THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
MAY 13-MAY 19
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TODAY IN HISTORY
MAY 18

                                       

YOU ARE INVITED TO A
COMMUNITY FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR

PASTOR IRVING AND DOROTHY SIMON

Sunday, May 20, 2012
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Haviland United Methodist Church

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USD 474 HAVILAND
CORDIALLY INVITES THE COMMUNITY
TO A RETIREMENT RECEPTION
HONORING

CAROLYN FRAZIER

Sunday, May 20, 2012
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Thompson Gym Lobby

THIS WEEK
May 13, 1846    President Polk declares war on Mexico
May 14, 1804    Lewis and Clark depart
May 15, 1937    Madeleine Albright is born
May 16, 1929    First Academy Awards ceremony
May 17, 1954    Brown vs. Board of Ed is decided
May 18, 1920    Pope John Paul II is born
May 19, 1935    Lawrence of Arabia dies 
 
THIS DAY - MAY 18
1302 - The weaver Peter de Coningk led a massacre
     of the Flemish oligarch.
1642 - Montreal, Canada, was founded.
1643 - Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, was
     granted sole and absolute power as regent by the
     Paris parliament, overriding the late king's will.
1652 - In Rhode Island, a law was passed that made
     slavery illegal in North America.  It was the first
     law of its kind.
1792 - Russian troops invaded Poland.
1798 - The first Secretary of the U.S. Navy was
     appointed.  He was Benjamin Stoddert.
1802 - Great Britain declared war on Napoleon's
     France.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor
     by the French Senate.
1828 - Battle of Las Piedras ended the conflict between
     Uruguay and Brazil.
1896 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the "separate
     but equal" policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson
     decision.  The ruling was overturned 58 years later
     with Brown vs. Board of Education.
1897 - A public reading of Bram Stoker's new
     novel, "Dracula, or, The Un-dead," was performed
     in London.
1904 - Brigand Raizuli kidnapped American Ion H.
     Perdicaris in Morocco.
1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Selective
     Service Act, which called up soldiers to fight in
     World War I.
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished
     while visiting a beach in Venice, CA.  She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had
     been kidnapped.
1931 - Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashed his plane
     in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to
     cross the ocean nonstop.  He was picked up seven
     hours later by a passing ship.
1933 - The Tennessee Valley Authority was created.
1934 - The U.S. Congress approved an act, known as
     the "Lindberg Act," that called for the death penalty
     in interstate kidnapping cases.
1942 - New York ended night baseball games for the
     duration of World War II.
1944 - Monte Cassino, Europe's oldest Monastic house,
     was finally captured by the Allies in Italy.
1949 - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
     was incorporated.
1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to
     New York City.
1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of
     sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 over
     California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-
     per-hour.
1974 - India became the sixth nation to explode an
     atomic bomb.
1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 
     Fifty-seven people were killed and $3 billion in
     damages was done.
1983 - The U.S. Senate revised immigration laws and
     gave millions of illegal aliens legal status under an
     amnesty program.
1994 - Israel's three decades of occupation in the
     Gaza Strip ended as Israeli troops completed their
     withdrawal and Palestinian authorities took over.
1998 - The U.S. federal government and 20 states
     filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft
     Corporation, saying the computer software
     company had a "choke hold" on competitors which
     denied consumer choices by controlling 90% of the
     software market.
1998 - U.S. federal officials arrested more than 130
     people and seized $35 million.  This was the end to
     an investigation of money laundering being done
     by a dozen Mexican banks and two drug-smuggling
     cartels.