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Today is Thursday, May 11th, the 131st day of 2017. There are 234 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
Events:
Today is Thursday, May 11, the 131st day of 2017. There are 234 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
1858: Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
1937: “SPAM” was registered as a trademark by Hormel Foods, producer of the canned meat product.
1947: The B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
1953: tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
1960: Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1973: The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
1981: legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.
1985: 56 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
1987: Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore transplanted the heart and lungs of an auto accident victim into a cystic fibrosis patient who gave up his own healthy heart to another recipient. (Clinton House, the nation’s first living heart donor, died 14 months later.)
1996: An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
1997: IBM’s “Deep Blue” computer demolished an overwhelmed Garry Kasparov, winning the six-game chess re-match between man and machine in New York.
Birthdays:
Comedian Mort Sahl is 90.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 84.
Jazz keyboardist Carla Bley is 81.
Rock singer Eric Burdon (The Animals; War) is 76.
Actress Pam Ferris is 69.
Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly is 67.
Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (SHOH’-reh ahg-DAHSH’-loo) is 65.
Actress Frances Fisher is 65.
Actor Boyd Gaines is 64.
Quotes Of The Day:
“Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life. Live it.”
If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.
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