--Empire State Building opened May 1, 1931.
May 2
--Hudson's Bay Company chartered May 2, 1670.
--Catherine the Great of Russia born May 2, 1729.
DARRELL "CHUCK" WHITE
BEN WHITE
May 3
--Niccolo Machiavelli, author of The Prince, born May 3,1469.
--First U.S. medical school opened in Philadelphia, May 3, 1765.
May 5
--Karl Marx, author of Das Kapital, born May 5, 1818.
--Napoleon died on St. Helena, May 5, 1821.
--Mexicans defeated French at Puebla, May 5, 1862.
--Memorial Day first observed, May 5, 1866.
May 6
--First postage stamp issued in England May 6, 1840
--Robert E. Peary, American Arctic explorer, born May 6, 1856.
May 7
--Robert Browning, English poet, born May 7, 1812.
--Composer Johannes Brahms born May 7, 1833.
--Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, born May 7, 1840.
--A German submarine sank the passenger liner Lusitania in World War I, May 7, 1915.
May 8
--Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, was born in Lamar, Mo., May 8, 1884.
MADALYN "MADIE" WHITE
May 9
--John Brown, American abolitionist, born May 9, 1800.
--Sir James Barrie, Scottish author, born May 9, 1860.
--Mother's Day became a public holiday, May 9, 1914.
May 10
--First transcontinental railway completed in Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869.
May 11
--Minnesota admitted to the Union May 11, 1858.
--Irving Berlin, American songwriter, born May 11,1888.
May 12
--King Gustavus I of Sweden born May 12, 1496.
--Edward Lear, English writer and artist, born May 12, 1812.
--Florence Nightingale, English nurse, born May 12, 1820.
--Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole, May 12, 1926.
May 13
--Austrian Empress Maria Theresa born May 13, 1717.
--Sir Arthur Sullivan, English composer, born May 13, 1842.
--United States declared war on Mexico May 13, 1846.
May 14
--Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist, born May 14, 1686.
--Robert Owen, social reformer, born May 14, 1771.
--Edward Jenner, a British physician, performed the first vaccination against smallpox in May 14, 1796.
--Lewis and Clark began trip up Missouri River, May 14, 1804.
--Israel became an independent country as the last British troops left Palestine, May 14, 1948.
May 15
--Pierre Curie, codiscoverer of radium, born May 15,1859.
--U.S. began first regular airmail service May 15, 1918.
May 19
--John Hopkins, American philanthropist, born May 19, 1795.
AMANDA WHITE
May 20
--Homestead Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln, May 20, 1862.
--Amelia Earhart began the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean May 20, 1932.
May 21
--Albrecht Durer, German engraver, born May 21, 1471.
--Alexander Pope, English poet, born May 21, 1688.
--First Democratic National Convention held May 21, 1832.
--Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross May 21, 1881.
--Charles Lindbergh finished first translantic solo flight May 21, 1927.
May 22
--Richard Wagner, German composer, born May 22,1813.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, born May 22, 1859.
--Laurence Olivier, British actor, born May 22, 1907.
May 23
--South Carolina became the eighth state May 23, 1788
May 24
--First permanent English settlement in America established in Jamestown, VA., May 24, 1607.
--Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic, May 24, 1883.
May 25
--Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia with George Washington as president, May 25, 1787.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet, born May 25, 1803.
CINDY WHITE
May 27
--Julia Ward Howe, American poet who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", born May 27, 1819.
--Jay Gould, American financier, born May 27, 1836.
--Isadora Duncan, American dancer, born may 27, 1878.
--Golden Gate Bridge opened at San Francisco May 27, 1937.
May 29
--Patrick Henry, American statesman and orator, born May 29, 1736.
--Rhode Island ratified the Constitution, becoming the 13th state, May 29, 1790.
--Wisconsin became the 30th state, May 29, 1848.
--John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born in Brookline, Mass, May 29, 1917.
May 30
--Christopher Columbus began his third voyage May 30, 1498.
JONAH WHITE
May 31
--U.S. Copyright law enacted May 31, 1790.
--Walt Whitman, American poet, born May 31, 1819.
--Amendment 17 to the Constitution, providing direct election of senators, proclaimed, May 31, 1913.
AARON CHRISTISON
