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Old 05-17-2011, 06:12 AM   #106
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1814: The men at Eidsvoll agreed "until the Dovre Mountain falls down". Norways constitution day.
Norway declared independency form Denmark-Norway (a union enforced by Denmark since 1380). Denmark answered by "giving" Norway to the Swedes. Although Norway still was not truly independent, the union with Sweden were a little "looser". (And Norway became truly independent 07th June 1905, albeit we had to "import" a King from Denmark since our King heir died in 1200-something)
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Old 05-17-2011, 06:48 AM   #107
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May 17

1873 - Dorothy Richardson is born. Pilgrimage, Richardson's twenty-year experimental novel, began appearing in 1915 -- at about the time Joyce, Proust and Woolf were engaged in similar experiments.

2011 - my partner and i celebrate another year of quasi-marital bliss
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Old 05-17-2011, 09:51 AM   #108
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2011 - my partner and i celebrate another year of quasi-marital bliss
congrats! how many?
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Old 05-17-2011, 09:53 AM   #109
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6 officially (with the rings and the quasi ceremony and all), 9 unofficially.
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Old 05-18-2011, 03:50 PM   #110
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I really like this thread so I'll add a couple things I found for today from Wikipedia

1152 - King Henry II marries Eleanor of Aquitaine

1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.

1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.

1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

Born on this day:

1920 – Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła)

1943 – Jimmy Snuka, American professional wrestler

1946 – Reggie Jackson, American baseball player
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Old 05-19-2011, 01:49 AM   #111
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1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).

1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".



1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.

1997 – The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.

1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938), wbt

1890 – Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969), wbt

1925 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965), wbt

1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998), wbt

1951 – Joey Ramone, American vocalist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2001), wbt
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Old 05-19-2011, 04:51 AM   #112
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Motorola and Verizon have finally stopped teasing us and have made the Droid X2 official. This is a 4.3-inch Android (2.2, to be upgraded to 2.3) smartphone with a qHD screen resolution and a dual-core 1GHz processor. An 8 megapixel camera with continuous autofocus and HD video recording graces the back. The X2 will cost the usual $200 on contract and will be available to buy online on May 19th, before making its way out to stores a week later, on May 26th. Leap past the break for the full PR.

1988 - Birth of Lily Cole ....

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.

1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

1780 – New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
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Old 05-19-2011, 08:08 AM   #113
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Old 05-19-2011, 08:57 AM   #114
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May 19th...just want to add

1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
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who is Lily Cole?
She's a model and actress from England

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After several minor acting roles, starting with St Trinian's in 2007, Cole's first leading role was as Valentina in the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, in which she starred alongside Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law.
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Old 05-19-2011, 09:20 AM   #116
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She was also in the Doctor Who episode The Curse of the Black Spot a week or so ago playing a ghostly Siren (I thought she was pretty good, as well as being decidedly easy on the eye).
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May 19th

1884 - Ringling Brothers circus premieres

1886 - Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres

1928 - 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) - frog jumping, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain - wiki and book
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May 20th ....

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.

1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe....

1818 – Birth of William Fargo, American pioneer expressman, co-founder of Wells, Fargo & Co.

Emancipation Day (Florida)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cuba from the United States in 1902.
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May 21st ....

1664 – Death of Elizabeth Poole, English-born Puritan settler and founder of Taunton, Massachusetts.

2000 – Deaths of Barbara Cartland and Sir John Gielgud.

1471 – Birth of Albrecht Dürer....

2011 - We are still waiting news on the main topic of the day ....
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