Monday, April 30, 2012

Today In History

What happened on May 9th?
1671: Thomas Blood attempts steal Crown Jewels in Tower
1837: Birth of Adam Opel, German engineer/industrialist
1874: First horse drawn bus in the city of Mumbai (2 routes)
1901: Australia opens first parliament in Melbourne
1926: Richard E. Byrd claims to have flown over North Pole
1950: Robert Schuman presents the creation of EU
1974: Formal impeachment of Nixon in Watergate Scandal
2011: Wouter Weylandt dies after a crash in Giro d’Italia

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