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On This Day In Time
May 1, 1931
Empire State Building opens, NYC.
May 2, 1919
First US air
passenger service begins.
May 3, 1765
First US medical
college opens in Philadelphia.
May 4, 1626
Indians sell
Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and
buttons.
May 5, 1935
Jessie Owens of US
sets a new long jump record of 26'8".
May 6, 1937
Dirigible Hindenburg
explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ 36
die.
May 7, 1915
British ship
Lusitania sunk by German submarine;
1,198 lives lost.
May 8, 1877
First Westminster dog
show.
May 9, 1899
Lawn mower patented.
May 10, 1774
LouisXVI ascends to
throne of France
May 11, 1330
Constantinople
(Istanbul) becomes new capital of the
holy Roman Empire.
May 12, 1937
GeorgeVI crowned
king of England.
May 13, 1846
Mexican war declared
by President Polk.
May 14, 1948
Israel is proclaimed
a state
May 15, 1940
Nylon stockings are
sold for first time.
May 16, 1868
By one vote, Seneate
fails to mpeach Pres. Andrew Johnson.
May 17, 1957
School desegregation
law established by Brown v. Board of
education.
May 18, 1642
Montreal, Canada
founded.
May 19, 1862
Homestead act
becomes law, providing cheap land for
settlement of west.
May 20, 1927
Charles A. Lindbergh
takes off from NY for Paris; first solo
non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
May 21, 1881
American Red Cross
founded by Clara Barton.
May 22, 1803
First US public
library opens (CT)
May 23, 1785
Benjamin Franklin
announces his invention of bifocals.
May 24, 1883
Brooklyn Bridge
opens.
May 25, 1968
Gateway Arch in St.
Louis dedicatd.
May 26, 1937
San Francisco Bay's
Golden Gate Bridge opens.
May 27, 1703
St Petersburg
(Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great.
May 28, 1972
White House
"plumbers" break into Democratic
national Headquarters at Watergate.
May 29, 1453
Constantinople falls
to MuhammadII (Turks); Byzantine Empire
ends.
May 30, 1971
US Mariner 9, first
satellite to orbit Mars, launched.
May 31, 1884
Dr. John Harvey
Kellogg patents "flaked cereal".
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