Opinion - The Korea Times

MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012

Today is Monday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2012. There are 224 days left in the year. 143 ― Earliest known date in America; pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed 1819 ― First bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in NYC 1840 ― New Zealand became a British colony 1891 ― Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds 1892 ― Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera ``I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan 1904 ― Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris, France 1908 ― First horror movie (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago 1927 ― Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic 1978 ― 118 Unification church couples wed in England 1994 ― South Yemen secedes from Yemen

May 20, 2012

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012

Today is Saturday, May 19, the 140th day of 2012. There are 226 days left in the year. 1568 ― English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary 1780 ― About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained 1885 ― First mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Mass.) 1928 ― Fifty-one frogs enter first annual ``Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Calif.) 1943 ― Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan 1951 ― U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea 1958 ― Premiere of Harold Pinter's ``Birthday Party" in London 1967 ― U.S. bombs Hanoi 1979 ― Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd 1995 ― World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai

May 18, 2012

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012

Today is Friday, May 18, the 139th day of 2012. 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 1899 ― World Goodwill Day; 26 nations meet in first Hague Peace Conference 1934 ― Academy Award first called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky) 1951 ― U.N. moves HQ to NYC 1951 ― U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea 1980 ― People's Republic of China launch first intercontinental rocket 1982 ― Unification Church founder Reverend Moon Sun-myung convicted of tax evasion 1991 ― France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

May 17, 2012

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012

Today is Thursday, May 17, the 138th day of 2012. There are 228 days left in the year. 1630 ― Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, first to see two belts on Jupiter surface 1845 ― Rubber band patented 1846 ― Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax 1884 ― Alaska becomes a U.S. territory 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. 1961 ― Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers 1973 ― Stevie Wonder releases ``You are the Sunshine of my Life" 1993 ― Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled

May 16, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012

Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 137th day of 2012. There are 229 days left in the year. 1571 ― Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 a.m. 1763 ― Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London 1881 ― World's first electric tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) 1920 ― Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome 1956 ― Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia 1974 ― Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor 1975 ― Japanese Junko Tabei became first woman to reach Mt. Everest's summit 1985 ― Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year 1989 ― Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing 1991 ― Queen Elizabeth becomes first British monarch to address U.S. Congress

May 15, 2012

TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012

Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 136th day of 2012. There are 230 days left in the year. 1525 ― German Boer army surrounds/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war 1602 ― Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold 1618 ― Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law 1718 ― James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's first machine gun 1902 ― Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola 1905 ― Las Vegas, Nev., founded 1928 ― Mickey Mouse made his first appearance 1940 ― Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (U.S.) 1989 ― Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years 1991 ― Edith Cresson becomes France's first female premier

May 14, 2012

MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012

Today is Monday, May 14, the 135th day of 2012. There 231 days left in the year. 1607 ― First permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va. 1796 ― First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner 1800 ― Friedrich von Schiller's ``Macbeth" premieres in Weimar 1842 ― First edition of London Illustrated News 1908 ― First passenger flight in an airplane 1948 ― U.S. grants Israel de facto recognition 1949 ― Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral 1955 ― U.S. performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean 1961 ― Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama 1969 ― Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada

May 13, 2012

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012

Today is Saturday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2012. There are 233 days left in the year. 1551 ― San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens 1777 ― First ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette) 1792 ― Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented 1832 ― Gaetano Donizetti's opera ``L'Elisir D'amore" premieres in Milan 1888 ― Crouching start first used by Charles Sherrill of Yale 1928 ― Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1940 ― Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River 1959 ― Liz Taylor's fourth marriage (Eddie Fisher) 1997 ― Fourteen North Koreans defect to South Korea 1997 ― Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

May 11, 2012

FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012

Today is Friday, May 11, the 132nd day of 2012. There are 234 days left in the year. 1330 ― Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire 1502 ― Columbus begins fourth and last trip to ``Indies" 1812 ― Waltz introduced into English ballrooms ― Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on! 1904 ― Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5 million to build a peace palace 1916 ― Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented 1949 ― First Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC) 1953 ― Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory 1984 ― Transit of Earth as seen on Mars 1987 ― First heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) 1987 ― Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines

May 10, 2012

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012

Today is Thursday, May 10, the 131st day of 2012. There are 235 days left in the year. 1497 ― Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to New World 1752 ― Benjamin Franklins first tests the lightning rod 1906 ― Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for first time 1908 ― First Mother's Day observed (Philadelphia) 1959 ― Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan 1972 ― Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 1981 ― Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estaing for president of France 1983 ― Lee Chin-yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul 1994 ― Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's first black president 1994 ― Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with five neo-fascists

May 9, 2012

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