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LOL! Too true!
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05-03-2012, 05:29 AM
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05-03-2012, 08:09 PM
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May 4th
1825 ~ Birthday of Thomas Henry Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog", English Scientist.
1852 ~ Birthday of Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.
1929 ~ Birthday of Audrey Hepburn, Film and Stage Actress Extraordinaire.
1942 ~ The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval engagement fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began during World War II.
1953 ~ Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea".
1970 ~ The Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
1975 ~ Death of Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges.
1979 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the UK’s first female Prime Minister.
1982 ~ The HMS Sheffield was sunk by an Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
2000 ~ Ken Livingstone elected the first Mayor of London.
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May 5th
1807 ~ Death of P.D.Q. Bach, fictitious Composer.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher.
1891 ~ NYC’s Carnegie Hall had its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
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).
1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
1973 ~ Birthday of Brooke Ashley, a former Porn actress.
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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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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May 9th
1874 ~ Birthday of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.
1901 ~ Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne.
1903 ~ Death of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter.
1931 ~ Death of Albert Michelson, Physicist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1949 ~ Birthday of Billy Joel, American musician.
1961 ~ Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles became the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
1972 ~ Israeli commandos liberated a hijacked Sabena airliner at Lod airport in Tel Aviv.
1974 ~ The U.S. Congress’s House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
1986 ~ Death of Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineer.
1994 ~ Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
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May 14th
1787 ~ Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1948 ~ The independent state of Israel was proclaimed.
1955 ~ The USSR and seven other communist bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1969 ~ Birthday of Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (Galadriel).
1973 ~ Skylab 1, the first American space station, was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia.
1987 ~ Death of Rita Hayworth, American actress.
1998 ~ Death of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor.
2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror for publishing photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers that were shown to be fake.
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