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May 14th
1787 ~ Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author.
1948 ~ The independent state of Israel was proclaimed.
1955 ~ The USSR and seven other communist bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1969 ~ Birthday of Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (Galadriel).
1973 ~ Skylab 1, the first American space station, was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia.
1986 ~ The Pride of Baltimore is lost at sea.
1998 ~ Death of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor.
2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror for publishing photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers that were shown to be fake.
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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.
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May 17th
1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination.
1935 ~ Death of Paul Dukas, French composer.
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.
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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.
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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.
1940 ~ The first prisoners arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1961 ~ U.S. marshals were sent to restore order in Montgomery, Alabama.
1977 ~ Birthday of Tiger Tyson, Porn actor.
2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist.
2002 ~ Death of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.
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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.
1981 ~ Birthday of Belladonna, 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.
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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.
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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.
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