Today in History for 12th May 2015

Historical Events

1459 – Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1864 – US Civil war: Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)
1901 – US President McKinley visits San Francisco
1973 – 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels, 4 games to 3
1984 – World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
1996 – “Night of the Iguana” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 perfs

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Famous Birthdays

1820 – Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
1874 – Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet)
1926 – Mervyn M Dymally, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
1941 – Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1963 – Vanessa A. Williams, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place)
1988 – Marcelo, Brazilian footballer

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Famous Deaths

1784 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1864 – J.E.B. Stuart [James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart], Confederate General, dies at 31
1908 – Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
1925 – Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1930 – Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
1956 – Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65

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