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May 14th
1787 ~ Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1948 ~ The independent state of Israel was proclaimed.
1955 ~ The USSR and seven other communist bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1969 ~ Birthday of Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (Galadriel).
1973 ~ Skylab 1, the first American space station, was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia.
1987 ~ Death of Rita Hayworth, American actress.
1998 ~ Death of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor.
2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror for publishing photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers that were shown to be fake.
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May 17th
1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination.
1838 ~ Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat.
1935 ~ Death of Paul Dukas, French composer.
1936 ~ Birthday of Dennis Hopper, Actor & Director.
1943 ~ The RAF carried out the Dambusters raid.
1954 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court issued their decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
1974 ~ Thirty-three people were killed by terrorist bombings in Ireland.
1992 ~ Death of Lawrence Welk, American musician.
1996 ~ President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in - Megan's Law.
2004 ~ Same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts.
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05-17-2011, 07:36 PM
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May 18th
1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Logician & Philosopher, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950.
1910 ~ The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet.
1911 ~ Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.
1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer.
1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer.
1944 ~ Monte Cassino fell to the Allies.
1974 ~ India became the sixth nuclear nation by successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon.
1975 ~ Death of Leroy Anderson, American Composer.
1980 ~ Mount St. Helens in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
1993 ~ In a penetrating comment on the European notion of democracy, the second attempt to ratify the Maastricht Treaty, which could not come into effect unless ratified by all members of the European Union, was placed before the Danes. When the result of the referendum was announced, the outcome and frustrations about the referendum being held only a year after the Danes had rejected the previous treaty led to riots in the Nřrrebro area of Copenhagen, during which the police fired into a crowd. 11 people were subsequently treated for gunshot wounds.
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May 19th
1536 ~ Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England was beheaded for adultery.
1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.
1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader.
1921 ~ The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader.
1935 ~ Death of T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia").
1965 ~ Tui Malila, the longest living animal known, died in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192.
1983 ~ Birthday of Eve Angel, Hungarian Porn Actress.
2001 ~ Sun Zhonghua was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized under the "One child" policy.
2004 ~ PM Blair hit with a purple flour filled condom.
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May 20th
1873 ~ Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1883 ~ The eruption of Krakatoa began, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.
1896 ~ Death of Clara Schumann, German Pianist and Composer.
1901 ~ Birthday of Max Euwe, Dutch world chess champion.
1927 ~ Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York, on the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving in Paris the next day.
1940 ~ The first prisoners arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1961 ~ U.S. marshals were sent to restore order in Montgomery, Alabama.
1989 ~ Death of Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress.
2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist.
2002 ~ Death of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.
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May 21st
1832 ~ The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1881 ~ Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.
1924 ~ Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter.
1978 ~ Birthday of Briana Banks, Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Jesse Capelli, Canadian Porn Actress.
1991 ~ Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber.
2000 ~ Death of Sir John Gielgud, British actor.
2004 ~ Stanislav Petrov was awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
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May 22nd
1813 ~ Birthday of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1840 ~ Transporting British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished.
1856 ~ In one of the more impressive expressions of American democracy, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the U.S. Senate because of a speech Sumner had made which attacked Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas.
1859 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Physician & Writer.
1885 ~ Death of Victor Hugo, French author.
1907 ~ Birthday of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor & Director.
1907 ~ Birthday of Hergé, comic book creator.
1947 ~ The Truman Doctrine was enacted.
1969 ~ The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972 ~ Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and joined the British Commonwealth.
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May 23rd
1430 ~ Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1701 ~ Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.
1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer.
1873 ~ Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.
1906 ~ Death of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer.
1908 ~ Birthday of John Bardeen, the only man to have been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics twice; 1956 & 1972.
1934 ~ Death of Bonnie and Clyde, Outlaws.
1951 ~ The Tibetan government is forced to sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.
1962 ~ Raoul Salan, the leader of the Secret Army Organisation (OAS) was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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May 24th
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.
1844 ~ The first telegram was sent by Samuel Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1883 ~ The Brooklyn Bridge was opened.
1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen.
1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter.
1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist.
1976 ~ BOAC and Air France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.
1995 ~ Death of Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2001 ~ 23 people were killed and hundreds injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem when the floor collapsed.
2001 ~ Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for when Sen. Jeffords of Vermont declared himself an independent.
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