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05-11-2016, 01:32 PM | #1 |
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May 11
Only 227 days til Christmas. 1820 HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched. 1846 President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the MexicanAmerican War. 1907 Thirty-two Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. 1910 An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. 1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. 1942 William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power. 1949 Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, for the second time. Israel joins the United Nations. 1960 In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. 1972 The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle. 1984 Eight people perish in a fire at Six Flags Great Adventure's Haunted Castle. 1985 Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. 1987 Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. 1996 After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board. The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest. 2010 David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after elections produced a hung parliament. 2014 Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into the stand by police officers attempting to defuse a hostile incident. Births 1799 John Lowell, Jr. (Lowell Institute); 1811 Chang and Eng Bunker; 1875 Harriet Quimby; 1888 Irving Berlin; 1904 Salvador Dalν; 1911 Phil Silvers; 1918 Richard Feynman; 1920 Denver Pyle; 1927 Mort Sahl; 1932 Valentino Garavani; 1934 Jim Jeffords; 1941 Eric Burdon; 1946 Robert Jarvik; 1947 Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers Band); 1953 David Gest; 1959 Martha Quinn; 1964 Tim Blake Nelson; 1982 Cory Monteith; 1989 Cam Newton Deaths 1889 John Cadbury; 1891 Edmond Becquerel; 1979 Lester Flatt; 1981 Bob Marley; 1985 Chester Gould (created "Dick Tracy"); 2001 Douglas Adams; 2003 Noel Redding; 2006 Floyd Patterson
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Fuck off. Just fuck right off.
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