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From: "::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org>
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Subject: Re: On The Way To Today... May 15th
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Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:34:44 -0500
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On 15 May 2009 09:34:44 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
>news:hu5q05l1acbhd5o5tiln3qkrvg57lhdmui@4ax.com:
>
>>
>> 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.
Again noted above....the discovery of Cape Cod.
And he still claims he made a wrong turn.
lol,
darkshadows
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