WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 08

PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

1995 Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.

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1984 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.

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1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.

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1958 President Dwight Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

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1952 Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Crimes of the Heart).

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1952 Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.

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1945 The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.

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1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.

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1940 Peter Benchley, novelist (Jaws, The Deep).

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1940 German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.

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1937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist (Gravity’s Rainbow).

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1933 Mahatma Gandhi—actual name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1995 Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.

1984 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.

1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.

1958 President Dwight Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

1952 Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Crimes of the Heart).

1952 Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.

1945 The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.

1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.

1940 Peter Benchley, novelist (Jaws, The Deep).

1940 German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.

1937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist (Gravity’s Rainbow).

1933 Mahatma Gandhi—actual name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1930 Gary Snyder, beat poet.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1928 Theodore Sorensen, advisor to John F. Kennedy.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1920 Sloan Wilson, American author (The man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Summer Place).

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1919 The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1910 Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist and composer.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1906 Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1904 U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.