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Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 19:05:43 -0500
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Only 244 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
May Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... May 1st
1707 - Scotland and England were joined together under the name of
Great Britain.
Cricket is a popular European sport, played by teams of 11 players who
use bats, balls and wickets.
1808 - After only a few days in power, Ferdinand relinquished the
Spanish throne in favor of Napoleon of France.
1851 - Queen Victoria opened the first Great Exhibition in the Crystal
Palace in Hyde Park, London.
1876 - The Royal Titles Bill was passed by the British Parliament,
entitling Queen Victoria to call herself Empress of India.
1883 - Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) staged his first Wild West Show.
1884 - The first skyscraper in America was under construction. It was
a 10-story building located on the corner of LaSalle and Adams in
Chicago, Illinois.
1886 - A national coalition of labor groups started a strike in favor
of the eight-hour work day. In Chicago on May 4, 1886, workers and
police clashed, in what became known as the "Haymarket riot." May 1st
is celebrated in most countries in the world as the International
Workers' Day. As a result of the Haymarket riot, several protesters
and police officers died.
1898 - In the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, U.S.
forces destroyed the Spanish fleet and blockaded the bay for three
months before capturing Manila itself.
1915 - The liner Lusitania left New York on the same day the German
Embassy took out advertisements warning anyone traveling on ships
carrying a British flag that they did so at their own risk. It was
sunk six days later.
1925 - Cyprus officially became a British colony. It had been leased
to Britain by Turkey in 1878 and was annexed to the British Empire in
1914.
1931 - The Empire State Building officially opened in New York City.
Until 1972 it was the tallest building in the world at 102 stories
high. The construction of the building was completed in 14 months. Due
to economic depression, which began in 1929, the cost of the building
totaled less than $25 million, half the original estimate.
1931 - Singer Kate Smith began her long and illustrious radio career
on CBS this, her birthday. The 22-year-old Smith started out with no
sponsors and a paycheck of just $10 a week for the nationally
broadcast daily program. However, within 30 days, her salary increased
to a more respectable $1,500 a week.
1937 - Spanish painter Pablo Picasso produced the first sketch of his
masterpiece "Guernica," five days after the Basque town had been
bombed by the Germans.
1939 - The two-part Sy Oliver arrangement of "Lonesome Road" was
recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Listening carefully, one might
note that the lead trombone is not that of Tommy Dorsey, but of Dave
Jacobs, instead.
1945 - Hamburg radio officially announced that Hitler had died in
Berlin; Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels committed suicide in his Berlin
bunker; German headquarters in Italy formally agreed to an
unconditional surrender.
1950 - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan won the
Pulitzer Prize for their musical South Pacific.
1955 - Jockey Willie Shoemaker rode the legendary Swaps to a win in
the Kentucky Derby in Louisville. The Run for the Roses was worth
Lee and in 1965 on Lucky Debonair.
1960 - The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 plane piloted by
Gary Powers. He was jailed for spying before being exchanged in an
East-West spy swap in February 1962.
1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared the country a socialist
nation and abolished elections.
1963 - Sir Winston Churchill announced his retirement from the House
of Commons.
1971 - The train company Amtrak began to operate and offer passenger
service throughout the United States. The US Congress had passed the
Passenger Service Act the previous year, which allowed for the
creation of Amtrak, a privately run company that runs with the aid of
government subsidies.
1978 - Naomi Uemura, a Japanese explorer, became the first man to
reach the North Pole alone.
1982 - In Poland, 50,000 supporters of "Solidarity" demonstrated in
Warsaw against military rule.
1990 - Chinese troops began withdrawing from the Tibetan capital of
Lhasa as martial law was lifted.
1995 - Croatia recaptured the rebel Serb enclave of Western Slavonia
it lost in 1991.
1997 - Tony Blair's Labor Party won a landslide victory in Britain's
general election.
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