05-25-2006, 05:28 AM
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Location: Maryland
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May 25th
1803 ~ Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet & Philosopher.
1889 ~ Birthday of Igor Sikorsky, developer of the helicopter.
1895 ~ Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.
1926 ~ Birthday of Miles Davis, Jazz Musician
1929 ~ Birthday of Beverly Sills, Soprano.
1934 ~ Death of Gustav Holst, English composer.
1953 ~ The U.S. conducted its only nuclear artillery test.
1961 ~ President Kennedy set the US goal to put the first man on the moon by the end of that decade.
1963 ~ The Organisation of African Unity was set up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1973 ~ Mike Oldfield released Tubular Bells.
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