Mother’s Day
Birth anniversary of Irving Berlin (1888-1989).
Birth anniversaries of Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Martha Graham (1894-1991) and Natasha Richardson (1963-2009).
Birth anniversary of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-74).
Happy Birthday! Louis Farrakhan, Robert Jarvik, Mort Sahl
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1967 - The siege of Khe Sanh ended.
1969 - the Battle of Hamburger Hill began at Dong Ap Bia Mountain in Vietnam.
1996 - An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board were killed.
1997 - Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
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