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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/11 at 2:45 pm
1791 – The Polish Constitution of May 3, one of the earliest codified national constitutions in the world, was adopted by the Sejm.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/11 at 2:45 pm
1939 – Subhas Chandra Bose (pictured) formed the All India Forward Bloc of the Indian National Congress in opposition to Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/11 at 2:45 pm
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces began invading Tulagi and nearby islands in the Solomon Islands, enabling them to threaten and interdict the supply and communication routes between the United States and Australia and New Zealand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/11 at 2:46 pm
1951 – The Royal Festival Hall, the first post-war building to become listed Grade I, opened as the venue for the Festival of Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/11 at 2:46 pm
1963 – Police in Birmingham, Alabama, US, used high-pressure water hoses and dogs on civil rights protesters, bringing intense scrutiny on racial segregation in the South.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/11 at 2:48 pm
1939 – Subhas Chandra Bose (pictured) formed the All India Forward Bloc of the Indian National Congress in opposition to Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Subhas_Bose.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:44 am
1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:44 am
1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:47 am
1471 – Wars of the Roses: Yorkist Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian army in the Battle of Tewkesbury.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:48 am
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:48 am
1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:48 am
1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:48 am
1686 – Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:48 am
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:48 am
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:49 am
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:49 am
1814 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:52 am
1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:52 am
1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:52 am
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:52 am
1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:52 am
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 2:53 am
1886 – Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:08 am
1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:08 am
1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:08 am
1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:09 am
1912 – Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:09 am
1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:09 am
1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:09 am
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy engaged Allied naval forces at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:10 am
1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/AlCaponemugshotCPD.jpg/220px-AlCaponemugshotCPD.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:10 am
1945 – World War II: The liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:11 am
1945 – World War II: The surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:11 am
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Navy Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:12 am
1949 – The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:14 am
1953 – Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:14 am
1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:14 am
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:15 am
1970 – The Ohio National Guard opened fire at Kent State University students protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia, killing four and injuring nine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:16 am
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:16 am
1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:16 am
1979 – Margaret Thatcher (pictured) became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the defeat of James Callaghan's incumbent Labour government in the previous day's general election.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:17 am
1979 – Margaret Thatcher (pictured) became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the defeat of James Callaghan's incumbent Labour government in the previous day's general election.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Thatcher-loc_cropped.jpg/100px-Thatcher-loc_cropped.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:17 am
1979 – Margaret Thatcher (pictured) became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the defeat of James Callaghan's incumbent Labour government in the previous day's general election.
A day I remember very well.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:18 am
1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:18 am
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonates during a fire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:18 am
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:18 am
1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:18 am
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:19 am
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:19 am
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:20 am
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
My oh my, was it 11 years ago?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:20 am
2001 – The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:20 am
2002 – An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:21 am
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7mi wide EF-5 tornado.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:21 am
2007 – The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:52 am
1256 - Pope Alexander IV founded the Roman Catholic religious order of the Augustine Hermits.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:53 am
1493 - Pope Alexander VI issued "Inter caeterea II," which divided possession of the New World discoveries by Spain and Portugal along a longitudinal line running 250 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:53 am
1746 - The Moravians in Pennsylvania established the Moravian Women's Seminary at Bethlehem. It was the first educational institution of its kind established by the "Unitas Fratrum" in (colonial) America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:53 am
1784 - Birth of Carl G. Glaser, German music teacher. Of his many choral pieces, Glaser is primarily remembered today for his hymn tune AZMON, to which the Church today sings: "O For a Thousand Tongues."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 3:53 am
1970 - In deciding the legal case "Walz v. Tax Commission of New York," the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a New York statute exempting church-owned property from taxation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 5:45 am
1982 - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 12:22 pm
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 12:22 pm
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
what is bulldogging?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/11 at 12:23 pm
2002 - Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giant, leading his team to a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:36 am
553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:36 am
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:37 am
1260 – Kublai Khan (pictured) claimed the title of Khagan of the Mongol Empire after the death of his older brother Möngke in the previous year.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:38 am
1260 – Kublai Khan (pictured) claimed the title of Khagan of the Mongol Empire after the death of his older brother Möngke in the previous year.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Kublai_Khan_square.jpg/100px-Kublai_Khan_square.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:41 am
1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:42 am
1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:42 am
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:42 am
1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:42 am
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:42 am
1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:43 am
1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portugese army holds the field at the end of the day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:43 am
1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:43 am
1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:44 am
1860 – Led by Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi, the volunteer Expedition of the Thousand set sail from Genoa on a campaign to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:45 am
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:45 am
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:45 am
1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:45 am
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:45 am
1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:46 am
1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:46 am
1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:47 am
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:48 am
1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:48 am
1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:48 am
1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:48 am
1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:48 am
1940 – World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers in Hegra Fortress finally surrendered to a vastly superior Nazi force after a 25-day siege.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:49 am
1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:49 am
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:51 am
1945 – World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:51 am
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:51 am
1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:51 am
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:51 am
1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:53 am
1961 – Project Mercury: Aboard the American spacecraft Freedom 7, astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital flight, becoming the second person to travel into outer space after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:53 am
1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:54 am
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:54 am
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:56 am
1981 – After sixty-six days without food, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:58 am
1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:58 am
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:59 am
1992 – Ratification by Alabama brings into effect the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:59 am
1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 2:00 am
1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 2:00 am
2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 2:00 am
2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 2:00 am
2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 2:57 am
1815 - Birth of New England musical artist Ithamar Conkey. In addition to being a well-known church organist and bass soloist, Conkey also penned the hymn tune RATHBUN, to which we sing today, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 2:58 am
1899 - The Religious Tract Society, founded in 1799, celebrated its 100th anniversary in Exeter Hall, London. The Society had by then published and distributed Christian literature in over 270 languages and dialects.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 2:58 am
1925 - High school biology teacher John T. Scopes, 24, was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution in his Dayton, Tennessee classroom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 3:00 am
1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'The conflict of science and religion is fought between the errors of both camps.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 3:02 am
1988 - Eugene Antonio Marino, 53, was installed as the archbishop of Atlanta, becoming the first black Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:39 am
1527 – Spanish and German troops sacked Rome, marking the symbolic end of the Italian Renaissance.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:39 am
1536 – King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:39 am
1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:40 am
1659 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:40 am
1682 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:40 am
1757 – Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:41 am
1757 – English poet Christopher Smart was admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:41 am
1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:41 am
1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:42 am
1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:42 am
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:42 am
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Penny_black.jpg/150px-Penny_black.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:43 am
1844 – The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:43 am
1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:43 am
1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:43 am
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
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1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia, led by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson (pictured), scored a Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia.
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1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia, led by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson (pictured), scored a Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia.
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1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
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1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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1882 – Irish Under-Secretary Thomas Henry Burke and Irish Chief Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical group Irish National Invincibles as they walked through the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
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1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
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1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
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1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
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1935 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
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1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while trying to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing over 30 people on board.
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1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while trying to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing over 30 people on board.
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1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
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1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
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1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
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1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
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1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
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1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
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1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
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1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
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1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
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1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
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1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
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1976 – An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
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1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
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1983 – The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
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1984 – 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul
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1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the "coaster wars".
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1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
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1994 – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
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1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
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1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
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1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start.
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1999 – First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held.
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2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
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2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
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2004 – Aslan Abashidze, leader of Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara resigns after public protests and months of stalemate with the central authorities.
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2010 – The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.
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1432 - Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, 61, finished the altarpiece for St. John's Church in Ghent, Belgium. Van Eyck's work is noted for its descriptive realism and intensive color.
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1527 - Forty thousand mercenaries, hired by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, sacked the city of Rome, destroying two-thirds of the houses. They butchered clergy and laity alike, and forced Clement VII to flee, disguised as a gardener. It was the end of the golden age of the Renaissance.
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1835 - Birth of John T. Grape, American Methodist layman. He composed a number of hymn tunes during his life, including ALL TO HRIST, to which we sing today, "Jesus Paid It All."
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1955 - Responding to a letter received from a child, English pologist C. S. Lewis wrote: 'God knows quite well how hard we find t to love Him more than anyone or anything else, and He won't be Angry with us as long as we are trying. And He will help us.'
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1986 - The Rev. Donald E. Pelotte, 41, was ordained in Gallup, New Mexico -- the first American Indian to be made a Roman Catholic ishop in the U.S.
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558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
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1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
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1348 – Charles University in Prague (Universitas Carolina/Univerzita Karlova) is established as the first university in Central Europe.
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1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
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1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.
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1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
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1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
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1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
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1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
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1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
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1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
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1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
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1836 – The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain.
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1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
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1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
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1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
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1915 – World War I: The German submarine Unterseeboot 20 torpedoed and sank the ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 on board.
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1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
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1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
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1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
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1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
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1940 – The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
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1942 – During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
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1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
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1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
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1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
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1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, was first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
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1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
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1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
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1964 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
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1974 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
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1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
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1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
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1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
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1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
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1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
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1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
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1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
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1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
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2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia
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2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
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2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
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2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
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2008 – Dmitry Medvedev is sworn in as Russia's president.
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1274 - The Second Council of Lyons convened under Gregory X. attended by approximately 500 bishops, this council accomplished a temporary reunion of the separated Eastern Orthodox churches with the Roman Catholic Church.
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1787 - The New Jerusalem Church was formally established in London. More popularly known as Swedenborgianism, its theological tenets were based on the writings of Swedish scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). The first congregation in the U.S. was formed in Baltimore in 1792.
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1839 - Birth of Elisha A. Hoffman, American clergyman and a prolific writer of Gospel songs. His musical legacy has left the Church such favorites as: "What a Wonderful Savior," "I Must Tell Jesus," "Are You Washed in the Blood?" "Glory to His Name" and "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms."
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1899 - Amer Presbyterian missionary James Burton Rodgers, 34, preached his first sermon in the Philippines. Rodgers spent the next 35 years in evangelistic and educational ministries, and is regarded as the first Protestant missionary to the Philippines.
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1951 - Religious program "The Circuit Rider" broadcast for the last time over ABC television. Featuring sacred music and biographies of great evangelists, the series had premiered only two months earlier, in March.
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589 – Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo
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1450 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
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1541 – The expedition led by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto (pictured) became the first documented Europeans to reach the Mississippi River.
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1541 – The expedition led by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto (pictured) became the first documented Europeans to reach the Mississippi River.
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1788 – The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
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1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
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1821 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia.
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1846 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
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1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
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1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
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1882 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law, implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that eventually lasted for over 60 years until the 1943 Magnuson Act.
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1886 – Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
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1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
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1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
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1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
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1914 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
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1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day.
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1924 – the Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
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1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French warheroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
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1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
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1941 – The German Luftwaffe launch a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
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1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
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1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
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1945 – A parade to celebrate the end of World War II in Sétif, Algeria, ended in French gendarmes firing on rioters and killings of French settlers.
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1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.