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Monday May 11, 2015

  • 131st Day of 2015 234 Remaining
  • Summer Begins in 42 Days
  • Sunrise:6:02
  • Sunset:8:08
  • 14 Hours 7 Minutes
  • Moon Rise:1:53am
  • Moon Set:1:11pm
  • Phase:Last Quarter
  • Full Moon June 2 @ 9:21am

Full Strawberry Moon This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Full Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!

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  • Low:11:28am
  • Holidays
  • National Mocha Torte Day
  • Eat What You Want Day
  • Hostess Cupcake Day
  • National Root Canal Appreciation Day
  • National Twilight Zone Day
  • National Women’s Check-Up Day
  • On This Day
  • 0330 --- Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded.
  • 1776 --- General George Washington recommends raising companies of German-Americans to use against the German mercenaries anticipated to fight for Britain. Washington hoped this would engender a spirit of disaffection and desertion among Britain’s paid soldiers.
  • 1812 --- Spencer Perceval, prime minister of Britain since 1809, is shot to death by demented businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons. Bellingham, who was inflamed by his failure to obtain government compensation for war debts incurred in Russia, gave himself up immediately.
  • 1858 --- Minnesota enters the Union as the 32nd state. Known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” Minnesota is the northern terminus of the Mississippi River’s traffic and the westernmost point of the inland waterway that extends through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 1894 --- Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The job action spread and crippled railroad service nationwide before the federal government intervened to end the strike in July.)
  • 1910 --- Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
  • 1934 --- One of the worst dust storms ever to hit the Great Plains occurred.  It lasted 2 days and the area lost massive amounts of top soil.
  • 1942 --- One of William Faulkner’s greatest collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
  • 1947 --- The B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announces it has developed a tubeless tire, a technological innovation that would make automobiles safer and more efficient.
  • 1949 --- Siam changed its name to Thailand. 
  • 1957 --- The Everly Brothers made their debut on "Grand Ole Opry".
  • 1961 --- President Kennedy approves sending 400 Special Forces troops and 100 other U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam. On the same day, he orders the start of clandestine warfare against North Vietnam to be conducted by South Vietnamese agents under the direction and training of the CIA and U.S. Special Forces troops.
  • 1965 --- The Byrds made their TV debut with "Mr. Tambourine Man" on NBC's "Hullabaloo." 
  • 1970 --- The triple album "Woodstock" soundtrack was released on Cotillion Records.
  • 1972 --- John Lennon appeared on the "Dick Cavett" TV show and said that the FBI had tapped his phone. 
  • 1973 --- Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct.
  • 1977 --- The U.S. announced a timetable for the phase out of the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in aerosol products.  By December 15, 1978, companies must stop using chlorofluorocarbons as propellants in aerosol products. 
  • 1981 --- Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer at age 36.
  • 1985 --- More than 50 people died when a flash fire swept a soccer stadium in Bradford, England. The wooden roof that burned was scheduled to be replaced by a steel roof later that same week. Bradford was playing Lincoln City, many fans were there to celebrate Bradford’s two-year rise from bankruptcy to the league championship and promotion to the second division. Near the end of the first half, a fire broke out at one end of the main stands. Although several fans moved onto the field to escape the flames, there was no immediate general concern. Within minutes, though, the fire spread up the wooden roof and quickly engulfed the fans underneath. It took only four minutes for the entire roof to burn. Hundreds of people were injured in addition to the 56 who were killed.
  • 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.
  • 1997 --- Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
  • 2009 --- U.S. first class postage rates were raised to 44 cents and post cards to 28 cents.
  • Birthdays
  • Mari Sandoz
  • Salvador Dali
  • Martha Graham
  • Baron Munchhausen
  • Irving Berlin
  • Dame Margaret Rutherford
  • Phil Silvers
  • Foster Brooks
  • Denver Pyle
  • Mort Sahl
  • Louis Farrakhan
  • Martha Quinn