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Thursday: May 24, 2012
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Historical Events
1846 - Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
1877 - 5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45.5
1881 - Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1902 - Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
1954 - Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
1965 - Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
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Famous Birthdays
1858 - Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer)
1930 - Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals)
1939 - Gert J Schutte, Dutch MP (GPV)
1963 - Horace Holden Jr, Atlanta GA, slalom double canoe (Olympics-11th-96)
1975 - Maria Lawson, British Singer
1992 - Travis T. Flory, American actor
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Famous Deaths
1804 - Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73
1831 - Benjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62
1843 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
1851 - Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40
1941 - Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle
2000 - Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
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