Today is Saturday, May 8, the 128th day of 2010. There are 237 days left in the year.
1521 _ Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther
1823 _ ``Home Sweet Home" first sung (London)
1895 _ China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1956 _ John Osborne's ``Look Back in Anger" premieres in London
1958 _ Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
1963 _ JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
1967 _ Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army
1970 _ Beatles release ``Let it Be" album
1980 _ World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1996 _ South Africa's Const Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution