HISTORY MOMENTS

The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history:

An elaborate ceremony and an address by the national president of the Children's Home Finding Society marked the laying of the cornerstone of the new Boise Children's Home on May 14, 1910. By the time the home was completed and formally dedicated in December of that year, the Home had already cared for 465 children, finding permanent homes for most of them.

On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

On May 12, 1888, the Caldwell Tribune reported that, "Deputy Marshal Tiner of Boise City has returned to the penitentiary Teton Jackson, who was captured in Montana a few weeks ago. The first that was known of Jackson was about the first of February 1884, when he and a man named Thompson came into Eagle Rock and gave themselves up stating that they had killed a man named Cooper up in the Teton Basin. They were acquitted. Jackson was subsequently convicted of horse-stealing and sentenced to 14 years in the penitentiary, but remained there only a few months when he dug a trench from his cell out under the wall and escaped."

Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans's jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on May 13, 1938.

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacajawea and Touissant Charbonneau, interpreters for Lewis and Clark, died of pneumonia at a ranch in Jordan Valley, Oregon, on May 16, 1866. Today, a memorial marks his burial site near there.