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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2010

Today is Wednesday, May 5, the 125th day of 2010. There are 240 days left in the year. 1891 _ Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor 1900 _ ``The Billboard" began weekly publication 1912 _ Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing 1920 _ U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1925 _ John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 1947 _ Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1955 _ West Germany granted full sovereignty by three occupying powers 1962 _ ``West Side Story" soundtrack album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 54 weeks 1965 _ First large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam 2000 _ Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon

May 4, 2010

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010

Today is Tuesday, May 4, the 124th day of 2010. There are 241 days left in the year. 1494 _ Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica 1626 _ Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons 1715 _ French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris France) 1896 _ First edition of London Daily Mail 1924 _ German Republic election fascists and communists win 1932 _ Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary 1957 _ Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam 1979 _ First woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) 1989 _ U.S. launches Magellan to Venus 1990 _ Angela Bowie reveals that ex-husband David slept with Mick Jagger

May 3, 2010

MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010

Today is Monday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2010. 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 1851 _ Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die 1947 _ Japan forms a constitutional democracy 1948 _ Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams 1962 _ Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) 1963 _ Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ``I have a dream" speech 1965 _ Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S. 1983 _ Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe 1997 _ Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue

May 2, 2010

SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010

Today is Saturday, May 1, the 121st day of 2010. There are 244 days left in the year. 1006 _ Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus 1786 _ Mozart's opera ``Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Vienna 1840 _ First adhesive postage stamps (``Penny Blacks" from England) issued 1844 _ Samuel Morse sends first telegraphic message 1914 _ China's first president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification 1931 _ Empire State Building opens in New York, N.Y. 1941 _ ``Citizen Kane", directed by & starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York 1948 _ North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea 1962 _ First French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara 1992 _ Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base

Apr 30, 2010

FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2010

Today is Friday, April 30, the 120th day of 2010. There are 245 days left in the year. 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 1871 _ Apaches in Arizona surrender to white and Mexican adventurers; 144 die 1885 _ Boston Pops Orchestra forms 1904 _ Ice cream cone makes its debut 1974 _ President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings 1978 _ ``Elvis The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances 1988 _ Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove, Pa. 1988 _ New York Yankee Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets American League and ties major league record

Apr 29, 2010

THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010

Today is Thursday, April 29, the 119th day of 2010. There are 246 days left in the year. 1429 _ Joan of Arc leads Orleans France, to victory over English 1661 _ Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan 1813 _ Rubber is patented 1852 _ First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published 1936 _ First pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5 1942 _ Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France 1945 _ U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 1946 _ 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals 1957 _ First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Va. 1990 _ Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate

Apr 28, 2010

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010

Today is Wednesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2010. There are 247 days left in the year. 585 _ War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse 1686 _ First volume of Isaac Newton's ``Principia" published 1770 _ Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia 1932 _ Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced 1942 _ ``WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll 1956 _ Last French troop leave Vietnam 1975 _ Last Americans evacuated from Saigon 1986 _ Chernobyl, USSR, site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster 1989 _ Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money 1995 _ Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die

Apr 27, 2010

Today in History

Today is Tuesday, April 27, the 117th day of 2010. There are 248 days left in the year. 4977 B.C. _ Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe 1773 _ British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party on December 16) 1861 _ President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus 1867 _ The opera ``Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris, France) 1870 _ Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi 1937 _ U.S. Social Security system makes its first benefit payment 1940 _ Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1960 _ South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns 1978 _ Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston W.V., kills 51 1987 _ U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII

Apr 26, 2010

MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010

Today is Monday, April 26, the 116th day of 2010. There are 249 days left in the year. 1478 _ Easter is celebrated for the first time 1514 _ Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn 1564 _ William Shakespeare baptized 1721 _ Smallpox vaccination first administrated 1755 _ First Russian university opens (Moscow) 1835 _ Frederic Chopin's ``Grand Polonaise Brillante," premieres in Paris France 1913 _ Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China 1971 _ Turkey state of siege proclaimed 1991 _ Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics 1994 _ First multiracial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr. Nomaza Paintin in New Zealand is first black South African to vote

Apr 25, 2010

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010

Today is Saturday, April 24, the 114th day of 2010. There are 251 days left in the year. 1833 _ Patent granted for first soda fountain to Jacob Evert and George Dulty 1871 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Aida" is produced (Cairo) 1872 _ Volcano Vesuvius erupts 1888 _ Eastman Kodak forms 1897 _ First reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House 1898 _ Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 1953 _ Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 1955 _ Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for-self determination ends 1961 _ JFK accepts ``sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs 1970 _ People's Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song ``East is Red"

Apr 23, 2010
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