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May 04| HISTORY
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>> Events, deaths, births, of 05 MAY [For May 05 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1583~1699: May 15 1700s: May 16 1800s: May 17 1900~2099: May 18] |
• Karl Marx is born... • Battle
of Puebla... • Japanese bomb Oregon...
• Condamnés à mort par la Révolution...
• Sacco and Vanzetti arrested...• Battle of Coral Sea...
• Torture by electric chair...
• Gates and Justice Department disagree...
• Napoléon dies... • IRA hunger striker dies...
• Italians conquer Addis Ababa...
• 15 minutes in space ... • Push for silver standard...
• Keats's first poem... • Clone E~mail worms...
• Woodin to Treasury... • Big Blue blues...
• West Germany rid of occupiers... • Sitting Bull retreats to Canada...
• North Vietnamese maintain siege...
• US captures Snoul, Cambodia...
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2000
Yesterday's ILOVEYOU E-mail worm spawns clones.
^top^ http://www.mcafee.com/ warns: There are a growing number of variants of this worm being transmitted via email attachment. The most common are: SUBJECT: "ILOVEYOU" SUBJECT: "Virus ALERT!!!" SUBJECT: "Dangerous Virus Warning" SUBJECT: "Joke" SUBJECT: "Important ! Read carefully !!" SUBJECT: "Mothers Day Order Confirmation" SUBJECT: "Susitikim shi vakara kavos puodukui..." |
2000 Conjunction (very approximate) of Sun, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon. The cataclysm
does not occur which was predicted by Richard Noone in 5/5 2000
- Ice: The Ultimate Disaster, according to the theories of Charles
Hapgood: “On May 5th in the year 2000, our moon, the planets Mercury,
Venus, our Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be aligned with the Earth,
significantly increasing the centrifugal momentum exerted on the Earth's
crust. On that day, the ever growing ice ... at the South Pole will upset
the Earth's axis sending trillions of tons of ice and water sweeping over
the surface of our planet.” 1999 Mireya Moscoso es proclamada presidenta electa de Panamá tras su victoria electoral. 1998 Intuit reverses an April decision to stop making Quicken for Macintosh. The company had planned to discontinue the Mac version of its popular financial software because of dwindling Macintosh sales: Macintosh users represented about 10% of Quicken's customers in 1998, down from 15% a few years earlier. Steve Jobs, Apple's cofounder and acting CEO, persuaded Intuit to change its stance.
1996 The FBI released preliminary figures showing that, in the US, serious crimes reported to police fell for the fourth straight year in 1995. 1996 José María Aznar, elegido el día anterior por el Congreso español, jura su cargo como Jefe del Ejecutivo ante el rey Juan Carlos. 1994 Atari Corporation, maker of popular new video games in the late 1970s and early 1980s, announces that its Jaguar video games will soon be available for personal computers. 1993 Microsoft announces that it will bundle its popular database software, Microsoft Access, with its Microsoft Office package, which already included MS Word and Excel. Microsoft's competitors, including Lotus and WordPerfect, also added database software to their office software suites. 1992 El Parlamento de Crimea proclama la independencia de la península y convoca un referéndum, en un reto a Ucrania. 1999 Mireya Moscoso es proclamada presidenta electa de Panamá tras su victoria electoral. 1990 Juan Pablo II inicia una nueva visita a México, país mayoritariamente católico. Dos días después México y el Vaticano restablecen relaciones diplomáticas tras 130 años de ruptura.
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings 1986 Con la visita del rey Hussein de Jordania a Hafez al-Asad de Syria en Damasco, quedan restablecidas de manera definitiva las relaciones entre los dos paises. 1982 Se forma un gobierno de unidad nacional en El Salvador, con el apoyo del Ejército. |
1965 first large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
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1950 Phumiphon Adunlayadet (nacido el 5 de diciembre de 1927 en Cambridge, Massachusetts, mientras su padre, el príncipe Mahidol de Songkhla, estaba estudiando en la Universidad de Harvard), rey de Tailandia desde la muerte de su hermano mayor, Anada Mahidol, el 9 de junio de 1946, es coronado formalmente con el nombre de Rama IX. 1950 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'The conflict of science and religion is fought between the errors of both camps.' 1949 Council of Europe established 1946 Mariano Ospina Pérez, candidato conservador, triunfa en las elecciones de Colombia. 1945 Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control 1945 Liberada Eslovaquia por el Ejército Rojo, las tropas aliadas al mando del general Patton, acantonadas en Plzen, se niegan a apoyar el levantamiento del pueblo de Praga. 1942 Sales of sugar resumed in the United States under a rationing program during WW II
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1927 El presidente de Chile, Emiliano Figueroa, presenta su dimisión y le sustituye Carlos Ibáñez. 1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" 1925 High school biology teacher John T. Scopes, 24, is arrested for teaching the theory of evolution in his Dayton, Tennessee, classroom.
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1916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until
1924 1914 From California, Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker begins first cross-US motorcycle trip (5438 km). In response to his appeal, people had informed him which were the least deplorable roads and promised to bring him gasoline where it was not available. 1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) 1908 Great White Fleet arrives in SF 1904 El Congreso venezolano confiere al general Castro poderes de dictador por un año.
1877 Porfirio Díaz es proclamado presidente de México, con lo que comienza una dictadura que duró 35 años.
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia concludes 1862 Peninsular Campaign Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia begins 1859 Firma de un tratado de límites y navegación fluvial entre Brasil y Venezuela. 1842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
1808 Carlos IV firma en Bayona (Francia) su renuncia a la corona de España. 1795 GODINEAU René, (dit Flambart), 53 ans, né et domicilié à Traversone, journalier, propose d'arborer le drapeau blanc à l'arrivée des brigands de la Vendée ou, en tout cas, c'est ce dont on l'accuse au tribunal révolutionnaire séant à Paris pour le condamner à mort le 28 fructidor an 3 (14 septembre 1795).
1749 Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Jubilee Year [?] 1518 El marino y explorador Juan de Grijalva descubre las islas de Yucatán. 1511 El Consejo Real dicta su primera sentencia reconociendo la mayor parte de los derechos de don Diego Colón Muniz, quien reclamaba todos los títulos y honores que se habían otorgado a su padre Cristóbal Colón: Títulos hereditarios de Almirante, Virrey y Gobernador de las Indias, gobierno de Puerto Rico, Veragua y Urabá, nombramiento de ternas para los oficios de justicia, diezmos de los beneficios indianos, etc. Pero Fernando el Católico mantiene su negativa a aceptar el cargo de Virrey como vitalicio, por lo que el pleito continuara largo tiempo. 1494 Colón descubre la isla a la que llamó Santiago, actual Jamaica, durante su segundo viaje a América. 0553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens. |
Deaths
which occurred on a May 05: 2003 Edward A. Dowey Jr., US Protestant theologian born on 21 February 1918. Author of The Knowledge of God in Calvin's Theology (1952). 2003 Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, South African anti-Apartheid leader, born on unknown date of 1912, but he chose 18 May for birthday purposes. 2002 Eliezer Korman, 74, Israeli from Ramat Hasharon, of injuries received on 27 March 2003 in suicide bombing at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel, which caused 23 immediate deaths, and 7 delayed deaths, including his.
1964 Godfrey Clive Miller, Australian artist born on 20 August 1893. 1957 Leopold Löwenheim, German (Jewish according to the Nazis and therefore persecuted) mathematician born on 26 June 1878. He is remembered for the Löwenheim-Skolem paradox — which Skolem [23 May 1887 – 23 Mar 1963] pointed out is not a paradox! — which produces non-standard models, for example a denumerable model of the reals.
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1913 Henri Moret, French artist born on 12 December 1856. MORE ON MORET AT ART 4 MAY with links to images. 1907 Eugène-Alexis Girardet, French painter born on 31 May 1853. — more with links to images. 1886 Seven strikers, killed by militia (the Bay View Massacre). Striking steelworkers, marching toward a mill in the Bay View section of Milwaukee, are intercepted by a squad of militia, who shoot point blank into the strikers, killing seven. 1883 Eva Gonzalès, Mme Henri Guérard, during childbirth, French Impressionist painter born on 19 April 1849, model and student of Édouard Manet. MORE ON GONZALÈS AT ART 4 MAY with links to images.
1809 Joseph-Laurent Malaine (or Malines, Mallache), French artist born on 21 February 1745.
1793 JICQUIAU Claude, cultivateur, domicilié à Ferel (Morbihan), condamné à mort, par le tribunal criminel dudit département, comme contre-révolutionnaire. 1793 LAVAL Jacques, ex noble, domicilié à Meri (Orne), condamné à mort, comme émigré, par le tribunal criminel du département de l'Orne. 1705 Leopold I, 64, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire. 1601 Jacob-Willemsz Delff I, Dutch artist born in 1550. |
Births
which occurred on a May 05: ^top^
1976 El Frente de Liberación Nacional de Córcega (FLNC) es fundado en Ajaccio, aglutinando a votantes y simpatizantes del partido político ARC (Acción Regionalista Corsa), dirigido por Edmond Simeoni, cuyo objetivo principal se centra en conseguir un sistema de gobierno autonómico para la isla. 1935 Piero Guccione, Italian artist. 1934 John J. Sweeney, AFL-CIO. 1909 André Hambourg, French artist. 1903 James Beard US, culinary expert/author (Delights and Prejudices) 1897 Francesco Tricomi, Italian mathematician who died on 21 November 1978. In 1923 he wrote a paper on the Tricomi differential equation, which would become very important in the theory of supersonic flight. He wrote 346 papers, 300 of which are listed in his La mia vita di matematico attraverso la cronistoria dei miei lavori (1967). They cover a vast range of subjects including singular integrals, differential and integral equations, pseudodifferential operators, functional transforms, special functions, probability theory and its applications to number theory, not to mention the history of mathematics. 1895 Stefan Bergman, Polish-born Jewish US mathematician who died on 06 June 1977. He is best known for his Bergman Kernel function which he invented in 1921. Read all about it in Riemann Mapping Theorem and the Bergman Kernel (PDF)... and weep. 1884 Wang Tjing-Wei, Premier of China (1932-35) 1867 Nelly Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) (courageous journalist, writing about taboo subjects of her time: divorce, poverty, capital punishment, insanity) 1883 Anna Johson Pell Wheeler, US mathematician who died on 26 March 1966. He first husband was South Dakota University professor of mathematics Alexander Pell who, if this article is not just a pipe dream, really was, unknown to anyone in the US, Sergey Degaev [1857-1921], a Russian nihilist revolutionary, turned police informer, turner top-cop killer, turned fugitive, turned benevolent and altruistic professor. In 1925 Anna married Arthur Wheeler, who died in 1932. 1867 Nellie Bly whose name became a synonym for female star reporter. 1848 The Communist Manifesto, on the 30th birthday of its author, Karl Marx, is published in London by the Communist League. 1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) 1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905) SIENKIEWICZ ONLINE: Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero 1833 Soledad Acosta de Samper, colombiana, será escritora, ha de morir el 17 de marzo de 1913. 1816 American Bible Society organized (NY) 1842 Heinrich Martin Weber, German mathematician who died on 17 May 1913. He worked on a wide variety of topics, but his main work was in algebra, number theory, analysis, and applications of analysis to mathematical physics. 1833 Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs, German mathematician who died on 26 April 1902. He worked on differential equations and the theory of functions.
1766 Firmin Massot, Swiss painter, draftsman, and teacher, who died on 16 May 1849. — more with an image of Mme. de Staël and something about her. 1580 Johann Faulhaber, Ulm, Germany, weaver who became a mathematician and surveyor specialized in fortifications. He was was a Cossist (= early algebraist). He is important for his work explaining the recently invented logarithms. He died in 1635. |