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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:26 pm
1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:26 pm
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:26 pm
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:26 pm
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. Two survive.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:27 pm
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:27 pm
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:27 pm
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:29 pm
1957 – Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:30 pm
1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:30 pm
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:31 pm
1962 – The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:31 pm
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:31 pm
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:32 pm
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:32 pm
1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:32 pm
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1975 – The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:33 pm
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:34 pm
1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:34 pm
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:34 pm
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:34 pm
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:35 pm
2005 – Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:35 pm
2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:55 am
585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:55 am
1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:55 am
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:55 am
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:55 am
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:56 am
1754 – French and Indian War: Led by 22-year-old George Washington, a company of colonial militia from Virginia ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens in the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:58 am
1798 – The United States Congress empowers president John Adams to enlist 10,000 men for service in case of a declaration of war or invasion of the country's domain. It also authorizes Adams to instruct commanders of ships-of-war to seize armed French vessels preying upon or attacking American merchantmen about the coast.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:58 am
1830 – President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:58 am
1863 – American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 1:58 am
1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:00 am
1905 – Japanese forces led by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō (pictured) destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the decisive naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:01 am
1905 – Japanese forces led by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō (pictured) destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the decisive naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Togo_1907.jpg/85px-Togo_1907.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:01 am
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, one of the first democratic republics in the Muslim world, was proclaimed in Ganja by the Azerbaijani National Council following the breakup of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:04 am
1926 – 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:04 am
1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:04 am
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:04 am
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:05 am
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:05 am
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:05 am
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:05 am
1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:05 am
1952 – The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:07 am
1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:11 am
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:12 am
1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:12 am
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:12 am
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:12 am
1979 – Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:12 am
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:16 am
1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:16 am
1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:16 am
1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:16 am
1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:17 am
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:17 am
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:17 am
1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:18 am
2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:18 am
2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:18 am
2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:18 am
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 2:18 am
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 3:14 am
1725 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'I can't think that when God sent us into the world He had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 3:14 am
1818 - Former president Thomas Jefferson set forth in a letter to a Jewish journalist his opinion of religious intolerance: 'Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 3:14 am
1898 - In Italy, the Shroud of Turin was first photographed by Secundo Pia in Turin's Cathedral, where it had rested for 320 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 3:14 am
1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill which added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/11 at 3:15 am
1958 - The Presbyterian Church in the U.S. merged with the Presbyterian Church of North America to form the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:25 am
363 – Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:25 am
1167 – A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:26 am
1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:26 am
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:26 am
1414 – Council of Constance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:26 am
1453 – Constantinople fell to the besieging Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:27 am
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:27 am
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:27 am
1727 – Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:27 am
1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:28 am
1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:29 am
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:29 am
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:29 am
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:29 am
1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:29 am
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:29 am
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:30 am
1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:30 am
1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:30 am
1903 – May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:30 am
1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:31 am
1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:32 am
1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:32 am
1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:32 am
1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:33 am
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje founded
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:33 am
1924 – AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:33 am
1931 – Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele "Mike" Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Schirru.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:33 am
1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C. in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:34 am
1939 – Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:34 am
1940 – The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:34 am
1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:35 am
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:35 am
1948 – Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:35 am
1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:35 am
1953 – New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest (pictured).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:36 am
1953 – New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest (pictured).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Everest_kalapatthar_crop.jpg/100px-Everest_kalapatthar_crop.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:36 am
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:37 am
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:37 am
1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:37 am
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:37 am
1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:39 am
1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: At the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses after Liverpool F.C. fans breach a fence separating them from Juventus F.C. fans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:40 am
1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:40 am
1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:41 am
1989 – Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:41 am
1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:41 am
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:42 am
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:42 am
2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 12:42 am
2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 3:06 am
1453 Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Christianity from A.D. 324, fell to the Turks. The city afterward became the capital of the Ottoman Empire and was renamed Istanbul. Its conquest marked the end of the Middle Ages.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 3:06 am
1698 Construction began on Old Swedes (Holy Trinity) Church in Wilmington, Delaware. The structure has been used continuously as a place of Christian worship ever since.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 3:06 am
1774 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Lord, keep me from all the superfluity of dress, and from preaching empty stuff to please the ear, instead of changing the heart.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 3:06 am
1837 Birth of Charles W. Fry, the English musician who, along with his three sons, formed the first Salvation Army brass band. Fry also authored the hymn, "Lily of the Valley."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 3:07 am
1944 German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter: 'We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize His presence, not in unsolved problems, but in those that are solved.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/11 at 3:10 am
1652 - English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp
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2001 - International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
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1990 - Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record
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70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers.
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1416 – The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
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1431 – Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
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1434 – Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
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1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
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1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
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1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
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1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
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1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
...and what happened next?
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1631 – Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.
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1635 – Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed.
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1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
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1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
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1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Elba.
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1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
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1832 – End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
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1834 – Joaquim António de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders", earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
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1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
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1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
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1859 – Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
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1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
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1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
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1876 – Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
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1879 – New York, New York's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
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1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
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1899 – Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
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1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
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1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
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1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
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1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
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1922 – In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
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1925 – May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot 13 protesting workers to death.
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1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
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1942 – World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
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1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
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1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
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1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.
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1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
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1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
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1966 – launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.
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1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
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1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 in France.
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1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
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1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
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1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
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1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
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1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
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1998 –Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
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2002 – 272 days after the September 11 attacks, closing ceremonies are held for the clean up/recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York City. The last remaining steel beam is removed and transported to the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island.
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2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
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193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
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987 – Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
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1204 – King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
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1215 – Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.
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1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
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1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
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1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
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1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
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1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
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1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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1670 – Charles II and Louis XIV signed a secret treaty, wherein England would aid France in its war against the Dutch Republic in return for French assistance in England's attempt to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church.
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1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
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1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
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1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
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1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
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1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
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1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
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1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
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1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
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1855 – American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
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1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
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1861 – American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861), first land battle of American Civil War after Battle of Fort Sumter, first Confederate combat casualty.
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1862 – American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
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1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
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1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
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1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
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1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.
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1916 – Louis Brandeis (pictured) became the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
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1916 – Louis Brandeis (pictured) became the first Jew to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Brandeisl.jpg/70px-Brandeisl.jpg
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1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
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1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
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1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
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1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
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1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
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1942 – World War II: The crews of three Japanese Ko-hyoteki class submarines scuttled and committed suicide after entering Sydney Harbour and launching a failed attack.
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1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
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1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
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1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30pm from Auckland.
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1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
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1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
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1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
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1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
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1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
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1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
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1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
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1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
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1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
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2001 – Nepalese royal massacre : Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
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2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
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2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
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2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
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2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
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1140 – French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
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1326 – Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
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1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
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1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
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1620 – Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
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1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
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1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
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1839 – In Humen, China, Qing government official Lin Zexu (pictured) ordered the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 million lbs) of opium, the primary catalyst for the First Opium War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/11 at 12:54 pm
1839 – In Humen, China, Qing government official Lin Zexu (pictured) ordered the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 million lbs) of opium, the primary catalyst for the First Opium War.
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1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
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1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.