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Very interesting one today....
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1506 Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain.
1861 North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
1861 The capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, Ala., to Richmond, Va.
1902 The United States ended its occupation of Cuba.
1927 Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1939 Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.
On May 20, 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.
1969 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
1970 Some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.
1971 The album ''What's Going On'' by Marvin Gaye was released.
1989 Comedian Gilda Radner died of cancer at age 42.
1993 An estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of ''Cheers'' on NBC.
1995 President Bill Clinton announced that the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House would be permanently closed to traffic as a security measure.
1996 The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
2002 East Timor became an independent nation.
2003 The United States banned beef imports from Canada after a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Canada's cattle country.
2004 Iraqi police backed by American soldiers raided the home and offices of Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician once groomed as a possible replacement for Saddam Hussein.
Cher turns 59 today.
Joe Cocker turns 61 today.
... and I am heading outside to do some yard work. :D
Good day everyone.
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