05-06-2006, 05:30 AM
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May 6th
1758 ~ Birthday of Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary.
1856 ~ Birthday of Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis.
1889 ~ The Eiffel Tower was officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1915 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, Writer.
1915 ~ Birthday of Orson Welles, Director.
1937 ~ The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1940 ~ John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1953 ~ Birthday of Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1954 ~ Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
1994 ~ Queen Elizabeth and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Chunnel.
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