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Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 22:57:41 -0500
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Only 242 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
World Press Freedom Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... May 3rd
1494 - Christopher Columbus first sighted the island later to be named
Jamaica.
1500 - The Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral landed in Brazil
and claimed it for his country. The land had been visited by Spanish
navigator Vicente Yanes Pinzon in January but the discovery was not
followed up.
1616 - The Second Civil War in France ended with the signing of the
Treaty of Loudun, granting an amnesty to the rebellious Prince of
Conde.
1660 - John II Casimir of Poland abandoned his claim to Sweden and
signed the Treaty of Oliva, ending the Polish-Swedish War of
Succession.
1747 - In the War of Austrian Succession, the British roundly defeated
the French at the first Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1765 - The first US medical college opened in Philadelphia. Founded by
John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged to the College of
Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). "The theory and
practice of physick" and "anatomical lectures" were among the first
subjects taught.
1791 - King Stanislaw Augustus signed a liberal bill of rights
reforming gentry-ruled Poland and setting up a constitutional
monarchy. It was only the second written constitution in the world
after that of the United States.
1810 - Lord Byron swam the Hellespont. It took just an hour and 10
minutes to do it. The Hellespont is now know as the Dardanelles. It is
a 40 mi. (64 km) long, 1-5 mi. (1.6-8 km) wide strait between European
and Asian Turkey, connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara.
1841 - New Zealand was formally proclaimed a British colony.
1845 - Macon B. Allen became the first African American lawyer to be
admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. One year prior, he had been
admitted to the bar in Maine, which made him the first licensed
African American attorney to practice in the United States.
1895 - The territories owned by the British South Africa Company south
of the Zambezi were given the name of Rhodesia.
1927 - Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, New York patented the
electric sign flasher.
1933 - The United States Mint was under the direction of a woman for
the first time. Mrs. Nellie Ross assumed command.
1938 - Viewers of W2XBS-TV (now WCBS-TV) watched the first book review
show.
1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first
synthetic quinine at Harvard University. Quinine - like in quinine
water.
1945 - The British 14th Army captured Rangoon in Burma; German Admiral
Doenitz sent envoys to Lunenburg Heath to discuss possible surrender
with Field Marshal Montgomery; U.S. forces meet up with the Russians
in the Wismar area; Innsbruck was captured; Trieste was entered by New
Zealand troops.
1951 - In Britain, King George VI and Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth
inaugurated the Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.
1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic location of the
North Pole.
1965 - Cambodia broke off diplomatic relations with the United States
after a weekly magazine carried an article felt to be derogatory to
the royal family.
1968 - French students and police clashed violently in Paris, the
start of a month of disturbances and strikes that threatened the rule
of General Charles De Gaulle.
1971 - National Public Radio (NPR), the most well-known US
non-commercial radio network, began broadcasting. NPR is funded by the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, corporate underwriting, and
contributions by listeners. NPR has affiliate radio stations in all 50
states of the United States.
1993 - Authorities said they had identified the body of David Koresh
from remains found in the siege at Waco in February.
1996 - Delegates from 55 countries agreed at a U.N. conference in
Geneva on new rules for landmine use, but rejected an all-out ban.
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