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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year. 585 B.C. ― First known prediction of a solar eclipse 1659 ― Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector 1844 ― First telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot 1895 ― Oscar Wilde sentenced to two years’ hard labor for being a sodomite 1927 ― Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A) 1944 ― Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia 1949 ― Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai 1965 ― Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for heavyweight boxing title 1968 ― Rolling Stones release “Jumping Jack Flash” 1989 ― Mikhail Gorbachev elected executive president in the Soviet Union 

May 24, 2013

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013

Today is Friday, May 24, the 144th day of 2013. There are 221 days left in the year.1689 ― English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants 1899 ― First auto repair shop opens (Boston) 1933 ― Dmitri Shostakovich's “Preludes,” premieres in Moscow 1954 ― IBM announces vacuum tube “electronic” brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour 1957 ― Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan 1965 ― Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1969 ― Beatles’ “Get Back” single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for five weeks1975 ― Soyuz 18B carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 41980 ― Iran rejects a call to the World Court to release U.S. hostages1985 ― Cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die 

May 23, 2013

THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2013

Today is Thursday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2013. There are 222 days left in the year.1430 ― Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British 1774 ― Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River) 1785 ― Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 1883 ― Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players 1900 ― Associated Press News Service forms in New York 1945 ― Winston Churchill resigns as British P.M. 1949 ― Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) 1958 ― Mao Tse-tung starts “Great leap forward” movement in China 1969 ― The Who release the rock opera “Tommy” 1990 ― Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion 

May 22, 2013

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013

Today is Wednesday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2013. There are 223 days left in the year. 1570 ― First atlas, with 70 maps, published 1803 ― First public library opens (Connecticut) 1884 ― One-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters 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” 1943 ― Stalin disbands Komintern 1972 ― Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified 1973 ― President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up 1990 ― North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen

May 21, 2013

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013

Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.1819 ― First bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in NYC 1840 ― New Zealand became a British colony 1871 ― French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die 1892 ― Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera “I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan 1904 ― Federation Internationale de Football Association, FIFA, forms in Paris, France 1908 ― First horror movie (“Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”) premieres in Chicago 1945 ― Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed 1968 ― U.S. nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1979 ― Elton John becomes first Western rocker to perform live in the USSR 1994 ― South Yemen secedes from Yemen 

May 20, 2013

MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013

Today is Monday, May 20, the 140th day of 2013. There are 225 days left in the year.1310 ― Shoes were made for both right and left feet 1498 ― Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta, India 1874 ― Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 dozen 1900 ― Second modern Olympic games opens in Paris, France (lasted five months) 1926 ― Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies 1954 ― Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China 1989 ― China declares martial law in Beijing 1991 ― Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA’s MVP 1991 ― Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad 1992 ― Rap singer raps 597 syllables in 55.12 seconds 

May 19, 2013

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013

Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year.1804 ― Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed emperor of France 1830 ― Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower; Saturdays are destroyed forever 1860 ― Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president 1934 ― Academy Award first called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky) 1951 ― U.N. moves headquarters to NYC 1951 ― U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea 1978 ― Italy legalizes abortion 1980 ― China People’s Republic launch first intercontinental rocket 1982 ― Unification Church founder Reverend Moon Sun-myung Moon convicted of tax evasion 1986 ― Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 “atomic” hand-stand push-ups 

May 17, 2013

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013

Today is Friday, May 17, the 137th day of 2013. There are 228 days left in the year. 1536 ― Anne Boleyn's four “lovers” executed 1620 ― First merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey) 1846 ― Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax 1884 ― Alaska becomes a U.S. territory 1904 ― Maurice Ravel’s “Scheherazade” premieres in Paris, France 1916 ― British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), first introduced 1949 ― British government recognizes Republic of Ireland 1960 ― First atomic reactor system to be patented, J.W. Flora, Canoga Park, Calif. 1967 ― Dylan’s 1965 U.K. Tour is released as the film “Don't Look Back" 1973 ― Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings

May 16, 2013

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013

Today is Thursday, May 16, the 136th day of 2013. There are 229 days left in the year.955 ― Alberich II, illegitimate son of Octavianus, elected pope 1770 ― Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France 1804 ― Senate & Tribune declare Napoleon leader of France 1881 ― World's first electric tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) 1911 ― Remains of a Neanderthal man found in Jersey, U.K. 1920 ― Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome 1975 ― Japanese Junko Tabei became first woman to reach Mt. Everest's summit1985 ― Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year 1988 ― Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin 1993 ― Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million-year-old Pithecanthropus IX skull 

May 15, 2013

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013

Today is Wednesday, May 15, the 135th day of 2013. There are 230 days left in the year. 1536 ― Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest 1618 ― Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law 1672 ― First copyright law enacted by Massachusetts 1730 ― Robert Walpole becomes England’s first prime minister (was chief minister) 1928 ― Mickey Mouse made his first appearance 1940 ― Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (U.S.) 1957 ― First British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) 1970 ― Beatles’ last LP, “Let It Be” is released in U.S. 1988 ― Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan  1989 ― Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years

May 14, 2013

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