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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48492)	5/13/2005 8:50:01 AM
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May 13 United States declared war on Mexico U.S. General Winfield Scott and his troops entering Mexico City on September 14, 1847, contemporary … 1846: The U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a declaration of war against Mexico this day. After Mexican troops had crossed the Rio Grande on April 25, attacking the U.S. forces of General Zachary Taylor, U.S. President James K. Polk claimed that Mexico had “invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil.” Taylor's men had been sent into the disputed border area as a result of escalating tensions between the two nations that began with the U.S. annexation of Texas the previous year. 1993: A methane gas explosion in a coal mine in Secunda, South Africa, claimed the lives of 50 miners. 1981: Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt in Vatican City, in which he was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish national. 1960: A Swiss expedition led by Max Eiselin reached the summit of Dhaulagiri, in the Himalayas. 1943: The Somali Youth Club was formed in Mogadishu. Devoted to pan-Somalism, it was a precursor to the Somali Youth League, which in 1960 helped to form the first independent government. 1917: Portuguese children—Lucia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto—reported seeing the Virgin Mary near Fátima, Portugal. 1871: With the Law of Guarantees, the Italian government attempted to settle the question of its relationship with the pope, who had been deprived of his lands in the process of Italian national unification. Stevie Wonder, 1994. American musician Stevie Wonder was born this day in 1950. Blind from birth, he was a skillful player of the piano, harmonica, and percussion instruments by age 8. At age 10, billed as “Little Stevie,” he signed a recording contract with the then-new Motown label. In his teens he toured widely and began writing most of the songs he performed, including the hits "I Was Made to Love Her" and "Uptight (Everything's Alright)." Throughout the 1970s, beginning with the album Signed, Sealed & Delivered, Wonder began producing his own recordings and those of others, yielding a steady stream of hits. "The only way you can really stay innovative in music is to be in love with life. You have to live life to be innovative in music." Stevie Wonder in an interview with Grammy magazine, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer 1996