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Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:39:39 -0500
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Only 241 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Youth Day in China
Today In History
On The Way To Today... May 4th
1471 - The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of
Tewkesbury in the Wars of the Roses.
1493 - Pope Alexander VI, a Spaniard, decreed that all new lands
discovered west of the Azores were Spanish.
1626 - Governor Peter Minuit bought a 20,000-acre island, all of what
is now Manhattan Island. The price? $24 worth of cloth and brass
buttons.
1776 - Rhode Island abandoned allegiance to Great Britain.
1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter received a US patent for
the graphophone. This invention replaced Thomas Edison's phonograph,
and featured wax-coated cylinders. These were considered an
improvement over the phonograph's tinfoil cylinders, which had been
delicate and difficult to remove.
1919 - Students demonstrated in China against the Versailles Peace
Conference decision to hand Germany's possessions in Shantung Province
to Japan. Known as the May Fourth Movement, it led to the birth of the
Chinese Communist Party.
1920 - The Symphony Society of New York presented a concert at the
Paris Opera House. It was the first American orchestra to make a
European tour.
1926 - The first General Strike in British history began. It was
called by the Trades Union Congress and troops were called in to man
essential services.
1932 - Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed - in the Atlanta
Penitentiary - for tax evasion.
1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde became the first president of Ireland under
its new constitution.
1942 - The battle of the Coral Sea started in World War II, when naval
and air battles began off the Solomon Islands.
1945 - Field Marshal Montgomery announced that all enemy forces in the
Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark had surrendered
unconditionally; The U.S. 7th Army captured Hitler's country retreat
of Berchtesgaden.
1964 - The Pulitzer Prize jury failed, for the first time, to award
winners in the areas of fiction, drama and music.
1970 - National Guard troops killed 4 students during an anti-Vietnam
War demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio. The four students
killed were Allison Krause, Sandra Lee Scheuer, Jeffrey Glenn Miller
and William K. Schroeder.
1977 - Former President Richard M. Nixon spoke with interviewer David
Frost in the first of four television interviews. Nixon had been in
seclusion for the two previous months.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister
with a majority of 43 seats in the House of Commons.
1987 - For the first time, live models were used for Playtex bra ads.
undergarments over dresses. The use of live models wearing bras
crossed a previously taboo advertising line.
1989 - The space shuttle Atlantis was launched. Its main objective was
to deploy the spacecraft Magellan, making this the first time that a
craft was launched from a space shuttle. Magellan's mission was to map
the surface of Venus.
1989 - Col. Oliver North was found guilty in the investigations into
the Iran-Contra affair.
1994 - Israel and the PLO signed a historic agreement giving
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip their first
measure of freedom since the 1967 Middle East war.
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