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Old 05-17-2013, 07:20 PM
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May 18th

1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Logician & Philosopher, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950.

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.

2004 ~ Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage.

2009 ~ The Armed Forces of Sri Lanka defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending almost 26 years of fighting.

2012 ~ Facebook began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ.
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