Thursday, May 5, 2011

Today in the Past

Today in the Past is your source of random facts about today's date.


2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano died
2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, 12th president of Nigeria died
2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur died
2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, American physicist, noted for making the first working laser died

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