Thread: Strange Days
View Single Post
  #2111  
Old 05-12-2008, 03:34 AM
dicksbro's Avatar
dicksbro dicksbro is offline
Just me.
  
Join Date: May 2002
Location: West central Illinois
Posts: 590,002
May 12th
1820 ~ Birthday of Florence Nightingale, Nurse.

1845 ~ Birthday of Gabriel Fauré, Composer.

1884 ~ Death of Bedrich Smetana, Composer.

1889 ~ Death of John Cadbury, Chocolate Entrepreneur.

1918 ~ Birthday of Julius Rosenberg, Spy.

1943 ~ Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.

1962 ~ Douglas MacArthur delivered his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point.

1971 ~ Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias in St Tropez.

2000 ~ The Tate Modern art gallery opened in London.

2003 ~ Al Qaeda killed 26 people in the Riyadh compound bombings.
Reply With Quote