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On May 8:
1886 - Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented the flavored syrup for Coca-Cola. http://www.reference.com/search?q=Coca-Cola |
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1945 : U.S. Seventh Army captures Herman Goering.
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1940 : As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain
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May 10 1869:
At Promontory, Utah, California Governor Leland Stanford pounds in a ceremonial golden spike that completes the nation's first transcontinental railway. After failing to hit the spike on his first attempt, Stanford raised the heavy sledgehammer again and struck a solid square blow. For the first time in American history, railways linked together east and west, the realization of a dream that began two decades earlier. |
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May 11 1987:
Klaus Barbie, the former Nazi Gestapo chief of German-occupied Lyon, France, goes on trial in Lyon more than four decades after the end of World War II. He was charged with 177 crimes against humanity. |
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On May 13:
1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet |
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May 14, 1948 – David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence at the present-day Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, officially establishing a new Jewish state in parts of the former British Mandate of Palestine.
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On May 14:
1796 - Edward Jenner, an English doctor, administered the world's first vaccination to prevent smallpox. |
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May 15 1800:
President John Adams orders the federal government to pack up and leave Philadelphia and set up shop in the nation’s new capital in Washington, D.C. |
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On May 15:
1972 - In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to be become President. |
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