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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WanderingMonster" data-source="post: 887549" data-attributes="member: 573">For his birthday, I'd like to give P-Kitty some off-topic internet spam!  Well, actually it's on topic...and it's not really spam.  But wouldn't be funny if he had to close down his own birthday thread??May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (131st in leap years). There are 235 days remaining. Events: 1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England 1497 - Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to the New World 1503 - Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands 1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Newfoundland 1774 - Louis XVI becomes King of France 1775 - American Revolutionary Way: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen 1810 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall 1837 - The Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels 1857 - The start of the Indian Mutiny 1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, Georgia 1869 - The first Transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Point, Utah 1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is promoted to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1941 - World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland 1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts 1979 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing 1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as President of South Africa Births: 1727 - Anne Robert Turgot, statesman (+ 1781) 1760 - Johann Peter Hebel, poet (+ 1826) 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (+ 1865) 1841 - James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher 1878 - Gustav Stresemann, politician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (+ 1929) 1888 - Max Steiner, composer (+ 1971) 1890 - Alfred Jodl, German general (+ 1946) 1899 - Fred Astaire, singer, dancer, actor (+ 1987) 1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (+ 1979) 1902 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (+ 1965) 1902 - Anatole Litvak, film director (+ 1974) 1909 - Mother Maybelle Carter, country musician 1916 - Milton Babbitt, composer 1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster 1933 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer 1944 - Jim Abrahams, director 1946 - Donovan Leitch, musician 1946 - Dave Mason, musician ("Traffic") 1955 - Mark David Chapman, assassin 1957 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (+ 1979) 1960 - Bono, singer of U2 1973 - Dario Franchitti, automobile racer Deaths: 1818 - Paul Revere, engraver, patriot 1863 - Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general 1955 - Tommy Burns, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1977 - Joan Crawford, actress 1985 - Chester Gould, cartoonist 1990 - Walker Percy, author 1994 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed) 1999 - Shel Silverstein, poet, composer Holidays and Observances: Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina and South Carolina</blockquote>

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