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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011

Today is Friday, May 20, the 140th day of 2011. There are 225 days left in the year. 526 ― Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria 1310 ― Shoes were made for both right and left feet 1498 ― Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta, India 1867 ― British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage 1874 ― Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz. 1927 ― At 7:40 a.m., Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris 1927 ― Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda) 1959 ― Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship 1961 ― White mob attacks ``Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Al. 1989 ― China declares martial law in Beijing

May 19, 2011

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2011

Today is Thursday, May 19, the 139th day of 2011. There are 226 days left in the year. 1568 ― English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary 1571 ― Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manila in the Philippines 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.) 1885 ― German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland 1921 ― Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system 1939 ― Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact 1951 ― U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea 1979 ― Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd 1995 ― World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai

May 18, 2011

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2011

Today is Wednesday, May 18, the 138th day of 2011. There are 227 days left in the year. 1619 ― Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison 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 1852 ― Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school 1860 ― Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president 1933 ― Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams 1953 ― First woman to break the sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA) 1954 ― European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect 1982 ― Unification Church founder Reverend Moon Sun-myung convicted of tax evasion 1986 ― Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 ``atomic" hand-stand push-ups

May 17, 2011

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011

Today is Tuesday, May 17, the 137th day of 2011. There are 228 days left in the year. 1536 ― Anne Boleyn's four ``lovers" executed 1756 ― Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War) 1846 ― Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax 1884 ― Alaska becomes a U.S. territory 1916 ― British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), first introduced 1939 ― First sports telecast-Columbia vs. Princeton-college baseball 1948 ― Soviet Union recognized Israel 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 ― Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings

May 16, 2011

MONDAY, MAY 16, 2011

Today is Monday, May 16, the 136th day of 2011. There are 229 days left in the year. 1532 ― Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor 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 1770 ― Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France 1860 ― Republican convention (Chicago) selects Abraham Lincoln candidate 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 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

May 15, 2011

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2011

Today is Saturday, May 14, the 134th day of 2011. There are 231 days left in the year. 1607 _ First permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va. 1643 _ Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France 1796 _ First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner 1945 _ Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise 1948 _ P.M. David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel 1955 _ Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1968 _ Czechoslovakian government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek 1973 _ Skylab launched, the first Space Station 1989 _ Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square 1995 _ Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most senior spiritual leader

May 13, 2011

FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011

Today is Friday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2011. There are 232 days left in the year. 1110 ― Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath 1607 ― English colonists (John Smith) land near James River in Virginia 1637 ― Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife 1767 ― Mozart's opera ``Apollo et Hyacinthus" premieres in Salzburg 1913 ― First four-engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky, Russia) 1940 ― Churchill says ``I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” 1965 ― Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel 1966 ― Rolling Stones release ``Paint it Black" 1979 ― Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran 1991 ― Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0

May 12, 2011

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011

Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2011. There are 233 days left in the year. 1551 ― San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens 1792 ― Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented 1832 ― Gaetano Donizetti's opera ``L'Elisir D'amore" premieres in Milan 1875 ― First recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0 1888― Crouching start first used by Charles Sherrill of Yale 1928 ― Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1932 ― Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, N.J. 1942 ― Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River 1951 ― First H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll 1997 ― 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea

May 11, 2011

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011

Today is Wednesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2011. There are 234 days left in the year. 1189 ― Emperor Frederik I. Barbarossa and 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg 1330 ― Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire 1916 ― Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented 1929 ― First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (three nights per week) 1949 ― First Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC) 1949 ― By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of U.N. 1949 ― Siam renames itself Thailand 1980 ― Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third and home in one inning for Phillies 1981 ― Andrew Lloyd Webber/TS Eliot's musical ``Cats" premieres in London 1987 ― First heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore)

May 10, 2011

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011

Today is Tuesday, May 10, the 130th day of 2011. 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 1924 ― J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI 1940 ― Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British P.M. 1963 ― Decca signs the Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison 1972 ― Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 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, 2011

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