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May 27th
1837 ~ Birthday of Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter.
1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize 1973.
1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author.
1937 ~ The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.
1963 ~ Jomo Kenyatta led his party, Kenya African Nation Union, to victory in the Kenya’s first general election.
1964 ~ Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first PM.
1995 ~ Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event.
1999 ~ A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo.
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What child has not laughed at the adventures of Wart?
Shame on the parents who with-held him from their kids.
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May 30th
1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).
1640 ~ Death of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter.
1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author.
1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.
1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998.
1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law',' which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption.
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May 31st
1669 ~ Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys made the last entry in his diary.
1809 ~ Death of Joseph Haydn, Composer.
1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American Poet.
1889 ~ A dam broke near Johnstown, Pa, drowning more than 2,000.
1916 ~ British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark.
1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003.
1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary").
1957 ~ Playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress.
1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate.
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1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, French Nobleman & Author.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.
1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.
1857 ~ Birthday of Edward Elgar, English Composer.
1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic.
1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1.
1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.
2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched.
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Now that is a strange coincidence that these two had the same birthday.
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