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May 21st
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".
1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter.
1956 ~ The U.S. detonated the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1978 ~ Birthday of Briana Banks, Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Jesse Capelli, Canadian 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.
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.
2001 ~ Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for when Sen. Jeffords of Vermont declared himself an independent.
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May 27th
1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize 1973.
1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author.
1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck was sunk.
1963 ~ Jomo Kenyatta led his party, Kenya African Nation Union, to victory in the Kenya’s first general election.
1964 ~ Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first PM.
1976 ~ Birthday of Anita Blonde, Hungarian Porn Actress.
1995 ~ Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event.
1997 ~ The Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton while he was in office.
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May 30th
1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).
1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author.
1912 ~ Death of Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, the elder of the Wright Brothers.
1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.
1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
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.
1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law',' which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption.
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May 31st
1678 ~ The first Godiva Procession, in commemoration of the legendary ride.
1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American Poet.
1889 ~ A dam broke near Johnstown, Pa, drowning more than 2,000.
1916 ~ British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark.
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").
1957 ~ Playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress.
1993 ~ Death of Spuds Mackenzie, the original party animal.
1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate.
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June 1st
1494 ~  Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1801 ~ Birthday of Brigham Young, Mormon Church leader.
1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer.
1918 ~ The Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Heroes indeed!
1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress.
1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic.
1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1968 ~ Death of Helen Keller, American humanitarian.
1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.
1990 ~ President Bush and General Secretary Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
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June 2nd
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Famous French Pervert.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.
1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.
1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic.
1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1.
1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.
2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched.
2005 ~ Death of Chloe Jones, Model & Porn Actress.
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