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Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 07:17:25 -0500
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
Only 222 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
World Turtle Day
On The Way To Today... May 23rd
1430 - Joan of Arc was captured at Compiegne and handed over to the
British.
1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious and political reformer,
was hanged and burned at the stake.
1526 - Pope Clement VII formed the League of Cognac, an offensive
against the Emperor Charles V.
1533 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declared Henry VIII's
marriage to Catherine of Aragon void, and his marriage to Anne Boleyn
in January legal, infuriating the Vatican.
1618 - The Thirty Years War started when a group of Calvinist leaders
threw Catholic members of the Holy Roman Empire through a window. The
Thirty Years War consisted of a series of religious wars between
Catholics and Protestants, but ultimately it was a struggle to alter
the European balance of power.
1701 - "Captain" William Kidd, Scottish pirate, was hanged at London's
Execution Dock.
1706 - The Battle of Ramillies took place in Belgium in the War of the
Spanish Succession. The British forces allied with the Dutch and
Germans defeated the French.
1785 - In a letter to a friend, Benjamin Franklin reveals his latest
invention -- spectacles of two thicknesses, the first bi-focals.
1788 - South Carolina became the eighth state of the Union.
1797 - During a financial crisis, a cartoon by James Gilray appeared
depicting the Bank of England as a haggard old woman. This is
generally thought to be the origin of the bank's nickname "The Old
Lady of Threadneedle Street."
1827 - The first nursery school in the United States was established
laboring classes from the care of their children ... offering the
children protection from weather, from idleness and contamination of
1873 - The North West Mounted Police were formed in Canada, later to
become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1879 - Iowa State College, located in Ames, Iowa, established the
first veterinary school in the U.S.
1915 - Having been neutral, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary.
1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.
1934 - Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow), notorious American outlaws,
robbers and murderers, were killed in a shootout with police.
1945 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader and Chief of Police,
committed suicide a day after being captured; Admiral Karl Doenitz and
leading members of the German government were arrested; Winston
Churchill resigned, bringing to an end Britain's wartime coalition.
1949 - The German Federal Republic formally came into existence with
Bonn as the capital, after the signing of the constitution.
1960 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi leader wanted for war atrocities, was
found and captured by Israeli agents in Argentina.
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