My #4's 18th Birthday =)
WORLD Password Day
INTERNATIONAL Star Wars Day [May the 4th be with you]
NATIONAL Bird Day
NATIONAL Day of Prayer [first Thursday in May]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1626 Native Americans sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons
1715 A French manufacturer debuts the first folding umbrella
1904 The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal
1927 A balloon soars over 40,000 feet for the first time
1932 Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion
1942 The United States begins food rationing
1959 The first Grammy Awards were held
1998 Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, California, under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty
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