28 - Watergate Break-In

1774: The First Continental Congress convenes in Virginia.

1830: Congress authorizes the "relocation" to the western prairie of all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi; the goal is to open fresh land for settlers.

1863: The first black regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War.

1892: The Sierra Club, whose mission is the conservation of nature, is founded by John Muir.

1915: John B. Gruelle patents the "Raggedy Ann" doll.

1929: "On With the Show," the first talking movie that is all in color, debuts at New York City's Winter Garden theater.

1934: The identical Dionne quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne - are born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

1972: The White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, setting in motion the series of events that will force President Nixon to resign two years later.

1977: Bruce Springsteen settles out of court with manager Mike Appel. The settlement allow Springsteen to start recording again.

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Today's Birthdays:
Athlete Jim Thorpe (1887-1953)
Writer Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (1944)
Rocker John Fogerty (1945)
Singer Kylie Minogue (1968)

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Something to Think About:
"Be the person your dog thinks you are." -Richard Bandler

27 -Golden Gate Bridge Opens

1647: First recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.

1703: St. Petersburg founded by Czar Peter the Great.

1937: The 4,200-foot-long Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens.

1969: Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida.

1976: The Allman Brothers Band breaks up. The breakup occurs after Gregg Allman testifies against his personal road manager, charged with drug trafficking.

1995: In Charlottesville, VA, Christopher Reeve is paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event.

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Today's Birthdays:
Italian writer Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
American Industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877)
Writer Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
Biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)
American film actor Vincent Price (1911-1993)
Golfer Sam Snead (1912-2002)
Statesman Henry Kissinger (1923)
American writer Harlan Ellison (1934)

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Something to Think About:
"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. Get started now." ~Mark Victor

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24 - Telegraph Invented

1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message, "What hath God wrought" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America's first telegraph line.

1883: Brooklyn Bridge, linking two New York City boroughs, Brooklyn and Manhattan, opens to traffic.

1941: the German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic.

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Today's Birthdays:
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
American clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
American golfer Jimmy DeMaret (1910-1983)
American politician Coleman Young (1918-1997)

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Something to Think About:
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." ~Anne Frank

23 - Hilo Tsunami

1430: Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British.

1785: In a letter, Benjamin Franklin describes his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses.

1873: The North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is established as Canada's national police force.

1934: Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are shot to death in a police ambush in Gibsland, Louisiana.

1960: A tsunami resulting from Chilean earthquakes hits the Hawaiian port city of Hilo, killing 61 people. The wave heights in Hilo Bay reached 35 feet.

1994: Funeral services are held at Arlington National Cemetery for former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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Today's Birthdays:
Physician/astrologist Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)
Feminist writer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
First female U.S. lawyer Arabella Mansfield (1846-1911)
Actor Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)
Actor Herbert Marshall (1890-1966)
American singer and actress Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002)
Pioneer of electronic music Robert Moog (1934-2005)
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler 1952
TV comic Drew Carey 1958
Singer/songwriter Jewel 1974

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Something to Think About:
"Love is a beautician. It can create beauty, but also illusion. True love is natural beauty. Everylasting, and never fake." ~ Sarah Bianchi

17 - Brown Vs Board of Education

1733: British Parliament passes the Molasses Act, which gives English producers a monopoly on rum and molasses.

1954: U.S. Supreme Court hands down Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision: Segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.

1973: U.S. Senate begins its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.

2002: Former President Jimmy Carter ends a historic visit to Cuba sharply at odds with the Bush administration over how to deal with Fidel Castro, saying limits on tourism and trade often hurt Americans more than Cubans.

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Today's Birthdays:
French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Actor Dennis Hopper (1936)
TV personality Bob Saget (1956 )
Sugar Ray Leonard (1956 )

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Something to Think About:
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." ~ Joseph Campbell

15 - U.S. Airmail Begins Service

1918: U.S. airmail begins service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York.

1940: Nylon stockings went on general sale to the general public for the first time in the United States. Women lined up at stores across the country to obtain the precious goods.

1942: Wartime gasoline rationing, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles, goes into effect in 17 states.

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Today's Birthdays:
Writer Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Singer-songwriter Brian Eno (1948)
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14 - Lewis & Clark Begin Expedition

1787: Delegates gather in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.

1804: the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis.

1948: Israel declares itself an independent country.

1955: The Warsaw Pact is signed by the USSR and seven Communist bloc countries.

1998: Singer-actor Frank Sinatra dies in Los Angeles at age 82.

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Today's Birthdays:

Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686- 1736)
Robert Owen (1771- 1858)
Frederick Borden (1847- 1917)
Kurt Eisner (1867-1919)
Founder of Forbes Magazine B. C. Forbes (1880- 1954)
German conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973)
English comedian Eric Morecambe 1926
Song writer and singer Bobby Darin (1936-1973)
Musician Jack Bruce (Cream) (1943)
Director George Lucas (1944)
Musician David Byrne (1952)
Actor Tim Roth (1961)

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Something to Think About:

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." ~ Erica Jong

13 - Blood, Toil, Tears, & Sweat

1607: Jamestown, Virginia is founded; it is the first permanent English settlement in America.

1908: Congress approves $3.1 million for a naval station at Pearl Harbor.

1918: First U.S. airmail stamp, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, is issued to the public with a face value of 24 cents.

1940: Prime minister Winston Churchill rallies the country to war saying, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

1950: The Diner's Club issues its first credit cards.

1981: Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant.

1985: Bruce Springsteen and actress Julianne Phillips marry in Oregon on her 25th birthday. They divorced in 1988.

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Today's Birthdays:
Boxer Joe Louis (1914-1981)
Actress Beatrice Arthur (1926-2009)
Actor Harvey Keitel (1939)
Singer Peter Gabriel (1950)
Singer Stevie Wonder (1950)
Actor-comedian Stephen Colbert (1964)

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Something to Think About:
"The memory of every man is his own private literature." ~ Aldous Huxley

12 - Oahu Plans Second City

1932: The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J.

1965: West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations.

1970: Campbell Estate unveils a 20-year master plan to develop its lands at Ewa into a new "second city" for Oahu and a resort at West Beach.

1993: President Clinton proposes putting all money raised from new taxes and spending cuts into a trust fund dedicated solely to reducing the nation's huge budget deficit.

2006: Tony Snow made his debut as White House press secretary.

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Today's Birthdays:

Illustrator Edward Lear (1812-1888)
English nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Composer Jules Massenet (1842 -1912)
Actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra (1925)

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Something to Think About:

"Ego is necessary." ~ Jerry Lewis

11- Kasparov Loses to Computer

1751: Pennsylvania Hospital, the first U.S. hospital, is founded.

1949: Israel is admitted to the United Nations.

1949: Siam changes its name to Thailand.

1960: The FDA approves the contraceptive pill. It will go on sale in December.

1981: Reggae singer/guitarist Bob Marley dies in Miami at age 36.

1997: The "Deep Blue" IBM computer demolishes Garry Kasparov and wins the six-game chess match between man and machine in New York.

2006: Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson dies in New Paltz, New York, at age 71.

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Today's Birthdays:
Composer Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
Painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Singer Eric Burdon (1941)
Artificial heart inventor Robert Jarvik (1946)
MTV veejay Martha Quinn (1959)
Actress Natasha Richardson (1963-2009)

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Something to Think About:
"Doing what I love to do is like therapy." ~ Jennifer Hudson

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1927: St. Francis Hospital is dedicated in Liliha, Oahu.

1945: In a radio address, President Truman announces that World War II had ended in Europe. He warns Japan it can expect nothing but complete destruction unless it surrenders.

1972: Billy Preston became the first rock performer to headline at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

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7 - Sinking of Lusitania

1915: German U-Boat torpedo sinks British luxury liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. One thousand one hundred nineteen of the 1,924 aboard died. The dead included 114 Americans.

1945: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France.

1972: Rolling Stones release the album "Exile on Main Street," featuring the song "Tumbling Dice."

1975: President Ford formally declares an end to the Vietnam era. In Ho Chi Minh City - formerly Saigon - the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover.

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Today's Birthdays:
Composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Educator Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
Argentina political figure Eva Perón (1919-1952)
Quarterback Johnny Unitas (1933-2002)

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Something to Think About:
"Preach the Gospel at all times! If necessary, use words.” ~ St. Francis

6 - Hindenburg Disaster

1889: the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

1937: Hindenburg Disaster-- Called the "Titanic in the Sky," the hydrogen-filled German dirigible caught fire and crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

1981: Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin was named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Today's Birthdays:
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays (1931)
Singer Bob Seger (1945)

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Something to Think About:
"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face." ~ James D. Finley

5 - Scopes Trial

1891: Carnegie Hall, "one of the most beautiful music halls in the world," opens at the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue in New York City.

1925: Schoolteacher John T. Scopes is charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.)

1961: Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Today's Birthdays:
Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Founder of communism Karl Marx (1818-1883)
U.S. baseball player Charles Bender (1883-1954)

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Something to Think About:
"Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything." ~ Walt Whitman

4 - Four Dead in Ohio

1626: Dutch explorer Peter Minuit lands on present-day Manhattan Island.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Ill., almost three weeks after he was assassinated in Washington, D.C.

1927: The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded in Hollywood.

1960: Actress Lucille Ball divorces husband Desi Arnaz.

1970: Four students are killed at Kent State University in Ohio when the National Guard opens fire during protests against America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Today's Birthdays:
Harpsichord maker Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori (1655-1731)
Educator Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Advocate of Darwinism Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (1928)
Golfer Betsy Rawls (1928)
Spanish bullfighter El Cordobés (1936)
Graffiti artist Keith Haring (1958-1990)

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Something to Think About:

"Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency." ~ Richard Nixon

3 - Last Dallas Episode

1802: Washington DC incorporated as a city.

1921: West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.

1991: The last episode of "Dallas" aired on CBS.

2003: President Bush says at a Crawford, Texas news conference that it was a matter of when - not if - weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq.

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Today's Birthdays:
Israel's fourth Prime Minister Golda Meir (1898-1978)
Folk singer Pete Seeger (1919)
Singer James Brown (1928-2006)

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Something to Think About:
"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life." ~ Henry David Thoreau

2 - Jailhouse Rock Recorded

1519: Artist Leonardo da Vinci dies at Cloux, France.

1863: Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later.

1932: Jack Benny's first radio show makes its debut on the NBC Blue Network.

1957: Elvis Presley records the song "Jailhouse Rock," the title song to his next movie. In the film, Elvis choreographed the dance sequence that accompanied the song.

1988: Jackson Pollock's "Search" sells for $4,800,000.

1997: Tony Blair, whose new Labour Party crushed John Major's long-reigning Conservatives in a national election, becomes at age 44 Britain's youngest prime minister in 185 years.

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Today's Birthdays:
Baron Von Richthofen (The Red Baron) (1892-1918)
Baby doctor, author Benjamin Spock (1903-1998)
Crooner & actor Bing Crosby (1903-1977)
Wrestler, actor, (The Rock ) Dwayne Johnson (1972 )
Soccer player David Beckham (1975)
Figure skater Sarah Hughes (1985)

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Something to Think About:
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." ~ Benjamin Spock

1 - Lei Day in Hawaii

1898: Commodore George Dewey gives the command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

1928: May 1 is designated Lei Day in Hawaii.

1931: New York's 102-story Empire State Building is dedicated. at the time, the skyscraper is the tallest in the world.

1963: James W. Whittaker is the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.

1967: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas. She was the daughter of an army officer Elvis had met while in Germany. She had been living at Elvis' mansion in Memphis for several years before they were married.

2003: U.S. President George W. Bush declares coalition forces victorious against the regime of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

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Today's Birthdays:
Statesman Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Painter George Inness (1825-1894)
Actor Glenn Ford (1916-2006)
Novelist Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
Astronaut Scott Carpenter (1925)
Country singer Sonny James (1929)
Singer Judy Collins (1939)
Singer Rita Coolidge (1945)

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Something to Think About:
"My lei of stars is there in the heavens adorning the skies above."
(Aia ku'u lei hoku i ka lani E kahiko ia luna e)
~ Puakea Nogelmeiser