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Friday May 22, 2009
This is the 142nd day of the year, with 223 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Crater Lake
Crater Lake in Oregon was first discovered by white explorers in 1853. A
couple of years later, William Gladstone Steele saw the lake and made it his
mission to establish the lake (6 miles in diameter) and surrounding area (286
square miles) as a national park, which finally took place in 1902. The lake is
within a volcanic caldera and it may be a remnant of Mount Mazama, a volcano
that rose to probably 12,000 feet until an eruption about 7,000 years ago
destroyed the upper portion - or it may be of meteoric origin. Its maximum
depth is 1943 feet, making it the deepest lake in the United States and the
seventh deepest in the world. Its waters are extremely clear and it is often
possible to see to a depth of more than 100 feet.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Helen of Carnavon, St. Rita of Cascia, St. Julia of
Corsica, St. Aigulf of Bourges, St. Romanus, Saints Castus and Aemilius, St.
Humility, St. Joachima de Mas, and St. Quiteria.
Republic of Yemen: National Day.
Sri Lanka: National Heroes Day.
Events
1455 - In the opening battle of England's War of the Roses, the Yorkists
defeated King Henry VI's Lancastrian forces at St. Albans, near London,
capturing Henry VI and killing Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.
1761 - The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued,
in Philadelphia.
1819 - The U.S. steamboat Savannah made the first transatlantic crossing.
1843 - A massive wagon train of 1,000 settlers, called the "Great
Emigration," set off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri.
1868 - The "Great Train Robbery" took place in Indiana, as seven members
of the Reno gang made off with $98,000.
1902 - Crater Lake National Park was established.
1908 - The Wright brothers registered their flying machine for a U.S.
patent.
1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a "Pact of Steel" forming
the Axis powers.
1947 - The Truman Doctrine was enacted, appropriating military and
economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
1967 - The children's program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" premiered on
TV.
1972 - Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka.
1979 - Canadians voted in parliamentary elections that put the
Progressive Conservative party in power, ending the 11-year tenure of Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau.
1990 - After 150 years apart, pro-Western North Yemen and Marxist South
Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
1992 - Johnny Carson hosted his last "Tonight Show," where he had reigned
for nearly 30 years.
2001 - The original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was bought
at auction for $2,430,000, a world record price.
Births
1813 - (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner, German composer.
1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician, writer, creator of the
character Sherlock Holmes.
1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, Academy Award-winning actor.
1950 - Bernie Taupin, an English lyricist most famous for his
collaboration with Elton John.
1959 - Morrissey (born Steven Patrick Morrissey), English singer and
songwriter.
Deaths
1990 - Rocky Graziano (born Thomas Rocco Barbella), American boxer.
2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor.
2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian anti-smoking activist.
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