May 31st

Monday May 31^st

Today’s Word: Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

World No Tobacco Day

1911

The ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is launched. Ironically, longest living survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster died on year ago today as well.

1921

After a white woman claims that a black man had grabbed her arm in an elevator, the largest race riot in U.S. history breaks out in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is reported as 36, but later historians estimate it was more like 300.

1967

Queen Elizabeth II gives twelve white swans to the City of Ottawa as her Confederation gift; flown from England to Canada.

1970

An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.

1987

Oilers beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.

1990

The sitcom "Seinfeld" premiered

1994

The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.

2008

At 5:15pm yesterday Swift Current, Waldeck, and Herbert Fire Departments, as well as CP Rail responded to a number of spot fires along the rail line.

Fire officials say a rail car had an overheated brake, which started the fires that spanned from Rush Lake to Chaplin.

National news headlines:

U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude.

The disaster, in its 42nd day on Monday, is already the largest oil spill in U.S. history and officials are calling it the country's biggest environmental catastrophe.

Birthdays

-2- Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney and Tiffany Fallon have a son, Jagger Donovan Rooney, in Nashville

-4- Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook are married in Nashville. Bandmates Kimberly Roads and Phillip Sweet are among the witnesses

-19- Randy Travis marries manager Lib Hatcher in Hawaii during a vacation

Clint Eastwood –80- is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer.

Link of the day: http://bit.ly/b8CSVH