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History . . .
Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962), American motion-picture actor, who became the most famous international sex symbol of the 20th century. Born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles, the daughter of an emotionally unstable mother, she spent a troubled childhood in foster homes and orphanages and at the age of 16 entered into an ill-fated marriage. In 1944, while working in a defense plant, she was noticed by a United States Army photographer who induced her to pose for posters for the troops. Instantly popular as a model, Monroe soon found other assignments and registered with a modeling agency, which sent her to charm school and put her on a number of magazine covers. She was signed by the 20th Century-Fox film studio in 1946 but had only two small film roles before she was dropped by the studio. In 1948 she was briefly under contract to Columbia Pictures, and although she was soon out of work again, this stint yielded appearances in a low-budget musical, Ladies of the Chorus (1949), and in the film Love Happy (1949), in which she had a bit part with the Marx Brothers.
1804, Mikhail Glinka, composer
1882, John Drinkwater, poet and playwright
1907, Sir Frank Whittle, aeronautical engineer (
1926, actress Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles
1933, John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court
1937, Morgan Freeman, actor
1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed
1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1831, British Arctic explorer John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross become the first Europeans to reach the magnetic north pole, on the Boothia Peninsula in northern Canada.
1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days - Homing pigeons are now extinct.
1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1907 -27ø F (-33ø C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1911 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
1921 Race riot in Tusla Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
1925, Baseball player Lou Gehrig pinch hits for Pee Wee Wanninger, beginning his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.
1938, Action Comics #1 is released, the first comic book featuring the Superman character created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.
1939 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
1939 1st televised heavyweight boxing match-Max Baer vs Lou Nova
1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1935 Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1943, a civilian flight from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
1944, the British Broadcasting Corp. aired a coded message intended to warn the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1946 Assault wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
1958, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1977, the Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky was imprisoned, then released in 1986.)
1980 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2543 Machado & #3411
1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1980, Cable News Network debuted.
1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1990 The Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1991 Mount Pinatubo (Phillipines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years
Missing in Action
1965 CROSBY FREDERICK P. ORLANDO FL GROUND FIRE CRASH EXPLODE
1966 BORLING JOHN L. CHICAGO IL 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1966 MYERS ARMAND J. MEDFORD OR 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1971 ANDRADE FATHER FRANCE FRENCH PRIEST RELEASED
1971 MAGERS PAUL G. SIDNEY NE
1971 WANN DONALD L. SHAWNEE OK
1975 MC DONALD HERMAN 08/76 LEFT SAIGON
Journalism at Risk
China says journalist 'admitted spying'
By Times Online, and Jane Macartney of The Times in Beijing
China said today that a detained journalist for an English-language newspaper has admitted spying for a foreign intelligence agency, but did not identify the agency or detail the accusations against the Hong Kong-based reporter.
Ching Cheong, 55, a Hong Kong national who works for The Straits Times, a Singaporean newspaper, was arrested in the southern city of Guangzhou on April 22 on suspicion of spying, the Foreign Ministry said. He had been trying to obtain a copies of interviews with Zhao Ziyang, the Communist leader who was purged after the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1635314,00.html
Ganji urges freedom of Iran's political prisoners
LONDON, May 31 - Iran's jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, who was out on leave for medical reasons, called for the release of political prisoners, journalists and students.
Ganji addressed a press conference at his residence on Monday, ISNA reported.
“I believe jailing political activists, journalists, students and webloggers is illegal and all these prisoners must be freed without any preconditions. Political prisoners have not committed any offense and they only think differently than the governing norms. Nowhere in the world thinking differently is considered a crime, unless violence is pursued. And none of our political prisoners have pursued violence.“
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=11594
SUDAN: Golden Pen honor goes to editor fighting for Sudan press freedom
Editor-in-chief of Sudan's Al Ayam Mahjoub Mohamed Salih garners WAN Golden Pen award for dedicating his life to press freedom
The Korea Herald
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Seoul -- Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Al-Ayam, Sudan's oldest independent newspaper, was awarded the 2005 WAN Golden Pen of Freedom Award yesterday at the opening ceremony of the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum.
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24975
What would Bono do?
Debt cancellation: Victories and challenges
By Mark Engler
Posted with permission from Foreign Policy in Focus
An old maxim of social reform movements (adapted from Schopenhauer's prickly take on the history of great ideas) states: "First they ignore you. Then they attack you. Then you win." For years, campaigners for debt relief in the developing world and their international supporters were dismissed or derided. For 2005, however, a new question has emerged: will they finally be able to claim victory?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GF01Dj01.html
Rates on college loans to rise from record lows
In-school rates to jump 1.93 percentage points, Sallie Mae reports
NEW YORK - Interest rates on federally backed loans for college students are set to jump by a record amount on July 1, the Department of Education said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8049882/
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http://automobiles.honda.com/models/model_overview.asp?ModelName=Accord+Hybrid&BrowserDetected=True&bhcp=1
RAI Novosti
Khodorkovsky to give press conference from jail
MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - In an unprecedented move, former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was sentenced along with his business partner Platon Lebedev, to nine years in prison today, intends to give a news conference from jail, his lawyer Anton Drel said. This will be the first-ever news conference from jail in Russian history, Drel said. "Freedom is my living space," Drel quoted Khodorkovsky as saying. The former Yukos CEO intends to appeal the verdict. "It is highly important for me to gain truth and justice in my native country," Drel quoted Khodorkovsky as saying.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050531/40448948.html
Georgia not to station military units in areas Russian army bases are to vacate - defense minister
TBILISI, May 31 (RIA Novosti's Marina Kvaratskhelia) - The Georgian Defense Ministry does not intend to station its armed units on the sites Russian military bases are to vacate.
"We are not planning to station our military units in the former army bases. Akhalkalaki will be the only exception. But then, it will not be a base. We are drafting an employment program for Georgian nationals presently on the personnel of that Russian army base," Georgian Defense Minister Irakly Okruashvili said.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050531/40450471.html
Georgian parliament focuses on probe into former prime minister's death
TBILISI, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - The probe into former prime minister Zurab Zhvaniya's death made a stir at a plenary session of the Georgian parliament on Tuesday.
Parliamentarian Bezhan Gunava particularly questioned the competence of investigators, who, in his words, were inclined to accept the hypothesis of an accident and denied Zhvaniya's possible murder. Gunava was supported by representatives of the Right Opposition faction, conservatives and the Republican Party.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050531/40450404.html
No need to deploy new military base in Kyrgyzstan - head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
BISHKEK, May 31 (RIA Novosti, Yulia Orlova) - There is no need to deploy a military base in southern Kyrgyzstan, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSO) Nikolai Bordyuzha said on Tuesday. The CSTO comprises Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia.
"I don't know why the base should be deployed," he said and explained that CSTO bases could not and would not be used in case of intrastate conflicts even if they posed a threat to regional security. "In such cases, strong and consolidated law enforcement agencies should act. There is no need for military bases," Bordyuzha said.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050531/40450153.html
International creature crew launches into space
MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - Cuban crayfishes, Georgian snails, geckos and Spanish ribbed newts made up a special international research team setting off Tuesday in a Soyuz LV from the renowned Gagarin launch site on the Russian Baikonur space center, according to the Institute of Medico-Biological Problems.
"The container with Cuban fresh-water crayfishes, several gecko reptiles, Spanish ribbed newts and microorganisms has been orbited for a 16-day mission within the Foton biological research program," head of the institute's gravitation biology laboratory Murad Tairbekov, said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050531/40449748.html
The Cheney Observer
Wolfowitz at the World Bank door
By Emad Mekay and Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a chief architect of one of the most unpopular wars in US history, is President George W Bush's choice to head the World Bank, the
world's largest development agency. His nomination has sparked a wave of outrage among independent development groups, who blame him for promoting unilateralism and militarism in US foreign policy, and for a lack of transparency in bidding for reconstruction contracts in Iraq.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GC18Dj01.html
Thousands protest to `bring the troops home now!'
Thousands of people rallied in cities and towns across Australia on March 18-20 to mark the second anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The protests demanded that PM John Howard reverse his decision to send more Australian troops to Iraq, and called for all the troops to be brought home.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/620/620p3.htm
Ex-Wife of Neil Bush, the President's Brother, Settles Slander Case Over Paternity Allegation
HOUSTON Mar 21, 2005 — The ex-wife of President Bush's brother Neil has settled a slander case accusing her of spreading rumors that Neil Bush fathered a child with his mistress. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed. DNA testing last year showed Neil Bush did not father the boy, then 3.
Sharon and Neil Bush divorced in 2003 after 23 years of marriage. Neil Bush then married Maria Andrews Bush last March. She was formerly married to Robert Andrews, who was established as the boy's father by DNA testing.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=602396
Operation Desperation: Rumsfeld’s Baghdad Fiasco
by Mike Whitney
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 31, 2005
“I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”
-- Vice President Dick Cheney, assessing the strength of the insurgency on CNN’s Larry King Show, May 30, 2005
No one could have dreamed that two years after Bush declared “Mission Accomplished”, 40,000 Iraqi security personnel and 10,000 American soldiers would be needed to pacify Baghdad, but that, in fact, is the underlying meaning of Rumsfeld’s Operation Lightening. Simply put, the magnitude of the failure exceeds our wildest expectations.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Whitney0531.htm
Cheney daughters keep politics in the family
By Todd Purdum
Washington
June 1, 2005
Mary Cheney, daughter of the US Vice- President, is writing her memoirs.
Photo: AP
The big sister is the first deputy assistant secretary of state ever to have her own Secret Service detail, having passed up lucrative offers to become a television commentator for the privilege of promoting democracy in the Middle East.
The little sister may well be the first previously unknown presidential campaign aide to earn a million-dollar advance for her memoirs. But Elizabeth and Mary Cheney are no ordinary siblings - and their parents, US Vice-President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne, are no ordinary mother and father.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Cheney-daughters-keep-politics-in-the-family/2005/05/31/1117305614895.html
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