05-02-2006, 05:31 AM
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Location: Maryland
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May 2nd
1519 ~ Death of Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter.
1660 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian Composer.
1729 ~ Birthday of Empress Catherine II of Russia.
1892 ~ Birthday of "The Red Baron", Manfred von Richthofen.
1933 ~ The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster was reported.
1945 ~ The Soviet Union announced the capture of Berlin.
1952 ~ The world's first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, launched the jet age.
1955 ~ Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1982 ~ The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1997 ~ The Labour Party's Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the UK, ending 18 years of Conservative Party rule.
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