May 1st

1707 – A treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.

2003 - George W. Bush landed in a jet on the aircraft carrier

1971 - Amtrak went into service

1962 - The first Target discount store opened

1960 - Francis Gary Powers is shot down 5/2

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1519 - Leonardo da Vinci died.

1863 - General "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded

1939 - Lou Gehrig's streak (2,130 consecutive games) ended

1941 - General Mills began shipping "Cheerioats" to six test markets. (Later renamed "Cheerios.")

1972 - J. Edgar Hoover died

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5/31936 - Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut

1960 - The musical "The Fantasticks" opened off-Broadway

1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone with the Wind."

1469 - Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born

1933 – James Brown was born

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5/41959 - 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win

1979 - Margaret Thatcher became 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of UK

1904 -Construction begins on the Panama Canal

1957 - Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam

1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.

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5/5 – 1961 - Alan Shepard became America's first space traveler

1818 - Karl Marx was born in Prussia.

1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte died

1955 -West Germany became a sovereign state.

1925 - John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

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5/61937 - The Hindenburg burned

1889 - The Paris Exposition opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

2004 - The final episode of "Friends" aired.

2002 - "Spider-Man" became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its opening weekend.

2001 - Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.

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5/7 – 1945 - Germany signed an unconditional surrender, ending World War II.

2008 - Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russia's president.

1992 - A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was ratified

1977 - Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby on his way to horse racing's Triple Crown.

1915 - A German torpedo sank the British liner Lusitania

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5/81541 - Explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River.

1999 - The Citadel, South Carolina's formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet.

1886 - Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke

1840 - Alexander Wolcott patents the Photographic Process

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1912 - Paramount Pictures is founded5/91994 - Nelson Mandela became president.

1502 - Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip

1974 – Rock critic Jon Landau to write, "I saw rock and roll future and it's name is Bruce Springsteen."

1950 - L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics

1887 - Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show opens

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5/101869 - A golden spike was driven in, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.

1924 - J. Edgar Hoover was appointed director of the FBI

1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place

1865 - Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis

1941 - Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland

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5/11

1904 - Artist Salvador Dali was born

1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.

1981 - Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer at age 36.

1998 - The first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro were produced.

1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.

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5/121820 - Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was born

1968 - Skateboarder Tony Hawk was born

1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented

1966 - St Louis' Busch Stadium opens

1993 - Last broadcast of two popular television shows, "Knots

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landing" on CBS and "Cheers" on NBC.5/131981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded

1607 - An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia.

1985 - Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the radical group MOVE.

2003 - The government unveiled a new $20 bill - the first to be colorized

609 - Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into a Catholic`church

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5/141643 - Louis XIV became King of France at age 4

1804 - The Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis.

1973 - The United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station.

1998 - Singer Frank Sinatra died at age 82

1998 - The TV series "Seinfeld" aired its final episode.

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5/151948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded

1941 - Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak

2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. She completed the trip 3 days before her 17th birthday.

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5/161770 - Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

1929 - The first Academy Awards were presented

1990 - "Muppets" creator Jim Henson died at age 53.

1975 - Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1965 - The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs

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5/171954 – Brown V. Board of education is decided

1769 – Washington criticizes taxation without representation

1885 – Geronimo flees Arizona reservation

1973 - The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal.

1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded

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1980 - Mount St. Helens exploded

1642 - Montreal was founded

2004 - Randy Johnson, 40, became the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game

1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France

1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published

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1967 - The Soviet Union, U.S. and Britain banned the use of nuclear weapons in outer space.

1992 - Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot by Amy Fisher.

1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died

2001 - Apple, Inc. opened its first retail store.

1944 - Peter Mayhew was born

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5/202012 - Singer Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees died

2009 - NFL star Michael Vick was released after 19 months in prison

2006 - Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career homerun list

1995 –The street in front of the White House was permanently closed

1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

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1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC

1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago

1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins

2013 - Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One

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1761 - 1st life insurance policy in North America issued in Philadelphia

1863 - General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg

1868 - Great Train Robbery - 7 men make off with $98,000 in cash

1933 - Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay

1931 - Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida5/23

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1568 - The Netherlands declare independence from Spain.

1785 - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals

1867 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri

1876 - 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden of Boston)

1873 - 1st Preakness: Survivor wins in 2:43

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1883 - Brooklyn Bridge was opened

1935 – 1st major league baseball game played at night took place

1819 - Queen Victoria was born

1686 - Daniel Fahrenheit was born

1830 - The first passenger railroad in the United States began service

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1787 - The Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia.

1935 - Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.

1968 - The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.

1977 - "Star Wars" was released.

1992 - Jay Leno debuted as host of NBC's "Tonight Show"

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5/261994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married

1978 - The first legal casino in the eastern U.S. opened in Atlantic City

1969 - Apollo 10 returned to Earth

1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.

1521 - Martin Luther was declared an outlaw by the church

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5/271933 - Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1960 - 1st use of oversized catching mitt

1961 - President Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon

1969 - Walt Disney World construction begins

1997 - Major league Baseball revenue sharing begins

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5/282014 – Writer and Poet Maya Angelou died

1742 - 1st indoor swimming pool opens (London)

1863 - 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1892 - Sierra Club forms

1937 - Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens

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5/291453 - Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire

1911 - 1st running of Indianapolis 500

1916 - Official flag of president of US adopted

1942 - Bing Crosby records "White Christmas"

1973 - Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records

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5/301431 - 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake

1896 - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)

1922 - The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated

1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.

1935 - Babe Ruth's final game. He goes hitless for Braves against Phillies

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1889 - 2,000 people perished when a dam broke in Johnstown, Pa.

1819 - Poet Walt Whitman was born

1859 - Big Ben in London went into operation.

1990 - The sitcom "Seinfeld" premiered on NBC.

1962 - Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.

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