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13 years ago
Kind of tired of all the bad Star Wars jokes. So how about a real reason to remember May 4th. Good, bad or indifferent, take your pick.
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
Indeed. Given the weather in these parts, I'm quite glad this year's re-enactment is going to be in July! I may even go -- it's only about 30 miles from me -- though I expect something will turn up.
I actually didn't here the star wars jokes until last year though lol.