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Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 03:03:43 -0500
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Only 227 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
International Museum Day
On The Way To Today... May 18th
1291 - The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf took Acre, the last
Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.
1412 - By the treaty of Eltham, Henry IV of England allied himself
with the Armagnacs with the help of the Duke of Orleans and thus
abandoned the Duke of Burgundy.
1798 - The first Secretary of the U.S. Navy was appointed. He was
Benjamin Stoddert.
1803 - Britain declared war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte
continued his interference in Italy and Switzerland.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France. He was
crowned on December 2, 1804.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, Illinois, was nominated for the
U.S. Presidency by Republican Party leaders at a meeting in Chicago.
1896 - The Supreme Court endorsed the concept of "separate but equal"
racial segregation with its "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision.
1899 - The First Hague Peace Conference opened in the Netherlands.
1914 - The "Mariner" was the first steamboat with cargo to pass
through the Panama Canal.
1944 - In the Soviet Union, the expulsion began of more than 200,000
Tatars from the Crimea. They were accused of collaboration with the
Germans.
1944 - Allied troops, led by the Polish army, finally won the battle
to evict German troops from Monte Cassino, Italy.
1951 - The U.N. General Assembley passed a resolution banning shipment
of strategic materials to China.
1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound,
Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an
average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.
1954 - The European Convention on Human Rights came into force.
eventual top twenty hit, "Tiptoe" was a remake of a number one hit for
Nick Lucas in 1929.
1969 - The U.S spacecraft Apollo 10 was launched on a mission to
rehearse for a moon landing.
1974 - "The Streak" started a 3-week run at number one on the
"Billboard" pop music chart. The novelty tune by Ray Stevens was about
It was the second number one hit for the comedian who made numerous
his own show in the summer of 1970. His first number one hit, just
prior to "The Streak", was "Everything is Beautiful". Both songs won
gold records, as did his comedic "Gitarzan", a top ten hit in 1969.
Stevens has been the top novelty recording artist of the past three
decades.
1974 - India became a nuclear power when its first bomb was
successfully exploded in the Rajasthan Desert.
1977 - The United States, the Soviet Union and 29 other nations signed
a U.N. pact banning artificial use of the weather as a weapon of war,
pledging never to attack each other by triggering storms, earthquakes
or tidal waves.
1980 - Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state erupted, creating
a cloud of ash 2,500 miles long and 1,000 miles wide.
1990 - The two Germanys signed a monetary union treaty, the first step
on the road to unification.
1992 - The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said the civil war in
Yugoslavia had pushed over 1.3 million people from their homes and
created Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
1994 - Israel's three decades of occupation in Gaza ended.
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