05-15-2005, 04:51 AM
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May 15th
1567 ~ Birthday of Claudio Monteverdi, Italian Composer.
1864 ~ American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia - Students from the Virginia Military Institute fought alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1869 ~ Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1886 ~ Death of Emily Dickinson, Poet.
1914 ~ Birthday of Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa and mountaineer.
1919 ~ The Winnipeg General Strike began. By 11 AM, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
1930 ~ Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois.
1957 ~ Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
1988 ~ Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army began its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
2004 ~ The largest prime number to be discovered, 2^24036583 − 1, was found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort.
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