Today is Monday, May 17, the 137th day of 2010. There are 228 days left.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
In 1987, 37 American sailors were killed when an Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf. (Iraq and the U.S. called the attack a mistake.)
ON THIS DATE
In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down racially segregated public schools in its Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka decision.
In 2000, two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. that killed four black girls. (Thomas Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry were later convicted and sentenced to life behind bars.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.
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