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On This Day:
Friday May 15, 2009
This is the 135th day of the year, with 230 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Hurricane Season
The hurricane season generally is from June to November, with a great
many in September when the surface ocean temperature warms to over 27 degrees
C. Meteorological and oceanographic conditions are conducive during most of
this period to the formation of hurricanes. Tropical storms reaching a
hurricane velocity of more than 75 miles per hour are common in the northern
Caribbean as well as in the Gulf of Mexico; they are almost nonexistent in the
far south. The Caribbean has fewer hurricanes than either the western Pacific
(where these storms are called typhoons) or the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricanes are
divided into five categories, ranging from minimal to catastrophic.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Berchtun, St. Dympna, St. Pachomius, Saints Bertha and
Rupert, St. Isidore of Chios, St. Gerebernus, St. Hallvard, St. Isias of
Rostov, St. Hilary of Galeata, St. Peter of Lampsacus, St. Isidore the Farmer,
and St. Torquatus and his Companions.
Paraguay: Independence Day.
Peace Officers' Memorial Day.
Mexico: San Isidro Day.
United Nations: International Day of Families.
Events
1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.
1756 - The Seven Years War, a global conflict known in America as the
French and Indian War, officially began when England declared war on France.
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of
Congress.
1911 - The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company,
ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1918 - U.S. airmail service began between Washington, Philadelphia, and
New York.
1924 - The U.S. Congress instituted immigration quotas.
1930 - Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a
United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1940 - Nylon stockings went on the sale in the U.S.
1941 - The first Allied jet, a Gloster-Whittle E 28/39, was tested.
1942 - The United States began gasoline rationing.
1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel
was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.
1963 - Gordon Cooper completed 22 orbits of the earth and spent 34 hours
in space aboard Faith 7, part of the Mercury program.
1969 - Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over
his past legal fees.
1972 - George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed in Maryland while
campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1988 - The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.
Births
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, American author.
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist.
1902 - Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago (1955-1976).
1914 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer; ascended Mt. Everest
with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.
1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer.
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist.
1953 - Michael Gordon Oldfield, an English multi-instrumentalist musician
and composer.
1953 - George Brett, former Major League Baseball player for the Kansas
City Royals.
Deaths
1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet.
2003 - Country musician June Carter Cash, 73.
2007 - Jerry Lamon Falwell, American evangelical pastor and televangelist.
2007 - Yolanda King, daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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