Thursday, May 22, 2014
Today is the 142nd day of 2014 There are 223 days left in the year.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT
1868: The Great Train Robbery takes place near Marshfield, Indiana, as seven members of the Reno gang make off with US$96,000 in cash, gold and bonds.
OTHER EVENTS
1761: The first life insurance policy in the United States is issued, in Philadelphia.
1819: The American steamboat Savannah makes its first trans-Atlantic crossing.
1833: A new constitution in Chile gives greater power to the president and establishes Roman Catholicism as state religion.
1822: United States and Korea sign treaty of peace and friendship.
1840: Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales, Australia, officially ends.
1867: Canada becomes the first dominion of the British Empire, gaining a Parliament, cabinet and large measure of independence.
1939: Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel," a 10-year political and military alliance.
1969: The lunar module of Apollo 10 separates from the command module and flies to within 14 kilometres (nine miles) of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
On May 22nd 1970, British model Naomi Campbell of Jamaican descendants was born in Streatham district of South London. Naomi established herself among the top three most recognizable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared “supermodels” by the fashion world.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
Richard Wagner, German composer (1813-1883); Mary Cassatt, US impressionist painter (1844-1926); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, English author (1859-1930); Daniel F Malan, South African statesman, instituted apartheid (1874-1959); Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (1907-1989); Bernard Shaw, US journalist (1940- ); Naomi Campbell, British model (1970- ); Bernie Taupin, songwriter (1950- )
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