[Wikipedia] May 30: D. B. Cooper

   D.  B.  Cooper is the name commonly used to refer to a hijacker who, on
   November 24 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000,
   jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific
   Northwest of the United States possibly over Woodland, Washington.
   Despite hundreds of suspects through the years, no conclusive evidence
   has surfaced regarding Cooper's identity or whereabouts.  The FBI
   believes he did not survive the jump.  Several theories offer competing
   explanations of what happened after his famed jump.  The nature of
   Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue
   people.  The Cooper case remains an unsolved mystery.  It has baffled
   both government and private investigators for decades, with countless
   leads turning into dead ends.  In March 2008, the FBI thought it might
   have had one of the biggest breakthroughs in the case when children
   unearthed a parachute within the bounds of Cooper's probable jump site
   near the town of Amboy, Washington.  Experts later revealed that it did
   not belong to the hijacker.  Still, despite the case's infamy for its
   enduring lack of evidence, a few significant clues have arisen.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1431:
   Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen,
   France after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated
   trial.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc)

1536:
   Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his
   first two queens consort.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour)

1913:
   The Treaty of London was signed to deal with territorial adjustments
   arising out of the conclusion of the First Balkan War, declaring,
   among other things, an independent Albania.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_%281913%29)

1972:
   Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport
   massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel on behalf of the Popular Front for the
   Liberation of Palestine, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80
   others.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod_Airport_massacre)

1989:
   Goddess of Democracy, a ten meter (33 ft) high statue made mostly of
   polystyrene foam and papier-mâché, was erected by student protestors
   in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy)

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Wiktionary's Word of the day:

   obsequious: Fawning or subservient.
   (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obsequious)

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Wikiquote of the day:

   By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is
   possible.
   -- Mikhail Bakunin
   (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin)