ALMANAC for April-May 2000
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2 For next seven days or so, some Eta Aquarid meteors will
be visible, shooting out of the southeast, just before
morning twilight.
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3 Sun, moon and five bright planets all within 27° span
in sky (but bright sun's nearness makes several of them
unviewable); Niccolo Machiavelli born, 1469.
4 Snow from Maine to Philadelphia this day in 1812; four
students killed during anti-war demonstration at Kent State
University this day 30 years ago.
5 NEW MOON, 12:12 A.M. EDT; Cinco de Mayo, Mexican holiday
celebrating the defeat of the French at the Battle of
Puebla in 1862 (also celebrated in U.S. cities with large
Mexican-American populations); 12" of snow fell on Denver
this day in 1917.
6Hindenburg exploded and burned up before
horrified onlookers in New Jersey this day in 1937
(miraculously, many of the passengers survived the
inferno); Sigmund Freud born, 1856.
7 Great Natchez Tornado killed 317 people this day in 1840;
American Medical Association organized, 1847; British liner
Lusitania sunk by German sub, 1915.
8 Truman Day in Missouri; V-E Day (Victory in Europe) Day,
1945; Jupiter at conjunction with sun (therefore
unviewable); Mercury at superior conjunction with sun
(therefore unviewable).
9 Latest opening of waterways ever in Buffalo, New York,
this day in 1926; first flight over North Pole, by Richard
E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett, in 1926.
10 FIRST QUARTER MOON, 4:00 P.M. EDT; Saturn at conjunction
with sun (therefore unviewable); first public planetarium,
Adler Planetarium in Chicago, opened this day in 1930.
11 Three Ice Saints' Days (often time of last frost in
northern Europe) begin: today, that of St. Mamertius.
12 St. Pancratius' Day; in 1934, Dust Bowl storm darkened
skies from Oklahoma to East Coast; National Hospital Day,
held on the birthday of Florence Nightingale (born in 1820,
she lived to be 90).
13 St. Gervatius' Day; sun enters constellation Taurus; man
killed by hail this day in 1930 near Lubbock, Texas.
14 Mother's Day; temperature dropped to -10°F in
Climax, Colorado, this day in 1896.
