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May 18, 2007
Today in History: May 16th
From: The New York Times on the Web - Learning Center:
1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 - the United States Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. (Johnson was acquitted of all charges.) (Go to article.)
1929 The first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
1995 Japanese police arrested doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, holding him in connection with the nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier.
2006 Richard Hatch, who had won $1 million in the debut season of "Survivor," was sentenced in Providence, R.I., to more than four years in prison for failing to pay taxes on his reality TV prize and other income.
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Posted by d-nadler at May 18, 2007 01:16 PM