* On April 28, 1953, inventor Howard Ross received a patent for a useful, if rather curious, garment called a “double coat,” with an outer layer that could be extended to cover two people at a time in athletic stadiums when it rained. * On May 1, 1958, the United States celebrated its first Law Day after President Eisenhower announced the observance to honor the role of law in the country’s creation. Three years later, Congress followed suit by passing a joint resolution establishing May 1 as Law Day. * On May 2, 1972, after serving nearly five decades as FBI director. J. Edgar Hoover died, leaving the agency without the administrator who’d turned it into an efficient crime-fighting machine. * On May 3, 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday, Madeleine McCann of Rothley, England, disappeared during a family vacation at a resort in southern Portugal. Despite an international search, she remains missing.
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