05-27-2006, 06:24 AM
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Location: Maryland
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May 27th
1837 ~ Birthday of Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter.
1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize 1973.
1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author.
1937 ~ The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.
1964 ~ Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first PM.
1968 ~ Future U.S. president George W. Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard.
1995 ~ Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event.
1999 ~ A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo.
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