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Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 05:50:36 -0500
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Only 238 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Beaufort Scale Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... May 7th
1429 - Joan of Arc led French forces in lifting of siege of Orleans.
1663 - In London, the first Theatre Royal in Drury Lane was opened
under a charter granted by King Charles II.
1765 - HMS Victory, the British battleship and flagship of Lord
Nelson, was launched at Chatham, Kent.
1789 - The first Presidential Inaugural Ball was held in New York
City. Each lady in attendance received, as a gift, a portrait of
George Washington.
1824 - Composer Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" was presented
for the first time in public.
1832 - Otto of Bavaria was chosen king of Greece by the great powers
at the conference of London.
1912 - Columbia University approved final plans for awarding the
Pulitzer Prize in several categories. The award was established by
Joseph Pulitzer.
1912 - The first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over
College Park, Maryland.
1915 - On its return trip from New York to Liverpool, England, the
British ocean liner, "Lusitania", was torpedoed by a German U-boat off
the coast of Ireland. The "Lusitania" was carrying a cargo of
for the attack even though the ship was carrying over 2,000 civilian
men, women and children. 1,198 lives were lost.
1918 - Romania signed the Treaty of Bucharest with Germany and
Austria-Hungary; the treaty was nullified in November when the Central
Powers collapsed.
1928 - The age at which women could vote in Britain was lowered from
30 to 21.
1943 - Allied forces liberated Tunis and Bizerte.
1944 - A Russian assault opened on Sevastopol in Crimea.
1945 - The instruments of the surrender of German forces in World War
II were signed by General Jodl, the German chief of staff, at General
Eisenhower's headquarters in Rheims.
1951 - Russia was admitted to participate in the 1952 Olympic Games -
by the International Olympic Committee.
1954 - Viet Minh's troops defeated the French army in the Dien Bien
Phu Battle, and forced the French government to abandon its attempts
to regain control of Indochina. This battle is considered one of the
greatest victories won by a former colony over a colonial power. The
Viet Minh was the main Vietnamese organization to oppose the French
occupation.
1960 - Kliment Voroshilov was replaced as president of the Soviet
Union by Leonid Brezhnev.
1980 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, was
released from prison Beacon, New York, after serving 68 years and 245
days -- the longest-ever time served.
1994 - South Africa's democratic era started in earnest as new
ANC-dominated provincial legislatures met and blacks took political
power for the first time in more than three centuries.
1994 - Japan's Justice Minister Shigeto Nagano resigned after his
attempts to whitewash past Japanese military aggression provoked a
diplomatic dispute in Asia.
1994 - The stolen masterpiece "The Scream" by Edvard Munch was found
undamaged in a hotel in south Norway.
1996 - A Bosnian Serb defendant faced the first war crimes trial by
the U.N. criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Dusan
Tadic became the first person to face an international war crimes
tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after World War II.
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