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526 An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia. 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. 1570 Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. 1609 Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. 1631 The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. 1861 American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. The State of North Carolina secedes from the Union. 1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. 1883 Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people. 1891 History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. 1899 The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street. 1916 The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage). 1920 Montreal radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. 1927 Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. 1932 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. 1940 The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. 1969 The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. 1983 First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier. 1989 The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre. 2013 An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. Births 1768 Dolley Madison; 1799 Honorι de Balzac; 1818 William Fargo (co-founded Wells Fargo & AmEx); 1908 James Stewart; 1913 William Redington Hewlett (co-founded Hewlett-Packard); 1915 Moshe Dayan; 1919 George Gobel; 1925 Alexei Tupolev (designed the Tu-144); 1936 Anthony Zerbe; 1942 Carlos Hathcock; 1944 Joe Cocker; 1946 Cher; 1946 Dave Despain; 1958 Ron Reagan, Jane Wiedlin; 1959 Bronson Pinchot; 1960 Tony Goldwyn; 1966 Mindy Cohn ('Natalie' on "The Facts of Life", voice of 'Velma' on "Scooby Doo"); 1968 Timothy Olyphant (Sheriff Bullock in "Deadwood"); 1971 Tony Stewart; 1972 Busta Rhymes Deaths 1506 Christopher Columbus; 1989 Gilda Radner; 1996 Jon Pertwee (Dr. Who); 2009 Lucy Gordon; 2011 Randy Savage; 2012 Robin Gibb, Ken Lyons, Eugene Polley (invented the TV remote control); 2013 Ray Manzarek
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1502 The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer Joγo da Nova. 1758 Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later. 1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. 1871 Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi. 1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. 1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack). 1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. 1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. 1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1976 The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history. 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. 1980 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released in theaters. 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison. 1996 The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000. 2005 The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. 2011 Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2014 The National September 11 Museum opens to the public. Births 1878 Glenn Curtiss; 1898 Armand Hammer; 1901 Sam Jaffe; 1904 Robert Montgomery, Fats Waller; 1916 Harold Robbins; 1917 Raymond Burr; 1921 Andrei Sakharov; 1923 Ara Parseghian; 1924 Peggy Cass; 1941 Ronald Isley (The Isley Bros.); 1948 Leo Sayer; 1951 Al Franken; 1952 Mr. T; 1959 Nick Cassavetes; 1960 Jeffrey Dahmer; 1966 Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Cuddy on "House"); 1967 Chris Benoit; 1972 The Notorious B.I.G. Deaths 1542 Hernando de Soto; 1952 John Garfield; 1965 Geoffrey de Havilland (designed the de Havilland Mosquito); 1988 Sammy Davis, Sr.; 1995 Les Aspin; 1996 Lash LaRue; 2000 Sir John Gielgud; 2003 Alejandro de Tomaso; 2013 Leonard Marsh (co-founded Snapple)
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1762 Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clemens XIII. 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began, as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. 1807 A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason. 1826 HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. 1849 Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. 1885 Prior to burial in the Panthιon, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night. 1897 The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened. 1915 Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century. Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction. 1968 The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores. 1969 Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. 1980 Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man. 2004 The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) which kills one resident, and becomes the widest tornado on record at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide. 2008 The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes strike 19 states and one Canadian province. 2010 Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737, goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737. 2011 An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damagethe costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. 2015 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum. Births 1783 William Sturgeon (invented the electromagnet and electric motor); 1813 Richard Wagner; 1844 Mary Cassatt; 1859 Arthur Conan Doyle; 1907 Laurence Olivier; 1914 Sun Ra; 1922 Quinn Martin; 1928 T. Boone Pickens; 1930 Harvey Milk; 1939 Paul Winfield; 1940 Bernard Shaw; 1942 Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber); 1943 Tommy John; 1950 Bernie Taupin; 1959 Morrissey; 1970 Naomi Campbell; 1972 Max Brooks ("World War Z"); 1979 Maggie Q; 1980 Lucy Gordon; 1986 Julian Edelman; 1987 Novak Djokovic Deaths 337 Constantine the Great; 1802 Martha Washington; 1885 Victor Hugo; 1967 Langston Hughes; 1990 Rocky Graziano; 1998 John Derek; 2005 Thurl Ravenscroft
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I sense a tornado theme for May 22.
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1430 Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiθgne. 1701 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London, England. 1934 The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day. 1945 World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), commits suicide while in Allied custody. 1958 The satellite Explorer 1 ceases transmission. 1995 The first version of the Java programming language is released. 2004 Part of Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others. 2010 Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 gunmen, policemen and bystanders are killed. 2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington. 2014 Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. 2015 At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma. If anyone could explain to me how a tornado can cause a flood, I'd be interested to hear them out. Births 1707 Carl Linnaeus; 1820 James Buchanan Eads; 1824 Ambrose Burnside; 1883 Douglas Fairbanks; 1910 Scatman Crothers, Artie Shaw; 1912 John Payne; 1928 Rosemary Clooney; 1931 Barbara Barrie; 1933 Joan Collins; 1934 Robert Moog (invented the Moog synthesizer); 1936 Charles Kimbrough (anchorman on "Murphy Brown"); 1942 Zalman King; 1946 Michael Morrison (porn actor); 1954 Marvin Hagler; 1956 Buck Showalter; 1958 Mitch Albom, Drew Carey; 1961 Karen Duffy ('Duff', MTV vj); 1963 Wally Dallenbach Jr.; 1973 Maxwell; 1974 Jewel, Ken Jennings Deaths 1701 William Kidd; 1868 Kit Carson; 1906 Henrik Ibsen; 1934 Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker; 1937 John D. Rockefeller; 1945 Heinrich Himmler; 1975 Moms Mabley; 1981 George Jessel; 1986 Sterling Hayden; 1994 Joe Pass; 1999 Owen Hart; 2002 Sam Snead
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I didn't include that link, because it contains no explanation of how a tornado can cause a flood, that I could find.
I saw the words 'tornado', and 'flood'. If the explanation is in there, and I somehow did not see it, please show it to me, because I have now read that page twice, and still have yet to see an explanation of how a tornado can cause a flood.
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I got the impression that it was more a matter of the same storm causing the tornado as caused the flood - also that water from the river got caught up in the tornado and dumped onto a town - but I may have misunderstood.
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1607 One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America. 1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. 1798 The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. 1830 "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published. 1844 Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line. 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. 1921 The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens. 1930 Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). 1935 The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. 1941 World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen. 1962 Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. 1970 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union. 1976 The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins. 2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. 2001 The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200. The disaster was caught on a camcorder. Births 1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit; 1819 Queen Victoria; 1879 H. B. Reese (created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups); 1938 Tommy Chong; 1941 Bob Dylan; 1943 Gary Burghoff ('Radar' on MASH); 1944 Patti LaBelle; 1945 Priscilla Presley; 1947 Waddy Wachtel; 1952 Sybil Danning; 1953 Alfred Molina; 1955 Rosanne Cash; 1958 Chip Ganassi; 1962 Hιctor Camacho; 1966 Ricky Craven; 1967 Eric Close, Heavy D; 1974 Will Sasso Deaths 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus; 1963 Elmore James; 1965 Sonny Boy Williamson II; 1974 Duke Ellington; 2008 Dick Martin
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Today is National Missing Children's Day. Today is also Towel Day. 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes. 1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison. 1914 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland. 1925 – Scopes Monkey Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee. 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan 1950 – A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33 people. 1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston, in Texas. 1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S. 1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. 1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business. 1968 – The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis is dedicated. 1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters. Chinese government removes a decade old ban on the works of William Shakespeare. 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground. 1979 – Etan Patz, six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983). 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War. 1986 – Hands Across America takes place. 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed. 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show. 2012 – The Space X 'Dragon' becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station. Births 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson; 1889 – Igor Sikorsky; 1897 – Gene Tunney; 1903 – Binnie Barnes; 1921 – Hal David; 1925 – Jeanne Crain; 1926 – Claude Akins; 1927 – Robert Ludlum; 1929 – Beverly Sills; 1936 – Tom T. Hall; 1939 – Dixie Carter; 1943 – Jessi Colter; 1943 – Leslie Uggams; 1944 – Frank Oz; 1947 – Karen Valentine; 1955 – Connie Sellecca; 1958 – Paul Weller; 1963 – Mike Myers; 1969 – Anne Heche; 1970 – Octavia Spencer; 1973 – Demetri Martin; 1976 – Cillian Murphy; 1978 – Brian Urlacher; 1994 – Aly Raisman Deaths 1899 – Rosa Bonheur; 1919 – Madam C. J. Walker; 1990 – Vic Tayback; 2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly
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Dang, I've heard of towel day ut didn't know it was today.
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lol
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[quote]1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.[/QUOTE
Two years hard labour. It broke him physically and mentally.
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1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. 1849 The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened. 1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia. 1896 The F4-strength 1896 St. LouisEast St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars ($38.70 in 1896 dollars)). 1907 Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco. 1919 The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. 1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. 1930 The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. 1933 The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" 1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. 1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive. 1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. 1958 The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight. 1962 The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. As of 2015, the fire continues to burn. It has burned for more than 53 years. At its current rate, it could burn for over 250 more years. 1965 Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. 1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. 1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. 1995 - In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office. 1998 Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. Births 1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt; 1819 Julia Ward Howe; 1837 Wild Bill Hickok; 1894 Dashiell Hammett; 1909 Dolores Hope (wife of Bob Hope); 1911 Hubert Humphrey; 1911 Vincent Price; 1912 John Cheever, Sam Snead; 1915 Herman Wouk; 1922 Christopher Lee; 1923 Henry Kissinger, Sumner Redstone; 1925 Tony Hillerman; 1935 Lee Meriwether; 1936 Louis Gossett, Jr.; 1939 Don Williams; 1945 Bruce Cockburn; 1948 Pete Sears; 1955 Richard Schiff; 1957 Siouxsie Sioux; 1961 Peri Gilpin; 1964 Adam Carolla; 1965 Todd Bridges )'Willis' on "Diff'rent Strokes"); 1968 Jeff Bagwell; 1970 Joseph Fiennes; 1971 Paul Bettany; 1971 Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes; 1975 Andrι 3000; 1975 Jamie Oliver Deaths 1831 Jedediah Smith; 1840 Niccolς Paganini; 1949 Robert Ripley (Believe it, or not); 1960 James Montgomery Flagg; 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru; 1969 Jeffrey Hunter; 1992 Uncle Charlie Osborne; 2006 Paul Gleason; 2011 Jeff Conaway; 2011 Gil Scott-Heron; 2012 Johnny Tapia; 2013 Bill Pertwee
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