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May 18, 2007
Today in History: May 15th
From: The New York Times on the Web - Learning Center:
1911 The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1940 Nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.
1948 Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1970 Two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed by a deranged 21-year-old man while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Md.
2006 A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq's president as a judge formally charged him with crimes against humanity.
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Posted by d-nadler at May 18, 2007 01:08 PM