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Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 03:19:28 -0500
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Only 229 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
National Employee Health and Fitness Day
On The Way To Today... May 16th
1532 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro landed with a small band
of soldiers on the northern coast of Peru.
1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots, fled to England after her defeat at
Langsides, Glasgow.
1770 - At Versailles, the French Dauphin (who would become Louis XVI)
married Marie Antoinette, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of
Austria.
1811 - In the Peninsular War, the French under Marshal Nicolas Soult
were held by an allied force of 46,000 at the battle of Albuhera.
1868 - In the United States, the Senate voted on one count in the
impeachment proceedings of President Andrew Johnson. The vote fell one
short of the two-thirds majority needed to take action. On May 26,
further charges similarly failed and he was acquitted.
1881 - The first electric tram went into public service in Germany,
near Berlin.
1888 - Emile Berliner gave the first demonstration of flat disc
recording and reproduction before the Franklin Institute in
Philadelphia.
1920 - Joan of Arc, the French national heroine, was canonized by Pope
Benedict XV. A 14th century peasant girl who grew up to lead a
victorious French army against English troops at Orleans, she was
later captured and burned by the English and their French
collaborators as a heretic. Her example was a decisive factor in the
awakening of French national consciousness.
1941 - The Icelandic parliament ended a treaty with Denmark and
proclaimed independence.
1943 - In World War II, British Lancaster aircraft succeeded in
bombing the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin
using a bouncing bomb.
were over three times more effective than black and white commercials.
1963 - U.S. astronaut Gordon Cooper in his Mercury-Atlas craft
splashed down near Midway in the Pacific after orbiting the Earth 22
times in a mission lasting just over 34 hours -- the longest American
space mission so far.
1967 - French President Charles De Gaulle spoke of "formidable
obstacles" in Britain's application to join the EEC, a virtual veto.
1969 - The Russian spacecraft Venus 5 landed on the planet Venus.
1971 - An ounce of first-class mail rocketed to eight cents for
delivery -- two cents more than the previous stamp.
1974 - Helmut Schmidt was sworn in as new chancellor of West Germany,
after the resignation of Willy Brandt.
1975 - Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first woman to
climb Everest.
1986 - The members of the military junta which lead Argentina to
defeat in the 1982 Falklands war with Britain were sentenced to
between eight and 14 years imprisonment and stripped of their rank.
Former President Leopold Galtieri was sentenced to 12 years
imprisonment.
1987 - It was a grand day in New York Harbor. "Bobro 400", a huge
barge, set sail within eyesight of the Statue of Liberty with 3,200
tons of garbage that nobody wanted. The floating trash heap soon
eight-week, 6,000 mile odyssey in search of a willing dumping site.
"Bobro 400" returned to New York Harbor after the lengthy journey -
and brought all that garbage back with it!
1989 - The Vatican released a report condemning pornography and
violence in films, specifically mentioning Kung Fu movies.
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping met in Beijing in the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years,
formally ending the feud between the two countries.
1990 - Jim Henson, the beloved creator of the Muppets and the voice of
Kermit the Frog, died of pneumonia at age 53. He was misdiagnosed
earlier that week, and had he been diagnosed and put on antibiotics
only eight hours earlier, Henson would have survived. He was
completing negotiations with the Disney company to include his Muppets
at the world-famous fantasy amusement parks.
1991 - Queen Elizabeth, on a tour of the United States, became the
first monarch to address Congress.
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