (NJ)
Wrobleski, Walter F., US Army (NJ)

1968
Lemcke, David E., US Army (NY)

1970
Albert, Keith A., US Army (LA); Released by PRG February, 1973 - alive in 1999

OK, now we've finally done it. Apparently, in all of our "being the world's police" stuff, we've absconded with a Russian lake. How dare we?

Lake disappears, baffling villagers