04-30-2010, 08:27 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
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May 1st
1840 ~ The Penny Black postage stamp put on sale in the UK.
1869 ~ The Folies Bergères opened in Paris. Edouard Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” recalls the lot of one of the employees.
1904 ~ Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech Composer.
1941 ~ Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premiered in New York City.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rita Coolidge, Singer.
1960 ~ Gary Powers was shot down in a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union.
1978 ~ Death of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1982 ~ RAF aircraft attack two airstrips near Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
2004 ~ Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union.
2008 ~ Death of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "DC Madam".
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