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May 1st
1786 ~ Opening night of Mozart’s opera, The Marriage of Figaro.
1840 ~ The Penny Black postage stamp put on sale in the UK.
1869 ~ The Folies Bergères opened in Paris.
1904 ~ Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech Composer.
1939 ~ Birthday of Judy Collins, American folk singer.
1941 ~ Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premiered in New York City.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rita Coolidge, Singer.
1960 ~ Gary Powers, in a U-2 spy plane, was shot down over the Soviet Union.
1978 ~ Death of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1982 ~ RAF aircraft attack two airstrips near Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
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05-02-2006, 05:31 AM
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May 2nd
1519 ~ Death of Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter.
1660 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian Composer.
1729 ~ Birthday of Empress Catherine II of Russia.
1892 ~ Birthday of "The Red Baron", Manfred von Richthofen.
1933 ~ The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster was reported.
1945 ~ The Soviet Union announced the capture of Berlin.
1952 ~ The world's first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, launched the jet age.
1955 ~ Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1982 ~ The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1997 ~ The Labour Party's Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the UK, ending 18 years of Conservative Party rule.
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05-03-2006, 05:23 AM
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May 3rd
1469 ~ Birthday of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1616 ~ Death of William Shakespeare Playwright & Poet.
1810 ~ Lord Byron swam the Hellespont.
1844 ~ Birthday of Richard D'Oyly Carte, English Impresario.
1898 ~ Birthday of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel.
1937 ~ Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1945 ~ Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1946 ~ The International Military Tribunal for the Far East began in Tokyo against Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1991 ~ The last episode of the soap opera “Dallas” aired.
2005 ~ The first democratically elected government in the history of Iraq was sworn in.
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05-04-2006, 05:23 AM
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May 4th
1825 ~ Birthday of Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist.
1852 ~ Birthday of Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.
1928 ~ Birthday of Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt.
1942 ~ The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began during World War II.
1970 ~ The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt down, opened fire on students protesting at the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
1975 ~ Death of Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges.
1979 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the UK’s first female Prime Minister.
1980 ~ Death of Josip Tito, President of Yugoslavia.
1982 ~ Falklands War: The HMS Sheffield is sunk by an Exocet missile.
1990 ~ Latvia proclaims independence.
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05-05-2006, 05:17 AM
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May 5th
1807 ~ Death of P. D. Q. Bach, fictitious Composer.
1813 ~ Birthday of Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher.
1821 ~ Death of Napoleon Bonaparte, Ruler of France.
1891 ~ NYC’s Carnegie Hall had its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1925 ~ Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Dayton, Tennessee.
1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
1980 ~ Great Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege.
1992 ~ Wolfenstein 3D was released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.
1995 ~ Death of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion.
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05-06-2006, 05:30 AM
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May 6th
1758 ~ Birthday of Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary.
1856 ~ Birthday of Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis.
1889 ~ The Eiffel Tower was officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1915 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, Writer.
1915 ~ Birthday of Orson Welles, Director.
1937 ~ The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1940 ~ John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1953 ~ Birthday of Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1954 ~ Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
1994 ~ Queen Elizabeth and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Chunnel.
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05-07-2006, 07:07 AM
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May 7th
1824 ~ Premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
1825 ~ Death of Antonio Salieri, Composer.
1833 ~ Birthday of Johannes Brahms, Composer.
1840 ~ Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer.
1915 ~ World War I: A German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people.
1919 ~ Birthday of Eva Peron, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron.
1933 ~ Birthday of Johnny Unitas, American football star.
1945 ~ World War II: General Alfred Jodl signed unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war.
1954 ~ Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
1999 ~ Kosovo War: Three Chinese embassy workers were killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft “mistakenly” bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
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