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May 26, 2014

Today is Monday May 26, 2014
146th day of 2014, 209  remaining

Sunrise: 5:51am
Sunset:  8:22pm
14hours and 30 minutes of daylight today
Moonrise: 4:35 a.m.
Moonset: 6:32 p.m.   

Special Celebrations today:

Today is  Memorial Day as well as Sally Ride Day. It's also National Blueberry Cheesecake Day

On this day in...

1647: A new law banned Catholic priests from the colony of Massachusetts.

1805:Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy.

1864: The Territory of Montana was organized.

1896: The Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared for the first time in the Wall Street Journal.

1938: The House Committe on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the U.S.

1946: A patent was filed in the U.S. for an H-bomb.

1958: Union Square in our fair city became a state historical landmark.

1975: The first legal casino in the Eastern U.S. opened in Atlantic City, N.J.

If today is your birthday, you share it with:

AL JOLSON
JOHN WAYNE
PEGGY LEE
JAMES ARNESS
BRENT MUSBURGER
STEVIE NICKS
PAM GRIER
SALLY RIDE
LENNY KRAVITS
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