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Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned their annual conference supposed to be held in Kairouan, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Massive numbers of Tunisian police and army surrounded Tunisia's religious center of Kairouan to prevent a conference by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks around the country. (AP Photo/Nawfel)
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President Barack Obama gestures toward Myanmar's President Thein Sein during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013. Thein Sein is the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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June McFarland reacts to the first sight of storm damage in rural Osage, Iowa on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful weather system moved through the area on Sunday afternoon triggering tornado warnings, high winds and hail. (AP Photo/The Globe Gazette, Arian Schuessler)
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Jeff Smisek, Chairman, President and CEO, United Airlines, left, and Jim McNerney, Chairman and CEO, The Boeing Company, pose for photographers after the pair arrived on United Airlines Flight # 1, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from, Houston, Texas, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Monday, May 20, 2013. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Cleveland Indians' Yan Gomes watches his ball after hitting a game-winning three-run home run off Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Charlie Furbush in the tenth inning of a baseball game, Monday, May 20, 2013, in Cleveland. Michael Brantley and Drew Stubbs scored. The Indians won 10-8. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Indians rally to beat Mariners 10-8Yan Gomes hits 3-run homer in 10th as Indians rally for crazy 10-8 win over sloppy Mariners
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FILE - This May 12, 2011 file photo shows the marquee for "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" outside the Foxwoods Theatre in New York. Ambassador Theatre Group said Monday, May 20, 2013, it has acquired The Foxwoods Theatre, the current home of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” The theater has about 2,000 seats. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, file)
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Friends and neighbors help out a resident in Lyon County just south of Emporia, Kan., Sunday evening, May 19, 2013 after an apparent tornado touched down. (AP Photo/Emporia Gazette, Matthew Fowler)
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Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned their annual conference supposed to be held in Kairouan, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Massive numbers of Tunisian police and army surrounded Tunisia's religious center of Kairouan to prevent a conference by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks around the country. (AP Photo/Nawfel)
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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2010 file photo White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. It might have seemed a no-win situation to the White House: either keep President Barack Obama in the dark about a looming investigation into political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service or blur legal lines by telling him about an independent audit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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FILE - This May 12, 2011 file photo shows the marquee for "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" outside the Foxwoods Theatre in New York. Ambassador Theatre Group said Monday, May 20, 2013, it has acquired The Foxwoods Theatre, the current home of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” The theater has about 2,000 seats. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, file)
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Jeff Smisek, Chairman, President and CEO, United Airlines, left, and Jim McNerney, Chairman and CEO, The Boeing Company, pose for photographers after the pair arrived on United Airlines Flight # 1, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from, Houston, Texas, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Monday, May 20, 2013. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Cleveland Indians' Yan Gomes watches his ball after hitting a game-winning three-run home run off Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Charlie Furbush in the tenth inning of a baseball game, Monday, May 20, 2013, in Cleveland. Michael Brantley and Drew Stubbs scored. The Indians won 10-8. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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On May 20, 1927,

Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

In 1712,

the original version of Alexander Pope's satirical mock-heroic poem "The Rape of the Lock" was published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany.

In 1862,

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which was intended to encourage settlements west of the Mississippi River by making federal land available for farming.

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