Opinion - The Korea Times

MONDAY, MAY 31, 2010

Today is Monday, May 31, the 151st day of 2010. There are 214 days left in the year. 70 _ Rome captures first wall of the city of Jerusalem 1531 _ ``Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1621 _ Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for one night 1678 _ Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes 1790 _ U.S. copyright law enacted 1917 _ First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1923 _ China and USSR exchange diplomats 1955 _ Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike 1991 _ Oldest bride _ Minnie Munro, 102 _ weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1997 _ Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150 meter race

May 30, 2010

SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010

Today is Saturday, May 29, the 149th day of 2010. 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 1874 _ Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect 1900 _ Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co 1912 _ 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break 1919 _ Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington 1988 _ President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan 1989 _ Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty 1990 _ Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic 1997 _ Spanish scientists announce new human species in 780,000-year-old fossil

May 28, 2010

FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010

585 B.C. _ Thales Miletus predicts solar eclipse Persian-Lydian battle ends 1533 _ England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage 1664 _ First Baptist Church is organized (Boston) 1742 _ First indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) 1871 _ Paris communards revolt put down 1923 _ U.S. unemployment has nearly ended 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 1997 _ Wallace Berg, 42, is fourth American to scale Mt. Everest for third time

May 27, 2010

THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2010

Today is Thursday, May 27, the 147th day of 2010. There are 218 days left in the year. 1679 _ Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in U.K. 1703 _ St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great 1895 _ British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector 1905 _ Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima 1941 _ FDR proclaims an ``unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor 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 army ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed 1994 _ Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile 1997 _ Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

May 26, 2010

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010

Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2010. There are 219 days left in the year. 1805 _ Lewis and Clark first see Rocky Mountains 1805 _ Napoleon is crowned king of Italy 1896 _ Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94) 1945 _ U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo 1946 _ Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb 1948 _ South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy 1972 _ Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord 1989 _ Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals 1994 _ Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) 1998 _ Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton

May 25, 2010

MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010

Today is Monday, May 24, the 144th day of 2010. There are 221 days left in the year. 1626 _ Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24 1689 _ English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants 1738 _ Methodist Church is established 1915 _ Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1954 _ IBM announces vacuum tube ``electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour 1957 _ Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan 1958 _ UP & International News Service merge into United Press International 1964 _ Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 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, 2010

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010

Today is Saturday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2010. There are 223 days left in the year. 1570 _ First atlas, with 70 maps, published 1761 _ First life insurance policy in U.S. issued in Philadelphia 1856 _ Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner 1900 _ Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative 1906 _ Wright Brothers patent an airplane 1939 _ Hitler and Mussolini sign ``Pact of Steel" 1947 _ First U.S. ballistic missile fired 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, 2010

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2010

Today is Friday, May 21, the 141st day of 2010. There are 224 days left in the year. 1819 _ First bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in NYC 1840 _ New Zealand became a British colony 1871 _ French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die 1892 _ Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera ``I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan 1904 _ Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris France 1925 _ Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with two seaplanes to North Pole 1927 _ Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic 1945 _ Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed 1968 _ U.S. nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1979 _ Elton John becomes first Western rocker to perform live in the USSR

May 20, 2010

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010

Today is Thursday, May 20, the 140th day of 2010. There are 225 days left in the year. 526 _ Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria 1310 _ Shoes were made for both right & 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 _ Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda) 1954 _ Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China 1967 _ 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam 1967 _ BBC bans Beatle's ``A Day in the Life" (drug references) 1989 _ China declares martial law in Beijing

May 19, 2010

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010

Today is Wednesday, May 19, the 139th day of 2010. There are 226 days left in the year. 1568 _ English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary 1848 _ Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war 1928 _ 51 frogs enter first annual ``Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Calif.) 1943 _ Berlin is declared ``Judenrien" (free of Jews) 1943 _ Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan 1951 _ U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea 1967 _ USSR ratifies treaty with England and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space 1975 _ Junko Tabei is first woman to climb to the top of Mt. Everest 1982 _ Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion 1995 _ World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai

May 18, 2010

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