05-23-2004, 06:04 PM
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May 24th
1626 ~ Peter Minuit bought Manhattan.
1689 ~ The Act of Toleration passed the English Parliament protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics were intentionally excluded).
1743 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Marat, Revolutionary.
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.
1844 ~ First electrical telegram sent by Samuel F. B. Morse from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1870 ~ Birthday of Jan Christiaan Smuts, Statesman and soldier.
1893 ~ Birthday of Walter Baade, Astronomer.
1895 ~ Playwright Oscar Wilde convicted on a morals charge in London and is sentenced to prison.
1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan.
1993 ~ Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
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05-24-2004, 06:14 PM
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May 25th
1085 ~ Alfonso VI of Castile took Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
1521 ~ The Diet of Worms ended with the Edict of Worms declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1803 ~ Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essayist & Poet.
1889 ~ Birthday of Igor Sikorsky, developer of a working helicopter.
1892 ~ Birthday of Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia.
1925 ~ John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1929 ~ Birthday of Beverly Sills, Soprano.
1961 ~ President Kennedy announced his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
1963 ~ In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organization of African Unity was established.
1973 ~ Mike Oldfield released “Tubular Bells”.
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05-26-2004, 02:48 AM
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May 26th
1538 ~ Geneva evicted John Calvin.
1799 ~ Birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, Author.
1805 ~ In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France was crowned King of Italy.
1868 ~ The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1878 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.
1886 ~ Birthday of Al Jolson.
1896 ~ Nicholas II became Tsar of Russia.
1907 ~ Birthday of John Wayne ("The Duke"), Actor.
1912 ~ Birthday of Jay Silverheels, Actor.
1972 ~ Willandra National Park was established in Australia.
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05-26-2004, 06:01 PM
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May 27th
1703 ~ Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.
1794 ~ Birthday of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Entrepreneur.
1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Author.
1907 ~ A Bubonic plague outbreak began in San Francisco, California.
1911 ~ Birthday of Vincent Price, Actor.
1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Peace.
1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, science fiction Author.
1941 ~ German pocket battleship Bismarck was sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300.
1968 ~ George W. Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard.
1972 ~ Presidents Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon signed the SALT I agreements
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05-27-2004, 06:57 PM
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May 28th
1371 ~ Birthday of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy.
1588 ~ The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, began to set sail from Lisbon.
1759 ~ Birthday of William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1892 ~ John Muir organized the Sierra Club.
1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.
1934 ~ The Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone.
1936 ~ Alan Turing submitted “On Computable Numbers” for publishing. This is an article with considerably greater impact than "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in which he proposed the famous “Turing Test”.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City.
1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.
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05-28-2004, 08:19 PM
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May 29th
1453 ~ Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, marking the end of Byzantium.
1630 ~ Birthday of King Charles II of England.
1733 ~ Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.
1763 ~ Birthday of Patrick Henry, Patriot.
1874 ~ Birthday of G. K. Chesterton, Author.
1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, Author.
1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring” was premiered in Paris.
1917 ~ Birthday of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, U.S. President
1919 ~ Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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05-29-2004, 06:31 PM
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May 30th
1431 ~ Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.
1672 ~ Birthday of Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia.
1806 ~ Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel after the man accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1908 ~ Birthday of Mel Blanc, voice for Barney Rubble, Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, and others.
1909 ~ Birthday of Benny Goodman, Clarinetist & Bandleader.
1922 ~ The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.
1922 ~ Birthday of Hal Clement, science fiction writer.
1934 ~ Birthday of Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space.
1967 ~ The Nigerian state of Biafra seceded, sparking a civil war.
1982 ~ Cal Ripken, Jr. played the first of 2,632 consecutive Major League baseball games.
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05-30-2004, 06:12 PM
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May 31st
1048 ~ Birthday of Omar Khayyam, Persian Poet, Astronomer & Philosopher
1678 ~ Lady Godiva processed through Coventry.
1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, Poet.
1902 ~ The last Afrikaner resistance forces signed a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the Second Boer War, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
1912 ~ Birthday of Alfred Deller, Early modern countertenor.
1916 ~ The Battle of Jutland, the first and the only full-scale battleship engagement during World War I
1938 ~ Birthday of John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1939 ~ Birthday of Terry Waite, humanitarian.
1974 ~ Syria and Israel signed a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War.
2003 ~ The final flight of an Air France Concorde.
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05-31-2004, 08:08 PM
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June 1st
1495 ~ Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1780 ~ Birthday of Carl von Clausewitz, general.
1801 ~ Birthday of Brigham Young, Mormon church leader.
1829 ~ Captain James Stirling established the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.
1890 ~ The U.S. Census Bureau began using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress.
1928 ~ Birthday of Georgi Dobrovolski, Cosmonaut.
1938 ~ The first Superman comic was published.
1965 ~ Birthday of Nigel Short, British International Grand Master.
1980 ~ The Cable News Network began broadcasting.
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06-01-2004, 06:07 PM
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June 2nd
455 ~ The Vandals entered Rome, and plundered the city for two weeks.
1615 ~ First Récollet missionaries arrived at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Author.
1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.
1857 ~ Birthday of Edward Elgar, Composer
1904 ~ Birthday of Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic Gold Medalist, Actor
1925 ~ Wally Pipp, first baseman of the New York Yankees, asked for a day off due to a headache. He was replaced in the lineup by Lou Gehrig, who also started the next 2,128 consecutive games.
1952 ~ Television broadcasting began in Canada, at Montreal, Quebec.
1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the first to be televised.
1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, Actor.
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06-02-2004, 06:58 PM
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June 3rd
1098 ~ The Crusaders took Antioch.
1808 ~ Birthday of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.
1875 ~ Death of Georges Bizet, Composer.
1888 ~ The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was published.
1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss Jr., Composer.
1918 ~ Birthday of Lili St. Cyr, Ecdysiast.
1930 ~ Birthday of Marion Zimmer Bradley, Science Fiction Author.
1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson.
1944 ~ Charles de Gaulle became Prime Minister of France.
1989 ~ The government of China sent troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square.
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06-03-2004, 08:34 PM
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June 4th
780 BC ~ The earliest solar eclipse was recorded in China.
1738 ~ Birthday of King George III of Great Britain.
1792 ~ Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Great Britain.
1878 ~ The Ottoman Empire ceded Cyprus to the United Kingdom.
1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sex Therapist & Author.
1929 ~ Birthday of John Drew Barrymore, Actor.
1940 ~ German forces entered Paris.
1944 ~ Birthday of Michelle Phillips, Actress & Singer.
1965 ~ Birthday of Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer.
1989 ~ Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparked off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe.
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06-04-2004, 07:46 PM
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June 5th
1718 ~ Birthday of Thomas Chippendale, Furniture Maker.
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Economist.
1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning)
1833 ~ Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Maynard Keynes, Economist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Pancho Villa, Revolutionary.
1939 ~ Birthday of Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
1944 ~ Allied soldiers entered Rome. It was the first capital of an Axis nation to fall.
1977 ~ The Apple II personal computer went on sale.
1995 ~ Bose-Einstein condensate first created.
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June 6th
1622 ~ Birthday of Claude-Jean Allouez, Jesuit missionary and explorer.
1683 ~ Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum opened as the world's first university museum.
1756 ~ Birthday of John Trumbull, Painter.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Composer.
1933 ~ The first drive-in theater opened, in Camden, New Jersey.
1935 ~ The Birthday of the current and 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
1944 ~ Operation Overlord commenced with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1956 ~ The Birthday of Björn Borg, tennis player.
1984 ~ Indian Armed Forces attacked the Golden Temple in Amritsar, following an order from Indira Gandhi.
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06-06-2004, 08:47 PM
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June 7th
1491 ~ Birthday of Jacques Cartier, Explorer.
1594 ~ Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, Painter
1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1942 ~ The Battle of Midway ended in a decisive American victory.
1944 ~ Nazi SS troops executed 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist.
1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.
1981 ~ Anna Kournikova, tennis player and inspiration for computer virus.
Today is the first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta as observed by the Roman Empire.
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