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"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
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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.
>
Indeed, and it is preserved to this day.
Mercury.
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