05-26-2005, 05:28 AM
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May 26th
1703 ~ Death of Samuel Pepys, English civil servant, famous for his diary.
1799 ~ Birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author.
1897 ~ Bram Stoker's novel Dracula went on sale in London.
1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Environmental writer.
1908 ~ The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the U.K.
19928 ~ Birthday of Jack Kevorkian, Physician.
1940 ~ Battle of Dunkirk - In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.
1951 ~ Birthday of Sally Ride, Astronaut.
2002 ~ The Mars Odyssey found signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2004 ~ The New York Times published an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
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