Today in History for May 2000
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 11 of 11
1st - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2nd - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
2nd - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
3rd - The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
4th - Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
5th - Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
11th - Last performance of the musical Cats in London's West End.
13th - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
17th - In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
24th - Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
25th - Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 2 of 2
2nd - Angel Sy, Filipina child actor
10th - Shyann McClure, American actress and model
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 32 of 32
1st - Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
3rd - John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
5th - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
7th - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
8th - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918)
8th - Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (b. 1959)
8th - Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (b. 1973)
10th - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
10th - Jules Deschênes, Quebec superior court judge (b. 1923)
11th - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
12th - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
13th - Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
14th - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
16th - Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
17th - Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
18th - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
18th - Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar
19th - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
20th - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
20th - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
21st - Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
21st - Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
21st - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
24th - Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
25th - Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
27th - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
27th - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
27th - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
30th - Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
30th - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
31st - Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923)
31st - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
