Notable historical milestones from May events
May 5 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on St Helena. 1893 New York Stock Exchange panic. 1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee. 1942 sugar sales resume in US rationing. 1955 Damn Yankees opens on Broadway. 1961 Alan Shepard makes first US spaceflight. 1981 Bobby Sands dies in Maze Prison after 66 days hunger strike.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
St. Helena
New York Stock Exchange
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
Darwin
United States
Alan Shepard Jr
America
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Irish Republican Army
Bobby Sands
Maze
Northern Ireland
Lebanese rocket attack kills Israeli soldier in border surge
Lebanese Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the fiercest northern Israel rocket assault in a year, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 26 others as Prime Minister Barak pledged harsh, sustained retaliation. He warned border residents may endure shelters as Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon this summer.
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Kiryat Shemona
Israel
Lebanon
Ehud Barak
Barak
Hezbollah
South
Lockerbie survivors relive Pan Am crash in Dutch court
Lockerbie residents testified in Camp Zeist about the 1988 bombing that killed 259 aboard Pan Am Flight 103 and 11 on the ground. Jasmine Bell described flames and wreckage as she recalled searching near Sherwood Crescent, and spoke of her brother pulling her to safety.
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Lockerbie
Abdel Basset Ali al- Megrahi
Lamen Khalifa Fhimah
Scotland
Jasmine Bell
Sherwood Crescent
Bell
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Tegeler Design Center
Iowa
Tegele Design
Aristokrett Co
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Carpet One
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Channel 2
Natha
ROLEX
Ginsberg
Orjeer
Washington
West
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Alltel
Verizon Wireless
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NOKIA
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PrimeCo Jo
National
Blairs Ferry Road
Westdale Mall
Ei Road
M-Sat
Sun
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Coralville Hwy
Second St
Man
Waterloo
University Avenue
Cedar Falls
Ste
Dubuque
Dodge Street
versiNn Wireless
29Th Ave
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Walmart
Owa City
PUA Seabees
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4Th Street
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Merizon
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