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May 8th
1794 ~ French chemist Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine.
1821 ~ Birthday of Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and recipient of the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize.
1895 ~ Birthday of Fulton J. Sheen, Bishop, television personality.
1902 ~ In Martinique, Mount Pelee erupted, destroying the town of St. Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a small handful of St. Pierre's residents survived the blast.
1926 ~ Birthday of Sir David Attenborough, pioneering television presenter and producer.
1933 ~ Mahatma Gandhi began a 21 day fast in protest of British oppression in India.
1937 ~ Birthday of Thomas Pynchon, Novelist.
1945 ~ Birthday of Keith Jarrett, Jazz Musician.
1984 ~ The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
1999 ~ Nancy Mace became the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
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05-09-2004, 04:15 PM
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May 9th
1429 ~ Joan of Arc defeated the English troops besieging Orleans.
1800 ~ Birthday of John Brown, American abolitionist.
1873 ~ Birthday of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.
1892 ~ Birthday of Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last empress of Austria-Hungary.
1901 ~ Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne.
1920 ~ Birthday of Richard Adams, Author.
1927 ~ The Australian Parliament first convened in Canberra.
1950 ~ Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1986 ~ Death of Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineer.
1994 ~ Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
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05-09-2004, 06:04 PM
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May 10th
1534 ~ Jacques Cartier discovered Newfoundland.
1774 ~ Louis XVI became King of France.
1801 ~ The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declared war on the United States.
1838 ~ Birthday of John Wilkes Booth, Actor & Assassin.
1863 ~ Death of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general.
1899 ~ Birthday of Fred Astaire, Singer, Dancer, Actor.
1902 ~ Birthday of David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer.
1924 ~ J. Edgar Hoover appointed head the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1940 ~ Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1960 ~ The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus completed the first under water circumnavigation of the earth.
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05-11-2004, 05:44 AM
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May 11th
330 ~ Byzantium was renamed Constantinople.
1812 ~ Prime Minster Spencer Perceval was assassinated in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
1857 ~ Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seized Delhi.
1888 ~ Birthday of Irving Berlin, composer.
1895 ~ Birthday of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher
1904 ~ Birthday of Salvador Dalí, Painter.
1918 ~ Birthday of Richard Feynman, Physicist.
1927 ~ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," was founded.
1933 ~ Birthday of Louis Farrakhan, Black Muslim leader
1997 ~ IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeated Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
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05-11-2004, 07:09 PM
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May 12th
1820 ~ Birthday of Florence Nightingale, Nurse.
1870 ~ Manitoba became a province of Canada.
1845 ~ Birthday of Gabriel Fauré, Composer.
1885 ~ The four day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel French Canadians against the Canadian government, came to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1914 ~ Birthday of Howard K. Smith, Journalist.
1918 ~ Birthday of Julius Rosenberg, Spy.
1928 ~ Birthday of Burt Bacharach, Composer.
1949 ~ The Soviet Union lifted its Blockade of Berlin.
1958 ~ A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement was signed between the United States and Canada.
2000 ~ The Tate Modern opened in London.
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May 13th
1607 ~ Jamestown, Virginia was settled as an English colony.
1787 ~ Captain Arthur Phillip left England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1842 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan, Composer.
1888 ~ Brazil abolished slavery.
1907 ~ Birthday of Dame Daphne du Maurier, Author.
1917 ~ Three peasant children claimed to see the Blessed Virgin Mary near Fatima, Portugal.
1931 ~ Birthday of Jim Jones, Cult leader.
1937 ~ Birthday of Roger Zelazny, Author.
1950 ~ Birthday of Stevie Wonder, Singer.
1981 ~ Mehemet Ali Agca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
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05-13-2004, 07:32 PM
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May 14th
1727 ~ Birthday of Thomas Gainsborough, Artist.
1796 ~ Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination.
1870 ~ The first game of rugby in New Zealand was played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1884 ~ Birthday of Claude Dornier, Aircraft Designer.
1885 ~ Birthday of Otto Klemperer, Conductor.
1912 ~ Birthday of Ben Hogan, Golfer.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1940 ~ World War II: The Netherlands surrendered to Germany.
1948 ~ Israel declared itself to be an independent state and a provisional government was established.
1955 ~ Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union signed a mutual-defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
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05-14-2004, 06:01 PM
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May 15th
1048 ~ Birthday of Omar Khayyam, Poet.
1567 ~ Birthday of Claudio Monteverdi, Composer.
1811 ~ Paraguay gained independence from Spain.
1859 ~ Birthday of Pierre Curie, Physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
1869 ~ Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1911 ~ The United States Supreme Court declared Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1915 ~ Birthday of Paul Samuelson, Economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics.
1948 ~ Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attacked Israel.
1970 ~ The Beatles' last LP, “Let It Be”, was released in the United States.
1986 ~ Death of Theodore H. White, Writer.
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May 16th
1204 ~ Baldwin, Count of Flanders crowned first Latin Emperor of Byzantium.
1532 ~ Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568 ~ Mary Queen of Scots fled to England.
1718 ~ Birthday of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician.
1866 ~ Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.
1905 ~ Birthday of Henry Fonda, Actor.
1919 ~ Birthday of Liberace, Pianist.
1966 ~ Birthday of Janet Jackson, Entertainer.
1969 ~ Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, landed on Venus.
1975 ~ India annexed Sikkim.
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May 17th
1653 ~ Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette began exploring the Mississippi River.
1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccine.
1846 ~ The Saxophone was patented by Adolphe Sax.
1866 ~ Birthday of Erik Satie, Composer.
1900 ~ During the Boer War, British troops relieved Mafeking.
1900 ~ Birthday of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1943 ~ The US Army contracted with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1954 ~ The United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas”.
1966 ~ Birthday of Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein.
1995 ~ Jacques Chirac assumed the presidency of France.
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May 18th
1652 ~ Rhode Island passed the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
1765 ~ Fire destroyed one quarter of Montreal, Quebec.
1850 ~ Birthday of Oliver Heaviside, Physicist.
1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Mathematician and Philosopher.
1883 ~ Birthday of Walter Gropius, Architect.
1896 ~ The United States Supreme Court ruled in “Plessy v. Ferguson” that "separate but equal" is constitutional.
1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer.
1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, best Third Baseman ever.
1972 ~ Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1980 ~ Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57 and causing US$ 3 billion in damage.
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May 19th
1536 ~ Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII beheaded for adultery.
1568 ~ Queen Elizabeth I of England had Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.
1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader.
1897 ~ Oscar Wilde released from prison.
1925 ~ Birthday of Malcolm X, Civil Rights activist.
1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader.
1942 ~ Birthday of Gary Kildall, Computer Programmer.
1971 ~ Mars 2 launched by the Soviet Union.
2001 ~ Zhonghua Sun put to death by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.
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May 20th
325 ~ First Council of Nicaea - first "Ecumenical Council" of the Christian Church.
1799 ~ Birthday of Honoré de Balzac, Author.
1806 ~ Birthday of John Stuart Mill, Philosopher.
1874 ~ Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1901 ~ Birthday of Max Euwe, world chess champion
1902 ~ Cuba gained independence from the United States.
1915 ~ Birthday of Moshe Dayan, General.
1927 ~ Charles Lindbergh took off on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 ~ Amelia Earhart took off on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot.
1940 ~ The first prisoners arrived at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
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May 21st
1471 ~ Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, Graphic Artist.
1844 ~ Birthday of Henri Rousseau, Artist.
1856 ~ Lawrence, Kansas captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1881 ~ The American Red Cross established by Clara Barton.
1898 ~ Birthday of Armand Hammer, physician, Entrepreneur
1945 ~ Humphrey Bogart married actress Lauren Bacall.
1916 ~ Birthday of Harold Robbins, Novelist.
1956 ~ Bikini Atoll nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.
1930 ~ Birthday of Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second Prime Minister of Australia.
1991 ~ Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by a terrorist female suicide bomber near Madras.
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May 23rd
1430 ~ Joan of Arc captured and later sold to the English.
1533 ~ The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catharine of Aragon declared null and void.
1707 ~ Birthday of Carolus Linnaeus, Botanist.
1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, Engineer.
1900 ~ Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (awarded for heroism in the Battle of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War).
1921 ~ Birthday of James Blish, science fiction author.
1933 ~ Birthday of Joan Collins, Actress.
1934 ~ Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers.
1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion.
1995 ~ Official announcement of the Java programming language.
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