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Post by soutxed on May 10, 2024 8:08:24 GMT -5
May 10, 1954, Bill Haley releases “Rock Around the Clock.” It was the first rock song to top the Billboard charts and has become a classic of the early rock era.
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Post by johnmori on May 10, 2024 17:04:54 GMT -5
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May 10, 1975
Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.
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Post by MidnightSun on May 10, 2024 18:28:06 GMT -5
Horses cannot physically vomit. Why can't horses vomit? According to Equus magazine, horses have much stronger lower esophageal sphincters than other animals, and this makes it impossible for that valve to open under backward pressure from the stomach.
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Post by johnmori on May 11, 2024 8:25:26 GMT -5
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May 11, 1997
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
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Post by soutxed on May 11, 2024 8:29:06 GMT -5
May 11, 1963, The Fab Four start a record run. The Beatles start a 30-week run at No. 1 on the UK album charts with their debut album, 'Please Please Me.' Recorded in less than 13 hours, the record becomes the longest running No. 1 album by a group ever. The band’s follow up, 'With the Beatles' will replace it at the top of the charts on December 7, 1963, and stay there for 21 weeks.
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Post by MidnightSun on May 11, 2024 20:07:48 GMT -5
1816 was known as "the year without a summer." In April 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia experienced the biggest volcanic eruption in human history. The event, which lasted an unimaginable two weeks, blew countless tons of dust, ash, and sulfur dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere. That blanket of ash shielded the planet from the sun, which led to "the year without a summer." According to USA Today, parts of New England saw heavy snow falling in June, and a deadly frost set in during July and August.
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Post by BillG on May 11, 2024 20:53:20 GMT -5
Who Knew??? May 11TH is "National Twilight Zone Day"!
 
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Post by sandipaws on May 11, 2024 22:46:47 GMT -5
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National Odometer Day on May 12th each year provides an opportunity to learn a little bit about the odometer.
An odometer is an instrument that indicates the distance traveled by a vehicle.
It may be electronic, mechanical or a combination of both.
The word odometer comes from the Greek words hodos meaning path or gateway and metron, meaning measure.
In some countries, an odometer is called a mileometer, kilometer, or tripometer.
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Post by johnmori on May 12, 2024 7:06:53 GMT -5
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May 12, 1933
The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Post by soutxed on May 12, 2024 7:24:47 GMT -5
May 12, 1941 The world's first programmable, fully automatic computer is presented. The Z3 was designed by German inventor, Konrad Zuse. The original machine was destroyed in an air raid. A replica can be seen at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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Post by MidnightSun on May 12, 2024 19:37:24 GMT -5
The average cloud weighs an estimated 1.1 million pounds. Clouds may look like giant fluffy puffs of cotton, but they're actually quite hefty. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the average cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds (551 tons). Despite their immense weight, "that 'heavy' cloud is floating over your head because the air below it is even heavier — the lesser density of the cloud allows it to float on the dryer and more-dense air."
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Post by VanIsleRover on May 12, 2024 23:12:31 GMT -5
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12 May 1820 English nurse Florence Nightingale, who founded trained nursing as a profession for women, was born in Florence, Italy; International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday.
First flight over the North Pole
Aboard the semirigid airship Norge, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, American scientist Lincoln Ellsworth, and Italian engineer Umberto Nobile made the first undisputed flight over the North Pole on this day in 1926.
12 May 1972: The British rock group the Rolling Stones released Exile on Main Street, a double album that is considered one of their defining works.
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Post by BillG on May 13, 2024 6:59:35 GMT -5
Who Knew??? May 13TH is "National Apple Pie Day"!
 
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Post by johnmori on May 13, 2024 8:28:53 GMT -5
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May 13, 1995
Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
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Post by soutxed on May 13, 2024 8:28:59 GMT -5
May 13, 1846, US declares war on its neighbor. The US annexation of Texas the previous year lit the tinder between neighboring nations, and now the conflict explodes into the Mexican-American War as the US Congress votes in favor of President Polk's request for military action. The two-year conflict will end in Mexico's defeat and the loss of about half its national territory.
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