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History…
330: Constantinople becomes the new capital of the Roman Empire.
1751 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)
1752 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
1833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Fransisco
1875 George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout
1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
1910 Montana's Glacier National Park forms
1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
1919 Yankees' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie
1921 Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady NY)
1929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
1931 Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe
1947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
1949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1949 Siam renames itself Thailand
1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
1953 Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory
1955 Israel attacks Gaza
1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1959 Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends
1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham AL
1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument
1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 14 performances
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show
1972 San Francisco Giants trade Willie Mays to New York Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams & cash
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the "Pentagon Papers" case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct.
1975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
1977 Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game
1978 Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps
1980 Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1980 Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies
1981 Jamaican born reggae singer Bob Marley dies of cancer.
1984 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
1986 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1987 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1988 France performs nuclear test
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panamá
1994 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
1996 Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
1997 New York Mets C Everett & Butch Huskey are 9th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1997 Paine Webber Senior Golf Invitational
1997 Sara Lee LPGA Classic
1997 IBM computer Deep Blue beats chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game series; it is the first time a computer beats an international grand master in a multigame match.
Born…
1891, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., publisher and public official
1893, Martha Graham, choreographer, dancer, and teacher
1888, Irving Berlin, composer
1904, surrealist artist Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain.
1922, Louis Farrakhan, religious leader
Missing in Action
1966 FENELEY FRANCIS J. CURTIS MI
1966 VILLEPONTEAUX JAMES H. JR. CORDESVILLE SC
1968 JIMENEZ JUAN M. SAN ANTONIO TX GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1969 DAUGHERTY LENARD E. THE ROCK GA 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1969 HORIO THOMAS TERUO HONOLULU HI 03/27/73 REL BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1969 JACQUEZ JUAN L. SANTA FE NM 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE 98
1969 RYAN WILLIAM C. JR. BOGOTA NJ
1972 ALLMOND BARRY K. FORT WORTH TX CACCF REMAINS RECOVERED DIED WHILE MISSING LISTED ON WALL NOT AS POW/MIA
1972 BLASSIE MICHAEL JOSEPH ST LOUIS MO "FROM ""UNKNOWN"" TO KNOWN 06/30/98"
1972 HASELTON JOHN HERBERT NEWPORT VT 04/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 KITTINGER JOSEPH W. JR. ORLANDO FL 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 PADGETT JAMES P. CEDAR KEY FL 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 REICH WILLIAM J. CLINTON WI 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 STROBRIDGE RODNEY L. TORRANCE CA
1972 TALLEY WILLIAM H. SAYRE OK 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL IN 98
1972 WILLIAMS ROBERT J. DALEVILLE AL
The New York Times
We are supposed to feel really secure about dividing up Social Security, too. Private pensions aren't even upheld by the courts but yet we are supposed to annihilate SSI. I don't think so.
United Air Wins Right to Default on Its Employee Pension Plans
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
Published: May 11, 2005
United Airlines, which is operating in bankruptcy protection, received court permission yesterday to terminate its four employee pension plans, setting off the largest pension default in the three decades that the government has guaranteed pensions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/business/11air.html?hp&ex=1115870400&en=9b9ae0ca7d8254b4&ei=5094&partner=homepage
China Rules Out Using Sanctions to Pressure North Korea
By JOSEPH KAHN and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: May 11, 2005
BEIJING, May 10 - China on Tuesday ruled out applying economic or political sanctions to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, appearing to undercut a crucial element of the Bush administration's evolving North Korea strategy. The announcement comes just as American intelligence agencies are trying to determine whether North Korea is preparing for a nuclear test.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/international/asia/11korea.html?hp&ex=1115870400&en=f0fde2257bb11d8a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Haaretz
Ceremonies and sirens to mark Memorial Day
By Haaretz Staff and News Agencies
Wednesday's Memorial Day events will begin with the sounding of a two-minute siren at 11 A.M., and will be followed by ceremonies at military cemeteries throughout the country, in remembrance of the 20,368 victims of wars and acts of terror since the country was founded in 1948.
During the past year, 169 soldiers and 63 civilians were killed, most in attacks by Palestinians.
The central commemoration ceremony will begin at 11 A.M. at Mt. Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, attended by President Moshe Katsav, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574905.html
Gov't mulls severe new immigration, citizenship policy
By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent
A committee headed by Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz is formulating a new immigration policy for Israel that is expected to be as severe as any in Europe.
The most far-reaching proposal would prevent automatic citizenship for children of Israelis if the children were not born in Israel, or if only one parent is Israeli.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574856.html
Fashionable question. It's a sympathetic trigger to Bush's idiotic politics. This is the problem wth Bush's politiking international rather than being a president in pursuit of good will and policy.
Abbas questions Israel's belief in democracy
By News Agencies
BRASILIA, Brazil - Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas questioned Israel's belief in democracy on Tuesday after an Israeli official suggested a victory for Hamas militants in Palestinian parliamentary elections could put Israel's pull-out from Gaza at risk.
Abbas criticized a decision by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to postpone the withdrawal from Gaza by three weeks under what he said was the "pretext of religious celebrations in Israel."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574904.html
Disengagement Watch
The business dreams of the settlers are born of necessity
By Eli Ashkenazi
A year from now, guests at family celebrations may get to sample delicacies by Simona Barshishat. Barshishat, well-known in her community of Ganim for her specialty desserts, is enrolled in an entrepreneurship course, along with 10 other residents of Ganim and Kadim, the two settlements in northern Samaria slated for evacuation under the disengagement plan. Barshishat believes the course will give her appropriate tools for turning her hobby into a business.
The course was conceived several weeks ago, when the Jewish Agency's Settlement Department, Ariel's Small Business Development Center and the Samaria Regional Council saw a need to provide would-be evacuees with tools for navigating the period of uncertainty awaiting them.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573377.html
A graveyard with no dead
By Tom Segev
Not far from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - between the new U.S. embassy building, an institution that identifies itself with a splashy sign as a sauna for gays, and a street that bears the name of the philosopher Hannah Arendt - there is a large lot with an estimated value of more than 100 million euros in the real estate market, on which stand 1,172 stelae (slabs) made of dark concrete; they look like headstones in a cemetery. This is the new memorial to the Jews of Europe who were murdered by the Nazis. After stormy, emotion-charged debates lasting 17 years, the memorial will be dedicated next week in a state ceremony.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/572910.html
Boston Globe
The weapon of choice in NY City were grenades as well. This is getting interesting. Domestic terrorists mimic those of abroad. Very interesting. The British Consulate. Russian's Georgia.
Agents check report of grenade near Bush
May 10, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service was investigating a report Tuesday that a hand grenade was thrown at the stage during President Bush's speech in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/10/agents_check_report_of_grenade_near_bush/
High cost of housing leaves some Bay Staters stuck as renters
Middle-class families lack funds to escape apartments for homes
By Keith Reed, Globe Staff May 8, 2005
Three months ago, Stacey and Patrick Goodwin began to search for their first home.
What they found was frustration: With a combined income of $74,000, they could only get approved for a mortgage of $250,000. Concentrating their search in the Route 128 corridor, they could find nothing that suited them in that price range. Most of the condos they looked at would have carried at least an $1,800 monthly mortgage payment, $600 more than they spend on rent.
http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/2005/may/0508_renters.html
Germany dedicates Holocaust memorial
Prayers, dissent heard at Berlin opening ceremony
By Tony Czuczka, Associated Press May 11, 2005
BERLIN -- Germany dedicated its new national Holocaust memorial yesterday with a rabbi's prayer for the dead and a survivor's plea for reconciliation, but disagreement surfaced even at its opening over how to remember the 6 million Jews killed under the Nazis.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/11/germany_dedicates_holocaust_memorial/
Amnesty is offered to Taliban rebels
May 10, 2005
KABUL -- A senior Afghan official called yesterday on Taliban rebels to give up their fight under a government amnesty that, for the first time, would include wanted criminals and the rebel leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar. The offer was made by Sebaghatullah Mojadeddi, head of a commission seeking to make peace with Taliban-led militants. It came after US forces battled insurgents for five hours Sunday and two Marines and up to 23 rebels were killed. (Reuters)
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/10/amnesty_is_offered_to_taliban_rebels/
Blasts batter Iraq, killing scores
Suicide bombers strike; US forces sweep into region
By Antonio Castaneda, Associated Press May 11, 2005
BAGHDAD -- In three devastating attacks, suicide bombers killed at least 57 people and wounded more than 100 this morning, with victims ranging from police recruits in northern Iraq to migrant workers waiting at a small market in Saddam Hussein's hometown.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/05/11/blasts_batter_iraq_killing_scores/
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