05-15-2006, 05:18 AM
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May 15th
1567 ~ Birthday of Claudio Monteverdi, Italian Composer.
1911 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Standard Oil Company, requiring its break up under the Sherman Anti-Trust act.
1869 ~ Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York city.
1886 ~ Death of Emily Dickinson, Poet.
1914 ~ Birthday of Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa & Mountaineer.
1919 ~ The Winnipeg General Strike began.
1930 ~ Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois.
1957 ~ Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
1972 ~ George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination.
1988 ~ The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.
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