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The last survivor of the Titanic tragedy died at the age of 97 on May 31, 2009. Millvina Dean, the youngest passenger on the Titanic, was just nine weeks old when she set sail on the maiden voyage of the doomed ship in 1912 with her family
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UPI Almanac for Saturday, May 8, 2021
On May 8, 1945, President Harry S. Truman officially declared V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe.
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People jam Piccadilly Circus during celebration of V-E Day on May 8, 1945, in London. UPI File Photo
On May 8, 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
Today is Saturday, May 8, the 128th day of 2021 with 237 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune and Saturn. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Venus.
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Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Jean-Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross Society/co-founder of the Young Men s Christian Association, in 1828; Harry Truman, 33rd president of the United States, in 1884; Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek in 1899; filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in 1906; pianist Mary Lou Williams in 1910; blues guitarist Rob