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Join Date: May 2002
Location: West central Illinois
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May 6th
1856 ~ Birthday of Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis.
1862 ~ Death of Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher.
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 became the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
1994 ~ Queen Elizabeth and French President François Mitterrand opened the Chunnel.
1994 ~ Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991.
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