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May 10, 2008 • Today is Trust Your Intuition Day, a day to pay homage to "gut" feelings and "still small voices," sponsored by Chicago cartoonist Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith. • Today is International Migratory Bird Day. • Today is National Babysitters Day. • Today is World Lupus Day (lupus.org). • Today is Golden Spike Day, marking the driving of the golden spike to join the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways at Promontory Point, Utah, on this date in 1869. • Today is National Clean Up Your Room Day. • Today is Astronomy Day. • Today is The Rest of the Story Day, marking Paul Harvey's spin-off as a separate radio program on the date in 1976. The feature had been a part of Harvey's "News and Comment" program since 1951. • Today is Jamestown Landing Day in Williamsburg, Virginia. • Today is Mother Ocean Day. • Today is Constitution Day in Micronesia, a nation of 108,000 people on 607 islands in the West Pacific Ocean. Just over 7,000 Micronesians live in the nation's capital of Palikir. On this date in . . . 1869: A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. 1908: The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia. 1909: In the Blue Grass League, Winchester's Fred Toney pitched 17 no-hit innings before finally winning 1-0 over Lexington. 1953: After seven years in the minors, Frank Verdi was inserted into the late-inning Yankee lineup. As he walked to the plate for his first major-league at bat, the opposing coach called time to change pitchers. Yankee manager Casey Stengel sent up a pinch-hitter for Verdi, who went back to the minors two days later and never got to swing at a major league pitch. 1963: Decca Records signed The Rolling Stones. The group had been recommended by Beatle George Harrison. 1969: Tricia Nixon’s "Masque Ball" at the White House starred the Turtles and the Temptations. Turtle Mark Volman fell of the stage — five times. 1986: Actress Heather Locklear and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee were married. 1990: The world’s largest painting was unveiled at Armidale, NSW, Australia. Students at Robb College painted a 72,437-square-foot smiley face. 1996: In Texas a Cochran County sheriff’s deputy accidentally shot himself and a dispatcher while giving a firearm safety demonstration. Both were hospitalized with non-life-threatening leg wounds. 1999: Police in Rapids Parish, Louisiana, recognized a man wanted in Houston for aggravated assault when they saw him on Jerry Springer in a televised battle between the man and his sister. Police rushed to a local relative’s home where the family was still watching Springer and arrested the suspect. 1999: A 23-year-old Chandler, Arizona, man called police for help after he handcuffed himself and didn’t have the key. Police uncuffed the man, then quickly arrested him after a computer check revealed a warrant for failing to appear in court for driving on a suspended license. 2002: NBA owners approved the Hornets' move to New Orleans, ending the team's 14-year stay in Charlotte. 2002: Dr. Pepper announced it would introduce a new flavor for the first time in 117 years. They called it Red Fusion. 2003: Old Spice deodorant agreed to sponsor the annual Festival of the Pit in Battle Mountain, Nevada, dubbed by Washington Post Magazine as the nation's armpit. The festival is held in August each year when the town is at its smelliest. Highlights usually include an armpit beauty pageant, a sweat t-shirt contest, and a "quick-draw" antiperspirant contest. 2005: Germany dedicated a new national Holocaust memorial. Birthdays:
Q: Did singer Paul Hewson
get his nickname "Bono" from: (a) a high school teacher; (b) a TV series;
or (c) a billboard? Q: At Promontory Point,
Utah, on this date in 1869, when Leland Stanford took the first swing at "The Golden
Spike" that would link the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, did he: (a)
miss the spike; (b) throw his back out; (c) hit himself in the toe? Q: In which Academy Award
winning film did deejay Gary Owens appear: (a) "In the Heat of the Night;" (b)
"Midnight Cowboy;" or (c) "Rocky?" 14 years ago today:
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