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Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 02:16:56 -0500
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Only 224 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Victoria Day
On The Way To Today... May 21st
1471 - King Henry VI of England was murdered in the Tower of London,
in the latest twist in the Wars of the Roses. Edward IV resumed the
throne.
1502 - The Portuguese discovered the island of St. Helena.
1819 - The first bicycles in the United States were called swift
walkers and were seen for the first time on the streets of New York
City.
1881 - The United States Lawn Tennis Association was formed in New
York City.
1904 - Football's international body, FIFA, was established in Paris.
1906 - Louis H. Perlman of New York City received his patent for the
demountable tire-carrying rim - similar to the ones we use on our cars
today, only wider.
1922 - The cartoon, "On the Road to Moscow", by Rollin Kirby won a
Pulitzer Prize. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer.
1927 - Charles A. Lindbergh (age 25) landed at 10:21pm at Le Bourget
air field outside Paris, France in his monoplane, "The Spirit of St.
Louis". (The famous plane is now displayed in the Smithsonian
that a person had flown across the Atlantic Ocean. The 3,800 mile
flight from New York to Paris took 33 hours and 29 minutes. The event
got more press coverage than any other single event in history to that
time.
1929 - The first automatic electric stock quotation board was put into
operation by Sutro and Company of New York City.
1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo,
from Newfoundland to Ireland.
1934 - The first city in the United States to fingerprint each of its
citizens was Oskaloosa, Iowa.
1945 - Syria and Lebanon broke off negotiations with France and
demanded full independence.
1956 - The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb
over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1969 - Sirhan B. Sirhan was sentenced to death for the murder of
Robert Kennedy in 1968. The sentence was later commuted to life
imprisonment.
1972 - Lazlo Toth, a Hungarian native, attacked Michelangelo's
centuries-old sculpture "Pieta."
1981 - In France, Francois Mitterrand was installed as president and
set up a caretaker government under prime minister Pierre Mauroy.
1982 - In the Falklands War, British troops established a bridgehead
at Port San Carlos.
1989 - A million people, a sixth of the population of Hong Kong,
demonstrated in support of rebellious students in Peking.
1994 - Israeli commandos swept into Lebanon's eastern mountains and
abducted Mustafa Dirani, a Shiite Muslim guerrilla leader.
1996 - In East Africa's worst marine disaster, a Tanzanian ferry
capsized on Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza. Of the
estimated 1,000 on board only 114 survived.
1998 - A gunman opened fire inside Thurston High School in
Springfield, Oregon, killing two students.
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