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Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 03:17:10 -0500
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Only 220 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
National Missing Children's Day
On The Way To Today... May 25th
1787 - The Constitutional Convention started its first session in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The delegates repealed the "Articles of
Confederation" and drafted a new US constitution. The new document was
the result of many compromises between nationalists and federalists.
Fifty-five delegates from 12 states met in Philadelphia.
1810 - Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
1844 - Stuart Perry of New York City patented the gasoline engine.
1878 - Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore" had its world
premier in London.
1895 - Writer Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor in
Britain for being a sodomite.
1909 - Britain passed the Indian Councils Act, giving more power to
local legislative councils in India.
1911 - President Porfirio Diaz resigned after revolutionist forces
defeated government troops in the Mexican Civil War.
1915 - In Europe, the second Battle of Ypres ended with casualties
around 105,000. The Germans used poison gas for the first time.
1927 - The Ford Motor Company announced that its popular automobile
model, the Model T, known as the Tin Lizzie, would not be rolling off
assembly lines anymore. The discontinued car would be replaced by the
more modern Model A. The first Model T was manufactured in 1908,
all motor cars in the entire world were Tin Lizzies.
1927 - The "Movietone News" was shown for the first time at the Sam
aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" was featured. These newsreels were
produced for showing in theatres until 1967 when competition from TV
news forced them into extinction.
1939 - An audience of 18,000 people waited patiently at Madison Square
Garden in New York City to hear the piano virtuoso Ignace Jan
Paderewski begin a much-anticipated piano recital. However, the
78-year-old former premier of Poland was unable to perform for the
arthritic condition that made it impossible for him to play the piano.
1951 - Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, British foreign office
officials, disappeared from London. It was later discovered they had
spied for Russia.
1960 - During China-Nepal discussions on their border and ownership of
Mount Everest, a Chinese team reached the summit via the north face
and planted a Chinese flag and bust of Mao Zedong.
1963 - The Organization of African Unity (OAU) was established at
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The OAU charter, signed by the 32 heads of
state, sought to promote unity among African states and to oppose
colonialism.
1968 - The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson Natioinal Expansion
Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated.
1972 - The last of the U.S. "Corona" spy satellites was launched from
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
1977 - China lifted its ban on the works of Shakespeare, which had
been denounced as bourgeois during the cultural revolution.
1977 - The motion picture "Star Wars" was first shown to the public.
"Star Wars" became one of the most popular and profitable science
fiction films ever made. Written and directed by George Lucas, the
movie depicted the archetypal battle between good and evil.
1979 - America's worst-ever air disaster (to date) occurred when a
DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport killing 273.
1983 - The movie, "Return of the Jedi", topped all previous opening
day box office records with a gross of $6,219,629. It opened on 1,002
screens around the U.S.
1983 - A fire on board three vessels on a trip on the Upper Nile in
Egypt killed more than 300 people.
1989 - Mikhail Gorbachev was elected to the new post of Executive
President in the Soviet Union.
1995 - A major flare-up in the Bosnian war began when NATO launched
air strikes against ammunition bunkers near Pale.
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