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"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
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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.
>
Also the Sears tower in chicago was completed in 1973 LOL.
Mercury.
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