05-01-2006, 12:47 PM
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Location: Maryland
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May 1st
1786 ~ Opening night of Mozart’s opera, The Marriage of Figaro.
1840 ~ The Penny Black postage stamp put on sale in the UK.
1869 ~ The Folies Bergčres opened in Paris.
1904 ~ Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech Composer.
1939 ~ Birthday of Judy Collins, American folk singer.
1941 ~ Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premiered in New York City.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rita Coolidge, Singer.
1960 ~ Gary Powers, in a U-2 spy plane, was shot down over the Soviet Union.
1978 ~ Death of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1982 ~ RAF aircraft attack two airstrips near Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
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