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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012

Today is Wednesday, May 9, the 130th day of 2012. There are 236 days left in the year. 1502 ― Columbus left Spain on his fourth & final trip to New World 1754 ― First newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or die" 1788 ― English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade 1868 ― Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres 1944 ― First eye bank opens (NYC) 1962 ― Laser beam successfully bounced off moon for first time 1970 ― 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War 1989 ― Vice President Dan Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech: ``What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of ``a mind is terrible thing to waste 1993 ― Paraguay holds its first presidential & parliamentary elections in 50 years 1997 ― First U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam

May 8, 2012

TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012

Today is Tuesday, May 8, the 129th day of 2012. There are 237 days left in the year. 1429 ― French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orleans 1521 ― Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther 1823 ― ``Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London) 1840 ― Alexander Wolcott patents photographic process 1847 ― Robert Thompson patents rubber tire 1895 ― China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki 1945 ― V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WWII ends in Europe 1956 ― John Osbornes ``Look Back in Anger" premieres in London 1967 ― Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army 1970 ― Beatles release ``Let it Be" album

May 7, 2012

MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012

Today is Monday, May 7, the 128th day of 2012. There are 238 days left in the year. 1429 ― English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc 1824 ― Beethoven's 9th (Choral) Symphony, premieres in Vienna 1912 ― Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories; the award is established by Joseph Pulitzer 1913 ― British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote 1947 ― General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution 1954 ― French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu 1954 ― U.S., Great Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO 1966 ― Mamas & Papas ``Monday Monday" hits No. 1 1975 ― President Ford declares an end to ``Vietnam Era" 1995 ― Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election

May 6, 2012

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012

Today is Saturday, May 5, the 126th day of 2012. There are 240 days left in the year. 1834 ― Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz 1863 ― Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for U.S. boxing title in 63rd round 1891 ― Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor 1893 ― Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange 1900 ― ``The Billboard" began weekly publication 1920 ― U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1927 ― Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin 1944 ― Gandhi freed from prison 1955 ― West Germany granted full sovereignty by three occupying powers 2000 ― Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon

May 4, 2012

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012

Today is Friday, May 4, the 125th day of 2012. There are 241 days left in the year. 1626 ― Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons 1715 ― French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris France) 1878 ― Phonograph shown for first time at Grand Opera House 1927 ― Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms 1931 ― Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president 1932 ― Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary 1953 ― Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea) 1954 ― U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1979 ― First woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) 1990 ― Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger

May 3, 2012

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012

Today is Thursday, May 3, the 124th day of 2012. There are 242 days left in the year. 1494 ― Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it ```St. Iago" 1621 ― Francis Bacon accused of bribery 1906 ― British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey 1937 ― Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for ``Gone With the Wind" 1946 ― International military tribunal in Tokyo begins 1947 ― Japan forms a constitutional democracy 1956 ― A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (two over 13,000') 1963 ― Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ``I have a dream" speech 1978 ― ``Sun Day" ― solar energy events are held in US 1997 ― Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue

May 2, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012

Today is Wednesday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2012. There are 243 days left in the year. 1887 ― Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film 1902 ― The first science fiction film, ``A Trip To The Moon," is released 1933 ― In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions 1942 ― Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma 1945 ― Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders 1949 ― Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for ``Death of a Salesman" 1960 ― Harry Belafonte's second Carnegie Hall performance 1977 ― ``The King & I" opens at Uris Theater, NYC, for 719 performances 1982 ― Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1994 ― Dr. Kevorkian found innocent on assisting suicides

May 1, 2012

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012

Today is Tuesday, May 1, the 122nd day of 2012. There are 244 days left in the year. 1707 ― England, Wales & Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain 1786 ― Mozart's opera ``Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) 1844 ― Samuel Morse sends first telegraphic message 1884 ― Construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories) 1889 ― First International Workers Day, according to the 2nd International 1948 ― North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea 1962 ― First French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara 1967 ― Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas 1983 ― Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508) 1984 ― Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Apr 30, 2012

MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012

Today is Monday, the 121st day of 2012. There are 245 days left in the year. 311 ― Emperor Galerius recognizes Christians legally in the Roman Empire 1006 ― Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed 1722 ― The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant 1772 ― John Clais patents first scale 1789 ― George Washington inaugurated as first president of U.S. 1808 ― First practical typewriter finished by Italian, Pellegrini Turri 1904 ― Ice cream cone makes its debut 1974 ― President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings 1975 ― Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds in Vietnam, Saigon surrenders 1978 ― ``Elvis The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances

Apr 29, 2012

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012

Today is Saturday, April 28, the 119th day of 2012. There are 247 days left in the year. 1686 ― First volume of Isaac Newton's ``Principia" published 1770 ― Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia 1914 ― W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner 1932 ― Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced 1935 ― Moscow underground opens (81-km long) 1956 ― Last French troop leave Vietnam 1967 ― Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title 1989 ― Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money 1994 ― First multiracial election in South Africa ends (three days) 1995 ― Gas explosion in South Korean subway construction site, 103 die

Apr 27, 2012

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