05-29-2011, 07:10 PM
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Location: Maryland
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May 30th
1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).
1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author.
1912 ~ Death of Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, the elder of the Wright Brothers.
1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.
1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998.
1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law", which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption. Interestingly, that month, prosecutors dropped their case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn – a former finance minister in Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's cabinet, and the same DSK who has now been charged in NYC with sexual assault - for forgery and misappropriation of funds.
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