05-18-2006, 01:07 PM
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Location: Maryland
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May 18th
1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Logician & Philosopher, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950.
1910 ~ The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet.
1911 ~ Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.
1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer.
1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer.
1944 ~ Monte Cassino fell to the Allies.
1974 ~ India became the sixth nuclear nation by successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon.
1975 ~ Death of Leroy Anderson, American Composer.
1980 ~ Mount St. Helens in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
1998 ~ The U.S. government filed an antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
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