05-04-2009, 08:21 PM
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Location: Maryland
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May 5th
1807 ~ Death of P.D.Q. Bach, fictitious Composer.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher.
1925 ~ Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Dayton, Tennessee.
1944 ~ Birthday of John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor (Gimli).
1948 ~ Birthday of Bill Ward, British Musician (Black Sabbath).
1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
1967 ~ First all-British satellite 'Ariel 3' launched into orbit.
1980 ~ Great Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege.
1992 ~ Wolfenstein 3D was released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.
1995 ~ Death of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion.
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