May:
Today in History, Holidays, and Fun Facts
| National Physical Fitness and Sports Month: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports | |
| American Wetlands Month | |
| 1 | 1707 -
Act of Union - England and Scotland
Became Great Britain 1948 - North Korea Established MAY DAY - Honored as a Day to Celebrate Workers and the Labor Movement in Numerous Countries ACCORDING TO MOTHER GOOSE - "The young maid who, the first of May, goes to the fields at break of day, and washes with dew from the hawthorn tree, will ever after handsome be." |
| 2 | 1994 - Nelson Mandela Elected |
| 3 | 2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain Collapsed |
| 4 | 1626 -
Peter Minuit Landed on Manhattan
Island 1886 - Haymarket Square Riot 1932 - Al Capone Enters Prison after Being Convicted of Tax Evasion 1970 - Shooting of Students at Kent State University (Ohio) |
| 5 | 1925 -
John Scopes Arrested for Teaching
Evolution (Tennessee) 1961 - First American in Space, Alan Shepard CINCO DE MAYO - Mexican-American Holiday |
| 6 | 1882 -
Chinese Exclusion Act 1937 - Hindenberg Disaster (Lakehurst, New Jersey) NATIONAL SCHOOL NURSE DAY - National Association of School Nurses |
| 7 | 1847 - American Medical Association Founded 1915 - Sinking of the Lusitania 1942 - Battle of the Coral Sea 1945 - Germany's Unconditional Surrender 2000 - Vladimir Putin Became President of Russia |
| 8 | 1794 - Antoine Lavoisier Guillotined 1942 - Battle of the Coral Sea 1945 - V-E Day (Victory in Europe) 1973 - End of the Occupation of Wounded Knee |
| 9 | 1926 - Floyd Bennett and Richard E. Byrd
Flew Over the North Pole 1962 - The Beatles Signed Their First Record Deal |
| 10 | 1775 - Fort Ticonderoga Captured from the
British by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys 1869 - Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover Became the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) |
| 11 | 1858 -
Minnesota Statehood 1894 - Start of the Pullman Strike 1949 - Siam Became Thailand 1997 - Gary Kasparov Defeated by IBM Supercomputer Deep Blue |
| 12 | 1551 -
National University of San Marcos
Founded in Lima, Peru 2008 - Wenchuan Earthquake Kills Over 69,000 People in China |
| 13 | 1717 - Birth of Austria's
Maria Theresa 1787 - First Fleet of Convicts Leaves England for Australia 1846 - Official Start of the Mexican-American War 1888 - Brazil Abolishes Slavery 1981 - Pope John Paul II Shot and Wounded in Rome |
| 14 | 1796 -
Edward Jenner Administered the First
Smallpox Vaccine 1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition Leaves St. Louis 1948 - Birth of the State of Israel 1955 - Signing of the Warsaw Pact 1973 - Skylab Launched |
| 15 | 1862 - United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Created 1972 - Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, Shot |
| 16 | 1770 - Wedding of
Marie Antoinette and the
Future King Louis XVI 1929 - First Academy Awards |
| 17 | 1792 - Formation of the
New York Stock
Exchange 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education Decision Declared School Segregation Unconstitutional 2004 - Same-sex Marriage in Massachusetts |
| 18 | 1642 -
Montreal, Quebec, Founded 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte Proclaimed Emperor of France 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson Decision Declared Segregation Constitutional under the "Separate but Equal" Doctrine 1980 - Eruption of Washington's Mount St. Helens |
| 19 | 1536 - Beheading of
Anne Boleyn, Second Wife
of England's Henry VIII 1921 - Emergency Quota Act Passed by the United States Congress 1992 - Amendment 27 of the United States Constitution |
| 20 | 1506 - Death of Christopher Columbus in
Spain 1927 - Charles Lindbergh, a.k.a. "Lucky Lindy," Began the First Nonstop Solo Flight around the World aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis 1932 - Amelia Earhart Began Her Flight as the First Woman to Fly across the Atlantic Ocean Solo 1961 - Busload of "Freedom Riders" attacked in Montgomery, Alabama 2002 - East Timor Became an Independent Nation |
| 21 | 1881 - Predecessor of the American Red Cross
Founded by Clara Barton 1956 - Hydrogen Bomb Dropped over the Bikini Atoll |
| 22 |
1972 - Ceylon Became Sri Lanka 1990 - North Yemen and South Yemen Merged as the Republic of Yemen INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - Educate Yourself on Diverse Species and the Threats They Face |
| 23 | 1873 - Predecessor of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police Formed in Canada 1934 - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow Killed by Police 1949 - Creation of the German Federal Republic |
| 24 | 1844 - Samuel Morse's First Telegraph
Message: "What hath God wrought?" 1883 - Brooklyn Bridge Opened |
| 25 | 1787 - Constitutional Convention Convened in
Philadelphia 1961 - John F. Kennedy Addresses Congress on the Importance of Sending a Man to the Moon 1968 - Dedication of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri |
| 26 | 1521 - Edict of Worms Banned Martin Luther's
Works 1978 - Opening of the First Atlantic City Casino |
| 27 | 1703 - Peter the Great Founded St.
Petersburg, Russia 1937 - San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge Opened |
| 28 | 1937 - Opening of San Francisco's
Golden
Gate Bridge 1998 - Pakistan Performed Nuclear Tests |
| 29 | 1790 - Rhode Island Became a State 1848 - Wisconsin Became a State |
| 30 | 1431 - Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake |
| 31 | 1790 - First United States Copyright Law
Enacted 1943 - End of the Japanese Occupation of the Aleutian Islands 1961 - South Africa Became Independent |
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