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May 15th
1869 ~ Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York city.
1886 ~ Death of Emily Dickinson, Poet. 1911 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Standard Oil Company, requiring its break up under the Sherman Anti-Trust act. 1919 ~ The Winnipeg General Strike began. 1930 ~ Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois. 1953 ~ Birthday of Mike Oldfield, English composer (Tubular Bells). 1957 ~ Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. 1972 ~ George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination. 1988 ~ The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. 1991 ~ Edith Cresson became France's first female Prime Minister. |
May 16th
1868 ~ The U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson of the articles of impeachment against him.
1905 ~ Birthday of Henry Fonda, Actor. 1919 ~ Birthday of Liberace, American pianist. 1943 ~ The Jewish Warsaw ghetto uprising ended. 1966 ~ The Chinese Cultural Revolution started when The Communist Party issued the "May 16 Notice". 1969 ~ The Soviet space probe Venera 5 landed on Venus. 1969 ~ Death of Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America . 1979 ~ Birthday of McKenzie Lee, English Porn actress. 2002 ~ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones opened in theaters. 2005 ~ Newsweek magazine retracted its Koran abuse story that started protests in Afghanistan. |
May 17th
1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination.
1936 ~ Birthday of Dennis Hopper, Actor & Director. 1943 ~ The RAF carried out the Dambusters raid. 1954 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court issued their decision in Brown v. Board of Education. 1974 ~ Thirty-three people were killed by terrorist bombings in Ireland. 1992 ~ Death of Lawrence Welk, American musician. 1996 ~ President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in - Megan's Law. 2004 ~ Same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts. 2009 ~ Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected the first female President of Lithuania. 2012 ~ Death of Donna Summer, singer-songwriter . |
May 18th
1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Logician & Philosopher, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950.
1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer. 1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer. 1944 ~ Monte Cassino fell to the Allies. 1974 ~ India became the sixth nuclear nation by successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon. 1975 ~ Death of Leroy Anderson, American Composer. 1980 ~ Mount St. Helens in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing. 2004 ~ Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. 2009 ~ The Armed Forces of Sri Lanka defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending almost 26 years of fighting. 2012 ~ Facebook began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ. |
May 19th
1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.
1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader. 1915 ~ Death of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, ANZAC stretcher bearer at Gallipoli. 1921 ~ The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants. 1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader. 1935 ~ Death of T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia"). 1965 ~ Tui Malila, the longest living animal known, died in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192. 1983 ~ Birthday of Eve Angel, Hungarian Porn actress. 2001 ~ Sun Zhonghua was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized under the "One child" policy. 2004 ~ PM Blair hit with a purple flour filled condom. |
May 20th
1772 ~ Birthday of Sir William Congreve, English inventor (“By the rockets’ red glare”).
1806 ~ Birthday of John Stuart Mill, English philosopher. 1873 ~ Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. 1883 ~ The eruption of Krakatoa began, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later. 1927 ~ Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York, on the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving in Paris the next day. 1961 ~ U.S. marshals were sent to restore order in Montgomery, Alabama. 1977 ~ Birthday of Tiger Tyson, Porn actor. 1989 ~ Facing pro-democracy demonstrations, Chinese authorities declared martial law, setting the stage for the Tiananmen Square massacre. 2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist. 2002 ~ Death of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist. |
May 21st
1471 ~ Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist.
1881 ~ Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. 1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. 1924 ~ Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1956 ~ The U.S. detonated the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. 1978 ~ Birthday of Briana Banks, German/American Porn actress. 1985 ~ Birthday of Marie McCray, Porn actress. 1991 ~ Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber. 2000 ~ Death of Sir John Gielgud, British actor. 2004 ~ Stanislav Petrov was awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983. |
May 22nd
1813 ~ Birthday of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1840 ~ Transporting British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished. 1856 ~ In one of the more impressive expressions of American democracy, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the U.S. Senate because of a speech Sumner had made which attacked Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas. 1859 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Physician & Writer. 1885 ~ Death of Victor Hugo, French author. 1907 ~ Birthday of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor & Director. 1907 ~ Birthday of Hergé, comic book creator. 1947 ~ The Truman Doctrine was enacted. 1969 ~ The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing. 1972 ~ Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and joined the British Commonwealth. |
May 23rd
1430 ~ Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1701 ~ Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder. 1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer. 1873 ~ Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. 1906 ~ Death of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer. 1908 ~ Birthday of John Bardeen, the only man to have been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics twice; 1956 & 1972. 1934 ~ Death of Bonnie and Clyde, Outlaws. 1951 ~ The Tibetan government was forced to sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China. 1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. 1977 ~ More than 100 children and six teachers were taken hostage in a primary school in northern Holland. |
May 24th
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.
1844 ~ The first telegram was sent by Samuel Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?". 1883 ~ The Brooklyn Bridge was opened. 1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen. 1941 ~ Death of Lancelot Holland, British admiral, died in sinking of the HMS Hood. 1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter. 1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist. 1974 ~ Death of Duke Ellington, American composer and musician. 1976 ~ BOAC and Air France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington. 2001 ~ 23 people were killed and hundreds injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem when the floor collapsed. |
May 25th
1803 ~ Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Quotable Individual.
1889 ~ Birthday of Igor Sikorsky, developer of the helicopter. 1895 ~ Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison. 1925 ~ John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 1926 ~ Birthday of Miles Davis, Jazz Musician 1929 ~ Birthday of Beverly Sills, Soprano. 1953 ~ The U.S. conducted its only nuclear artillery test. 1961 ~ President Kennedy set the US goal to put the first man on the moon by the end of that decade. 1962 ~ The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business. 1977 ~ Star Wars was released. |
May 26th
1868 ~ The Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal.
1896 ~ The first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average published 1897 ~ Bram Stoker's novel Dracula went on sale in London. 1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Environmental writer. 1940 ~ Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. 1951 ~ Birthday of Sally Ride, Astronaut. 1972 ~ Birthday of Kylie Ireland, Porn Actress, Director, Producer, & radio host 2002 ~ The Mars Odyssey found signs of water ice deposits on the planet Mars. 2004 ~ Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. |
May 27th
1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize 1973. 1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? 1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author. 1937 ~ The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic. 1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck was sunk. 1963 ~ Jomo Kenyatta led his party, Kenya African Nation Union, to victory in the Kenya’s first general election. 1964 ~ Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first PM. 1976 ~ Birthday of Anita Blond, Hungarian Porn actress. 1995 ~ Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event. |
May 28th
1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.
1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone. 1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets. 1936 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication. 1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed. 1972 ~ Death of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom. 1982 ~ British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green during the Falklands War. 1987 ~ Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. 1984 ~ President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. 1998 ~ Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. |
May 29th
1903 ~ Birthday of Bob Hope, British-born Comedian & Actor.
1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author. 1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring” premiered in Paris. 1917 ~ Birthday of John Kennedy, U.S. President. 1919 ~ Arthur Eddington's observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. 1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 1972 ~ Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod (now Ben Gurion) International Airport, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more. 1979 ~ Death of Mary Pickford, Canadian-born Actress and studio founder. 1999 ~ The Discovery Space Shuttle completed the first docking with the International Space Station. 2005 ~ French voters rejected the European Union's proposed constitution. |
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