Milestones

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and here Welsh Web comment on one of the events
For anyone wondering, here's the lyrics to Louie, Louie. I was surprised at the actual theme. All these years I figured it was some sort of surfing song.

CHORUS:

Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go

Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home

CHORUS

Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, constantly
On that ship, I dream she's there
I smell the rose in her hair.

CHORUS

Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!

GUITAR SOLO

See Jamaica, the moon above
It won't be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I'll never leave again

CHORUS

Let's take it on outa here now
Let's go!!

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/louielouielyrics.html

and a Hugh site with lyrics
enjoy

 

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May 18 was the festival of the god Pan in Ancient Greece. Pan was the Greek god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. He had the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. It is likely that the demonized images of the incubus and even the horns and cloven hooves of Satan, as depicted in much Christian literature and art, were taken from the images of the highly sexual Pan.
This was also the Festival of Faunus in Ancient Rome. In Roman mythology, Pan's counterpart Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities. Faunus was a good spirit of the forest, plains, and fields; when he made cattle fertile he was called Inuus. Faunus was known as the father or husband or brother of Bona Dea (Fauna, his feminine side) and Latinus by the nymph Marica (who was also sometimes Faunus' mother). Fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Educated Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, who were wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus, with a distinct origin.
332. Constantine the Great announces the free distribution of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
1152. Henry II marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess of Poitou, was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the High Middle Ages. She was Queen consort of both France and England in turn and the mother of both King Richard I and King John. She is well known for her involvement in the Second Crusade.
1268. The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch; Baibars' destruction of Antioch was so great as to permanently negate the city's importance. He razed the city and killed or enslaved the population. Antioch had been weakened by its previous struggles with Armenia and internal power struggles. With the fall of Antioch, the rest of Syria quickly fell and the influence of the Franks in Syria was at an end.
1302. French troops are slaughered in the Bruges Matins. The Bruges Matins or Brugse Metten was the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by the members of the local Flemish militia on 18 May 1302. The title of the massacre was an analogy to the Sicilian Vespers. The massacre has been compared to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. This revolt led to the Battle of the Golden Spurs, which saw the lemish militia defeat French troops on 11 July 1302.
During the night of 18 May 1302, armed insurrectionists entered the houses where the French were garrisoned. According to tradition, to distinguish the French from the natives, they asked suspects to repeat the shibboleth: "schild en vriend" which means "shield and friend" a sentence difficult to pronounce for a French speaker. Another version suggests the alternative "des gildens vriend", "friend of the guilds". Only the governor, Jacques de Châtillon, and a handful of the French managed to escape with their lives.
1498. Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India. He was one of the most successful explorers in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. For a short time in 1524 he was the Governor of Portuguese India, under the title of Viceroy.
1565. The Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
1593. Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. About 1587 Kyd entered the service of a noble, possibly Ferdinando Stanley Lord Strange, who sponsored a company of actors. He may have worked as a secretary, if he did not also write plays. Around 1591 Christopher Marlowe also joined this patron's service, and for a while Marlowe and Kyd shared lodgings, and perhaps even ideas.
On May 11, 1593 the Privy Council ordered the arrest of the authors of "divers lewd and mutinous libels" which had been posted around London. The next day, Kyd was among those arrested; he would later believe that he had been the victim of an informer. His lodgings were searched and instead of evidence of the "libels" there was found an Arianist tract, described by an investigator as "vile heretical conceits denying the eternal deity of Jesus Christ our LORD and Saviour found amongst the papers of Thos. Kydd (sic), prisoner ... which he affirmeth he had from C. Marley (sic)." It is believed that Kyd was tortured brutally to obtain this information. Marlowe was summoned by the Privy Council afterwards and, while waiting for a decision on his case, was killed in an incident involving known government agents. Kyd was eventually released but was not accepted back into his lord's service. Believing he was under suspicion of atheism himself, he wrote to the Lord Keeper, Sir John Puck, protesting his innocence, but his efforts to clear his name were apparently fruitless. The last we hear from the playwright is the publication of Cornelia early in 1594. In the dedication to the Countess of Sussex he alludes to the "bitter times and privy broken passions" he had endured. Kyd died later that year, and was buried on August 15 in London, He was only 35 years of age.
1631. In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts -- again. He was first elected governor of his colony on April 8, 1630. Between 1631 and 1648 he was voted out of governorship and re-elected a total of 12 times. As governor he was one of the least radical of the Puritans, trying to keep the number of executions for heresy to a minimum and working to prevent the implementation of more conservative practices such as veiling women, which many Puritans supported.
Winthrop is most famous for his "City upon a Hill" sermon (as it is known popularly, its real title being A Model of Christian Charity), in which he declared that the Puritan colonists emigrating to the New World were part of a special pact with God to create a holy community. Contemporary American politicians, like Ronald Reagan, have continued to cite John Winthrop as a source of inspiration.
1652. Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
1756. The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France. The Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. In the historiography of some countries, the war is alternatively named after combats in the respective theaters: the French and Indian War (North America, 1754–63), Pomeranian War (Sweden and Prussia, 1757–62), Third Carnatic War (Indian subcontinent, 1757–63), and Third Silesian War (Prussia and Austria, 1756–63).
1783. The First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
The United Empire Loyalists were American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War. Some sought to recover fortunes (land and private property) lost under laws enacted by the Continental Congress as a way of financing the revolution. Most, however, are believed to have fled north to escape persecution and because they rejected the republican ideals of the American Revolution, which they regarded as anarchistic.
Many of the Loyalists were forced to abandon substantial amounts of property, and restoration or compensation for this lost property was a major issue during the negotiation of the Jay Treaty in 1795. Negotiations rested on the concept of the American negotiators "advising" the Congress to provide restitution. For the English this concept carried significant legal weight, far more than it did with the Americans; the U. S. Congress declined to accept the advice. More than two centuries later, some of the descendants of Loyalists still assert claims to their ancestors' property in the United States.
1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1860. Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State in the Lincoln Administration..
1876. Wyatt Earp starts work as a lawman in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Larry Deger. Earp was appointed assistant marshal in Dodge City. There is some indication that Earp traveled to Deadwood in the Dakota Territory, during the winter of 1876-77. He was not on the police force in Dodge City in the later part of 1877, although he is listed as being on the force in the spring.
His presence in Dodge as a private citizen is substantianted by a July notice in the newspaper that he was fined $1.00 for slapping a muscular prostitute named Frankie Bell, who (according to the papers) "...heaped epithets upon the unoffending head of Mr. Earp to such an extent as to provide a slap from the ex-officer..". Bell spent the night in jail and was fined costs of $20.00, while Earp's fine was the legal minimum.
1897. Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and repressed sexuality, immigration, and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Though the most famous vampire novel ever, Dracula was not the first. It was preceded and partly inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's 1871Carmilla about a lesbian vampire who preys on a lonely young woman. The image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocratic man, like the character of Dracula, was created by John Polidori in The Vampyre (1819), during the summer spent with Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley and other friends in 1816.
The Dead Un-Dead was one of Stoker's original titles for Dracula, and up until a few weeks before publication, the manuscript was titled simply The Un-Dead. The name of Stoker's count was originally going to be Count Vampyre, but while doing research, Stoker ran across an intriguing word in the Romanian language: "Dracul," meaning "Devil." There was also a historic figure known as Vlad the Impaler, but whether Stoker based his character on him remains debated.

 

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1910. The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley. Halley's Comet, officially designated 1P/Halley and also referred to as Comet Halley after Edmond Halley, is a comet that can be seen every 75–76 years. It is the most famous of all periodic comets. Although in every century many long-period comets appear brighter and more spectacular, Halley is the only short-period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye, and thus, the only naked-eye comet certain to return within a human lifetime. Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System in 1986, and will next appear in mid 2061.
Some theologians have suggested that the comet's appearance in 12 BC might explain the Biblical story of the Star of Bethlehem.
In 1066, the comet was seen in England and thought to be an omen: later that year Harold II of England died at the Battle of Hastings. Thus it was a bad omen for Harold, but a good omen for William the Conqueror. Shown on the Bayeux Tapestry (see picture), and the accounts which have been preserved represent it as having then appeared to be four times the size of Venus, and to have shone with a light equal to a quarter of that of the Moon.
In 1456, the comet passed very close to the Earth; its tail extended over 60° of the heavens and took the form of a scimitar. According to one story, Pope Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of the comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade, who were at that time being besieged by the armies of the Ottoman Empire.
1917. Some six weeks after the United States formally entered the First World War, the U.S Congress passes the Selective Service Act, giving the U.S. president the power to draft soldiers.
1926. Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California, beach. McPherson also known as "Sister Aimee" or simply "Sister," was an evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s; she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church.
On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned
After 35 days (on June 23), McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. There were glaring holes in her story, however, and rumors soon surfaced that she had been off on a tryst with a married (though legally separated) man.
McPherson continued her ministry after the controversy over the alleged abduction diminished, but she fell out of favor with the press. While she and her ministry still received a good deal of publicity, most of it was bad. Additionally, she became involved in power struggles for the church with her mother and daughter. McPherson suffered a nervous breakdown in August 1930.
1927. In the Bath School Disaster, forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan. The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–14 years of age) attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest mass murder in a school in U.S. history. This attack ranks as the third-deadliest act of terrorism in the United States, after the Oklahoma City bombing and September 11 attacks.
The bomber was school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe, 55, who was ostensibly enraged about a property tax levied to fund the construction of the school building. He blamed the additional tax for financial hardships which led to foreclosure proceedings against his farm. These events apparently provoked Kehoe to plan his attack. He died in a car bomb he set off after he drove up to the school as the crowd gathered to rescue survivors from the burning school.
1933. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1943. Adolf Hitler launches Operation Alaric, the German occupation of Italy in the event its Axis partner either surrendered or switched its allegiance. This operation was considered so top secret that Hitler refused to issue a written order. Instead, he communicated verbally his desire that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel should assemble and ultimately command 11 divisions for the occupation of Italy to prevent an Allied foothold in the peninsula.
1944. In World War II, the Battle of Monte Cassino ends as German troops evacuate and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives.
1953. Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1958. An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
1965. Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
1969. Apollo 10 lifts off for the Moon. Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon, and the test of the lunar module in lunar orbit. The module came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers.
According to the 2001 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 has the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle: 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph). The speed record was set during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969.
1974. The Warsaw radio mast is completed. The mast was the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
1974. In project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1980. Mount St. Helens erupts in the U.S. state of Washington, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption in the 20th century. The eruption was the most significant to occur in the lower 48 U.S. states in recorded history, exceeding the destructive power and volume of material released by the 1915 eruption of California's Lassen Peak.
An earthquake at 8:32 a.m. on May 18, 1980, caused the entire weakened north face to slide away, suddenly exposing the partly molten, gas- and steam-rich rock in the volcano to lower pressure. The rock responded by exploding into a super-heated mix of pulverized lava and older rock that sped toward Spirit Lake so fast that it quickly passed the avalanching north face.
A volcanic ash column rose high into the atmosphere and deposited ash in eleven U.S. states. (See picture.) At the same time, snow, ice, and several entire glaciers on the mountain melted, forming a series of large lahars (volcanic mudslides) that reached as far as the Columbia River. By the time the ash settled, 57 people (including innkeeper Harry Truman and geologist David A. Johnston) and thousands of animals were dead, hundreds of square miles reduced to wasteland, over a billion U.S. dollars in damage had occurred, and the once-graceful face of Mount St. Helens was scarred with a huge crater opened on the north side of the mountain. The area was later preserved, as it was, in the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
1983. In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
1989. A crowd of protesters, estimated to number more than one million, marches through the streets of Beijing calling for a more democratic political system. Just a few weeks later, the Chinese government moved to crush the protests.
1990. In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record -- 515.3km/h -- superseding the previous record of 406.9km/h set by the German InterCityExperimental train.
1993. Riots break out in Nørrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
1998. The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
2004. Randy Johnson becomes the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game; the 40-year-old lefty retired all 27 batters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0.
2006. The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2011. The United States announces plans to impose sanctions on the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and six members of his government, for alleged human rights breaches during the 2011 Syrian uprising.
Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Russia, warns of a potential new Cold War if the United States does not listen to Russia's concerns about its proposed missile defense system.
Meanwhile, a tornado hits the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the first time since 1999

 

[ERIN the Brave]

Mmmm,love the pics...and thanks for the history lesson.

 

[Eulalia]

20th May, two groups of Virgin Martyrs:

Cyriaca and her companions (307): six girls, all burnt at the stake in Nicomedia(= Izmit in Turkey), residence of the eastern emperor Maximinian Galerius.

Potentiana (or Pudentiana) and Praxedes (around 150): Roman girls, daughters of St Pudens. While there is evidence for the life of Pudens, there is no direct evidence for either Pudentiana or Praxedes. According to legend, Potentiana died at 16, possibly a martyr. Both girls are buried next to their father in the Catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria. The Spanish Conquistador, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, who founded the city of Manila, gained possession of the territory on 19 May 1571, and declared Potenciana (Spanish form) patron saint of what is now the Philippines.

 

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1536. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery. King Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, were part of the complex beginning of the considerable political and religious upheaval which was the English Reformation, with Anne herself actively promoting the cause of Church reform. She wielded immense political influence and has been called "the most influential and important queen consort England has ever had."
She is popularly remembered because she was beheaded on charges of adultery, incest and treason. Cheating on the king was considered "treason" in those days. Despite this, belief in her innocence was widespread and she was later celebrated as a martyr in English Protestant culture. Her life has been adapted for numerous novels, plays, operas, television dramas and motion pictures, includingAnne of the Thousand Days, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Tudors and The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
Lord and Lady Kingston, the keepers of the Tower, reported that Anne seemed very happy, and ready to be done with life. She was reported to have said, when Lord Kingston brought her the news that the King had commuted her sentence from burning to beheading, and had employed a swordsman from Calais for the execution, rather than having a Queen beheaded with the common axe: "He shall not have much trouble, for I have a little neck. I shall be known as La Reine sans tête ['The Headless Queen']!"
They came for Anne on the morning of May 19th to take her to the Tower Green, where she was to be afforded the dignity of a private execution. The Constable of the Tower wrote this of her: "I have seen many men and also women executed, and that they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy in death."
She wore a plain, dark gown with a mantle of ermine. Her long, dark hair was bound up and she wore a headdress, although sources are contradictory about what else she wore beyond these specific points.
She then knelt upright (in French-style executions, with a sword, there was no block.) Her final prayer consisted of her repeating, "To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul." Her ladies removed the headdress and tied a blindfold over her eyes. The execution was swift, comprising of a single stroke. According to one tale, the swordsman was so taken with Anne that he said, "Where is my sword?" and then beheaded her so she would think that she had just a few moments longer to live and would not know that the sword was coming.

 

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May 19 has seen a mysterious darkness in mid-afternoon, the sultry serenade of a U.S. president by a Hollywood sex symbol, the arrest of one queen and the execution of another.
988. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies. On the vigil of Ascension Day, it is recorded that a vision of angels warned he would die in three days. On the feast day itself, Dunstan said Mass and preached three times to the people. In this last address, he announced his impending death and wished his congregation well. That afternoon he chose the spot for his tomb, then went to his bed. His strength failed rapidly, and on Saturday morning, May 19, he caused the clergy to assemble. Mass was celebrated in his presence, then he received Extreme Unction and the Viaticum, and died.
1445. John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. The war was in part prompted by the decrees of John II of Castile and his aide Álvaro de Luna that rents, that is taxes, from the town of Medina del Campo would be paid to his administration, rather than that of John II of Aragon, also of Navarre. The latter king invaded Castile, aided by his brother Alfonso V of Aragón. The Castilian king departed from Medina del Campo, and met the invasion at Olmedo, where he was successful. The infante (prince) Henry of Aragon, the younger brother of Alfonso and John, died of his wounds a few days later in Calatayud.
1499. Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12. They did not live happily ever after.
Arthur was sent to Ludlow Castle on the borders of Wales to preside over the Council of Wales and the Marches, as was his duty as Prince of Wales, and his bride accompanied him. A few months later, they both became ill. He died on April 2, 1502, and she almost died too, but recovered to find herself a widow. At this point, Henry VII faced the challenge of avoiding returning her dowry to her father. To avoid complications, it was agreed she would marry Henry VII's second son, Henry, Duke of York, who was five years younger than her. They were married for 24 years but Catherine's inability to produce a male heir caused Henry VIII to look elsewhere.
Henry VIII's attempt to have their marriage annulled set in motion a chain of events that led to England's break with the Roman Catholic Church. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters. This allowed him to marry Anne Boleyn on the judgment of clergy in England, without reference to the Pope. He was motivated by the hope of fathering a male heir to the Tudor dynasty. Catherine refused to accept Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and considered herself the King's rightful wife and Queen until her death.
1535. French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage).
1568. Queen Elizabeth I of England has Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
1588. A massive Spanish fleet, known as the "Invincible Armada," sets sail from Lisbon on a mission to secure control of the English Channel and transport a Spanish invasion army to Britain from the Netherlands.
In the late 1580s, Queen Elizabeth's support of the Dutch rebels in the Spanish Netherlands led King Philip II of Spain to plan the conquest of England. A giant Spanish invasion fleet was completed by 1587, but Sir Francis Drake's daring raid on the port of Cadiz delayed the Armada's departure until May 1588.
On July 21, the outnumbered English navy began bombarding the seven-mile-long line of Spanish ships from a safe distance, taking full advantage of their superior long-range guns. The Spanish Armada continued to advance during the next few days, but its ranks were thinned considerably by the English assault. Battered by storms and suffering from a lack of supplies, the Armada sailed on a difficult journey back to Spain through the North Sea and around Ireland. By the time the last of the surviving fleet reached Spain in October, half of the original armada was destroyed.
1643. In the Thirty Years' War, French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
1649. An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1715. The colony of New York passes a law making it illegal to "gather, rake, take up, or bring to the market, any oysters whatsoever" between the months of May and September. This regulation was only one of many that were passed in the early days of America to help preserve certain species. In 1699, Virginia passed a law to prevent people from shooting deer during half the year and Massachusetts made criminals out of those who exported raccoon furs or skins from the state in 1675.
1780. "New England's Dark Day" takes place. A never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm. Many residents thought it was Judgment Day.
There is speculation that the abnormal darkening of the sky was due to a combination of smoke from forest fires and a thick fog. The darkness was so complete that candles were required from noon until midnight, when it finally dispersed and the stars could be seen.
1795. Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire Patriot and signatory of the Declaration of Independence who also served as the state's governor and Supreme Court chief justice, dies. Over 200 years later, writer Aaron Sorkin resurrected the name Josiah Bartlet [sic] as a former New Hampshire governor and current Democratic president of the United States, played by Martin Sheen, in an award-winning television series, The West Wing.
1845. Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin had served on three previous Arctic expeditions, the latter two as commanding officer. His fourth and last, undertaken when he was 59, was meant to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. After a few early fatalities the two ships became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic. The entire expedition complement, including Franklin and 128 men, was lost.
1848. Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of five other modern-day U.S. states to the USA for $15 million.
1864. A dozen days of fighting around Spotsylvania, Virginia, during the American Civil War ends with a Confederate attack against the Union forces. The epic campaign between the Army of the Potomac, under the effective direction of Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia began at the beginning of May when Union forces crossed the Rapidan River. After a bloody two-day battle in the Wilderness forest, Grant moved his army further south toward Spotsylvania Court House. After the battle in the Wilderness, Grant and Lee waged a footrace for the strategic crossroads at Spotsylvania. Lee won the race, and his men dug in. On May 8, Grant attacked Lee, initiating a battle that raged for 12 awful days. The climax came on May 12, when the two armies struggled for nearly 20 hours over an area that became known as the Bloody Angle. Finally, when the Confederates attacked on May 19, Grant prepared to pull out of Spotsylvania. Convinced he could never dislodge the Confederates from their positions, he elected to try to circumvent Lee's army to the south. The Army of the Potomac moved, leaving behind 18,000 casualties at Spotsylvania to the Confederates' 12,000. In less than three weeks Grant had lost 33,000 men, with some of the worst fighting yet to come.
1897. Writer Oscar Wilde is released from jail after two years of hard labor. His experiences in prison were the basis for his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898).
In 1891, the Marquess of Queensbury denounced Wilde as a homosexual. Wilde, who was involved with the marquess' son, sued the Marquess for libel but lost the case when evidence supported the marquess' allegations. Because homosexuality was still considered a crime in England, Wilde was arrested. Although his first trial resulted in a hung jury, a second jury sentenced him to two years of hard labor. After his release, Wilde fled to Paris and began writing again. He died of acute meningitis just three years after his release.

 

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1916. Representatives of Great Britain and France secretly reach an accord, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, by which most of the Arab lands under the rule of the Ottoman Empire are to be divided into British and French spheres of influence with the conclusion of World War I. Under Sykes-Picot, the Syrian coast and much of modern-day Lebanon went to France; Britain would take direct control over central and southern Mesopotamia, around the Baghdad and Basra provinces. Palestine would have an international administration, as other Christian powers, namely Russia, held an interest in this region. The rest of the territory in question -- a huge area including modern-day Syria, Mosul in northern Iraq, and Jordan -- would have local Arab chiefs under French supervision in the north and British in the south. Also, Britain and France would retain free passage and trade in the other's zone of influence.
1919. In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk moves to Samsun from Istanbul with a few followers, to oppose the Ottoman government, which eventually leads to the Turkish War of Independence.
1921. The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration. The Act was an immigration quota that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910, according to United States Census figures.
The act was passed in a time of swelling isolationism following World War I. The main reason for passing the Act was that the flood of immigrants in recent years had negative wage effects on native-born Americans. This led to increasing support for immigration restrictions.
1935. T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name. The legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar succumbed to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days before.
1943. During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather).
1950. A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1958. All I Have To Do Is Dream by the Everly Brothers is the Number One hit in the United States.
1962. A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's
famous rendition of Happy Birthday.
President Kennedy celebrated his forty-fifth birthday oat Madison Square Garden. More than 15,000 people attended along with numerous celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe. Monroe's dress was noted for being flesh colored with 2500 rhinestones sewn into it. The dress was so tight-fitting that Monroe had to be literally sewn into it once she had dressed. (See picture.)
Monroe's performance was notably sultry. Monroe continued the song with a snippet from the classic song Thanks for the Memory, for which she had written new lyrics specifically aimed at Kennedy.
Monroe's delivery, her racy dress, and her general image as a sex symbol made the President's response humorous when he said, "I can now retire from politics after having had Happy Birthday sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way."
The song and Monroe's performance have been remembered for numerous reasons. First, it was one of her last major public appearances (Monroe died August 5, 1962). In addition, there are persistent rumors that President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe had had an affair, giving Monroe's performance another layer of meaning.
1964. The U.S. State Department discloses that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the American Embassy in Moscow.
1965. Difficulties between different generations is a long-standing human trait, and perhaps never more so than during the 1960s, when a demographic time bomb loosed the largest generation of teenagers in history upon an unsuspecting world. With numbers on its side, this generation would set its own terms in the age-old conflict of youth vs. everyone else, and never were those terms more clearly expressed than in the lyrics of My Generation, the song that The Who’s Pete Townshend wrote on this day in 1965.
As Townshend has told the story, he wrote those lyrics on a train ride from London to Southampton -- a train ride necessitated by the towing away of his 1935 Packard hearse from its parking spot in front of his house on Chesham Place, the road between Clarence House and Buckingham Palace. "One day I came back and it was gone. It turned out that [the Queen Mother] had it moved, because her husband had been buried in a similar vehicle and it reminded her of him. When I went to collect it, they wanted two hundred and fifty quid. I'd only paid thirty for it in the first place." This was the great indignity that prompted Townshend to pen the immortal lyric, "Hope I die before I get old."
1971. Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. The Mars 2 and Mars 3 missions consisted of identical spacecraft, each with an orbiter and an attached lander; they were the first human artifacts to impact the surface of Mars.
1983. Hungarian model and porn star Eve Angel is born Eva Dobos in Budapest. Her earlier shoots were mostly heterosexual scenes, though this emphasis changed when she began working for Égerházi. Her pictorials are lesbian in content, with some foot fetish shoots.
Angel has appeared on the cover of many European and American adult magazines, such as Triple X Magazine 44 from Private, Barely Legal Hardcore 9 from Hustler, Just 18 (February and August 2003), Swank (March, July, October 2003), Gallery (March and May 2003), the German edition of Penthouse (May 2004), and Erotica (2004). (See pictures.)
1984. One dynasty ends and another begins when the Edmonton Oilers defeat the New York Islanders 5-2 to win the Stanley Cup. The Oilers had been swept by New York in the finals the year before, but the team’s talent had matured, and their offensive onslaught overwhelmed the four-time defending champs.
1992. In a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, Vice President Dan Quayle criticizes television character Murphy Brown for ignoring the importance of fathers and bearing a child alone.
In the show's 1991–1992 season, Murphy became pregnant and had a child, and after 6 months, she decided to name the baby Avery; this storyline made the show a subject of political controversy during the 1992 American presidential campaign.
1992. Mary Jo Buttafuoco is shot and seriously wounded in Massapequa, New York, by her husband Joey's teenage lover, Amy Fisher, aka "The Long Island Lolita." When I last checked, Amy is now working as a stripper. She performed in Rhode Island a few years ago but I learned about it too late to attend, dang! (See pictures.)
2005. The final Star Wars film and third episode in the series, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, debuted on this day. It broke current box office records, earning over $50 million on opening day.
2011. Rebels in Libya launch a television channel to counter Muammar Gaddafi's state media. Meanwhile, NATO claims to have sunk eight Libyan Navy warships in airstrikes on Tripoli's main port.
President Obama gives a speech in support of the Arab Spring during which he states that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must include Israel reverting its borders back to the pre-1967 borders. The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the proposal.

Elsewhere, U.S. journalist Katie Couric signs off as the host of the CBS Evening News.
Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in the People's Republic of China file a lawsuit in the United States against Cisco, maker of internet routing gear, alleging Cisco has helped China's government violate their human rights while police in China search for a man who threw eggs and a shoe at the creator of the "Great Firewall of China", Fang Binxing.

 

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2006. Amid a firestorm of publicity and controversy, the director Ron Howard’s big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown’s mega-bestselling thriller The Da Vinci Code debuts in theaters. Though critics had savaged Brown’s novel, published in 2003, it was devoured by legions of avid fans, and by the time the film was released, the book had sold some 60 million copies worldwide. Some Christian leaders were particularly incensed by the book’s claim that Jesus was in fact a mortal man who was married to Mary Magdalene, and that the couple had children whose descendants live in France today.


and is our blond vamp one of them?

 

[thehangingtree]

coincidence? I think not!!!!

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coincidence? I think not!!!!
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You're right, Tree: I though the same....

 

[admihoek]

May 20 has seen a fair share of battles as well as seismic upheavals, one of which resulted in the loudest sound in recorded human history.
325. The First Council of Nicaea is held in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey), Convoked by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, it was the first Ecumenical council of the Christian Church, and resulted in the first uniform Christian doctrine, called the Nicene Creed. With the creation of the creed, a precedent was established for subsequent 'general (ecumenical) councils of Bishops' (Synods) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy -- the intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom. Constantine, in convoking and presiding over the council, signaled a measure of imperial control over the church.
491. Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I, after late Emperor Zeno dies of dysentery. The widowed Augusta was able to choose Zeno's successor for the throne and a second husband for herself in the person of Anastasius, a palace official (silentiarius), whom she preferred to Longinus, Zeno's brother. Anastasius was proclaimed Emperor on 11 April and they were married on 20 May. Their marriage remained childless.
526. An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
685. The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
The Northumbrians had been gradually extending their territory to the north, their constituent kingdom of Bernicia having captured Edinburgh from the Gododdin around 638. For the next thirty years they established political dominance over the Kingdoms of Strathclyde and Dál Riata, as well as Pictish Fortriu.
King Ecgfrith of Northumbria invaded lands held by the Picts in 685, apparently to stop them from raiding to the south. They met in battle on May 20 near Dunnichen; the Picts pretended to retreat, drawing the Northumbrians into the swamp of Dunnichen. The Pictish King Bridei III killed Ecgfrith and destroyed his army and enslaved many of the survivors. After the battle, Northumbria's influence never again extended past the Firth of Forth.
The Picts were a confederation of tribes in what later was to become central and northern Scotland from Roman times until the 10th century. They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde. They were the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes named by Roman historians or found on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also known as Pictavia, became the Kingdom of Alba during the 10th century and the Picts became the Fir Alban, the men of Scotland.
1217. The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
The Second Battle of Lincoln occurred at Lincoln Castle (see picture) on this date in 1217, during the First Barons' War, between the forces of the future Louis VIII of France and those of King Henry III of England. Louis' forces were attacked by a relief force under the command of the Earl of Pembroke. The Comte de la Perche, commanding the French troops, was killed and this heavy defeat led to Louis being expelled from his base in the southeast of England.
This event is known as "Lincoln Fair" because of the looting that took place afterwards. The citizens were loyal to Louis so Henry's forces sacked the city. Many women and children perished.
1498. Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. The Portuguese explorer was not greeted warmly by the Muslim merchants of Calicut, and in 1499 he had to fight his way out of the harbor on his return trip home. In 1502, he led a squadron of ships to Calicut to avenge the massacre of Portuguese explorers there and succeeded in subduing the inhabitants. In 1524, he was sent as viceroy to India, but he fell ill and died in Cochin.
1506. The great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century. He explored the West Indies, South America, and Central America, but died a disappointed man, feeling he had been mistreated by his patron, King Ferdinand of Spain.
1570. Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
1609. Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1631. The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. After the city fell, the Imperial soldiers went on a rampage and started to slaughter the inhabitants and set fire to the city. Of the 30,000 citizens, only 5,000 survived. For fourteen days, charred bodies were carried to the Elbe River to be dumped to prevent disease.
1775. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly the first declaration of independence made in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. It was supposedly signed on May 20, 1775, at Charlotte, North Carolina, by a committee of citizens of Mecklenburg County, who declared independence from Great Britain after hearing of the battle of Lexington.
Many professional historians have maintained that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is an inaccurate rendering of an authentic document known as the Mecklenburg Resolves. The Mecklenburg Resolves were a set of radical resolutions passed on May 31, 1775, that fell short of an actual declaration of independence.
1778. In the American Revolution, British forces from Philadelphia attempt to trap 2,200 Continentals defending Valley Forge led by Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette, through skillful maneuvering, avoids the entrapment and the destruction of his forces. The encounter takes place at Barren Hill, now known as Lafayette Hill, just northwest of Philadelphia.
Lafayette assigned 500 men and approximately 50 Oneida Indians armed with cannon to face the British onslaught and stand their ground by the local church, while the rest of Lafayette's forces fled west over the Schuylkill River to safety. Before the Oneida warriors followed the Continental Army across the Schuylkill, they are believed to have bravely given chase to the British as they marched back to Philadelphia.
Lafayette, a Frenchman, had personally recruited the Oneida to join the Patriot cause by using the Indians' preference for the French over the English; the Oneida arrived at Valley Forge on May 13. Lafayette promised the Oneida that they would serve under French instead of colonial Patriot commanders and that they would be given assistance in building a fort at their Mohawk Valley, New York, settlement. These fresh Indian recruits were paired with Lafayette's best Patriot fighters, fresh from training under European officers at Valley Forge. The Indians' actions during the successful retreat at Barren Hill prevented disaster and allowed the Continental Army to emerge from Valley Forge as a disciplined military in June.
1802. By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
1813. Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1861. During the American Civil War, the state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces invade the state.
1862. In a milestone in the settlement of the American West, President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act, a program designed to grant public land to small farmers at low cost. The act gave 160 acres of land to any applicant who was the head of a household and 21 years or older, provided that the person settled on the land for five years and then paid a small filing fee. If settlers wished to obtain title earlier, they could do so after six months by paying $1.25 an acre.
By the mid-19th century the issue of land became embroiled in sectional politics. In the 1850s, the fledgling Republican Party endorsed a homestead act as a way to develop an alliance between the Northeast and Midwest. But the South wanted no part of such a scheme. The expansion of slavery had become too important to the South, and they felt expansion to the west was the only way to keep the institution healthy. Filling the West with small individual farmers did not sit well with Southerners
Consequently, it was impossible to agree upon a proposal while the struggle over slavery continued. The Republicans were strong enough by 1859 to push an act through Congress, but Democratic president James Buchanan vetoed the measure. The secession of Southern states opened the way for passage of the Homestead Act of 1862.
1873. San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the world's most famous garments: blue jeans.
1883. The eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later. The 1883 eruption ejected more than 25 cubic kilometres of rock, ash, and pumice, and generated the loudest sound historically reported: the cataclysmic explosion was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia (approx. 1930 miles or 3100 km), and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius (approx. 3000 miles or 4800 km).
Atmospheric shock waves reverberated around the world seven times and were detectable for five days. Near Krakatoa, according to official records, 165 villages and towns were destroyed and 132 seriously damaged, at least 36,417 (official toll) people died, and many thousands were injured by the eruption, mostly from the tsunamis which followed the explosion.
1896. The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. The Palais Garnier is "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur basilica." This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel The Phantom of the Opera and the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular 1986 musical.

 

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1902. Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
1916. The small town of Codell, Kansas is struck by a tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in 1917 and 1918 on the exact same date.
1920. Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
1927. At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932. Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1939. Regular trans-Atlantic air service begins as a Pan American Airways plane takes off from Port Washington, New York, bound for Europe.
1940. During World War II, the German army in northern France reaches the English Channel. In reaching Abbeville, German armored columns, led by General Heinz Guderian (a tank expert), severed all communication between the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the north and the main French army in the south. He also cut off the Force from its supplies in the west. The Germans now faced the sea, England in sight.
1946. American singer and actress Cher is born Cheryl Sarkisian LaPiere in El Centro, California. Cher first rose to prominence in 1965 as one half of the pop/rock duo Sonny & Cher. She also established herself as a solo recording artist, releasing 26 albums, numerous compilations and tallying 22 Billboard Top 40 entries over her career. These include twelve Top 10 singles and four number one singles. She became a successful television star in the 1970s, and a well-regarded film actress in the 1980s. In 1988, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck. In a career that has now surpassed 40 years, Cher has established herself as a legendary pop culture icon and one of the most popular female artists in music history. (See pictures.)
1954. Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.
1956. The United States conducts the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb, dropping it from a plane over the tiny island of Namu in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The successful test indicated that hydrogen bombs were viable airborne weapons and that the arms race had taken another giant leap forward. Observers said that the fireball caused by the explosion measured at least four miles in diameter and was brighter than the light from 500 suns.
1965. PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 - 040 B crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
1969. After 10 days and 10 bloody assaults, Hill 937 in South Vietnam is finally captured by U.S. and South Vietnamese troops. The Americans who fought there cynically dubbed Hill 937 "Hamburger Hill" because the battle and its high casualty rate reminded them of a meat grinder. Almost 100 Americans were killed and more than 400 wounded in taking the hill, amounting to a shocking 70 percent casualty rate.
The U.S. military command in Vietnam had ordered Hill 937 taken primarily as a diversionary tactic, and on May 28 it was abandoned. This led to further outrage in America over what seemed a senseless loss of American lives. North Vietnamese forces eventually returned and re-fortified their original position.
1970. Some 100,000 people demonstrate in New York's Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.
1975. The Number One hit in the U.S. is He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) by Tony Orlando and Dawn.
1980. In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
1989. Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the stage for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1995. President Bill Clinton permanently closes the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all non-pedestrian traffic as a security measure. President Clinton announced the closing in his weekly radio address, calling it "a responsible security step necessary to preserve our freedom, not part of a long-term restriction of our freedom." Before dawn on the following day, the authorities had erected concrete barriers at each end of the two-block stretch, a road that for almost two centuries had been -- according to an article published in The New York Times on May 21 -- "the route of inaugural parades, protest marches and an untold number of bus tours."
1996. The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
2008. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. He would die on August 25, 2009. Kennedy was the third longest-serving member of the United States Senate in American history.
2009. A commission publishes a damning report on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools in Ireland.
2011. At least one person is killed and ten people injured following an explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, with a United States consular convoy targeted by the Pakistani Taliban.
Elsewhere, Claude Choules, the last person alive to have fought in World War I, is buried in the West Australian port of Fremantle, having died aged 110 on 5 May.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama meets with the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, during which Netanyahu emphasizes that Israel would not make a full withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested yesterday, because these borders are "not defensible."

 

[thehangingtree]

also on May 20, 57 AD the great roman warrior Admihoek resists a beautiful slave girl's attempt to barter sex with the adonis for her freedom.

A day late...
May 19, 2012 THT's horse "I'll Have Another" wins the 137th Peakness

T

Yes waitress I will have another...

 

[thehangingtree]

Also on May 20, 2012 the Crux Forums own Connie poses for a photo shoot with Admi. Photos turned out fine and the paramedics assure us Admi only hyperventalated.

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[messaline]

Obviously, this beauty is delicious; I'll like meet her and have a negotiation with her..... ...

 

[thehangingtree]

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That may happen, Messa...

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[admihoek]

Cities have been sacked on May 21, a "crime of the century" was committed, and an unsung hero was recognized for averting a nuclear holocaust. And a year ago today, the world ended -- or at least it was supposed to.
293. Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878. Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. The siege ended with the fierce sack of the city and inaugurated two centuries of Muslim rule. The Cathedral was turned into a mosque and the quarter on the Ortygia island was gradually rebuilt along Islamic styles.
The Normans entered Syracuse, one of the last Saracen strongpoints, in 1085, after a summer-long siege by Roger I of Sicily and his son Jordan of Hauteville, who was given the city as count. New quarters were built, and the cathedral was restored, as well as other churches.
996. Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Otto's mental gifts were considerable. He spoke three languages and was so learned that contemporaries called him "the wonder of the world." Enamored as he was of Greek and Roman culture, he ended up being contemptuous of his German subjects.
A minor rebellion by the town of Tibur (Tivoli) in 1001 ended up as his undoing. He retook the town, but spared the inhabitants, which angered the people of Rome, as Tibur was a rival they wanted destroyed. This led to a rebellion by the Roman people, headed by Gregory, Count of Tusculum; Otto was besieged in his palace and then driven from the city. He withdrew to Ravenna to do penance in the monastery of Sant'Apollinare in Classe. After having summoned his army, Otto headed southwards to reconquer Rome, but died in the castle of Paterno, near Civita Castellana, on 24 January 1002.
Otto's death has been attributed to various causes; medieval sources speak of malaria, which he had caught in the unhealthy marshes that surrounded Ravenna. The Romans suggested instead that Stefania, the widow of an official Otto had executed, had made him fall in love with her and then poisoned him. Otto's body was carried back to Germany by his loyal soldiers, as all the while his route was lined with Italians who hurled abuses at his remains. He was buried in Aachen Cathedral together with that of Charlemagne.
1349. Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty. Dušan the Mighty was the King of Serbia (from 8 September 1331) and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks (from 16 April 1346) until his death on 20 December 1355. Dušan managed to conquer a large part of Southeast Europe, becoming one of the most powerful monarchs in his time. He enacted the constitution of the Serbian Empire in Dušan's Code, one of, if not the most important work of medieval Serbia. Under his rule Serbia reached its territorial, economical, political and cultural peak. His death in 1355 is seen as the end of resistance towards the advancing Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent fall of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the region.
1502. The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova. Saint Helena is famous for being the place of exile of Napoleon Bonaparte between 1815 and his death in 1821. Longwood House, where Napoleon stayed, and Sane Valley, where he was buried, are owned by the French government, since the British government gave them to the French in 1858.
1542. On the banks of the Mississippi River in present-day Louisiana, Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto dies, ending a three-year journey for gold that took him halfway across what is now the United States. In order that Indians would not learn of his death, and thus disprove de Soto's claims of divinity, his men buried his body in the Mississippi River.
In late May 1539, de Soto landed on the west coast of Florida with 600 troops, servants, and staff, 200 horses, and a pack of bloodhounds. From there, the army set about subduing the natives, seizing any valuables they stumbled upon, and preparing the region for eventual Spanish colonization. Traveling through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, across the Appalachians, and back to Alabama, de Soto failed to find the gold and silver he desired.
In May 1541, the army reached and crossed the Mississippi River, probably the first Europeans ever to do so. From there, they traveled through Arkansas and Louisiana, still with few material gains to show for their efforts. Turning back to the Mississippi, de Soto died of a fever on its banks on May 21, 1542.
1674. The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1725. The Order of Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by an empress Catherine I. It was originally awarded to distinguished Russian citizens who had served their country with honor, mostly through political or military service.
In 1917, the Order was abolished. However, on July 29, 1942, the Soviet Union reinstated the Order and awarded the status upon hundreds of men who served during World War II, thereby reviving the memory of Alexander Nevsky's struggle with the Teutonic Knights.
1758. 10-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, by Lenape Indians during Pontiac's War; she becomes an icon of the French and Indian War and backcountry experience. After her abduction, Campbell lived among the family of Chief Netawatwees in the Ohio Valley. She was returned to a European settlement at age 16 in the famous release of captives orchestrated by Colonel Henry Bouquet at the conclusion of Pontiac's War in November 1764.
Mary Campbell lived through the major turning points of late 18th-century America. She was a child taken captive during the imperial competition between Britain and France, an adolescent among the Indians as they attempted to reassert their rights to the American landscape and a woman among colonists as they fought to free themselves of the British empire. Mary wed in 1770 as colonial protests became violent and gave birth to seven children as her home, Pennsylvania, was reborn first as a state independent of Britain and then as part of a new nation.
1856. Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. Lawrence was founded in 1854 for the New England Emigrant Aid Company by Charles Robinson, who later served as governor of Kansas. The city was named after Amos Adams Lawrence, a prominent politician and abolitionist and the son of famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence.
In the Bleeding Kansas era, Lawrence was a center of anti-slavery sentiment. On May 21, 1856, a pro-slavery posse led by Sheriff Samuel J. Jones burned the Free-State Hotel, destroyed the equipment of two anti-slavery newspapers, and looted several other businesses; no loss of life was recorded. Abolitionist John Brown's nearby Pottawatomie Massacre is believed to have been a retaliation for this event. On August 21, 1863, during the American Civil War, Confederate guerrillas led by William Quantrill burned most of the houses and commercial buildings in Lawrence and killed 150 to 200 of the men they found in Lawrence.
1871. French Government troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
The Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the upheavals immediately after the Franco-Prussian War. According to historian Benedict Anderson, roughly 20,000 Communards were executed in one week, 7,500 jailed or deported, while thousands fled abroad during the Semaine Sanglante (Bloody Week).
1881. The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
1894. 22-year-old French Anarchist Emile Henry is executed by guillotine. On February 12, 1894, Henry detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare, killing one person and wounding twenty. Though his activity in the Anarchist movement was limited, he garnered much attention as a result of his crimes and of his age.
Henry, who was angered over another Anarchist's execution for the destruction of a government building, that hurt no one, took it upon himself to strike back to avenge his fellow revolutionary's death. He saw the Cafe as a representation of the bourgeois itself and his intent was to kill as many people as possible in the bombing. When brought to trial for these acts, he was asked by the courts why he had needlessly harmed so many innocent people, to which he replied, "..there are no innocent bourgeois."

 

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1917. The Great Atlanta Fire breaks out. The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 began just after noon on Monday, May 21 and was finally extinguished by 10 PM. Destroyed were 300 acres, including nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, and 10,000 people were displaced. There was only one fatality, a woman who suffered a heart attack after her home burned to the ground. Losses totalled $5.5 million.
1924. University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing."
Leopold and Loeb had no real motive for their act; they kidnapped and murdered Franks because they wanted to commit the perfect crime. The press soon dubbed the murder a "thrill killing." Franks, whose family lived across the street from the Loeb family mansion, was chosen as if at random on the day of the murder. His corpse was left in a drainage pipe at Wolf Lake, approximately 15 miles south of the Chicago Loop.
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, defended by famed attorney Clarence Darrow, received life sentences for the murder and 99 years for the kidnapping following a trial which was much-publicized and declared by the press as the "trial of the century." Richard Loeb was murdered by a fellow prison inmate in 1936. Nathan Leopold was paroled in 1958 and relocated to Puerto Rico. He died of an asthma attack in 1971.
1927. Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932. Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1936. Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
Sada Abe is infamous in Japan for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida and then cutting off his penis and testicles on May 18, 1936, and carrying them around with her in her handbag.
When her crime was discovered the next day, it was an instant sensation. With a "sexually and criminally dangerous woman on the loose," the nation was gripped with "Abe Sada panic." The media showered the public with details of how Sada, wrote "Sada and Kitchi together" on the sheets, in blood, and carved her name on his arm with a knife. She was able to avoid the police for three days before she was arrested, still carrying his severed genitalia. When she was apprehended on May 21, she was reported to be "beaming with happiness." Her story garnered her a great deal of sympathy in Japan, was avidly covered by the media, and was one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
She was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. The sentence was commuted, however, in 1940, on the occasion of the celebration of the 2,600th year after Emperor Jimmu came to the throne. She then assumed an alias and later married, but her husband divorced her when he discovered her identity. Later she became an actress, portraying herself in several productions about the 1936 incident.
1937. A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1941. In World War II, 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat.
1946. Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in during an experiment with the Demon Core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Demon Core was the nickname given to a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium that accidentally went critical in two separate accidents at the Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. Both incidents resulted in the acute radiation poisoning and subsequent death of a scientist. After these incidents, the sphere of plutonium was referred to as the Demon Core.
1955. An unknown Chuck Berry pays his first visit to a recording studio and cuts the record that would make him famous: Maybellene. Chuck Berry had returned to his part-time job in construction and begun training to be a hairdresser when Maybellene hit the airwaves. After Maybellene became a #1 R&B hit and a #5 pop hit -- the first hit rock-and-roll single by a black performer -- Berry set down his hammer and scissors in favor of his Gibson guitar and a major place in American cultural history.
1956. The United States explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb, over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1960. The first tremor of a series hits Valdivia, Chile. By the time they end, the quakes and their aftereffects kill 5,000 people and leave another 2 million homeless. Registering a magnitude of 7.6, the first earthquake was powerful and killed several people. It turned out to be only a foreshock, however, to one of the most powerful tremors ever recorded.
At 3:11 p.m. the following afternoon, an 8.5-magnitude quake rocked southern Chile. The epicenter of this tremendous shaking was just off the coast under the Pacific Ocean. T here, the Nazca oceanic plate plunged 50 feet down under the South American plate. The earthquake caused huge landslides of debris down the mountains of the region, as well as a series of tsunamis in the coastal region of Chile. At 4:20 p.m., a 26-foot wave hit the shore, taking most structures and buildings with it when it receded. But the worst was still to come. Minutes later, a slower 35-foot wave rolled in; it is estimated that this wave killed more than 1,000 people, including those who had thought they had moved safely to high ground.
After leaving Chile, the tsunami traveled hundreds of miles west toward Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, where hundreds also died. In fact, the waves set off by this earthquake bounced back and forth across the Pacific Ocean for a week. Aftershocks were recorded for a full 30 days after the main tremor.
1961. Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1972. Michelangelo's Pietà, in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, is damaged by a vandal.
1978. German-American porn star Briana Banks is born in Munich, Germany, to an American mother and German father. Banks moved to Britain at the age of four, and then to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley in California, when she was seven years old.
At age 21, in August 1999, she responded to an ad in the newspaper to do nude modeling for adult magazines. (See pictures.)
In 2002 Banks was one of the first pornographic actresses to have an action figure made in her likeness, by Los Angeles based company Cyber F/X and Sota Toys.
On October 13, 2006, WTAE-TV News in Pittsburgh, PA reported that Banks was filing a federal lawsuit seeking more than $75,000 in damages against Doc Johnson Enterprises, a sex toy manufacturer, claiming the company violated an agreement to make molds of her genitals, making 10 unauthorized products from those reproductions while the agreement was that the company would only make two.
1980. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released into theaters. Following a difficult production, The Empire Strikes Back received mixed reviews from critics. Despite this, it earned more than $538 million worldwide over the original run and several re-releases, making it the highest grossing film of 1980 and becoming the 39th highest grossing film of all time. Its reputation has grown considerably with many considering it to be the best of the Star Wars films.
1988. In an attempt to consolidate his own power and ease political and ethnic tensions in the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev dismisses the Communist Party leaders in those two republics. Since coming to power in 1985, Gorbachev had faced numerous problems with his efforts to bring about domestic reform in the Soviet Union. First and foremost was the opposition by more conservative Russian officials, who believed that Gorbachev's economic and political reforms might threaten the position of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Both Karen S. Demirchyan and Kyamran I. Bagirov, heads of the Communist Party in Armenia and Azerbaijan respectively, fell into this group. On May 21, Gorbachev announced that both men were being removed from their positions for "reasons of health." They were quickly replaced with his handpicked men.
1991. Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1992. Amy Fisher, the so-called "Long Island Lolita," is arrested for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco on the front porch of her Massapequa, New York, home. Fisher, only 17 at the time of the shooting, was having an affair with 38-year-old Joey Buttafuoco, Mary Jo's husband. The tawdry story soon became a tabloid and talk-show fixture, the source of three television movies, and countless jokes.
Mary Jo Buttafuoco survived the attack but was left with a bullet lodged in her head and a partially paralyzed face. Fisher, who pled guilty to the shooting, was convicted of assault and received a sentence of 5 to 15 years the following year. Mary Jo called her a "prostitute," yet seemed to think her husband was blameless in the affair. The courts, however, were less forgiving; Joey was convicted of statutory rape and received a six-month jail sentence in 1993. Fisher was released on parole in May 1999, after serving nearly seven years. The Buttafuocos moved to California, where Joey attempted to become a movie star and talk-show host. After her parole, Fisher became a journalist and writer before embarking on a career as a porn star in 2007. (See pictures.)
2003. An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
2004. Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
Petrov is a retired Russian Strategic Rocket Forces lieutenant colonel who, on September 26, 1983, potentially avoided a nuclear attack on the USA. Assuming his instruments were in error, Petrov deliberately did not report what appeared to be a US attack. The computer reports were later shown to have been in error. Because of military secrecy and international policy, Petrov's actions were kept secret until 1998. The incident occurred at a time of severely strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
2011. Several people are killed and dozens of others are injured in Homs as Syrian security forces attack the funeral of protesters killed in yesterday's protest events during the country's uprising against the regime. The Syrian regime attacks women protesters, shooting them dead during all-women marches and arresting the female relatives of male protesters.
In the Libyan civil war, the cities of Yafran and al-Qalaa in the Nafusa Mountains are in critical condition following ongoing attacks by Muammar Gaddafi's forces, with heavy artillery shelling continuing, water supplies shut off, and no food or medical supplies coming into the towns for weeks. A bus carrying foreign journalists is attacked by a pro-Muammar Gaddafi mob; soldiers fire into the air to disperse the crowd.

Meanwhile, according to American Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping, May 21 is the date of the Rapture for all Christians around the world, happening at 6:00pm in their respective time zones. Hundreds of Hmong people are reportedly forced into hiding in northwest Vietnam, after security forces disperse thousands awaiting the supposed Second Coming of Christ.

 

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May 22 is the anniversary of the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. This date has also seen the beginning of a historic voyage, the capture of a king after his defeat in battle, and the indictment of a former U.S. vice president for treason.
334 BC. The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus River. This was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire.
Fought in Northwestern Asia Minor, near the site of Troy, it was here that Alexander defeated the forces of the Persian satraps of Asia Minor, including a large force of Greek mercenaries led by Memnon of Rhodes.
AD 337. Roman Emperor Constantine the Great dies. Constantine is best known for being the first Christian Roman Emperor. In 313, Constantine announced toleration of Christianity in the Edict of Milan, which removed penalties for professing Christianity (under which many had been martyred in previous persecutions) and returned confiscated Church property. Constantine is also remembered for convoking the Council of Nicaea in 325, one of many significant impacts the emperor had in the development of the Christian religion.
In 324, Constantine announced his decision to transform Byzantium into Nova Roma and on May 11, 330, he officially proclaimed the city as the new capital of the Roman Empire. The city was renamed Constantinople, The City of Constantine, after Constantine's death in 337. It would remain the capital of the Byzantine Empire for over a thousand years, until Ottoman Turks captured the city in 1453 and eventually renamed it Istanbul (the name change was made official in 1930).
853. A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. At the time, the garrison was absent, attending a feast organized by the governor Anbasa ibn Ishaq al-Dabbi in Fustat. Damietta's inhabitants fled the undefended city, which was plundered for two days and then torched by the Byzantines. The Byzantines carried of some six hundred Arab and Coptic women, as well as large quantities of arms and other supplies.
1176. The Hashshashin attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo. The Hashshashin were a religious sect of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect. This mystic secret society was known to specialize in terrorizing the crusaders with fearlessly executed, politically motivated assassinations. Bernard Lewis, however, states that unlike the popular belief, their efforts were not primarily directed at crusades but against Muslim rulers whom they saw as impious usurpers. The word "assassin" is derived from this name.
1455. In the opening battle of England's War of the Roses, the Yorkists defeat King Henry VI's Lancastrian forces at St. Albans, 20 miles northwest of London. Many Lancastrian nobles perished, including Edmund Beaufort, the duke of Somerset, and the king was forced to submit to the rule of his cousin, Richard of York. The dynastic struggle between the House of York, whose badge was a white rose, and the House of Lancaster, later associated with a red rose, would stretch on for 30 years.
1819. The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
1915. Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain to erupt -- other than Mount St. Helens -- in the continental US during the 20th century.
Lassen Peak (also known as Mount Lassen) is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range. It is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc that stretches from northern California to southwestern British Columbia. Located in the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California, Lassen rises 2,000 feet (610 meters) above the surrounding terrain and has a volume of half a cubic mile, making it one of the largest lava domes on Earth.
Lassen Peak has the distinction of being the only other volcano in the Cascades besides Mount St. Helens to have erupted during the 20th Century. On May 22, 1915, an explosive eruption at Lassen Peak devastated nearby areas and rained volcanic ash as far away as 200 miles (320 km) to the east. This explosion was the most powerful in a 1914–17 series of eruptions that were the last to occur in the Cascades before the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington.
1927. An 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan, China, killing 200,000 people.
1939. Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel months before the outbreak of World War II.
1958. The Ceylon riots erupt. This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of what is now Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils. The outbreaks were the first island wide ethnic riots that targeted the minority Tamils in Ceylon after it became an independent country from Britain in 1948. The riots lasted from 22 May until 27 May 1958 although sporadic disturbances happened even after the declaration of emergency on 1 June 1958. The event is generally termed as an ethnic riot, but in some geographic locations in its scale of its destruction, it was a pogrom. The estimates of the murders range, based on recovered body counts, from 70 to 300. Although most of the victims were Sri Lankan Tamils, some majority Sinhalese civilians and their property was also affected both by attacking Sinhalese mobs who attacked those Sinhalese who provided sanctuary to Tamils as well as in retaliatory attacks by Tamil mobs.
1958. The arrival in the United Kingdom of one of the biggest figures in rock and roll was looked forward to with great anticipation in May of 1958. Nowhere in the world were the teenage fans of the raucous music coming out of America more enthusiastic than they were in England, and the coming tour of the great Jerry Lee Lewis promised to be a rousing success. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls Of Fire had both been massive hits in the UK.
There was just one problem: Unbeknownst to the British public and the organizers of the coming tour, Jerry Lee Lewis would be traveling to England as a newly married man, with his pretty young wife in tow. Just how young that wife really was would be revealed on this day in 1958, when Jerry Lee "The Killer" Lewis arrived at Heathrow Airport with his new "child bride."
It was an inquisitive reporter for the Daily Mail named Paul Tanfield who unwittingly broke the scandal when he inquired as to the identity of an especially young woman he'd spotted in the Killer's entourage. "I'm Myra, Jerry's wife," said Myra Gail Lewis. Tanfield followed up with a question for the Killer himself: "And how old is Myra?" It was at this point that Jerry Lee must have cottoned to the fact that the rest of the world might take a somewhat skeptical view of his marriage, because the answer he gave was a lie: "Fifteen." Myra Gail Lewis was actually only 13 years old, a fact that would soon come out along with certain other details, such as the fact that she was Jerry Lee's first cousin (once removed).
Faced with hostile fan reaction and the cancellation of his tour, Jerry Lee Lewis left the UK, less than a week after his dramatic arrival on this day in 1958. Back home, he would face a blacklisting from which his career would never fully recover.
1960. An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
It occurred in the early afternoon (19:11 UTC) and affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
It caused localized tsunamis that severely battered the Chilean coast, with waves up to 25 meters. The main tsunami raced across the Pacific Ocean and devastated Hilo, Hawaii. Waves as high as 10.7 meters were recorded 10,000 kilometers from the epicenter, and as far away as Japan and the Philippines.
1964. American bondage model Ashley Renee is born in Los Angeles, California. She has appeared in many bondage magazines and films for over twenty years and continues to perform and produce to this day.
Renee is one of the few performers who have been able to survive in a niche film industry that is known for its high turnover rate and avoidance of older performers. But despite that, Renee has succeeded in developing legion of loyal repeat fans who continue to support her and her film productions.
She has also used the stage name Micki Marseille for non-bondage work. Renee has done non-bondage modelling for MacandBumble.com, as well as Danni's Hard Drive and explicit hardcore erotica for Score Magazine . A compilation video of her earlier sex hardcore film recordings has been released by New Machine Studios. However, it's in the bondage and fetish genre that her impact is best known. As a prolific model for Harmony Concepts, Inc., she was part of a resurgent bondage industry that is considered by some to be a so-called "Golden Age" of bondage photography. (See pictures.)
1967. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the longest-running children's series on U.S. television, airs its first episode.
1971. The Norwegian cruise ship Meteor catches fire in the Strait of Georgia; 70 passengers are saved while 32 crew members are killed.
1972. Ceylon adopts a new constitution, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1981. Police staking out a bridge over the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta, Georgia, hear a loud splash, and begin chasing Wayne Williams as he attempts to drive away in a station wagon. After questioning him about his involvement in the unprecedented string of child murders in Atlanta over the two previous years, Williams was released. However, he was arrested two days later when the body of Nathaniel Cater was found in the river near the bridge.
In a spree that began in July 1979, 29 black children and young men disappeared or were killed in the Atlanta area. On February 27, 1982, the jury found Wayne Williams guilty of the murders of Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne, and he was sentenced to life in prison. After the verdict, the Atlanta police department closed 22 other cases, but Williams was never tried, or charged, for those crimes.
1987. The Hashimpura massacre takes place during the Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state, India, when 19 personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) allegedly round up 42 Muslim youth from the Hashimpura mohalla (locality) of the city, take them in a truck to the outskirts, near Murad Nagar, in Ghaziabad district, where they are shot and their bodies dumped in canals.
1990. The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.
1992. After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
1998. A federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Monica Lewinsky scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
2002. The remains of Chandra Levy, a federal intern who had been missing for more than a year, are found in a Washington, D.C., park. (An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 60 years in prison.)
2011. Tornadoes hit the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, damaging scores of homes and killing at least one person. A curfew is introduced in Minneapolis following reports of looting and gunfire. Elsewhere, the city of Joplin, Missouri, is hit by a tornado, causing "major damage" in the downtown area and at least 30 fatalities. Tornado warnings are posted in states from Texas to Michigan.

In the Libyan civil war, NATO warplanes attack the port of Tripoli and the residence of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.