A day of great things...

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Originally uploaded by littledevilworks.

So this is the original post I had planned. Enjoy!

• May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). There are 240 days remaining.
  
• The Northern Hemisphere is considered halfway through Spring on May 5, since there are usually 92 days in that season of the year.
  
• Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza successfully defended the town of Puebla on May 5, 1862, temporarily halting France's efforts to establish a puppet regime in Mexico. With the U.S. absorbed by the Civil War, Emperor Napoleon III hoped to create a French sphere of influence in Latin America. The victory is commemorated as a national holiday in Mexico.
  
• 1891 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
  
• 1893 - Panic of 1893: Crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
  
• On May 5, 1925, high school science teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in one of Tennessee's public schools. Scopes had agreed to act as defendant in a case intended to test Tennessee's new law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in its public schools.
  
• The Netherlands: May 5, Liberation day (1945)
  
• 1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American into space
  
• 1988: A live broadcast from the top of Mt Everest is made for the first time, by Japanese TV
  
• What's hot in 1978: We Are The Champions - Queen, Take A Chance On Me - Abba
  

So y'all need to come down to Kingshead tonight (for those of you that are local) and help me celebrate this fine, fine day...

AND OF COURSE MY 28TH BIRTHDAY!