Today is Monday, May 11, the 131st day of 2009. There are 234 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On May 11, 1946, the first CARE packages arrived in Europe, at Le Havre, France.
ON THIS DATE
In 1502, Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
In 1944, Allied forces launched a major offensive against German lines in Italy.
In 1949, Siam changed its name back to Thailand.
In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the “Pentagon Papers” case were dismissed by Judge William Byrne, who cited government misconduct.
In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.
In 1985, 56 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
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.
In 2004, a video on an al-Qaida-linked Web site showed the beheading of businessman Nick Berg, an American who’d been kidnapped in Iraq.
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