Memorial Day was first observed May 30, 1868 with the placing of flowers on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Since that time it has become the day of rememberance for all service members who have died in the nation's wars - USA. There were several observances today in Los Angeles and elsewhere in USA.

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Back in LA for some weeks vaccation I remember this day - Eight of May 1984 - The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Soviets said they were concerned that Soviet athletes would be unsafe in the City of Angels. In reality the boycott had more to do with the refusal of the United States to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and with American aid to Muslim rebels who were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Nowadays the fight in Afghanistan is still there ...I wonder who is fighting whom...?

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  The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg just before midnight on this day in 1912, rupturing its hull and filling with water. About two and a half hours later, the ship sank into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic. More than fifteen hundred people went down with the passenger liner, including a number of well-known people. About seven hundred people, mostly women and children, survived. At the time, Titanic was touted as the most luxurious ocean liner on the sea, a huge, unsinkable vessel. It was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City when the tragedy occurred. Designed by Irish shipbuilder William Pirrie, Titanic was 883 feet long. It carried twenty-two hundred passengers and crew. However, there was  a shortage of lifeboats aboard the ship. After the sinking, more rigorous safety regulations were adopted.

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Information in Swedish

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In an effort to secure voting rights for African Americans, more than thirty-two hundred civil rights activists marched from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery on this day in 1965. Led by Martin Luther King Jr. and protected by federalized National Guardsmen and FBI agents, the marchers climbed the steps of the Alabama State Capitol, where King delivered a live televised speech. In August, President Lyndon Johnson, who supported the march, signed the Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote.

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   Albert Einstein, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer, was born on this day in 1879. Einstein´s scientific theories would change the way humans viewed the universe. His ideas would lead to quantum mechanics and the development of the atomic bomb. Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, and studied physics and mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1905 Einstein published several extraordninary theoretical papers. In one paper, Einstein theorized that light was made up of small particles called photons. Einstein once said that many of his discoveries came  from mental images he translated into mathematical equations. He once imagined himself riding on a beam of light and looking back at a clock. From that image he developed the special theory of relativity, which says that time slows down when objects travel close to the speed of light.

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   Ekonomin i Sverige är nu starkare än någon kunde förutse. Den benämns allt oftare för Tigerekonomi.

Idag kan vi glädjas över fortsatt minskning av arbetslösheten och detta inte minst hos de hårt drabbade Gävleborg.

Här några siffror;

-Totalt antalet arbetslösa (16-64år) i Gävleborg var förra veckan 16892 personer. Detta var en minskning med 6,5% eller 1174 personer i jämförelse med samma vecka förra året. Gvbg 9,8% och riket 6,7%.

-Totalt antalet arbetslösa ungdomar (18-24år) i Gävleborg var förra veckan 4403 personer. Detta var en minskning med 7,8% eller 375 personer i jämförelse med samma vecka förra året. Gvbg 17,2% och riket 10,2%.

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Uppgifter hämtade från Länsfakta - Arbetsmarknadsläge och prognos / Länsstyrelsen Gävleborg

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Intressant benämning på ekonomin ...Tigerekonomi! Bra jobbat Alliansregeringen!!

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Nicolaus Copernicus was born on this day in 1473, in Torun, a place in north-central Poland. Copernicus , the father of modern astronomy, put to rest the idea that the sun, moon, and planets revolved around Earth. Copernicus said Earth, the planets, and the moon revolved around the sun.

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John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth aboard Friendship 7, a Mercury space capsule, on this day in 1962. Prior to becoming one of the seven original American astronauts, Glenn was a pilot in the U.S Marines. Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1998.

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February 4

On this day in 1974, newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California, apartment by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army - SLA. Three days later, the SLA announced that it was holding Hearst as a "prisoner of war" and demanded that R Hearst provid $70 in food to every needy person from Santa Rosa to Los Angeles. After Hearst reluctantly gave away $2 million in food, the kidnappers demanded that the tycoon give away $6 million more. The kidnapping took a bizarre turn in April when a surveillance camera caught Patty Hearst robbing a San Francisco bank. She declared in a tape sent authorities that she had joined the SLA of her own free will.

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