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| 2006-05-30 |
| Tuesday, May 30, 2006 On this date in: 1431 - Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. the media blamed it on 'disenfranchised youths' 1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida. Castro immediately denounced him as a 'Yankee Imperialist Traitor' 1854 - The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established. 1883 - A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing triggered a stampede that led to the trampling deaths of 12 people. 1911 - The first long-distance auto race in Indianapolis was won by Ray Harroun. 1922 - The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. 1943 - American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II. 1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 1982 - Spain became NATO's 16th member. Once again reinforcing the uselessness of the organization. 1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games. 1989 - Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy." 1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage. 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. Unfortunately, Timmendequas is still breathing air. 2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Never Forget! 2005 - American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown. Thus spawning month after month after month of useless news coverage on FNC. |
| Posted by:mcsegeek1 |
| #3 Yesterday was the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. And the first anniversary of the french "No" to the EU Ãœberconstitution... I like Shiraq, he resumes the nuclear testings just in time for the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima, and he set the date for a referendum heavily tainted by the fear of a turkish EU adhesion on the date of the fall of Constantinople. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-30 16:39 |
| #2 1943 - American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II. IMPERIALISTS!!!! How dare you?? (Loud seething heard offstage-east) |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-05-30 16:35 |
| #1 Yesterday was the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-05-30 14:46 |