MAY 11, 2020
Today is:
| Eat What You Want Day
Hostess Cupcake Day National Twilight Zone Day National Women’s Check-Up Day World Ego Awareness Day |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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HARRIET QUIMBY (1875-1912) — American pilot and screenwriter. First woman to be awarded a pilot’s license in the US and first woman to fly over the English Channel. |
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SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989) — Spanish artist known for his surrealist style paintings. |
TODAY IN HISTORY
| 1846 – President James K. Polk asks Congress for a declaration of war, starting the Mexican-American War. |  |
| 1858 – Minnesota is admitted to the Union as the 32nd state in the United States. |  |
| 1960 – Adolf Eichmann, Nazi and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, is captured by Mossad (the Israeli secret police) in Argentina after 15 years on the run. |  |
| 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing super computer, defeats Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, becoming the first computer to best a human. |  |
