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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - May 2nd
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 06:59:10 -0400


Today is Tuesday, May second, the 123rd day of 2000.
There are 243 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:
On May second, 1863, Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Virginia;
he died eight days later.

On this date:
In 1519, artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France.

In 1670, the Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King
Charles the Second.

In 1890, the Oklahoma Territory was organized.

In 1936, "Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei
Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.

In 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies
announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

In 1957, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican
senator from Wisconsin, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

In 1960, convicted sex offender and best-selling author Caryl Chessman
was executed at San Quentin Prison in California.

In 1965, the "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television
pictures across the Atlantic.

In 1972, after serving 48 years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover
died in Washington at age 77.

In 1994, Nelson Mandela claimed victory in the wake of South Africa's
first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged
defeat.

Ten years ago: The government of South Africa and the African National
Congress opened their first formal talks aimed at paving the way for
more substantive negotiations on dismantling apartheid.

Five years ago: President Clinton agreed to allow some 20-thousand
Cubans into the United States after months of detention at Guantanamo
Bay, but said any more Cubans who fled their country would be forcibly
repatriated.

One year ago: Yugoslav authorities handed over to the Reverend Jesse
Jackson three American prisoners of war who'd been held for a month.
Actor Oliver Reed died in Malta at age 61.

Today's Birthdays:
Actor Theodore Bikel is 76.
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne is 75.
Rock musician Link Wray is 65.
Comedy writer-voice actor Lorenzo Music is 63.
Bianca Jagger is 55.
Country singer R.C. Bannon is 55.
Singer Lesley Gore is 54.
Singer-songwriter Larry Gatlin is 52.
Rock singer Lou Gramm (Foreigner) is 50.
Actress Christine Baranski is 48.
Actress Elizabeth Berridge is 38.
Country singer Ty Herndon is 38.
Actress Jenna Von Oy is 23.

Thought for Today:

"What experience and history teach is this: that people and
governments
have never learned anything from history."

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (1770-1831).



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