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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2012

Today is Saturday, June 2, the 154th day of 2012. There 212 days left in the year. 455 ― Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome 1851 ― First U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine) 1857 ― James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine 1883 ― First night baseball under lights, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 1899 ― Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynching 1930 ― First baby born on a vessel passing through Panama Canal 1946 ― Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) 1964 ― Rolling Stones first U.S. concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass. 1979 ― John Paul II becomes first pope to visit a communist country (Poland) 1989 ― 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

Jun 1, 2012

THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012

Today is Thursday, May 31, the 152nd day of 2012. There are 214 days left in the year. 1621 ― Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for one night 1678 ― Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes 1868 ― Dr. James Moore (U.K.) wins first recorded bicycle race in Paris, France 1870 ― E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement 1879 ― First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition 1917 ― First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1949 ― Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform atop a 60-yard pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later) 1989 ― First International Rock Awards 1991 ― Oldest bride; Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1997 ― Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150 meter race

May 30, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012

Today is Wednesday, May 30, the 151st day of 2012. There are 215 days left in the year. 1536 ― English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour 1814 ― First Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's first abdication 1821 ― James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose 1889 ― The brassiere is invented 1913 ― First Balkan War ends, Treaty of London 1935 ― Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies 1967 ― Robert ``Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles 1982 ― Spain becomes 16th member of NATO 1987 ― Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in six for World Boxing Council heavyweight boxing title 1992 ― U.N. votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting

May 29, 2012

TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012

Today is Tuesday, May 29, the 150th day of 2012. There are 216 days left in the year. 526 ― Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die 1453 ― Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire 1765 ― Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of ``Treason!" with, ``If this be treason, make the most of it!" 1849 ― Lincoln says ``You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time" 1900 ― Trademark ``Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co. 1919 ― Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington 1922 ― U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws 1959 ― Charles de Gaulle forms French Government 1968 ― Manchester United become the first English team to win European Championship soccer tournament beating Benfica of Portugal 4-1 at Wembley after an added 30 minutes 1997 ― Spain scientists announce new human species in 780,000-year-old fossil

May 28, 2012

MONDAY, MAY 28, 2012

Today is Monday, May 28, the 149th day of 2012. There are 217 days left in the year. 1664 ― First Baptist Church is organized (Boston) 1742 ― First indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) 1923 ― Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1923 ― U.S. unemployment has nearly ended 1942 ― 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich 1961 ― Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) 1964 ― Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem 1972 ― White House ``plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate 1979 ― European Market accepts Greece as member 1997 ― Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis

May 27, 2012

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012

Today is Saturday, May 26, the 147th day of 2012. There are 219 days left in the year. 1521 ― Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers 1860 ― Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy 1896 ― Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94) 1922 ― Lenin suffers a stroke 1945 ― U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo 1946 ― Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb 1972 ― Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord 1993 ― Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a homerun 1994 ― Michael Jackson ,35, weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley, 26 1998 ― Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton

May 25, 2012

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012

Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year. 585 B.C. ― First known prediction of a solar eclipse 1810 ― Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day) 1887 ― Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die 1895 ― Oscar Wilde sentenced to two years’ hard labor for being a sodomite 1927 ― Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A) 1935 ― Jesse Owens equals or breaks six world records in one hour 1941 ― Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for first time in 1941 1961 ― JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 1986 ― 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida 1989 ― Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union

May 24, 2012

THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012

Today is Thursday, May 24, the 145th day of 2012. There are 221 days left in the year. 1689 ― English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants 1726 ― People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax 1899 ― First auto repair shop opens (Boston) 1915 ― Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1941 ― Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die, three survive 1964 ― Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 1965 ― Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1968 ― Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession 1980 ― Iran rejects a call to the World Court to release U.S. hostages 1986 ― Margaret Thatcher becomes first British P.M. to visit Israel

May 23, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012

Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 144th day of 2012. There are 222 days left in the year. 1430 ― Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British 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 1934 ― Wallace Carothers manufactures first nylon (polymer 66) 1945 ― Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Chief of Police, commits suicide 1945 ― Winston Churchill resigns as British P.M. 1958 ― Mao Tse Tung starts ``Great leap forward" movement in China 1990 ― Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion 1994 ― Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication

May 22, 2012

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012

Today is Tuesday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2012. There are 223 days left in the year. 12 B.C. ― A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid, observed in China 1570 ― First atlas, with 70 maps, published 1761 ― First life insurance policy in U.S., issued in Philadelphia 1807 ― Townsend Speakman first sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Philadelphia) 1884 ― One-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters 1906 ― Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane 1939 ― Hitler and Mussolini sign ``Pact of Steel" 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

May 21, 2012

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