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Classic headlineTwo Sisters Reunited After 18 Years at Checkout Counter
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OddlyTrue News Stand — May 11
One real weird headline, three odd happenings and a page from a 1905 newspaper. See the full Vintage News edition →
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Weird history on May 11
973 First everIn the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.
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1997 First everDeep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
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1813 First everWilliam Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first confirmed Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1905
The evening world (New York, N.Y.), May 11, 1905, (Evening Edition)
Page 4 · mentions "UFO" · printed on this very day
“1 THE VORLD THURSDAY MAY H 1905 k flitWOARRESTS 4 IN EQUITABLE POLICY THEFT If Jf iLEmile Leumier Clerk and iBrother of Lobley Who Negotiated Document r t The young clerk In the Equitable LAte Xnurance Society who linn b…”
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