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"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
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>
> Friday, May 15, 2009
> Only 230 days until the Year 2010
>
> Today is:
> International Day of Families
>
>
>
> On The Way To Today... May 15th
>
> 1004 - Henry II, the last Saxon ruler of Germany, was crowned king of
> Lombardy following the defeat of Arduin of Ivrea. The city of Pavia
> rioted at the news.
>
> 1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew
> Gosnold.
>
> 1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patented the world's first
> machine gun.
>
> 1800 - King George III survived a second assassination attempt when
> James Hadfield fired a shot during a performance at the Drury Lane
> Theater, London.
>
> 1806 - Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike sighted a mountain peak that now
> was changed to honor the young army lieutenant. Lt. Pike was leading a
> survey party into the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase when he
> was the familiar slogan of many a wagon train settler traveling west
> in the 1800s.
>
> 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi with 1,000 volunteers heavily defeated the
> superior Neapolitan army under General Landi at the Battle of
> Calatafimi.
>
> 1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of
> Congress.
>
> 1886 - Poet Emily Dickinson died on this date at the age of 56 in
> Amherst, Massachusetts. Of the more than 3,000 poems written by her,
> only seven were published during her lifetime.
>
> 1911 - The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil
> Company, ruling it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
>
> 1916 - In Italy, Asiago fell when Austrian troops under von Hotzendorf
> attacked the Italian front along the Trentino.
>
> 1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and
> Washington, DC began under the direction of the Post Office
> Department, a forerunner of the United States Postal Service.
>
> 1930 - Ellen Church became the first stewardess for an airline. Church
> served passengers flying between San Francisco, California and
> Cheyenne, Wyoming on United Airlines.
>
> 1936 - Amy Johnson arrived in Croydon, England, after a
> record-breaking return flight from South Africa taking just four days
> and 16 hours.
>
> 1940 - Nylon stockings were sold in stores throughout the US for the
> first time. The stockings were such a success that 64 million pairs
> were sold the first year. This buying frenzy was curtailed when the
> Allied forces began to buy most of the available nylon to make
> parachutes and tents during World War II. After the war, nylon
> stockings became a favorite consumer item.
>
> 1940 - The Dutch army surrendered to Nazi Germany.
>
> 1941 - Britain's first jet-propelled aircraft, the Gloster-Whittle
> E.28/39, flew for the first time.
>
> 1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel
> was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
>
> 1955 - The Vienna Treaty, signed by Britain, France, the United States
> and the USSR, restored Austria's independence.
>
> 1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in
> the Pacific.
>
> 1988 - Moscow began the withdrawal of its estimated 115,000 troops in
> Afghanistan by pulling a unit out of Jalalabad.
>
> 1989 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Beijing for
> the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years.
>
> 1990 - "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $82.5
> million at Christies in New York smashing the world record of $53.9
> million.
>
> 1992 - Opposition Popular Front forces in Azerbaijan swept President
> Ayaz Mutalibov from power only a day after parliament reinstated him.
>
> 1993 - French police rescued six schoolgirls and a teacher after a
> 46-hour hostage drama at a Paris suburban school.
>
> 1995 - China conducted an underground nuclear test just days after it
> had agreed to an extension of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
>
> 1998 - Hundreds of looters in Jakarta were trapped in blazing shopping
> malls and burned to death in rioting.
>
1602 The first white man set foot in New England.
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