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From: "Pamela-Jean Hoach" <>
Subject: Re: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - May 10th
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:26:12 -0700


Happy Birthday Angel Hope it was a good one
Peege


> Thanks Mary!
> I'm gettin' OLDer!
> A whoppin' *26* today!!
> I must be special.... My whole name's listed! LOL :)
> ~Ã…~
>
> --- Mary <> wrote:
> > Today is Wednesday, May tenth, the 131st day of 2000.
> > There are 235 days left in the year.
> >
> > TODAY IS -A- Nut'S (Laurie Michelle Brown) BIRTHDAY!
> > HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!
> >
> > Today's Highlight in History:
> > On May tenth, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory,
> > Utah,
> > marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad
> > in the
> > United States.
> >
> > On this date:
> > In 1774, Louis the 16th ascended the throne of France.
> >
> > In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the
> > British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.
> >
> > In 1865, Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson
> > Davis
> > in Irwinville, Georgia.
> >
> > In 1899, movie musical star Fred Astaire was born in Omaha,
> > Nebraska.
> >
> > In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.
> >
> > In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in
> > Germany.
> >
> > In 1940, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned,
> > and
> > Winston Churchill formed a new government.
> >
> > In 1941, Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into
> > Scotland
> > on what he claimed was a peace mission. (Hess ended up serving
> > a life
> > sentence at Spandau prison until 1987, when he apparently
> > committed
> > suicide.)
> >
> > In 1968, preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.
> >
> > In 1994, the state of Illinois executed convicted serial
> > killer John
> > Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.
> >
> > Ten years ago: The government of China announced the release
> > of 211
> > dissidents who had been involved in pro-democracy
> > demonstrations a
> > year earlier.
> >
> > Five years ago: One-hundred-four miners were killed in an
> > elevator
> > accident in Orkney, South Africa.
> > Terry Nichols was charged in the Oklahoma City bombing.
> > Former President Bush's office released his letter of
> > resignation from
> > the National Rifle Association in which Bush expressed outrage
> > over
> > its reference to federal agents as "jack-booted government
> > thugs."
> >
> > One year ago: China broke off talks on arms control with the
> > United
> > States, and allowed demonstrators to hurl stones at the US
> > Embassy in
> > Beijing for a third day to protest NATO's bombing of the
> > Chinese
> > Embassy in Yugoslavia.
> > A military jury at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, sentenced
> > Captain
> > Richard Ashby, a Marine pilot whose jet had clipped an Italian
> > gondola
> > cable, sending 20 people plunging to their deaths, to six
> > months in
> > prison and dismissed him from the corps for helping hide a
> > videotape
> > shot during the flight (Ashby was acquitted earlier of
> > manslaughter).
> > Cartoonist, playwright and songwriter Shel Silverstein was
> > found dead
> > in his Key West, Florida, apartment; he was 66.
> >
> > Today's Birthdays:
> > Sportscaster Pat Summerall is 70.
> > TV and radio personality Gary Owens is 64.
> > Rhythm-and-blues singer Henry Fambrough (The Spinners) is 62.
> > Writer-producer-director Jim Abrahams is 56.
> > Singer Donovan Leitch is 54.
> > Singer Dave Mason is 54.
> > Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Banks (The Dramatics) is 49.
> > Rock singer Bono (U2) is 40.
> > Rock musician Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) is 35.
> > Rapper Young MC is 33.
> > Actor Erik Palladino ("ER") is 32.
> > Rhythm-and-blues singer Jason Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is
> > 20.
> >
> > Thought for Today:
> >
> > "Nothing recedes like success."
> >
> > -- Walter Winchell, American columnist and broadcaster
> > (1897-1972).
> >
> > (Copyright 2000 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
> >
>
>
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