History of May

During the month of May the following events have happened in our world's history.

May 01, 1006 - Supernova observed in Lupus the Wolf constellation
May 01, 1682 - Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
May 01, 1701 - England - Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
May 01, 1840 - 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
May 01, 1841 - 1st wagon train leaves Independance - Mo for Cal
May 01, 1850 - John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
May 01, 1860 - 1st school for deaf founded
May 01, 1869 - Folies-Bergre opens in Paris
May 01, 1873 - 1st US postal card issued
May 01, 1884 - Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper
May 01, 1890 - May Day
May 01, 1892 - Angel Is US Quarantine Station opens
May 01, 1920 - Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career - out of Polo Grounds
May 01, 1926 - Dogers & Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
May 01, 1926 - Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
May 01, 1928 - Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
May 01, 1931 - Empire State Building opens in NYC
May 01, 1932 - Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapped
May 01, 1947 - Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
May 01, 1948 - Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established
May 01, 1949 - Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid - (2nd satellite of Neptune)
May 01, 1951 - Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
May 01, 1955 - Bobby Feller's 15th 1-hit or less game
May 01, 1960 - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' US spy plane
May 01, 1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
May 01, 1964 - 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
May 01, 1975 - Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4 - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 2-0 lead
May 01, 1977 - Empress Lilly dedicated
May 01, 1979 - Marshall Islands becomes self-governing
May 01, 1980 - Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
May 01, 1982 - Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT) - Semi-Finals- Isles hold 3-0 lead
May 02, 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci dies (birth date unknown)
May 02, 1583 - Leonardo da Vinci Day
May 02, 1670 - Hudson Bay Company founded
May 02, 1780 - William Herschel discovers 1st binary star - Xi Ursae Majoris
May 02, 1817 - Reds & Cubs pitch a dual no-hitter
May 02, 1863 - South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville - Va
May 02, 1881 - Pres Garfield assassinated
May 02, 1885 - Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
May 02, 1890 - Okla Territory created
May 02, 1925 - Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens
May 02, 1939 - Lou Gehrig ends 2 -130 game streak - Yankees beat Tigers 22-2
May 02, 1945 - Russia takes Berlin
May 02, 1946 - Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz - 5 die
May 02, 1954 - Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
May 02, 1956 - US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
May 02, 1960 - Caryl Chessman executed in Calif for kidnapping
May 02, 1968 - Israelli television begins
May 02, 1984 - Mattingly's single broke up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
May 02, 1986 - Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver - BC
May 03, 1661 - Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
May 03, 1662 - Royal charter granted Conn
May 03, 1715 - Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
May 03, 1765 - 1st US Medical school opened
May 03, 1797 - Jamaica discovered by Columbus
May 03, 1830 - 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
May 03, 1898 - Camp Merriman established at Presidio
May 03, 1906 - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
May 03, 1919 - America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
May 03, 1922 - Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
May 03, 1923 - 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
May 03, 1926 - US marines land in Nicaragua - stay until 1933
May 03, 1951 - Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
May 03, 1952 - 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
May 03, 1965 - 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
May 03, 1971 - Natl non-coml Network Radio Begins Programming
May 03, 1971 - Nixon administration arrests 13 -000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
May 03, 1983 - Bruins 3-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-1 lead
May 04, 1626 - Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
May 04, 1776 - Rhode Island declares independence from England
May 04, 1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
May 04, 1814 - Bourbon reign restored in France
May 04, 1851 - 1st major SF fire
May 04, 1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to public
May 04, 1871 - 1st pro baseball game played (Ft Wayne 2 - Cleveland 0)
May 04, 1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
May 04, 1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
May 04, 1918 - Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices - beat Red Sox Babe Ruth 5-4
May 04, 1929 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs - Yankees 11 - Tigers 9
May 04, 1942 - Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
May 04, 1961 - Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather set altitude record for manned balloon flight - 34 -668 m - over Gulf of Mexico
May 04, 1970 - 4 students at Kent State U killed by Ohio Natl Guard
May 04, 1973 - 1st TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine
May 04, 1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
May 04, 1981 - Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels - ran record of 13 strike outs of last 14 faced - also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win 4-2
May 04, 1982 - Nordiques 2-Isles 4 - Semi-Finals- Isles win series 4-0
May 05, 1814 - British attack Ft Ontario - Oswego - NY
May 05, 1867 - Battle of Puebla-Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
May 05, 1891 - Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
May 05, 1904 - Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia
May 05, 1908 - Great White Fleet arrives in SF
May 05, 1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic - stay until 1924
May 05, 1922 - Construction on Yankee Stadium begins
May 05, 1925 - Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6
May 05, 1945 - Netherlands liberated from Nazi control
May 05, 1948 - 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
May 05, 1949 - Council of Europe established
May 05, 1955 - West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
May 05, 1956 - Jim Bailey - 1st 4 minute mile run in USA - Los Angeles - Ca
May 05, 1961 - Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
May 05, 1965 - 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
May 05, 1981 - 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 4-1 & hold 8-7 edge
May 05, 1983 - Bruins 5-Isles 1 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-2 lead
May 06, 1527 - Sack of Rome - End Renaissance
May 06, 1626 - Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24
May 06, 1794 - Haiti - under Toussaint L'Ouverture - revolts against France
May 06, 1840 - 1st postage stamps issued - by Britain
May 06, 1851 - SF Chamber of Commerce starts
May 06, 1851 - Dr John Farrie Patents a "refrigeration machine"
May 06, 1860 - SF Olympic Club - 1st US athletic club founded
May 06, 1861 - Arkansas becomes 9th state to secede from US
May 06, 1882 - Lord Cavendish assassinated at Dublin - Ireland
May 06, 1890 - Mormon Church renounces polygamy
May 06, 1906 - Temporary permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
May 06, 1915 - Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR - loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
May 06, 1937 - Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst - NJ (36 die)
May 06, 1953 - Bobo Holloman's 1st major league start - a no-hitter
May 06, 1954 - Roger Bannister breaks 4 min mile (3:59:4)
May 06, 1962 - 1st nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
May 06, 1985 - 17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth
May 07, 1429 - English siege of Orl‚ans broken by Joan of Arc
May 07, 1792 - Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
May 07, 1800 - Indiana Territory organized
May 07, 1824 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony performed for 1st time
May 07, 1915 - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
May 07, 1927 - SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
May 07, 1934 - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan - Philippines
May 07, 1941 - Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
May 07, 1945 - Nazis surrender to Gen Eisenhower at Reims - France
May 07, 1947 - Kraft Television Theater premiers
May 07, 1954 - French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dienbienphu
May 07, 1959 - 93 -103 largest baseball crowd (LA Coliseum) see Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees in exhibition 6-2
May 07, 1963 - Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6 -700 miles)
May 07, 1966 - Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
May 07, 1975 - Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 3-1 lead
May 07, 1983 - Bruins 4-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles win series 4-2
May 08, 1541 - Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
May 08, 1792 - British Capt George Vancouver sights - names Mt Rainier - Wash
May 08, 1846 - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
May 08, 1886 - Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
May 08, 1902 - Mt Pel‚e erupts - wipes out St Pierre - Martinique
May 08, 1926 - 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
May 08, 1942 - Battle of Coral Sea ends
May 08, 1945 - VE Day - Germany surrendered - WW II ends in Europe
May 08, 1946 - Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
May 08, 1951 - Dacron men's suits introduced
May 08, 1954 - 1st shot-put over 60 feet - Parry O'Brien - Los Angeles - Ca
May 08, 1958 - VP Nixon was shoved stoned booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
May 08, 1961 - 1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport Texas
May 08, 1961 - Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal - Washington
May 08, 1968 - Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins
May 08, 1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" album
May 08, 1970 - Knicks beat Lakers for basketball championship
May 08, 1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
May 08, 1973 - Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered
May 08, 1980 - Sabres only take 15 shots - Islanders - 22 in a playoff
May 08, 1981 - Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out - 1 short of record
May 08, 1982 - Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT) - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead
May 08, 1984 - USSR announces it would not participate in LA Summer Olympics
May 09, 1502 - Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to the New World
May 09, 1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America Divided snake `Join or die'
May 09, 1882 - Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
May 09, 1913 - 17th amendment providing for election of senators by popular vote
May 09, 1925 - Cornerstone for Hebrew University layed
May 09, 1926 - Americans Byrd & Bennett make 1st airplane flight over North Pole
May 09, 1936 - Italy annexed Ethiopia
May 09, 1944 - 1st eye bank opened in NYC
May 09, 1945 - Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
May 09, 1946 - 1st Variety show - NBC's Hour Glass premiers
May 09, 1950 - Robert Schuman announces Plan for European integration
May 09, 1961 - Jim Gentile hits grand slammers in consecutive innings
May 09, 1961 - FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a `vast wasteland'
May 09, 1974 - House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
May 09, 1975 - Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
May 10, 1775 - 2nd Cont Congress convened in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time
May 10, 1775 - Col Ethan Allen captured Ft Ticonderoga - NY
May 10, 1798 - George Vancouver - British explorer dies (birth date unknown)
May 10, 1869 - Golden Spike driven - Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR complete
May 10, 1910 - William Huggins - discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda - dies
May 10, 1913 - Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
May 10, 1923 - J Edgar Hoover became head of FBI
May 10, 1928 - WGY Schenectady began regular TV programming
May 10, 1930 - 1st US (Adler) planetarium opens - in Chicago
May 10, 1940 - Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as PM
May 10, 1946 - Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4 - DiMaggio hits Grand Slam
May 10, 1960 - USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
May 10, 1971 - US Special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60
May 10, 1973 - 9th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 8-4
May 10, 1979 - Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
May 10, 1983 - Oilers 0-Isles 2 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 1-0 lead
May 11, 0330 - Constantinople founded
May 11, 1752 - 1st US fire insurance policy is issued - in Philadelphia
May 11, 1792 - Columbia River discovered & named by American Capt Robert Gray
May 11, 1850 - Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
May 11, 1858 - Minnesota becomes 32nd state
May 11, 1871 - John Herschel - cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars - dies at 79
May 11, 1897 - Wash Senator Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
May 11, 1907 - Bank of SF incorporated
May 11, 1916 - Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
May 11, 1919 - Yanks Jack Quinn & Senator Walter Johnson - 12 inning 0-0 tie
May 11, 1929 - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
May 11, 1947 - BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire - Akron - Oh
May 11, 1949 - By a vote of 37-12 Israel became 59th member of UN
May 11, 1951 - Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
May 11, 1960 - Israelli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
May 11, 1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 2 - Semi Finals- Series tied at 3 games
May 11, 1975 - Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
May 11, 1982 - Canucks 4-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead
May 12, 1901 - Pres McKinley visits SF
May 12, 1919 - Yanks & Senators go 2nd straight extra inning tie - 4-4 in 15
May 12, 1926 - Airship Norge is 1st vessel over North Pole
May 12, 1930 - Chicago's Adler Planetarium opens - 1st in US
May 12, 1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
May 12, 1943 - Axis forces in North Africa surrender
May 12, 1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US - SVL Pandit - India
May 12, 1960 - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
May 12, 1964 - USSR launches 3-man crew in Voskhod I
May 12, 1981 - Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
May 12, 1983 - Oilers 3-Isles 6 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 2-0 lead
May 12, 1984 - World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
May 13, 1607 - English found Jamestown (1st permanent settlement)
May 13, 1804 - Lewis & Clark begin expedition of La Purchase with Sacagawea
May 13, 1835 - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii established
May 13, 1846 - US declares war on Mexico
May 13, 1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
May 13, 1888 - Brazil abolishes slavery
May 13, 1917 - 3 children see a vision of Virgin Mary at Fatima - Portugal
May 13, 1930 - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock - Texas
May 13, 1955 - Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463 feet
May 13, 1975 - Flyers 4-Isles 1 - Semi Finals- Flyers win semi finals 4-3
May 13, 1982 - Canucks 0-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead
May 13, 1982 - Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
May 14, 1607 - 1st English NA settlement (Jamestown - Va)
May 14, 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
May 14, 1853 - Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk
May 14, 1874 - Harvard & McGill play 1st game of American football
May 14, 1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
May 14, 1935 - LA's Griffith Planetarium opens - 3rd in US
May 14, 1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded
May 14, 1948 - PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
May 14, 1955 - Warsaw Pact formed
May 14, 1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
May 14, 1973 - US launches space station Skylab 1
May 14, 1980 - Bucky Dent hits an inside the park HR - Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded - Yanks win 16-3
May 14, 1981 - Soyuz 40 is launched - 1st Rumanian in space
May 14, 1983 - Oilers 1-Isles 5 - Stanley Cup- Isles hold 3-0 lead
May 15, 1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Batholomew Gosnold
May 15, 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
May 15, 1753 - Whitsunday Term Day
May 15, 1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
May 15, 1856 - 2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
May 15, 1886 - American poet Emily Dickinson died
May 15, 1911 - Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act
May 15, 1918 - US Airmail service begins (Wash DC - Philadelphia & NY)
May 15, 1930 - Ellen Church 1st airline stewardess United flight SF to Cheyenne
May 15, 1934 - Dept of Justice offers $25 -000 reward for Dillinger - dead or alive
May 15, 1940 - 1st nylon stockings sold in US
May 15, 1941 - Yanks win 13-1 Joe DiMaggio starts 56 game hitting streak
May 15, 1957 - 18 -000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
May 15, 1958 - USSR launched Sputnik III
May 15, 1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7 - end US Project Mercury
May 15, 1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from Supreme Court
May 15, 1972 - George C Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer
May 15, 1972 - Ryukyu Islands returned to Japan after 27 years of US control
May 15, 1975 - 11th Mayor's Trophy Game - Yanks beat Mets 9-4
May 15, 1980 - Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
May 15, 1981 - Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
May 15, 1981 - Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
May 16, 1571 - Johannes Kepler - by his own calculations - is conceived at 4:37 AM
May 16, 1763 - James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson - in London
May 16, 1770 - Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France
May 16, 1866 - Congress authorizes nickel 5› piece (replaces silver half-dime)
May 16, 1868 - President Johnson acquitted in Senate - by 1 vote
May 16, 1872 - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
May 16, 1914 - Ewing Field - near Masonic Street - opens
May 16, 1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome
May 16, 1927 - Bob Meusel steals 2nd 3rd & Home
May 16, 1929 - 1st Academy Awards (Best film is Wings)
May 16, 1948 - Israel issues its 1st stamps
May 16, 1955 - American author & critic James Agee died in NY
May 16, 1956 - Kraft Theatre presented an act from Profiles in Courage
May 16, 1957 - Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident - leads to Billy Martin trade
May 16, 1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 Earth orbits in Faith 7
May 16, 1969 - Venera 5 lands on Venus
May 16, 1971 - 1st class postage now costs 8› (was 6›)
May 16, 1975 - Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
May 16, 1982 - Canucks 1-Isles 3 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-4)
May 16, 1983 - Isles win 3rd Cup in row def Canucks in Vancouver 3-1 in game 4
May 17, 1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi - 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
May 17, 1792 - 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
May 17, 1804 - Lewis & Clark begin exploration of La Purchase
May 17, 1809 - Papal States annexed by France
May 17, 1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
May 17, 1872 - Bohemian Club incorporated
May 17, 1875 - 1st Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs Winner was Aristides
May 17, 1898 - Camp Merritt established in Presidio
May 17, 1921 - Pres Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
May 17, 1938 - Radio quiz show `Information Please!' debuts on NBC Blue Network
May 17, 1939 - 1st sports telecast - Columbia vs Princeton - College baseball
May 17, 1940 - Nazis occupied Brussels Belgium
May 17, 1954 - Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Ed reversed 1896 `separate but equal' Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
May 17, 1960 - 1st atomic reactor system to be patented - JW Flora - Canoga Park CA
May 17, 1962 - Marin County withdraws from BART district
May 17, 1968 - European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
May 17, 1973 - Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings
May 17, 1981 - Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
May 17, 1983 - Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
May 17, 1983 - Oilers 2-Isles 4 - Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5)
May 18, 1756 - England decares war on France
May 18, 1804 - Napoleon became Emperor of France
May 18, 1897 - NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
May 18, 1899 - World Good-Will Day - 26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
May 18, 1910 - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
May 18, 1917 - US passes Selective Service act
May 18, 1933 - TVA Act signed by FDR
May 18, 1951 - UN moves HQ to NYC
May 18, 1953 - 1st woman pilot faster than speed of sound (Jacqueline Cochran)
May 18, 1969 - Apollo 10 launched toward lunar orbit
May 18, 1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
May 18, 1980 - Mt St Helens blows its top in Washington State
May 19, 1536 - Anne Boleyn Executed
May 19, 1749 - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
May 19, 1780 - About midday - near-total darkness descends on much of New England
May 19, 1856 - Sen Charles Sumner - Mass - spoke out against proslavery people
May 19, 1862 - Homestead Act becomes law
May 19, 1898 - Simplon Tunnel opens from Brig - Switzerland to Iselle - Italy
May 19, 1971 - USSR Mars 2 launched 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
May 20, 0325 - 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea - Asia Minor
May 20, 1506 - Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain
May 20, 1775 - Mecklenburg County - NC citizens declare independence from England
May 20, 1830 - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper -`Baltimore American'
May 20, 1845 - 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
May 20, 1861 - NC becomes 10th state to secede from US
May 20, 1862 - Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
May 20, 1875 - Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
May 20, 1902 - US ends occupation of Cuba
May 20, 1926 - Thomas Edison said Americans preferred silent movies over talkies
May 20, 1927 - Lindbergh flew NY-Paris - 1st solo flight across Atlantic
May 20, 1932 - Earhart left Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
May 20, 1939 - Pan Am began transatlantic passenger & air mail service
May 20, 1956 - Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane - Bikini Atoll
May 20, 1959 - Yanks sink to last place - 1st time since May 25 - 1940
May 20, 1961 - White mob attacks `Freedom Riders' in Montgomery - Alabama
May 20, 1972 - Republic of Cameroon declared
May 20, 1974 - Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
May 20, 1976 - Viking 1 - Mars landing
May 20, 1978 - US Launches Pioneer Venus 1-produces 1st global radar map of Venus
May 20, 1979 - Cambodian Martyrs Day
May 20, 1985 - Dow Jones Avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
May 20, 1985 - FBI arrests John A Walker Jr - convicted of spying for USSR
May 20, 1985 - US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
May 21, 1832 - 1st Democratic party natl convention
May 21, 1846 - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
May 21, 1856 - Lawrence - Kans captured - sacked by pro-slavery forces
May 21, 1881 - American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton
May 21, 1897 - Yerkes Obsrvatory 40-inch refractor is used for 1st time
May 21, 1904 - FIFA - soccer's intl governing body - is formed
May 21, 1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
May 21, 1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris - after 1st solo across Atlantic
May 21, 1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed - NYC
May 21, 1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman landed - AE Putnam
May 21, 1933 - Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
May 21, 1941 - 1st American ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
May 21, 1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight - sunrise to sunset
May 22, 0012 - BC A daytime meteor shower - possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China
May 22, 1761 - 1st life insurance policy in US -issued in Phila
May 22, 1846 - 1st steamer arrives in Hawaii
May 22, 1856 - Violence in Senate - SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
May 22, 1868 - Great Train Robbery seven men made off with $98000 in cash
May 22, 1909 - 1st SF fireboat - David Scannell - is launched
May 22, 1924 - in Chicago - Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
May 22, 1930 - Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (10th of 60)
May 22, 1933 - World Trade Day
May 22, 1939 - Hitler & Mussolini sign `Pact of Steel'
May 22, 1946 - Yankees turn triple play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
May 22, 1947 - 1st ballistic missile fired
May 22, 1947 - Truman Doctrine went into effect aiding Turkey & Greece
May 22, 1953 - Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple play - Yanks beat Wash 12-4
May 22, 1962 - Roger Maris sets record by getting 4 intentional passes & ties record with 5 walks in a 9 inning game
May 22, 1963 - Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
May 22, 1967 - Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
May 22, 1970 - Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
May 22, 1970 - Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11 but wins 2-0
May 22, 1972 - Ceylon became Republic of Sri Lanka
May 22, 1981 - Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
May 23, 1430 - Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to English
May 23, 1498 - Italian preacher Savonarola tortured & executed in Florence
May 23, 1533 - King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
May 23, 1576 - Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
May 23, 1701 - Capt Kidd hung in London after convicted of piracy & murder
May 23, 1788 - SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
May 23, 1844 - Decl of Bab (Bah '¡ festival)
May 23, 1853 - Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
May 23, 1873 - Postal Cards sold in SF for 1st time
May 23, 1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established
May 23, 1898 - 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
May 23, 1903 - 1st direct primary election law adopted - by Wisconsin
May 23, 1903 - 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY - ended April 1
May 23, 1908 - Dirigible explodes over SF Bay - 16 passengers fall - none die
May 23, 1911 - NY Public Library building at Fifth Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
May 23, 1915 - Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW I
May 23, 1922 - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
May 23, 1934 - Bonnie & Clyde shot in Louisana ambush
May 23, 1937 - Industrialist John D Rockfeller died in Ormond Beach Fla
May 23, 1945 - Nazi Himmler committed suicide while in prison at Luneburg Germany
May 23, 1948 - Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive HRs
May 23, 1949 - West Germany was proclaimed
May 23, 1956 - World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building
May 23, 1960 - Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
May 23, 1962 - Scott Carpenter orbits Earth three times in US Aurora 7
May 23, 1962 - Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
May 24, 1543 - Copernicus allegedly sees 1st copy of DE REVOLUTIONIBUS & dies
May 24, 1689 - English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
May 24, 1822 - at Battle of Pichincha - Bol¡var secures independence of Quito
May 24, 1844 - Samual FB Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought"
May 24, 1866 - Berkeley named (for George Berkeley - Bishop of Cloyne)
May 24, 1883 - Bkln Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
May 24, 1899 - 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
May 24, 1900 - Britain annexes Orange Free State (South Africa)
May 24, 1918 - Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
May 24, 1931 - 1st air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad
May 24, 1935 - 1st major league night baseball game - in Cincinnati (vs Phila)
May 24, 1936 - Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs) Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely Yanks beat A's 25-2
May 24, 1941 - HMS Hood sunk by German battleship Bismarck
May 24, 1946 - Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
May 24, 1954 - 1st rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands - NM
May 24, 1959 - 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited - Pleasant Hills - Pa
May 24, 1962 - M Scott Carpenter & Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
May 24, 1964 - Beatles third appearance on Ed Sullivan
May 24, 1975 - Soyuz 18B is launched
May 24, 1980 - Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)- Stanley Cup- Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6)
May 25, 1085 - St Gregory VII - pope (1073-85) - dies (birth date unknown)
May 25, 1787 - Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia
May 25, 1810 - Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Nat'l Day)
May 25, 1825 - American Unitarian Assn founded
May 25, 1927 - Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
May 25, 1935 - Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs - Boston Braves vs Pirates
May 25, 1940 - Golden Gate Intl Exposition reopens
May 25, 1945 - Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
May 25, 1946 - Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
May 25, 1948 - SF receives its 1st telecast
May 25, 1950 - Bkln-Battery Tunnel opened in NYC
May 25, 1953 - 1st atomic cannon electronically fired - Frenchman Flat - Nevada
May 25, 1953 - 1st noncommercial educational television station - Houston - Texas
May 25, 1961 - JFK sets goal of putting a man on moon
May 25, 1963 - African Unity Day
May 25, 1963 - Org for African Unity formed
May 25, 1973 - US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin - Conrad - Weitz
May 25, 1978 - Star Wars released
May 25, 1979 - Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
May 25, 1983 - Return of the Jedi (Star Wars 3) released
May 26, 1583 - William of Ockham Day
May 26, 1781 - Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
May 26, 1790 - Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
May 26, 1864 - Montana Territory organized
May 26, 1868 - President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
May 26, 1896 - Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted
May 26, 1898 - SF approves City Charter - allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
May 26, 1928 - A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
May 26, 1937 - Golden Gate Bridge opens
May 26, 1943 - 1st president of Negro country to visit US - E Barclay - Liberia
May 26, 1946 - Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
May 26, 1958 - Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark
May 26, 1959 - Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings - loses in 13th
May 26, 1969 - Apollo 10 returns to Earth
May 26, 1972 - Venera 8 launched toward Venus
May 26, 1977 - George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
May 26, 1980 - Soyuz 36 is launched
May 26, 1981 - Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
May 27, 1844 - S.F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
May 27, 1854 - Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to SF completed
May 27, 1896 - Bay District Race Track closes
May 27, 1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
May 27, 1919 - 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
May 27, 1931 - 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes - Langley Field Va
May 27, 1931 - Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere - by balloon
May 27, 1933 - Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
May 27, 1933 - Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
May 27, 1933 - Trailing 11-3 - Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
May 27, 1935 - Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
May 27, 1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
May 27, 1937 - Golden Gate Bridge dedicated
May 27, 1941 - German battleship Bismark sunk by British naval force
May 27, 1951 - Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park - SF opens
May 27, 1957 - Permission granted to Dogers & Giants to leave NY
May 27, 1968 - 6th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 4-3
May 27, 1969 - WDW construction begins
May 27, 1975 - Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
May 27, 1985 - Inaugural Bands Parade for President Reagan
May 27, 1986 - Norway Showcase groundbreaking
May 28, 0585 - BC Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
May 28, 1530 - Hernando de Soto lands in Fla
May 28, 1664 - 1st Baptist Church organized in Boston
May 28, 1774 - 1st Continental Congress convened in Virginia
May 28, 1926 - US Customs Court created by Congress
May 28, 1929 - 1st all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited - NYC
May 28, 1946 - 1st night game at Yankee stadium
May 28, 1953 - Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody"
May 28, 1959 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missle
May 28, 1961 - Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
May 28, 1971 - USSR Mars 3 launched 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
May 29, 1453 - Constantinople falls to Turks (Signaled end of Middle Ages)
May 29, 1660 - Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
May 29, 1721 - SC formally incorporated as a royal colony
May 29, 1790 - Rhode Is became last of original 13 ratifing Constitution
May 29, 1848 - Wisconsin becomes 30th state
May 29, 1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln
May 29, 1864 - Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
May 29, 1892 - Death of prophet Baha'Ullah (Ascension of Baha'Ullah)
May 29, 1916 - US forces invade Dominican Republic - stay until 1924
May 29, 1919 - Einstein's light-bending prediction is confirmed by Arthur Eddington
May 29, 1951 - 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane - CF Blair
May 29, 1953 - Edmund Hillary & Norgay of NZ become 1st to reach top of Mt Everest
May 29, 1954 - Actor - Kirk & Anne Douglas married
May 29, 1978 - 1st class postage now 15› (13› for 3 years)
May 29, 1983 - Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
May 30, 1431 - Joan of Arc burned at stake in Rouen France at 19
May 30, 1527 - U of Marburg (Germany) founded
May 30, 1778 - French philosopher Voltaire died
May 30, 1814 - 1st Treaty of Paris - after Napoleon's 1st abdication
May 30, 1854 - Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
May 30, 1894 - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
May 30, 1911 - Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time
May 30, 1920 - Joan d'Arc Day
May 30, 1932 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
May 30, 1933 - Patent on invisible glass installation
May 30, 1937 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
May 30, 1938 - Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83 -533 at Yankee Stadium
May 30, 1953 - 1st major league network baseball game - Cleveland 7 - Chicago 2
May 30, 1961 - Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
May 30, 1966 - US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
May 30, 1971 - US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
May 30, 1972 - 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24 - wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport
May 30, 1974 - 10th Mayor's Trophy Game - Yanks beat Mets 9-4
May 30, 1980 - Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
May 30, 1982 - Spain became 16th member of North Atlantic Treaty Org
May 31, 1433 - Joan of Arc has a hot time at stake
May 31, 1678 - Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
May 31, 1809 - Composer Franz Josef Hayden died in Vienna Austria
May 31, 1854 - Kansas Territory established
May 31, 1862 - Battle of Fair Oaks - Va; North defeats South
May 31, 1868 - 1st recorded bicycle race - 2 kilometers in Paris
May 31, 1879 - 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
May 31, 1879 - Madison Square Garden opens its doors
May 31, 1889 - Johnstown Flood; 2 -000 die in Penn
May 31, 1900 - US troops arrive in Peking - help put down Boxer Rebellion
May 31, 1910 - Union of South Africa formed
May 31, 1913 - 17th amendment providing popular election of senators
May 31, 1916 - During WW I British & German fleets fought Battle of Jutland
May 31, 1955 - Construction begins on cosmodrome launch facilities
May 31, 1956 - Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
May 31, 1961 - South Africa becomes a republic (Natl Day)
May 31, 1962 - WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel
May 31, 1970 - Tens of thousands in Peru die in an earthquake
May 31, 1974 - Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
May 31, 1976 - Martha Mitchell wife of former Att General John Mitchell dies in NY