Mark Your Calendars
The tentative date for my graduating from the University of Hawaii is Sunday May 13, 2007. Just so everybody knows, if nobody shows up, I'm not walking. But I think people will show.
Bowers Family
The lives and times of the Bowers
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Yeah, I think people will show.
This Date in History:
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
In 1607, the English colony at Jamestown, Va., was settled.
In 1842, composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with Sir William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London.
In 1846, the United States declared that a state of war already existed against Mexico.
In 1917, three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
In 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of an airplane, were introduced. (On some of the stamps, the airplane was printed upside-down, making them collector's items.)
In 1940, in his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
In 1954, President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
In 1954, the musical play "The Pajama Game" opened on Broadway.
In 1958, Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
In 2007, Georgia Bowers graduated from the University of Hawaii.
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