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On This Day:
Monday May 11, 2009
This is the 131st day of the year, with 234 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Sutton Hoo
The Sutton Hoo ship burial mounds of the 6th and 7th centuries,
discovered in Suffolk, England in 1939, were the richest treasure found in
British soil. It was the Royal Cemetery of the Wuffingas, early Anglo-Saxon
kings of East Anglia. The largest of the burial mounds was found to cover a
Saxon boat, its form preserved only by the impression left in the sand by its
vanished timbers, with their iron bolts still in their original positions. The
boat had been propelled by 38 oars; there was no mast. The grave goods include
a decorated helmet, sword, and shield; ceremonial whetstone; gold belt buckle;
purse and cloak clasps; Millefiori glass; cloisonné garnets; Merovingian gold
coins; and Byzantium silver vessels and spoons. It is likely to have been
prepared as a cenotaph in honor of Redwald (d. 625), an important East Anglian
king. The treasure shows a higher cultural level and wider commercial contacts
than had previously been figured for the early Saxon period in Engl and. This
type of funerary ritual is known from Migration Period Europe and is described
in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The ship and artifacts are now housed in the
British Museum.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Comgall, St. Credan, St. Maieul, St. Tudy, St. Ansfrid,
St Walter of l'Esterp, St. Richard Reynolds, St. Francis di Girolamo, St.
Ignatius of Laconi, St. Asaph, St. Gengulf, and Mamertus.
Jamaica: Bob Marley Day (memorializing his death in 1981).
Events
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1858 - Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1946 - The first CARE packages arrived in Europe, at Le Havre, France.
1947 - B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a
tubeless tire.
1949 - Israel was admitted to the United Nations.
1949 - Siam changed its named to Thailand.
1969 - The Monty Python comedy troupe is formed, with Monty Python's
Flying Circus first airing on October 5, 1969.
1997 - "Deep Blue," an IBM computer, defeated Garry Kasparov in a
six-game chess match, who lost the match 2.5 to 3.5.
1998 - A French mint produced the first Euro coins of the 12 European
Union member countries, collectively known as the Eurozone/Euroland.
2004 - The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine
people and injures 37 others.
Births
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer.
1854 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born American inventor of Linotype.
1888 - Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer.
1894 - Martha Graham, American dancer, choreographer, pioneer of modern
dance.
1904 - Salvador (Felipe Jacinto) Dalí (y Domenech), Spanish surrealist
artist.
1912 - Phil Silvers (Silversmith), Emmy Award-winning American comedian,
actor.
1927 - Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian.
1930 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman, and one of the early racers in the
Baja 1000 off-road race.
1941 - Eric Burdon, English musician.
1946 - Robert Jarvik, American physician known for his role in developing
the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.
Deaths
1812 - British prime minister Spencer Perceval, assassinated in the House
of Commons.
1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist.
1979 - Lester Flatt, one of the pioneers of bluegrass music, born in
Overton County, Tennessee.
1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician.
1985 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist and the creator of the Dick
Tracy comic strip.
1996 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, founder of modern Nigerian nationalism and the
first President of Nigeria.
2006 - Floyd Patterson, American heavyweight boxing champion.
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