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SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010

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Today is Saturday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2010. There are 223 days left in the year.

1570 _ First atlas, with 70 maps, published

1761 _ First life insurance policy in U.S. issued in Philadelphia

1856 _ Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner

1900 _ Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative

1906 _ Wright Brothers patent an airplane

1939 _ Hitler and Mussolini sign ``Pact of Steel"

1947 _ First U.S. ballistic missile fired

1964 _ LBJ presents ``Great Society"

1973 _ President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up

1990 _ North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen