Today is Tuesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2010. There are 234 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On May 11, 1910, President Harry S. Truman dedicated the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state.
ON THIS DATE
In 1950, In 1960, in the wake of the U-2 incident, President Dwight D. Eisenhower defended intelligence-gathering activities as “distasteful” but necessary, saying “no one wants another Pearl Harbor.”
In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the “Pentagon Papers” were dismissed by a judge citing government misconduct.
In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
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