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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 02:13:26 -0500
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Only 233 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Limerick Day
On The Way To Today... May 12th
1780 - During the American Revolution, Charles Town (later
Charleston), South Carolina, fell to the British after a two-month
siege.
1809 - Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) defeated the
French at Oporto, forcing them to retreat from Portugal.
1831 - The first indicted bank robber in the U.S., Edward Smith, was
sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing
Prison.
1847 - As you jog around the block today, think of Mormon pioneer
William Clayton. It was that he got tired of counting the revolutions
of a rag tied to a spoke of a wagon wheel to figure out how many miles
he had traveled. So, while he was crossing the plains in his covered
wagon, he invented the odometer.
1864 - Gens. Grant and Lee engaged at the Battle of Spotsylvania in
Virginia during the U.S. Civil War.
1870 - The Dominion of Canada purchased Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay
Company and made it a province.
1888 - Britain established protectorates over North Borneo and Brunei.
1926 - Norwegian Roald Amundsen, Italian Umberto Nobile and American
Lincoln Ellsworth crossed the North Pole in an airship.
1937 - King George VI of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey in
London. The BBC televised the coronation procession, its first live
outside broadcast.
1943 - In World War II, all organized Axis resistance in Tunisia ended
and the German commander in North Africa, General von Arnim,
surrendered.
1948 - The state of Israel and its provisional government was
established. Palestinian Jews celebrated their independence from
British mandatory rule.
1949 - The Russian blockade of Berlin officially ended after 11 months
with a food convoy driving into the city.
1975 - President Gerald Ford ordered the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral
Sea into the Gulf of Thailand after the Cambodian navy seized the
American merchant ship Mayaguez.
1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced
hurricanes. It was seen as an attempt at fair play. Hurricanes had
been named for women for years, until NOAA succumbed to pressure from
Allen, Hugo and Andrew agreed.
1992 - European Community peace monitors pulled out of Sarajevo, angry
at harassment and attacks by combatants in Bosnia's worsening ethnic
conflict.
1994 - A token force of Palestinian police crossed the Jordan River in
preparation for the end of 27 years of Israeli military rule in a West
Bank enclave around Jericho.
1994 - The U.S. Senate voted to order President Clinton to seek
international agreement on ending the U.N.-mandated arms embargo
against the Bosnian Muslims.
1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chechen leader Aslan
Maskhadov signed a peace accord promising to end 400 years of
intermittent conflict.
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