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On this day in History...
On May 1st
In 1786 – Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
In 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
Some Notable Births:
In 1852 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer
In 1967 – Tim McGraw, American musician
In 1972 – Julie Benz, American actress
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On May 3rd
In 1494 – Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
In 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
In 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
Notable Births
In 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
In 1919 – Pete Seeger, American singer
In 1975 Christina Hendricks, American actress and Dulé Hill, American actor
Notable Deaths
In 2006 – Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods
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On May the 4th
In 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.
In 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
In 1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
In 1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
In 1953 – Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
In 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Notable Births
In 1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress
In 1959 – Randy Travis, American musician
In 1978 – Erin Andrews, ESPN sideline reporter
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May 6th
In 1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
In 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
In 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
In 1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
Notable Births
In 1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist
In 1915 – Orson Welles, American director
In 1955 – Tom Bergeron, American game show host
Notable Deaths
In 2006 – Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor
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on May 11th
In 1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
In 1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
Notable Births
In 1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer
In 1982 – Jonathan Jackson, American actor
Notable Deaths
In 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician
In 2001 – Douglas Adams, English author
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On May 12th
In 1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
In 1962 – Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
Notable Births
In 1889 – Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
In 1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
In 1978 – Jason Biggs, American actor
Notable Deaths
In 1864 – J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general
In 2008 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine
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On May 13th
In 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
In 1994 – Johnny Carson makes last television appearance on The David Letterman Show.
Notable Births
In 1941 – Ritchie Valens, American singer
In 1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
In 1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
In 1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
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On May 14th
In 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
In 1973 – Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
Notable Births
In 1944 – George Lucas, American film director
In 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
In 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
In 1983 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress
Notable Deaths
In 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor
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On May 15th
In 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on false charges of treason, adultery, incest and witchcraft. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
In 1869 – Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
In 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
In 1928 – Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
Notable Births
In 1905 – Abraham Zapruder, American businessman who unexpectedly filmed the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
In 1978 – David Krumholtz, American actor
In 1981 – Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
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On May 16th
In 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
In 1866 – Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
In 1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
Notable Births
In 1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor
In 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
In 1969 – David Boreanaz, American actor
Notable Deaths
In 1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer and Jim Henson, American puppeteer
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