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| May 11 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 224 days remaining until the end of time. |
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| 1310 Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics although Simon Templar is a saint. |
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| 1893 Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km in 1 hour) |
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| 1916 Einstein presents his Theory of General Relativity in a relatively short space of time. |
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| 1924 After Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz engage in some mad, hot, gooey daddy love they hit on the idea of merging their two companies to form Mercedes-Benz. I hear it was a sticky business at first. |
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| 1949 Siam officially changes its name to Thailand. It is a puzzlement! |
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| 1959 Rodgers and Barer's musical "Once upon a Mattress" premieres in New York City, but has much better box office in the revival |
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| 1963 "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2 and will always be remembered fondly by certain people |
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| 1969 Monty Python comedy troupe forms |
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| 1974 "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7. I think Tube and Balls make a better picture. |
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| 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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| 1720 Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Münchhausen, German liar of note |
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| 1904 Salvador Dalí, bisexual Spanish painter/filmmaker |
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| 1932 Valentino [Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani], gay Italian fashion designer |
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| 1935 Doug McClure, US actor |
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| 1957 Peter North (straight)/Matt Ramsey (gay), gay-for-pay Canadian actor |
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| 1961 Christopher Bradley, US actor/Leather Jacket Love Story |
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| 1964 Billy Bean, gay US baseball player who came out after retirement |
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| 1964 Tim Blake Nelson, US actor |
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| 1968 Jeffrey Donovan, US actor/Burn Notice |
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| 1970 Dean Capobianco, Australian sprinter/model |
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| 1972 Tomas Dvorak, Czech decathlete |
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| 1974 Dean Pullar, Australian diver |
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| 1974 Benoît Magimel, French actor |
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| 1975 Coby Bell, US actor/producer (Burn Notice) |
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| 1978 Cory Nastazio, US BMX racer |
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| 1981 Nguyen Binh Minh, Vietnamese supermodel |
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| 1982 Cory Monteith, Canadian actor/Finn Hudson on GLEE |
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| 1982 Gilles Guillain, Colombian actor |
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| 1983 Steven Jackson, US STL Rams football player |
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| 1927 Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), is out of order |
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| 1973 Lex Barker [Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr.], American actor, has a strange awakening |
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| 1981 Bob Marley, Jamaican icon, no woman, no cry |
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| 2001 Douglas Adams, English writer (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), is lost in space |
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| 2006 Floyd Patterson, US boxer, TKO |
