Today in History May 15 2010 highlights and events
On May 15 history marks 1970 Jackson State shootings that killed Gibbs and Green during student protests. Highlights include the 1910s onward: Standard Oil breakup, 1929 Cleveland Clinic fire, early airline crew, nylon stockings debut, wartime gasoline rationing, Israel’s 1948 attack, Cooper’s 1963 Mercury flight, Wallace’s 1972 shooting, Koh Tang Mayaguez rescue, and a 2005 Supreme Court ruling on the Violence Against Women Act.
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Phillip Lafayette Gibbs
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Standard Oil Co
Cleveland Clinic
Ellen Church
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DuPont
Israel
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Egypt
Syria
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L. Gordon Cooper
George C. Wallace
Arthur Bremer
Laurel
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Koh Tang
Mayaguez
Cambodia
Bible Verse About Creation and Wonder
A devotional fragment emphasizes God crafting the inner self in the womb and praising the Lord for being fearfully and wonderfully made, acknowledging divine works as wondrous and personally known.
Butterfly Project marks Holocaust survivors tribute with teens
Teen Leaders of the Library and the Houston Holocaust Museum unite for the Butterfly Project to honor Holocaust victims by creating 1.5 million butterflies. The exhibit opens at the museum in spring 2013 with workshops at Sterling Library on June 1 at 6 pm and a goal of 350 butterflies by August.
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Baytown Sun
Nicki Evans
Louis Passament
Emily Pohr
Sterling Municipal Libary
Holocaust Museum
Houston
Sterling Municipal Library
Baytown
Lesley Kohles
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Baytownlibrary.org
Houston Holocaust Museum
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Trinity River Levels Reported At Seven A.M.
Readable fragments show river level measurements in feet at Liberty Moss Bluff and Remayor locations. The note mentions Trinity River data as of 7 a.m. with uncertain phrasing and a positive acknowledgment.
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Liberty
Moss Bluff Remayor
UV Index Today Sparks Widespread Showers Across Plains to Southeast
A weather summary notes an active UV index stretching from the southern Plains into the Southeast, triggering widespread showers and thunderstorms today. The Midwest mid-Atlantic and West largely stay dry with cooler, calmer conditions in those regions.
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Southern Plains
Midwest
mid-Atlantic
Hoarding Sentimental Thoughts Sparks Personal Insight
A personal reflection on hoarding behavior inspired by a furniture delivery and a daughter’s upcoming move. The narrator explores mental health, past life musings of Freud and Jung, and the pull of sentimental objects. They confront his parents’ inherited hoarding, observe Hoarders media, and weigh letting go against keeping memories in the heart.
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Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
A&e
TLC
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