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Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 02:26:42 -0500
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Only 240 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Cinco De Mayo
Today In History
On The Way To Today... May 5th
1646 - Following his defeat at the battle of Naseby in the English
Civil War, Charles I surrendered to a Scottish army at Newark.
1760 - Earl Ferrers, the last British peer to be executed, was hanged
in London for murdering his steward.
1809 - Mary Kies,of South Killingly, Connecticut, was the first woman
to be issued a U.S. patent. She was granted a patent for the rights to
a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
1847 - The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi and his "Thousand Redshirts" sailed from
Genoa to conquer Sicily and Naples.
1862 - Mexican troops defeated the French army, despite being
outnumbered and having fewer weapons. The military confrontation
became known as "the Battle of Puebla" after the Mexican state where
it took place. This date became a holiday that is greatly celebrated
by the Mexican and Mexican American communities - Cino de Mayo.
1862 - The Confederates, with 32,000 men under Longstreet, succeeded
in blocking 40,000 Federal troops at the battle of Williamsburg,
(American Civil War).
1864 - The battle of the Wilderness started in the American Civil War.
Gen. Robert Lee had just over 60,000 men against Grant's 100,000 men
but the Confederates heavily defeated the Federal troops who lost over
17,000 men.
1867 - In the Mexican-French Wars, the French with 7,000 men under
Comte de Lorencez were defeated by the Mexicans at the battle of
Puebla.
1891 - Carnegie Hall opened to the public in New York City, beginning
a five-day music festival in the city.
1893 - The worst economic crisis in U.S. history (to that time)
happened. Stock prices plummeted, major railroads went into
receivership, 15,000 businesses went bankrupt and 15 to 20 percent of
the work force was unemployed. Within seven months, over 600 banks had
closed.
1900 - "The Billboard", a magazine for the music and entertainment
industries, began weekly publication after six years as a monthly. The
name was later shortened to "Billboard".
1901 - The first Catholic mass for night workers was held at the
Church of St. Andrew in New York City.
1908 - A U.S. Circuit Court judge placed moving pictures under
copyright laws with royalties to be paid.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British in India after his
campaign of disobedience.
1930 - Amy Johnson began the first solo flight by a woman between
England and Australia.
1936 - Edward Ravenscroft of Glencoe, Illinois was sitting at his
kitchen table, admiring the piece of mail he had just received from
the U.S. Patent Office. It was a patent for the screw-on bottle cap
with the pour lip.
1936 - Italian troops under Field Marshal Badoglio took Addis Ababa in
Ethiopia (Abyssinia). On the same date in 1941, Emperor Haile Selassie
reentered the capital after the country had been liberated.
1942 - A combined British military and naval force landed on
Madagascar and by the afternoon the town of Diego Suarez was captured.
1945 - In Austria, French politicians Reynaud and Daladier and former
Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg, imprisoned by the Nazis, were
released; Russian forces captured the town of Peenemunde where V1 and
V2 rockets were launched; U.S. forces liberated Austria's Mauthausen
concentration camp; poet Ezra Pound was arrested in Italy for treason.
1945 - The Netherlands was liberated from Nazi Germany.
1955 - The Federal Republic of Germany became a sovereign state after
the Allied High Commission dissolved itself.
1955 - The musical, "Damn Yankees" opened in New York City for a
successful run of 1,019 performances. The show, at the 42nd Street
Theatre mixed both baseball and ballet. It is an adaptation of the
book, "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant". Gwen Verdon starred in
the role of Lola. Whatever Lola wants Lola gets including the Tony for
Best Actress in a musical for her performance.
1961 - Alan Shepard became the first US astronaut and the second human
to reach outer space. The first person to reach outer space was the
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Shepard's return to Earth was viewed on
live television by millions of people around the globe.
1965 - A cease-fire was signed between rebels and the military junta
in the Dominican Republic civil war.
1967 - The first all-British satellite Ariel III was launched in
California.
1979 - Terrorists in El Salvador stormed the French, Venezuelan and
Costa Rican embassies demanding the release of political prisoners.
1980 - In London, troops of the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy,
killing four of the five gunmen who took over the building and seized
hostages.
1981 - Bobby Sands became the first of the 10 IRA hunger strikers to
die in the Maze prison, Northern Ireland.
1983 - The West German magazine Stern began publishing the "Hitler
Diaries," later proved to be a hoax.
1994 - Singapore carried out a controversial caning sentence imposed
for vandalism on U.S. teen-ager Michael Fay.
1996 - Israel and the PLO opened the last chapter of negotiations
towards a permanent peace settlement over the West Bank, Gaza Strip
and Jerusalem.
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