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Wow, found the good morning thread! Good morning Tala, everyone.
Looks like a good history today...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1861 Arkansas seceded from the Union.
1882 Over President Chester A. Arthur's veto, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the United States for 10 years.
1889 The Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
1895 Silent-screen star Rudolph Valentino was born in Castellaneta, Italy.
1910 Britain's King Edward VII died.
1935 The Works Progress Administration began operations.
On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.
1941 Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov.
1942 Some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese during World War II.
1954 Roger Bannister became the first athlete to run a mile in less than four minutes, finishing in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds during a track meet in Oxford, England.
1960 Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey.
1987 CIA Director William J. Casey died at age 74.
1992 Actress Marlene Dietrich died at age 90.
1994 Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991.
1994 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally opened the Channel Tunnel between their countries.
1996 The body of former CIA director William E. Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he'd disappeared.
1997 Hemophiliacs who contracted AIDS between 1978 and 1985 from tainted blood products accepted a $600 million settlement from four health-care companies.
2001 John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002 Right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands.
2002 Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was freed after 19 months of house arrest.
2004 President George W. Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, calling it ''a stain on our country's honor.''
2004 An estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of ''Friends'' on NBC.
Have a good day everyone.
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