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May 6, 2008 • Today is National Nurses Day and the beginning of Nurses Week, sponsored by the American Nurses Association (800-274-4262). Today is National Teacher Day, part of Teacher Appreciation Week (nea.org). • Today is Childhood Depression Awareness Day. • Today is No Diet Day, a day to stop dieting and stop dangerous weight-loss attempts, sponsored by the Healthy Weight Network. • Today is National Scrapbook Day. • Today is National Crepe Suzette Day. • Today is No Homework Day, a day for teachers not to assign homework (wellcat.com). On this date in . . . 1946: The New York Yankees became the first major league baseball team to travel by plane. 1950: At Miyazaki race track in Japan a 72-year-old jockey rode a 14-year-old horse to a second-place finish. He had ridden the horse 140 miles to compete in the race. 1950: Elizabeth Taylor married Nicky Hilton. Liz said, "There is no doubt that Nicky is the man I want to spend my life with." 1954: At a track meet in Oxford, England, medical student Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes (3:59.4) 1960: Britain's Princess Margaret married photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1978. 1965: Keith Richards fell asleep while improvising with a new guitar. The next morning he couldn’t remember the riffs, but "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" had been preserved on a tape recorder. 1970: Japan’s Yuichiro Miura started at 26-thousand feet and skied down Mt. Everest. He reached speeds as high as 93.6 miles an hour. 1973: In Boston, Paul Simon began his first tour without Art Garfunkel. 1990: Dominic Cuzzacrea ran the 26.2-mile Buffalo, New York, marathon in 3 hours and 6 minutes while flipping a pancake. 1994: The flight crew of an Aeroflot jetliner with no hydraulic fluid landed their 55 passengers safely in Arkhangelsk, Russia, by pouring all the lemonade on board into the jet’s hydraulic system. 1997: A swarm of killer bees attacked a horse-drawn cart, killing the horse and seriously injuring the three passengers near Szentes, Hungary. It took firefighters wearing protective gear two hours to disperse the swarm with fire hoses to rescue the two adults and one child. 2002: Legendary songwriter Otis Blackwell died of a heart attack in Nashville at age 70. His biggest songs were "Great Balls of Fire" and "Don't Be Cruel." 2003: A speedy bandit blazed through Dallas during the morning rush hour, robbing nine businesses in two hours. The bandit, armed with a gun, drove a Cadillac and robbed a business every 13 minutes. Police said three of the businesses were doughnut shops. No one was injured in the robberies. 2005: Augusta, Georgia, unveiled a life-size bronze statue of singer James Brown, heralding his musical achievements. Birthdays:
Q: At age 21, did George
Clooney take a shot at acting after blowing a try-out with: (a) the Cincinnati Reds; (b)
the Grand Ole Opry; or (c) the Dallas Ballet? Q: Did Willie Mays hit:
(a) 460; (b) 560; or (c) 660 major-league home runs? Q: Did Sigmund Freud, who was born on
this date in 1856, have a morbid fear of: (a) chiggers; (b) short women; or
(c) ferns? 50 years ago today:
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