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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011

Today is Wednesday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2011. There are 213 days left in the year. 1495 ― First written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cur is the distiller 1869 ― Voting machine patented by Thomas Edison 1938 ― Superman comics launched 1958 ― Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France 1968 ― Simon & Garfunkel's ``Mrs. Robinson" hits No. 1 1969 ― Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV 1980 ― Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting 1984 ― Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg 1990 ― Dow Jones Average hits a record high of 2,900.97 1991 ― Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for first time in 600 years

May 31, 2011

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011

Today is Tuesday, May 31, the 151st day of 2011. There are 214 days left in the year. 70 ― Rome captures first wall of the city of Jerusalem 1621 ― Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for one night 1678 ― Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes 1837 ― Astor Hotel (most elaborate in U.S.) opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria 1870 ― E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement 1884 ― Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents ``flaked cereal" 1907 ― Taxis first began running in NYC 1917 ― First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1991 ― Oldest bride, Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1997 ― Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150-meter race

May 30, 2011

MONDAY, MAY 30, 2011

Today is Monday, May 30, the 150th day of 2011. There are 215 days left in the year. 1536 ― English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour 1783 ― Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes first daily newspaper in U.S. 1814 ― First Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's first abdication 1848 ― Mexico ratifies treaty giving U.S.; New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million 1889 ― The brassiere is invented 1896 ― First car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC) 1958 ― Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII and Korean War buried in Arlington 1970 ― Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans 1972 ― Three Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport 1992 ― U.N. votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting

May 29, 2011

SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2011

Today is Saturday, May 28, the 148th day of 2011. There are 217 days left in the year. 1533 _ England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage 1742 _ First indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) 1892 _ Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Francisco, for conservation of nature 1918 _ Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent 1919 _ Armenia declares its independence 1923 _ Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1929 _ First all color talking picture ``On With the Show" exhibited (NYC) 1961 _ Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) 1964 _ Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem 1993 _ 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror

May 27, 2011

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011

Today is May 27, the 147th day of 2011. There are 218 days left in the year. 1679 ― Habeas Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in U.K. 1703 ― St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great 1796 ― James S. McLean patents his piano 1844 ― Samuel F.B. Morse completes first telegraph line 1921 ― After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty 1941 ― FDR proclaims an ``unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor 1942 ― Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered 1951 ― Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing 1977 ― Two Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 1980 ― South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

May 26, 2011

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011

Today is Thursday, May 26, the 146th day of 2011. There are 219 days left in the year. 1788 ― Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain 1798 ― British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara 1805 ― Lewis and Clark first see Rocky Mountains 1805 ― Napoleon is crowned king of Italy 1896 ― Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned 1945 ― U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo 1946 ― Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb 1969 ― John and Yoko begin their second bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) 1972 ― Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord 1994 ― Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)

May 25, 2011

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011

Today is Wednesday, May 25, the 145th day of 2011. 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 1810 ― Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day) 1935 ― Jesse Owens equals or breaks six world records in one hour 1935 ― Babe Ruth hits his last three home runs, Boston Braves vs. Pirates 1941 ― 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India 1961 ― JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 1963 ― Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania and Zambia 1965 ― Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in first round for heavyweight boxing title 1989 ― Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union

May 24, 2011

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011

Today is Tuesday, May 24, the 144th day of 2011. 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 1738 ― Methodist Church is established 1899 ― First auto repair shop opens (Boston) 1915 ― Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1928 ― Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7 1957 ― Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan 1964 ― Panic in Lima, Peru, soccer stadium, kills 300 1968 ― President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1985 ― Cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die

May 23, 2011

MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011

Today is Monday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2011. There are 222 days left in the year. 1430 _ Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British 1611 _ Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia 1618 _ Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle 1853 _ Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited in 1859) 1865 _ Flag flown at full staff over White House, first time since Lincoln shot 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. 1958 _ Mao Tse Tung starts ``Great leap forward" movement in China 1969 _ The Who release the rock opera ``Tommy"

May 22, 2011

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2011

Today is Saturday, May 21, the 141st day of 2011. There are 224 days left in the year. 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 1908 ― First horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago 1916 ― Britain begins ``Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time) 1927 ― Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic 1932 ― First transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands 1943 ― Fastest 9-inning American League baseball game (89 minutes), White Sox beat Senators 1945 ― Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed 1979 ― Elton John becomes first western rocker to perform live in the USSR

May 20, 2011

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