Opinion - The Korea Times

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008

Today is Monday, May 5, the 126th day of 2008. There are 240 days left in the year. 1494 _ Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica on his second voyage to the New World 1834 _ Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz 1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing 1920 _ U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1932 _ Japan and China sign a peace treaty 1944 _ Gandhi freed from prison 1945 _ Denmark liberated from Nazi control 1949 _ Council of Europe established 1961 _ Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (aboard Freedom 7) 2000 _ Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon

May 4, 2008

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2008

Today is Saturday, May 3, the 124th day of 2008. There are 242 days left in the year. 1621 _ Francis Bacon accused of bribery 1830 _ First regular steam train passenger service starts 1947 _ Japan forms a constitutional democracy 1952 _ First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole 1963 _ Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ``I have a dream" speech 1965 _ First use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite 1982 _ New York Times reports that military will get 25 percent of NASA's budget 1983 _ Soviet leader Yuri Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe 1987 _ Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart 1997 _ Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue

May 2, 2008

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2008

Today is Friday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2008. There are 243 days left in the year. 1536 _ King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest 1668 _ First peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands 1833 _ Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs 1887 _ Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film 1933 _ In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions 1955 _ Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (``Cat on Hot Tin Roof") 1956 _ U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus 1974 _ Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred 1980 _ Pink Floyd's ``Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa 1994 _ Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides

May 1, 2008

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008

Today is Thursday, May 1, the 122nd day of 2008. There are 244 days left in the year. 1006 _ Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus 1704 _ Boston Newsletter publishes first newspaper ad 1786 _ Mozart's opera ``Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) 1840 _ First adhesive postage stamps (``Penny Blacks" from England) issued 1889 _ First International Workers Day, according to the 2nd International 1914 _ China's first president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification 1937 _ FDR signs act of neutrality 1941 _ ``Citizen Kane", directed by & starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York 1948 _ North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea 1971 _ Rolling Stones release ``Brown Sugar"

Apr 30, 2008

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008

Today is Wednesday, April 30, the 121st day of 2008. 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 1885 _ Boston Pops Orchestra forms 1900 _ USA annexes Hawaii 1904 _ Ice cream cone makes its debut 1974 _ President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings 1975 _ Last helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds in Vietnam, Saigon surrenders 1978 _ ``Elvis The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances 1997 _ Big Ben stops at 12:11 p.m. for 54 minutes

Apr 29, 2008

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008

Today is Tuesday, April 29, the 120th day of 2008. 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 1707 _ English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain 1813 _ Rubber is patented 1852 _ First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published 1856 _ End of Crimean War 1945 _ Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed 1946 _ 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals 1957 _ First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Va 1991 _ Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die, 10 million homeless

Apr 28, 2008

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008

Today is Monday, April 28, the 119th day of 2008. There are 247 days left in the year. 0585 _ 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 1942 _ ``WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll 1956 _ Last French troop leave Vietnam 1966 _ 38th Academy Awards: ``Sound of Music", Julie Christie & L Marvin win 1967 _ Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title 1969 _ Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France 1969 _ King Crimson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts 1975 _ Last Americans evacuated from Saigon

Apr 27, 2008

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2008

Today is Saturday, April 26, the 117th day of 2008. There are 249 days left in the year. 1514 _ Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn 1564 _ William Shakespeare baptized 1607 _ First British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va. 1721 _ Smallpox vaccination first administrated 1913 _ Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China 1928 _ Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London 1933 _ Jewish students are barred from school in Germany 1936 _ Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony 1986 _ France performs nuclear test 1992 _ Alex Haley (Roots) wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously

Apr 25, 2008

FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008

Today is Friday, April 25, the 116th day of 2008. There are 250 days left in the year. 1507 _ Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name America 1719 _ Daniel Defoes publishes ``Robinson Crusoe" 1859 _ Ground broken for Suez Canal 1867 _ Tokyo is opened for foreign trade 1881 _ French troops occupy Algeria and Tunisia 1886 _ Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna 1933 _ U.S. and Canada drop Gold Standard 1938 _ First use of seeing eye dog 1976 _ Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country 1993 _ Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader

Apr 24, 2008

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008

Today is Thursday, April 24, the 115th day of 2008. There are 251 days left in the year. 1792 _ ``La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle 1871 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Aida" is produced (Cairo) 1916 _ Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins 1950 _ President Harry Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government 1953 _ Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 1955 _ Gaullists lose elections in France 1961 _ JFK accepts ``sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs 1969 _ General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded 1980 _ U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, eight die 1981 _ U.S. ends grain embargo against USSR

Apr 23, 2008

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