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May 25, 1981 - Using three suction cups, and garbed in a Spiderman costume, Daniel Goodwin climbs Chicago's Sears Tower. It took him 7 hours.

26 May
1828 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg

1897 - Bram Stoker's novel Dracula goes on sale in London.

Diet ? DIET ???

And Worms ???

I mean ... didn't the collective of Worms to be presented as a diet for some strange aristocrat anymore ? I guess they just wanted to live peacefully in their earth-holes, then ?


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May 26 1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public

26 may 1676

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek sees for the first time animalculen.Under his microscoop.

27 may 1895
- Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.

27 may 1940
- World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.

27 may 1963
- Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.

27 may 1995
- In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.

Birthdays
27 may 1922
- Christopher Lee, actor (Saruman in LOTR, as Count Dooku in "Attack of the Clones")

27 may 1971
-Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, singer (d. 2002), (died in a planecrash)

Sorry if I posted too many events but they were all very intresting to me.

May 27, 1911: birthdate of American actor Vincent Price

May 27, 1647: The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.

27 May 1940,British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk. (Operation Dynamo)

27 may 1994

In Princeton man creates the highest temp° ever on earth.
510,000,000 °C.

May 27

1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.

1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

28 may 1971

The Russian Mars3 is launched and will be the first Marslander

May 28 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.

May 29 1849 - Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time"
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1944 - British troops occupy Aprilia,Italy.

may 29 1977
- Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
(women on top!!)

Birthdays
may 29 1917
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1903
- Bob Hope, British-born American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
1956
- LaToya Jackson, musician
1958
- Annette Bening, actress
1959
- Rupert Everett, actor
1959
- Adrian Paul, actor
1961
- Melissa Etheridge, musician
1963
- Lisa Whelchel, actress
1967
- Noel Gallagher, musician
1975
- Melanie Brown, musician, actress

May 29 must have been a fruitful day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> (and that's not even half of it!)

May 29 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.

May 29 1985 - Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match.

29 may 1898

The Nobelprices are "founded".

A match between Liverpool and Juventus. Almost all who died ware Italian soccer fans.
On 29 may 2005 a monument to remember them (and against violence in soccer) is revealed.

30 may 1898

Morris Travers discovers krypton , together with sir Ramsay. (They also discovered neon)

30 May 1431
In Rouen, France, 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal.

31 may 1578

The catacombs under Rome are discovered - by accident.