Today on history - Youth Day

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May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). There are 243 days remaining.

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  [" n: s$ O9 M9 n! ?( a9 d1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.

/ k7 S! q7 F+ x" ?1335 - Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
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. }! A' i: U1 n* r$ s8 W5 ]1568 - Mary I of Scotland escapes from Loch Leven Castle, where she had been imprisoned by Sir William Douglas.

2 O. {0 X8 D6 u6 T- S. Q8 \8 q1670 - King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.

- |" V; Z0 i# K% E1672 - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
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4 x- F  c9 x# w; g1808 - Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.
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9 ?1 v6 M0 G$ M% x# k1 V1816 - Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta are wed.
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1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.

1863 - American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering for the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia 8 days later.

1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.

1885 - Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
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1885 - Cree and Assiniboine warriors won the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.

1885 - The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
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7 \8 M9 k% m+ c" o9 S+ Z1889 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, which gives Italy control over Eritrea.
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4 S- t% @% L( o) w# a1900 - Oscar II, King of Sweden, declares support for Britain at the time of the Second Boer War.

1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

" _6 L) a3 c  _) h4 F9 W6 ~1920 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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1932 - Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.

1933 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
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( a! T1 \7 L/ G4 y8 \1939 - Lou Gehrig's streak of 2130 consecutive Major League Baseball games played comes to an end. The record will stand for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks it.

1945 - World War II: Fall of Berlin – The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building. German forces surrender in Italy. German forces surrender to the New Zealand Army in Trieste.

1946 - "Battle of Alcatraz" - Alcatraz Federal prison, San Francisco is taken over by six inmates following failed escape attempt
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1952 - The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden voyage, flying from London to Johannesburg.
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1953 - Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.
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: K' \  X: \/ F. b) m, z: f7 Q1953 - Blackpool F.C. win the FA Cup Final. Subsequently dubbed "The Matthews Final", Blackpool came back from being 3-1 down to Bolton Wanderers to win 4-3, with Stan Mortensen scoring the first and, to date, only FA Cup Final hat-trick at Wembley.

5 T; l3 I( ^2 R: S# u$ ~1955 - Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

5 b. m! s6 ]) q7 ~3 z1963 - Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a rocket with three stages with a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.

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1969 - The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.

" b1 N3 {# u  J9 H# `% B3 H1972 - Buddy Baker became the first stock car driver to finish a 500-mile race in less than three hours en route to winning the Winston Select 500 at the Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama.

1982 - Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.

  d# e  U9 [8 G1986 - The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, opens.
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( Y3 B- ?8 n3 q$ ]0 J1990 - Bristol Rovers beat Bristol City by three goals to nil to clinch English football's Third Division championship.

1995 - During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.
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1997 - The Labour Party's Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ending 18 years of Conservative Party rule. At 44, he is the youngest prime minister for 185 years.

9 K1 \8 `" H4 O: n6 J7 H, g1998 - The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the EU's monetary policy.
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1999 - Panamanian election: Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.

9 ~1 Q/ `, [9 s. A- e2000 - Bill Clinton announces that GPS access equivalent to the U.S. military would be available for regular citizens.
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2 ?1 b7 F( ^6 p2000 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveiled the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa on May 11, 2002, and the other in Apeldoorn on May 2, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.
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2005 - Airwork Flight 23 crashes after structural failure.
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1 z: P& G6 _5 T1 z2005 - The Pontiac Grand Am ceases production at the 100 year-old Lansing Car Assembly plant.

Holidays and observances
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( ^/ w1 ~. h; t. Y* P2 E! NBahá'í Faith: Last day of the Festival of Ridván
" S8 g+ E: [+ I  B3 {* j& aMadrid Region - Day of the Region.
Slovenia - second day of Labour Day
$ Z9 c8 \9 F+ h1 X' XIran - Teacher's Day
# d; O; s2 ?) E2 k; o- i5 SIndonesia - Indonesia National Education Day

Liturgical feast days

in the Roman Catholic Church:
Saint Athanasius
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Saints Exuperius and Zoe
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Saint Waldebert, Walbert or Gaubert
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Saint Zoe
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0 }7 \2 V# R; ]1 b) vSaint Tsar Boris

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: u) Y2 s; O: a, ZRefer to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

" I/ X4 x7 a. ]# i4 @- ~# FAnd if you are also interested in the list of the births and deaths, please have a look on wikipedia because it is such a long list.....$握手$
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May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). There are 242 days remaining.
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Events
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1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
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1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
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& H& ^, h8 ?7 I& e& R1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.
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: b4 T, |& W1 {& v0 I. m1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
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3 w6 U, X# r) y0 U$ r4 B1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.

1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
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# U% x# X" C: b6 B1837 - The University of Athens is founded. It is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean.

- c" V4 l/ j$ f. B1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
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1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

5 B% p) F5 B4 d5 s1 i1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

1901 - Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL.

6 c$ ?9 x, X* `) ^1916 - Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin.
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/ F! e5 t7 E) A  h1921 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
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1923 - Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly land their Fokker T-2 aircraft in San Diego, California. This is the first non-stop transcontinental flight. It took nearly 27 hrs.
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: i7 n$ y) x- v1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
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1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
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9 S0 [, U7 p& p, S- z* r1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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0 X% K, k6 V- [' ^1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

/ w( s7 Y$ s. {- {1 r1942 - Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
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1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in Lübeck Bay.
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1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

1948 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.

1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
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1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

: r: y) h7 a# M! _5 K' F- R1952 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole.

1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.

1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
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# U6 [4 \7 }8 |1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.

1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.

5 u* x0 T$ v" h- n' Q& }+ F, @  s1960 - The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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1971 - Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe begin four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
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/ T- r# q. T2 D1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
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1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections.

1986 - Twenty-one people are killed and 41 injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
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1988 - The White House acknowledges that first lady Nancy Reagan has used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities.

1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.

1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak.
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1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
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2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

& q: H1 s! H! d2001 - The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
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+ \" y( \% y, t4 o. l2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
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+ n- A# L4 h& Z2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
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* _+ M# j8 r, ~7 Z5 Z+ N4 ]2005 - The first democratically elected government in the history of Iraq is sworn in.

$ U6 B/ {" x, H2 a1 V2006 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.

( J+ V' f; q- p2 V2006 - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Holidays and observances
World Press Freedom Day.
  r- t/ S/ u. D" l# [) C5 TConstitution Day in Poland and Japan.
Discoflux (Discordianism).

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Roman Catholicism
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0 L, h2 `4 S5 n% K" L/ \+ B% mFeast of the Finding of the Holy Cross, aka the Invention of the True Cross.
1 T& ?) D/ s# b; W; C4 W( f; iSaint Apostle Philip
/ ~9 |- v" D; `* O' p% E  d. RSaint Apostle James the Lesser
% f5 t2 r$ ~" y2 T7 g& ~Saint Alexander I
7 _/ \( ~. P. y6 s2 oSaint Juvenal of Narni (d. 369)
Saint Ansfrid (c. 1008)
Saints Eventius and Alexander, Saint Theodulus (martyrs of 119)
Saint Emily Bicchiere (1238 - 1314
3 ~: {# \; {% t/ g5 D! B4 ~Antonia and Alexander (martyrs of 313)
1 _4 `* f6 ^& G. K5 OBlack Madonna of Częstochowa Queen and Protector of Poland (since April 1, 1656)

Eastern Orthodox

$ i2 r& U. ?: [3 [2 J# i9 cSt Theodosius of Kiev

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May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). There are 241 days remaining.

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1 V3 [8 l# `! `. k* v% ?1256 - Augustinian monastic order constituted at Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae
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1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

% D: \2 o; Y: @$ p1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury – Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.

1493 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.

1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.
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1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
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1675 - King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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; E# y) V! e, U. a- M1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam – The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.

! c8 p0 `1 y0 |( T1 }1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.

8 c5 ~; h0 ]  `# x9 x1814 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
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1855 - American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
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% b9 U4 b( @4 @. t% [8 j1859 - Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.

3 a) w. e) E7 j0 R. O2 s3 f% G& X4 v1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chancellorsville – The battle ends with a Union retreat.

1865 - Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination.

1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.

1871 - The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

1886 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
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1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.

1910 - The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
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' U1 k3 w& O; D; Y) [5 Z1912 - Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.

+ [# \! x8 O& v. Z% H$ W: T2 [5 W1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
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1924 - The 1924 Summer Olympics open in Paris, France.

6 `7 w! ]- h) e" V* ?/ C1930 - British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison.

1932 - In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
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7 w) ^( X) a. ]0 i1942 - World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea – The battle begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
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  v: O- ~0 t" |; R1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army.
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1945 - World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
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1946 - In San Francisco Bay, US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine Barracks stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
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1948 - Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published.
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. [3 n+ R8 f& U7 R$ H, ]7 s1949 - The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.

3 i- m- j6 |7 i. E3 g* Q1953 - Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

. p6 f# b1 c* C$ E% C* V% v1961 - American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.

1964 - The long-running soap opera Another World, which would run until 1999, debuts on NBC.

1970 - Vietnam War: Kent State shootings – The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire on students protesting at the United States' invasion of Cambodia. Four students are killed, nine are wounded.
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1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".

1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
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5 S, p' Y# c% k! M/ Z1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

; d9 {; D0 L  t6 L+ P4 H1980 - President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia dies in Ljubljana at the age of 87.
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1981 - Donald Eugene Webb is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.
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1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocked Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonated during a fire.

  }+ f4 h6 {) Y& t8 ~# F3 Y1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.

1990 - Latvia proclaims renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
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7 v2 }- S& L0 a1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
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0 l0 {8 ]6 q; L" l! ]# C: u1996 - José María Aznar is appointed Prime Minister of Spain, thus ending 13 years of Socialist rule.

1998 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

9 y4 F% l! c. ^2000 - Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
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2 m4 U) g; a1 Y2000 - The Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins play the third longest NHL game in history with 5 Overtimes played, the game lasted until Keith Primeau of the Flyers Scored. 92 minutes and 1 second of overtime was played.
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2001 - Pope John Paul II follows Saint Paul's footsteps across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Syria to Malta.

( L2 G2 L3 J  _* Z3 y2002 - An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.

+ Q, \2 x! q4 A7 b0 @2003 - The Outbreak of 2003 begins. Ninety-four tornadoes begin the week-long outbreak.
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Holidays and observances
International Firefighters' Day.
+ |7 C) p1 X& BThe Netherlands - Remembrance of the Dead.
People's Republic of China - Youth Day (青年节, commemorating May Fourth Movement).
Republic of China - Literary Day (文藝