Showing posts with label historical events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical events. Show all posts

May is a month of many historical events

May is a time of great celebrations for the beginning of summer. It's a month that marks many new beginnings and important historical events.

May 1: May Day, International Workers' Day, or Labour Day - celebrations of the labour movement.
The Empire State Building opened in 1931.

May 2: Artist Leonardo da Vinci died in 1519.

May 3: Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister in 1979.
Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind" in 1937.

May 4: Four student anti-war protesters were killed at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen in 1970.

May 5: Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821.
John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in 1925.
Astronaut Alan Shepard went on the first manned space flight in 1961.

May 6: The Hindenburg crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937.

May 7: Germany surrendered to the United States in 1945.

May 8: First transatlantic flight in 1919.
WWII Victory in Europe in 1945

May 9: First United States newspaper cartoon published in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette in1754.

May 10: The first Mother's Day observance took place in West Virginia and Pennsylvania in 1908.
Paul Revere died in Boston in 1818.

May 13: Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded in St. Peter's Square in 1981.

May 14: The first vaccination against smallpox was administered in 1796.

May 16: The first Academy Awards held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.

May 17: The New York Stock Exchange was established in 1792.
The first Kentucky Derby was held in 1875.

May 18: Alexander the Great died in 323 BC.

May 19: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded in 1536.

May 20: Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain in 1506.

May 21: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881.

May 23: Gangsters Bonnie & Clyde were killed in 1934.

May 24: The Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic in 1883.

May 25: Babe Ruth hit his 714th and last home run in 1935.

May 26: The first legal casino opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1978.

May 27: The first recorded American execution of a witch took place in Massachusetts in 1647.
The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to the public in 1937.

May 28: The first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War in 1863.

May 30: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in France in 1431.

May 31: The last Ford Model T automobile was made in 1927.

Let May be a month of reflection, action and inspiration!




 
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