Opinion - The Korea Times

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008

Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 149th day of 2008. There are 217 days left in the year. 1742 _ first indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) 1851 _ Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention 1863 _ First black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War 1871 _ Paris communards revolt put down 1892 _ Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Francisco, for conservation of nature 1958 _ French Government of Pflimlin resigns; 200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle 1961 _ Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) 1964 _ Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Delhi 1964 _ Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem 1972 _ White House ``plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate

May 27, 2008

TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008

Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 148th day of 2008. 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 1905 _ Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tsushima 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 1961 _ President Kennedy announces U.S. goal to reach the moon 1980 _ South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed 1997 _ First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole 1997 _ Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

May 26, 2008

MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008

Today is Monday, May 26, the 147th day of 2008. There are 219 days left in the year. 1805 _ Napoleon is crowned king of Italy 1896 _ Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94) 1922 _ Lenin suffers a stroke 1923 _ Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg 1943 _ First president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) 1958 _ Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed 1972 _ Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord 1973 _ Beatles' ``The Beatles 1967-1970" album goes No. 1 1994 _ Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) 1998 _ Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton

May 25, 2008

SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2008

Today is Saturday, May 24, the 145th day of 2008. There are 221 days left in the year. 1899 _ First auto repair shop opens (Boston) 1915 _ Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1916 _ Conscription begins in Britain 1944 _ Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark 1946 _ Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager 1954 _ IBM announces vacuum tube ``electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour 1958 _ UP and International News Service merge into United Press International 1964 _ Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 1968 _ President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1986 _ Margaret Thatcher becomes first British P.M. to visit Israel

May 23, 2008

FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008

Today is Friday, May 23, the 144th day of 2008. There are 222 days left in the year. 1430 _ Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British 1618 _ Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle 1785 _ Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 1865 _ Flag flown at full staff over White House, first time since Lincoln shot 1900 _ Associated Press News Service forms in New York 1939 _ Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland 1945 _ Winston Churchill resigns as British P.M. 1956 _ Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers 1958 _ Mao Tse-tung starts ``Great leap forward" movement in China 1990 _ Cost of rescuing savings and loan failures is put at up to $130 billion

May 22, 2008

THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008

Today is Thursday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2008. 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 1803 _ First public library opens (Connecticut) 1927 _ 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed 1939 _ Hitler and Mussolini sign ``Pact of Steel" 1943 _ Stalin disbands Komintern 1964 _ LBJ presents ``Great Society" 1973 _ President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate coverup 1990 _ North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen 1992 _ Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show

May 21, 2008

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008

Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2008. There are 224 days left in the year. 1840 _ New Zealand became a British colony 1871 _ French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die 1904 _ Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris France 1916 _ Britain begins ``Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time) 1918 _ House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote 1950 _ Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia 1956 _ U.S. explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 1978 _ 118 Unification church couples wed in England 1982 _ British troops lands on Falkland Islands 1994 _ South Yemen secedes from Yemen

May 20, 2008

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008

Today is May 20, the 141st day of 2008. There are 225 days left in the year. 1293 _ Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed 1498 _ Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India 1870 _ Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment 1874 _ Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 per dozen 1926 _ Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies 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) 1944 _ U.S. Communist Party dissolves 1954 _ Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China 1991 _ Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP

May 19, 2008

MONDAY, MAY 19, 2008

Today is Monday, May 19, the 140th day of 2008. There are 226 days left in the year. 1588 _ Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England 1780 _ About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained 1905 _ Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Iselle Italy and Brig Switzerland 1943 _ Berlin is declared ``Judenrien" (free of Jews) 1944 _ German defense line in Italy collapsed 1951 _ U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea 1958 _ ``South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to No.1 and stays No. 1 for 31 weeks 1960 _ Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed 1967 _ U.S. bombs Hanoi 1982 _ Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

May 18, 2008

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008

Today is Saturday, May 17, the 138th day of 2008. There are 228 days left in the year. 1814 _ Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day) 1846 _ Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax 1881 _ Revised version of the New Testament published 1884 _ Alaska becomes a U.S. territory 1921 _ Belgian-Luxembourg sign a customs union 1949 _ The British government recognizes the Republic of Ireland 1969 _ Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus 1971 _ The Washington State bans sex discrimination 1973 _ The Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings 1989 Vincent Van Gogh's ``Portrait of Dr. Gachet" auctioned for $825 million

May 16, 2008

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