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 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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