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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 07:07:39 -0500
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Only 231 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Underground America Day
On The Way To Today... May 14th
649 - Theodore I ended his reign as Catholic Pope.
1264 - The Baron's War was fought in England.
1607 - The first permanent English settlement in what is now the
United States got started at Jamestown, Virginia.
1796 - The first smallpox inoculation was administered by Edward
Jenner.
1804 - Lewis & Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.
1811 - Paraguay gained independence from Spain.
1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph - a
timepiece that allows for split-second timing of sporting events.
1874 - McGill University and Harvard met at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
for the first college football game to charge admission. To make it
worthwhile for ticket buyers, this was also the first time that a
goalpost was used at both ends of the playing field.
1878 - The trademarked name Vaseline (for a brand of petroleum jelly)
was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough. You have probably heard of
1897 - A statue of George Washington was unveiled in Philadelphia,
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" was performed. It was the first public
McKinley was in the audience.
1904 - The third modern Olympiad, the first ever held in the U.S.,
opened in St. Louis. With few contestants from other countries, the
United States won 21 events.
1913 - John D. Rockefeller made the largest gift of money to that date
by establishing the Rockefeller Foundation - for $100,000,000. The
1940 - The Netherlands surrendered to Germany.
1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of
Israel.
1955 - The Warsaw Pact was formed.
1973 - The first Space Station, Skylab, was launched.
1985 - The third most widely-used form of contraception in the U.S.
celebrated its 25th birthday. The Pill is now the leading form of
contraception and continues to be the focus of controversy.
became the first museum of the fast-food business.
1990 - The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record 2,821.53 points.
1994 - The West Bank town of Jericho saw its first full day of
Palestinian self-rule.
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