Sunday, May 08, 2011
Luminous Anniversaries!
25 years -
since 1986...
20 years ago
(18 May 1991)
Helen Sharman
Helen Sharman
became the first
British citizen
to go into space
20 years ago
(15 May 1991)
Edith Cresson
Edith Cresson
became first woman
Prime Minister of France
40 years ago
(30 May 1971)
NASA launched
NASA launched
the space probe
Mariner 9.
It became the first spacecraft
to orbit another planet
(November 1971)
40 years ago
(19 May 1971)
Death of Ogden Nash,
Death of Ogden Nash,
American writer
of humorous poetry
50 years ago
(25 May 1961)
U.S. President John F. Kennedy
U.S. President John F. Kennedy
gave his famous
‘man on the moon’
speech, in which
he urged Congress
and America
to commit itself,
before the end of the decade,
to landing a man on the moon
and returning him safely to earth
If you believe
they put a man on the moon...
50 years ago
(5 May 1961)
Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard
became the first American
to travel into space
75 years ago
(27 May 1936)
The British ocean liner
The British ocean liner
‘RMS Queen Mary’
began her maiden voyage
75 years ago
(22 May 1936)
Aer Lingus,
Aer Lingus,
Ireland’s national airline,
began operating
80 years ago
(1 May 1931)
The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building
in New York City, USA
was officially opened
To think that
it could have crumbled
to dust
at the age of
70 -
if there hadn't been
another prime target
in NYC...
200 years ago
(14 May 1811)
Paraguay
Paraguay
declared its
independence
from Spain
Take that,
colonialist
spaniards...!
Oh,
and there were
two or three more
*significant*
anniversaries
this month,
too...
But that would be
too much information
now...!
:)
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