Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Current News:

• Housecats reportedly are a scourge to mockingbirds.
• Google is adding interior photos of businesses to Google Places.
• New York City is going to lay off 4,100 teachers.
• Al Qaeda has confirmed the death of Osama Bin Laden.
• Charles Darwin’s travels may have lead to illness and ultimately his death.
• Osama Bin Laden lived in Pakistan for at least five years.
• Famed Golfer Seve ballesteros has died at the age of 54.
• The World’s Largest CMOS sensor may allow Doctors to see and treat cancer.
• Johnny Depp, star of the Pirates 3D Movies, can only see in 2D.

Historical News:

• In 1278, Emperor Duanzong of Song, of China, dies.
• In 1326, Joan I of France is born.
• In 1450, Jack Cade’s rebellion commenced against King Henry VI.
• In 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, famed Chemist, is tried and guillotined.
• In 1819, King Kamehameha I of Hawaii dies.
• In 1821, William Henry Vanderbilt, businessman and member of the Vanderbilt family, is born.
• In 1847, Oscar Hammerstein I, grandfather of the famed Hammerstein, is born.
• In 1873, British Philosopher John Stuart Mill dies.
• In 1884, future President Harry S. Truman is born.
• In 1886, John Styth Pemberton begins selling his carbonated beverage ‘coca-cola’.
• In 1899, The Irish Literary Theatre opens in Dublin.
• In 1912, Paramount Pictures is founded.
• In 1913, Bob Clampett, famed animator, is born.
• In 1926, famed English Naturalist, David Attenborough, is born.
• In 1933, Mohandas Ghandi begins a 21-day fast to protest British oppression in India.
• In 1945, World War II’s V-E Day is declared after Germany surrenders.
• In 1945, Wilhelm Rediess SS and Police leader during the occupation of Norway dies due to a self-inflicted gunshot.
• In 1945, Bernhard Rust, Minister of Science, Education and Culture of the Nazi Party dies due to a self-inflicted gunshot.
• In 1945, Josef Terboven, Commissioner of Norway during the Nazi Occupation, dies after detonating a 50kg bomb in a bunker.
• In 1964, Actress Melissa Gilbert is born.
• In 1969, Remington Kellogg, American Naturalist and director of the National Museum, dies.
• In 1976, The first Steel Roller coaster, Revolution, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
• In 1984, The Thames Barrier, the second largest flood barrier, opens.
• In 1988, Science Fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein dies.
• In 2009, Dom DiMaggio, Brother of Joe DiMaggio, dies.

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