Moments in time 5/12/11

MOMENTS IN TIME - The History Channel

On May 23, 1701, at London’s Execution Dock, British privateer William Kidd, popularly known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for five charges of piracy and one charge of murdering a crewman. A colorful Kidd legend included reports of lost buried treasure that fortune seekers have pursued for centuries.

On May 24, 1883, after 14 years and 27 deaths while being constructed, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York is opened, the largest suspension bridge ever built to that date.

* On May 27, 1894, Dashiell Hammett, author of “The Maltese Falcon,” is born in Maryland. He w...