Friday, May 22, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

1972:President Richard Nixon becomes the first president to visit Moscow. The Soviet Union honors the occasion by flying the Stars and Stripes over the Kremlin.

1980: The dot-eating Pacman makes his debut in Japan.

1977: Janet Guthrie, a former physicist, becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indy 500. She thanks her parents for “not bringing me up thinking I couldn’t do something because I was a woman.”

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