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History. . .
1870, Jan Christiaan Smuts, prime minister of South Africa
1899, Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player
1905, Mikhail Sholokhov, novelist
1941, Bob Dylan, American musician and songwriter, one of the most important figures in contemporary folk music and rock music. Dylan’s songs of social protest, such as “Blowin' in the Wind” (1962) and “The Times They Are A-Changin'” (1964), became indelibly associated with the civil rights movement in the United States. Later Dylan was recognized as a rock icon and a gifted, prolific songwriter.
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written
1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America's first telegraph line.
1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
1854 Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts
1856 Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
1861 Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
881, some 200 people died when the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sank near London, Ontario.
In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was opened to traffic.
1883: The Brooklyn Bridge, linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, is opened to traffic; at the time, it is the longest suspension bridge in the world.
1935: The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the first major league baseball game to be played at night under the floodlights.
1951 Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal
1951 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1951 Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1958 "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 432 performances
1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
1964 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1970 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panamá Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980, Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages.
1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
1981 Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students
1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hours
1987 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes
1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
1988 Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe
1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres
1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1992 Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4 million settlement
1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey
1997 Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Michigan
Missing in Action
1968 RUCKER EMMETT JR. WICHITA FALLS TX
1968 SHANKS JAMES LEE OYSTER POINT NY
1969 MANSKE CHARLES J. EL CAMPO TX
1969 MONTEZ ANASTACIO PRESIDIO TX
1972 BEELER CARROLL R. FRISCO TX 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 HENN JOHN R. JR. SUTTON MA
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1707, Carolus Linnaeus, naturalist
1883, Douglas Fairbanks, American film actor and producer, noted especially for the daring athletic feats and expert swordsmanship that highlighted his performances. He was born in Denver, Colorado, and educated at the Colorado School of Mines and at Harvard University. After a short period with a Wall Street brokerage firm, he turned to the stage in 1901. During the following 14 years he rose to stardom, appearing in a variety of roles. In 1915 he entered films, eventually forming his own producing company. As a star he was one of the most popular actors of his day, starring in such films as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925), The Black Pirate (1926), The Gaucho (1927), The Iron Mask (1929), and The Taming of the Shrew (1929). In association with his second wife (the actor Mary Pickford), the director D. W. Griffith, and the actor-director-producer Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks founded the film-producing company United Artists, Inc., in 1919.
1910 Artie Shaw, jazz clarinetist, bandleader, and composer (1910)
1951, Anatoly Karpov, chess player
1059 Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
1275 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
1421 Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1533 King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1533, the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1618 2nd Defenestration of Prague; the beginning of the 30 Years War
1785, In a letter, Benjamin Franklin describes his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses; the upper portion of the lens is ground for distance and the lower part for reading.
1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1873: The North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is established as Canada's national police force; officers are popularly called Mounties.
1873 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms
1873 Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for 1st time
1876 1st National League no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
1911: The administrative center of the New York Public Library opens on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd streets in Manhattan.
Through the combined resources of the Tilden Trust and the Astor and Lenox libraries, the New York Public Library was founded on this day in 1895. The New York Public Library offers information on its history, collections, exhibits, and services.
http://www.nypl.org/
1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1934: Notorious partners-in-crime Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, commonly known as Bonnie and Clyde, are shot to death in a police ambush in Louisiana.
1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 Submarine Squalis sinks off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Fransisco
1958 Mao Tse Tung starts "Great leap forward" movement in China
1960, Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichmann was tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962.
1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1970 Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of the US (England)
1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale
1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic
1977, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeals of former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell in connection with their Watergate convictions.
1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
1982 Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1985, Thomas Patrick Cavanagh, an aerospace engineer who admitted trying to sell "stealth" bomber secrets to the Soviet Union, was sentenced in Los Angeles to life in prison.
1993 Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
Missing in Action
1965 WALKER ORIEN JUDSON BOSTON MA 02/01/66 PROB DEAD
1967 HOMUTH RICHARD W. SPRING VALLEY CA SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT
1967 PETTIS THOMAS E. MOBILE AL SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT
1967 SCHMITTOU EUREKA LAVERN RINGGOLD TX SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT
1967 SOUCY RONALD PHILIP WHITTING LAKE IN SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT
1968 COCHRAN ISOM CARTER JR. HOUSTON TX
1968 LANE GLEN O. ODESSA TX
1968 OWEN ROBERT D. CHATHAM VA
1968 SCHRUMP RAYMOND C. TOMAHAWK WI 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED ALIVE IN 96
1969 BENTON GREGORY R. VALLEJO CA FAMILY STATES NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN
1969 RAMIREZ ARMANDO WILLCOX AZ
1972 BYRNS WILLIAM G. ST. LOUIS MO 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 1996/98
1972 BEAN WILLIAM R. JR. FT PAYNE AL 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 BARNETT CHARLES E. HOUSTON TX BODY FELL IN FIELD-NHAN DAN REMAINS RETURNED 02/22/89
The Boston Globe
House dives into stem cell debate
By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer May 24, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Ignoring President Bush's veto threat, the House plunged into the dispute over stem cell research Tuesday, debating a bill that supporters said could accelerate cures for diseases but opponents viewed as akin to abortion.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/24/house_considers_loosening_stem_cell_rules/
Officials: Four other patients were killed by rodent virus
By Eric Tucker, Associated Press Writer May 24, 2005
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A day after health officials disclosed that three transplant recipients in New England died after being infected by a rodent virus contracted by the donor, officials in Wisconsin on Tuesday said four other patients died under similar circumstances in 2003.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/05/24/rare_rodent_virus_blamed_for_deaths_of_three_transplant_patients/
The center holds clout
By Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff May 24, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Emerging from their weeks of negotiations like a long-sequestered jury, Senate moderates delivered a stunning verdict to the White House and Congress: Politicians have spent too much time rallying their bases of support and not enough time coming together in the national interest.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/24/the_center_holds_clout/
Report: breast cancer rate decreased from 1998 to 2002
May 24, 2005
BOSTON -- The breast cancer rate in Massachusetts dropped between 1998 and 2002, but the rate of all cancer cases and deaths changed little during that period, state health officials said Tuesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/24/report_breast_cancer_rate_decreased_from_1998_to_2002/
Shiite leader: Iraq civil war avoidable
By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press Writer May 24, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite political party expressed certainty Tuesday that a civil war will not break out in his country despite an increase in violence.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/24/shiite_leader_iraq_civil_war_avoidable/
The Middle East Times
You might want to ask yourself did Laura address any of these women's issues.
Female television presenter shot dead in Kabul
May 20, 2005
KABUL -- Unknown gunmen on Wednesday shot dead a female television presenter in Kabul who once worked for a music program similar to MTV that had upset radical Islamic clerics, police said.
"Yes I can confirm that she was killed," said city police chief Mohammad Akram Khakrizwal. But he added that there was no known motive for the murder of 24-year-old Shaima Rezayee.
"We don't have more information at this point. Our unit has gone to the site and is investigating," Khakrizwal said.
Rezayee was sacked from the private-run Tulo TV in March that hosted her music program after it was heavily criticized by clerics. She had not worked since.
Tulo, one of several private TV channels launched after the fall of the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001, has also been the target of criticism by Islamic radicals.
Khakrizwal said that the police counter-criminal unit was investigating the murder that took place in Kabul's Char Qala district.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050520-041350-4810r
Kenyan magistrate rejects journalist's attempt to sue first lady for assault
May 18, 2005
PRIVATE SUIT: Kenyan cameraman Clifford Derrick Otieno smiles as he leaves the Chief Magistrate's Court in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 16. Otieno filed a private suit against Kenya’s first lady, Lucy Muthoni Kibaki, for assault and damage of property.
(REUTERS)
NAIROBI -- A Kenyan magistrate on Wednesday upheld the state's decision to block a cameraman from suing the volatile wife of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki for allegedly assaulting him and breaking his camera when she stormed into a newsroom to protest against unfair coverage.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050518-082750-5456r
Saudi advisory body shelves proposal to lift women's driving ban
May 23, 2005
RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia's appointed consultative council has shelved a proposal by one of its members to lift the ban on women's driving in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, newspapers reported on Monday.
According to Al-Watan a decision on whether the issue will be debated has been put off until the speaker of the Shura council returns from an official visit to Canada.
But the leading daily Al-Riyadh quoted the deputy speaker of the 150-strong body, Mahmoud Tiba, as telling the council during a session on Sunday that issues such as lifting the driving ban "should be discussed by the highest religious authority in the country".
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050523-071352-8902r
Murdered photographer case still open, Iranian judiciary says
May 17, 2005
TEHRAN -- Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday that the case of murdered Canadian-Iranian photographer Zahra Kazemi was still open, even though the first appeals hearing into the affair was wrapped up in less than an hour.
Judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimi-Rad told reporters that a new hearing would be held on July 25 and more witnesses heard.
His comments came the day after lawyers representing the family of Kazemi complained that an appeals hearing had lasted just an hour and that the judge refused to hear their demands for a fresh investigation.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050517-060850-1766r
Afghanistan faces shortage of women in new parliament
May 23, 2005
KABUL -- Afghanistan faces the prospect of not having enough women to fill parliamentary seats reserved for them in the war-torn country's first post-Taliban legislative elections due to a lack of candidates, officials said on Sunday.
"Countrywide, we are short of 18 female candidates for provincial councils," Afghanistan Electoral Commission chairman Bismillah Bismil said less than two days before registration closes for most candidates.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050523-070744-3017r
Man throws acid in face of ex-fiancée in Jordan
May 17, 2005
AMMAN -- A man blinded by jealousy threw acid in his former fiancée's face to try to make sure that she could not marry anyone else, the Jordanian news agency Petra reported on Monday.
It said that the man's constant demands for his fiancée to "stop speaking to others, quit her job and stay at home" had forced her to break off their engagement.
The woman suffered "serious burns that could also permanently affect her eyesight", Petra said, without identifying the couple. Her family has filed a court case against the assailant.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050517-035950-8440r
Women rights activists arrested for demanding the right to run with men
AFP
May 16, 2005
THE RIGHT TO RUN: Pakistani police personnel detain human rights activists in Lahore on May 14, at the start of a mini-marathon in the eastern city of Lahore, after they defied a ban on the two sexes running together.
(REUTERS)
LAHORE -- A group of female rights activists were arrested on Saturday after attempting to lead a rally demanding women the right to run in marathons alongside men.
Among the arrested were Pakistan's internationally known human rights activist Asma Jehangir, witnesses said.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050516-061551-8086r
Saudi women rated least free in Arab world
May 23, 2005
Shuneh, JORDAN -- Saudi Arabia received the lowest rating on women's freedom in a new survey released at the World Economic Forum in Shuneh, Jordan, on Saturday.
The survey, conducted by the Freedom House, is the first comparative assessment of women's rights in 17 nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
It found a "substantial deficit of women's rights ... Women are at a profound disadvantage in practically every institution of society, the criminal justice system, the economy, education, healthcare and the media."
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050523-065123-8796r
Haaertz
PA presents Israel with troop plan during pullout
By Aluf Benn, Amos Harel and Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies
Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Nasser Yousef presented Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz with the plan the PA is formulating for deploying its security forces in the Gaza Strip during the implementation of the disengagement plan and afterwards.
The plan was discussed at the security coordination meeting held in Tel Aviv. Mofaz was not impressed, and claimed that the plan is superficial and unsatisfactory.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/578856.html
The Vietnam News
The rocks have got soul in Ninh Binh
The jutting rocks and picturesque grottoes of Ninh Binh gave birth to a millenium-old tradition of stone-carving. Binh Nguyen is transfixed.
From afar the Ngo Giang River looks like a thin thread zig-zagging through jutting rocks and grottoes of the Ninh Binh region.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=04SUN220505
Students to surf the internet in hostels
(19-05-2005)
HA NOI — Students from Ha Noi’s College of Foreign Languages, under the Viet Nam National University (VNU), will soon benefit from internet access after school officials opted to experiment with dormitory computers and connections.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01EDU190505
Bird flu patient dies in Ha Noi
(21-05-2005)
HA NOI — A man admitted to the Institute for Clinical Research into Tropical Diseases with bird flu last Monday has died.
Nguyen Tien Cuu, 46, from Binh Kieu Commune in the Khoai Chau District of Hung Yen Province, about 40km west of Ha Noi, arrived in a very critical condition with lung inflammation and weak kidneys, says the Health Ministry.
He died on Thursday.
Two other patients undergoing treatment at the institute have tested positive for bird flu.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01HEA210505
Healthcare projects benefit minorities
HA NOI — Nearly 1.8 million ethnic minority residents in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces will have access to quality health care services thanks to an expanded government programme launched last week.
The US$30.6 million community-based people’s health care scheme – originally envisaged last year and expected to contribute substantially to the Government’s poverty reduction efforts – will target the lower-income people among the Tay Nguyen’s 4.7 million population, half of whom have poor educational and health status. Ministry of Health (MoH) statistics reveal that 2.1 million people in the region live below the Government’s new poverty line.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01HEA200505
Lack of awareness on food safety fuels rash of Thai Binh poisonings
THAI BINH — Inadequate monitoring of food hygiene standards by authorities has been blamed for an alarming number of food poisoning cases in the northern province of Thai Binh.
Ten cases of food poisoning were reported in Thai Binh in the first four months of the year, of which several were serious. In one incident, Poongshin Vina, a South Korea-invested clothing company, had to take 20 workers to the hospital.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01HEA180505
Official warns of summer epidemic risk
(16-05-2005)
HA NOI — Vice director of the Department for Preventive Medicine and HIV/AIDS Control, Dr. Nguyen Van Binh, has warned that the current spate of hot weather is likely to increase the frequency and intensity of disease epidemics.
Binh voiced particular concern about possible breakouts of dengue fever and encephalitis among children in northern and central regions of Viet Nam.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01HEA160505
Sea medical centre built in Hai Phong
(16-05-2005)
HAI PHONG — The construction of a new Viet Nam Sea Medical Institute, conjointly organised by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Hai Phong City People’s Committee, began in Hai Phong on Saturday.
Located in the city’s Du Hang Kenh Ward, Le Chan District, and costing around VND100 billion (US$6.37 million), the 3ha complex will comprise a futuristic 7-storey central building which will accommodate rescue helicopters, a three-storey building dedicated to maritime rescue operations and telemedicine treatment, and a four-star quality compound dedicated to training, research and medicinal treatment, complete with a park, swimming pool, library, gymnasium and car park. The MoH expects the project to be completed by late 2007.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02HEA160505
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