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Today's Highlight in History:
One hundred years ago, on May 22, 1907,
actor-director Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey,
England.
On this date:
In 1813, composer Richard Wagner was born in
Leipzig, Germany.
In 1868, a major train robbery took place near
Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with
$96,000.
In 1939, the foreign ministers of Germany and
Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, signed a "Pact of
Steel" committing the two countries to a military alliance.
In 1947, the Truman Doctrine was enacted as
Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and
Turkey.
In 1968, the nuclear-powered U.S. submarine
Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (The
remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles
southwest of the Azores.)
In 1969, the lunar module of Apollo 10 flew to
within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the
first lunar landing.
In 1972, President Nixon began a visit to the
Soviet Union, during which he and Kremlin leaders signed the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
In 1972, the island nation of Ceylon became the
republic of Sri Lanka.
In 1979, Canadians voted in parliamentary
elections that put the Progressive Conservatives in power, ending
the 11-year tenure of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
In 1992, after a reign lasting nearly 30 years,
Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time.
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Ten years ago: In a case that drew national attention, Kelly
Flinn, the Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for
combat, accepted a general discharge, thereby avoiding court-martial
on charges of adultery, lying and disobeying an order. The defense
began presenting its case in the Oklahoma City bombing trial of
Timothy McVeigh. Five years ago: A jury
in Birmingham, Ala., convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank
Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black
girls. The remains of Chandra Levy, the federal intern who had
disappeared more than a year earlier, were found in a Washington
park.
One year ago: The Department of Veterans
Affairs said personal data, including Social Security numbers of
26.5 million U.S. veterans, was stolen from a VA employee after he
took the information home without authorization. Seven-year-old
Braxton Bilbrey of Arizona swam from Alcatraz Island to San
Francisco in 47 minutes.
Today's Birthdays: Movie reviewer Judith
Crist is 85. Singer Charles Aznavour is 83. Actor Michael
Constantine is 80. Conductor Peter Nero is 73. Actor-director
Richard Benjamin is 69. Actor Frank Converse is 69. Actor Michael
Sarrazin is 67. Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw is 67. Actress
Barbara Parkins is 65. Songwriter Bernie Taupin is 57.
Actor-producer Al Corley is 51. Singer Morrissey is 48. Actress Ann
Cusack is 46. Country musician Dana Williams (Diamond Rio) is 46.
Rock musician Jesse Valenzuela is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny
Gill (New Edition) is 41. Rock musician Dan Roberts (Crash Test
Dummies) is 40. Model Naomi Campbell is 37. Actress Anna Belknap is
35. Actress Alison Eastwood is 35. Singer Donell Jones is 34.
Actress A.J. Langer is 33.
Thought for Today: "Always do your best.
You can't do more and you mustn't do less." -- Laurence Olivier,
British actor (1907-1989).
[Text copied
from file received from AP
Digital]
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