2005~ BIBI is having a strange day.

When this post was started... it was my Birthday... Little did I know I shared a B-Day so close to DicksBro

May 19th
 

1536 ~ Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England was beheaded for adultery.

1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.

1802 ~ The Légion d'Honneur was created by Napoleon Bonaparte.

1864 ~ Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Author.

1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader.

1897 ~ Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol.

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.

2001 ~ One child policy: Zhonghua Sun was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.

May 20th
 

1772 ~ Birthday of Sir William Congreve, English inventor.

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.

1896 ~ Death of Clara Schumann, German Pianist and Composer.

1901 ~ Birthday of Max Euwe, Dutch world chess champion.

1927 ~ By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognized the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1980 ~ In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejected by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.

2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist.

2002 ~ East Timor gained independence from Indonesia.

May 21st
 

1471 ~ Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist.

1881 ~ Clara Barton established the American Red Cross.

1895 ~ Death of Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer.

1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize.

1924 ~ Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".

1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter.

1956 ~ Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.

1991 ~ Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

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.

May 22nd
 

1176 ~ Assassination attempt by the Hashshashin (Assassins) on Saladin near Aleppo.

1455 ~ At the First Battle of St Albans, which opened England’s Wars of the Roses, Richard, Duke of York, defeated and captured King Henry VI.

1813 ~ Birthday of Richard Wagner, Composer.

1840 ~ The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished.

1859 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Physician and Writer.

1885 ~ Death of Victor Hugo, French author.

1907 ~ Birthday of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor, Director.

1907 ~ Birthday of Hergé, comic book creator.

1972 ~ Ceylon adopts a new constitution, changed its name to Sri Lanka, and joined the British Commonwealth.

1998 ~ A federal judge ruled that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

May 17th
 

1568 ~ Netherlands declared independence from Spain.

1701 ~ After being convicted of piracy, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London.

1805 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.

1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer.

1906 ~ Death of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer.

1908 ~ Birthday of John Bardeen, the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in Physics.

1934 ~ Death of Bonnie and Clyde, outlaws.

1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

1967 ~ Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran and blockaded the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.

1969 ~ Rock band The Who released Tommy, the first rock opera.

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?".

1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen.

1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter.

1959 ~ Death of John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State.

1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist.

1988 ~ Section 28 was passed as law by Parliament in the U.K.

1991 ~ Israel executed Operation Solomon, which evacuated Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

1995 ~ Death of Harold Wilson, British statesman and P.M.

2000 ~ Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon after 22 years.

May 25th
 

1803 ~ Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher.

1889 ~ Birthday of Igor Sikorsky developer of the helicopter.

1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was convicted of sodomy and gross indecency and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

1926 ~ Birthday of Miles Davis, jazz musician and composer.

1929 ~ Birthday of Beverly Sills, Soprano.

1934 ~ Death of Gustav Holst, English composer.

1953 ~ At the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test.

1963 ~ In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity was established.

1973 ~ Mike Oldfield released Tubular Bells.

1979 ~ The movie Alien opened, starring Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver.

May 26th
 

1703 ~ Death of Samuel Pepys, English civil servant, famous for his diary.

1799 ~ Birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author.

1897 ~ Bram Stoker's novel Dracula went on sale in London.

1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Environmental writer.

1908 ~ The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the U.K.

19928 ~ Birthday of Jack Kevorkian, Physician.

1940 ~ Battle of Dunkirk - In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.

1951 ~ Birthday of Sally Ride, Astronaut.

2002 ~ The Mars Odyssey found signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.

2004 ~ The New York Times published an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

May 27th
 

1837 ~ Birthday of Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter.

1840 ~ Death of Nicolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer.

1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.

1932 ~ The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened.

1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973.

1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author.

1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

1937 ~ The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.

1968 ~ Future U.S. president George W. Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard.

1999 ~ The International War Crimes Tribunal indicted Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

May 28th
 

1588 ~ The Spanish Armada, started out from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

1892 ~ In San Francisco, California, John Muir organized the Sierra Club.

1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.

1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone.

1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets.

1939 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication.

1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.

1971 ~ Death of Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero.

1982 ~ Falklands War: British forces defeated the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.

1987 ~ 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evaded Soviet air defenses and landed a private plane in Red Square in Moscow.

May 29th
 

1452 ~ Ottoman armies captured Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

1860 ~ Birthday of Isaac Albéniz, Spanish Composer.

1874 ~ Birthday of G. K. Chesterton, English author.

1886 ~ John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in the Atlanta Journal.

1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author.

1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris.

1917 ~ Birthday of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the U.S.

1919 ~ Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1972 ~ Terrorism: Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.

May 30th
 

1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, French commander and saint (burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal)

1640 ~ Death of Peter Paul Rubens, German painter.

1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher, author.

1814 ~ The first Treaty of Paris returned French borders to their 1792 limits. Napoleon I of France was exiled to Elba on the same day.

1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.

1942 ~ World War II: 1000 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.

1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.

1967 ~ The Nigerian state of Biafra seceded, sparking a civil war.

1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998.

1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

May 31st
 

1669 ~ Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys made the last entry in his diary.

1809 ~ Death of Joseph Haydn, Composer.

1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American poet.

1884 ~ John Harvey Kellogg patented corn flakes.

1916 ~ World War I: The German and British navies fought the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.

1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003.

1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary").

1961 ~ Creation of the Republic of South Africa.

1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate.