On this day in history..

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1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon

1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)


1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight

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1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO

1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video


1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)

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Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, originated in 1865 as a way to honor fallen Civil War soldiers. It was first observed in 1866 and every year thereafter. Each year the headstones at Arlington National Cemetary each receive an American Flag. Our thoughts and prayers go to all families grieving a fallen soldier this Memorial Day weekend.

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1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City

1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical masectomy

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1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination

1980 John McEnroe beats Bj”rn B”rg for US Open


1986 Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1

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1870 Charles Dickens author, dies in England

1934 1st Donald Duck cartoon, The Wise Little Hen, released

1963 Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY

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1959 Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover

1963 JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"

1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0

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1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)

1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate

1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

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1976 NBA & ABA agree to merge

1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers


1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra
Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court)

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1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon


1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital


1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit

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1969 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title


1972 Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

1989 The movie "Batman" premiers

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1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC


1947 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold


1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London

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1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)

1983 "Loving" premiers on TV

1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time

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Jun 26, 1804, The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.

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1844

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
1954

The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.
1985

The legendary Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., was decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System.

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Jun 27, 1847, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.

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Jun 28, 1894, The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday.

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Jun 29, 1888, Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.

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Jul 01, 1847, The U.S. Post Office issued its first adhesive stamps.

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Jul 02, 1857, New York City's first elevated railroad officially opened for business.