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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY MAY

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY MAY. May 1 st . is commonly known as “May Day” or International Workers Day. 01/05/1707. The Act of Union joins England, Scotland & Wales to form the United Kingdom. 01/05/1940. The 1940 Olympics are officially

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY MAY

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  1. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY May 1st. is commonly known as “May Day” or International Workers Day. 01/05/1707. The Act of Union joins England, Scotland & Wales to form the United Kingdom. 01/05/1940. The 1940 Olympics are officially cancelled due to W.W.2.

  2. THIS MONTH IN HISTYORYMAY 01/05/1941. German troops launch a major attack on Tobruk in W.W.2. 01/05/1948. The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established. 02/05/1519. Leonardo da Vinci. Italian inventor & artist dies.

  3. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 02/05/1729. Catherine the Great of Russia is born. 02/05/1945. Berlin falls to the Soviet Army in W.W.2. 02/05/1957. U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of “McCarthyism” fame dies. 02/05/1969. Franz von Papen. German Chancellor in 1932 dies.

  4. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 02/05/1972. J Edgar Hoover. The 1st Director of the F.B.I. from 1935 – 1972 dies. 02/05/1975. English soccer star David Beckham is born.

  5. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 02/05/1980. Clarrie Grimmett. New Zealand born Australian Cricket Test spin bowler dies. 02/05/2011. Osama bin Laden. Saudi Arabian terrorist & leader of Al – Qaeda is killed by American Special forces. .

  6. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 03/05/1469. Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Statesman & author of “The Prince” is born

  7. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 03/05/1494. Christopher Colombus discovers Jamacia. 03/05/1802. Washington D C is declared a city. 03/05/1841. New Zealand was proclaimed a separate colony. 03/05/1898. Golda Meir, the 1st. female Prime Minister of Israel is born.

  8. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 03/05/1903. Bing Crosby, famous American singer & actor is born. 03/05/1937. Margaret Mitchell’s novel: “Gone with the Wind” wins the Pulitzer prize for fiction. 03/05/1980. President Tito of Yugoslavia dies.

  9. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 04/05/1825. Thomas Huxley. English biologist is born 04/05/1953. Ernest Hemmingway is awarded the Pulitzer prize for his novel: “The Old Man and the Sea”. 04/05/1979. Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st female Prime Minister of England.

  10. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 05/05/1818. Karl Marx. German political philosopher is born. 05/05/1821. Napoleon 1st. Emperor of France dies. 05/05/1945. Allied troops liberate the Netherlands & Denmark from German occupation in W.W.2.

  11. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 06/05/1758. Maximilien Robespierre. French Revolutionary leader is born. 06/05/1840. The 1st postage stamp is issued in England. 06/05/1856. Sigmund Freud. Austrian psychiarist is born.

  12. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 06/05/1937. The Hindenburg air disaster in which 36 people are killed takes place. 06/05/1954. Roger Bannister becomes the 1st. man to run a mile in under 4 minutes. 06/05/1961. George Clooney. American actor is born.

  13. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 06/05/1994. The Channel Tunnel between England & France is opened by Queen Elizabeth 2nd. & French President Mitterand. 07/05/1812. Robert Browning. English poet is born. 07/05/1833. Johannes Brahms. German composer is born.

  14. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 07/05/1840. Peter Illich Tchaikovsky. Russian composer is born. 07/05/1915. A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania in W.W.1. 07/05/2011. Seve Ballesteros. Famous Spanish Golfer dies.

  15. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 08/05/1884. Harry S Truman. 33rd. President of the U.S.A. is born. 08/05/1945. V.E. Day in Europe is proclaimed by the Allies over Germany to end W.W.2. in Europe.

  16. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 08/05/2011. Lionel Rose. Former Australian Bantamweight Boxing champion of the World dies. 09/05/1927. The Australian Federal Parliament opens for the 1st. time in Canberra. 09/05/1986. Tenzing Norgay. The 1st. person along with Sir Edmund Hillary to climb Mount Everest dies.

  17. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY MAY 09/05/1988. The new Federal Parliament House is opened in Canberra. 09/05/2008. Jack Gibson. Famous Australian Rugby League footballer & coach dies. 09/05/2012. Vidal Sassoon. Famous English hairdresser dies.

  18. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 10/05/1774. Louis 16th. becomes King of France. 10/05/1838. John Wilkes Booth. The assassin of President Abraham Lincoln is born. 10/05/1871. The Franco-Prussian War ends. 10/05/1924. J Edgar Hoover is appointed as Head of the F.B.I.

  19. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 10/05/1940. Sir Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of England. 10/05/1994. Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the 1st. Black President of South Africa. 11/05/1888. Irving Berlin. American songwriter & composer of the song: “White Christmas” is born.

  20. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 11/05/2014. Reg Gasnier. Famous Australian & St. George Rugby League player dies.

  21. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 12/05/2014. Tom Haffey. Famous Australian Rules footballer & coach dies. 13/05/1787. Captain Arthur Phillip with 11 ships sets sail to establish a penal colony in Australia. “The First Fleet.”

  22. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 13/05/1914. R.E. Foster. The only person ever to Captain the English Football & Cricket teams dies.

  23. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY.MAY 13/05/1989. Approximately 2,000 students begin a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in China. 14/05/1948. Birth of the State of Israel. 14/05/1984. Mark Zuckerberg. The co-founder of Facebook is born.

  24. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 15/05/1618. Johannes Keppler discovers the Harmonics Law. 15/05/1730. Robert Walpole becomes the 1st. Prime Minister of England.

  25. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 15/05/1859. Pierre Curie. French Nobel Prize winner for Physics is born. 15/05/2010. Australian teenager Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail solo around the world. 16/05/2002. Alec Campbell. The last of the original Anzacs dies.

  26. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 17/05/1943. The Dambuster raids took place on German dams in W.W.2. 18/05/1756. The 7 Years War between Great Britain & France begins. 19/05/1861. Australian Opera singer Dame Nellie Melba is born.

  27. THIS WEEK IN HISTORY.MAY 19/05/1890. Ho Chi Minh. The North Vietnamese President from 1945 -1969 is born. 19/05/1925. Pol Pot. Cambodian dictator is born. 19/05/1925. Malcolm X. American Civil Rights leader is born.

  28. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 19/05/2012. English Football club Chelsea becomes the 1st. London club to win the European Champions League. 19/05/2014. Sir Jack Brabham. 3 time Australian World formula one Motor racing champion dies.

  29. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 20/05/1506. Sir Christopher Columbus dies. 20/05/1932. Amelia Earhart begins the 1st. solo transatlantic flight by a woman.

  30. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 20/05/2002. East Timor becomes an independent nation. 20/05/2012. Robin Gibb. Member of the Australian Musical group “The Bee Gees” dies.

  31. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 21/05/1927. Charles Lindbergh completes the 1st. solo transatlantic flight. 21/05/1930. Malcolm Fraser. Prime Minister of Australia 1975 -1983 is born. 22/05/1813. Richard Wagner. German composer is born. 22/05/1859. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The creator of Sherlock Holmes is born.

  32. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 23/05/1944. Champion Australian Tennis player John Newcombe is born. 23/05/2017. Sir Roger Moore – Famous English Actor – who played 007 in several James Bon movies dies. 24/05/1543. Nicolas Copernius. The father of modern Astronomy dies. 24/05/1686. Gabriel Fahrenheit. German physicist is born.

  33. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 24/05/1738. John Wesley launches the Methodist Religion. 24/05/1819. Queen Victoria of Great Britain is born.

  34. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 24/05/1930. Amy Johnson becomes the 1st. woman to fly solo from England to Australia. 24/05/1941. Bob Dylan. American folk singer & writer is born. 25/05/1787. A Constitutional Convention is convened in Philadelphia to write the U.S Constitution.

  35. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 25/05/1940. The battle of Dunkirk begins in W.W.2. 25/05/1946. Jordan declares its independence from Great Britain. 25/05/1961. U.S. President John F Kennedy announces his goal “To put a man on the moon before the decade is out.”

  36. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 25/05/1967. Glasgow Celtic becomes the 1st. British club to win the European Cup. (The Champions League) 26th. May. National Sorry Day in Australia. 26/05/1293. An earthquake strikes Kamakura in Japan killing 30,000 people. 26/05/1886. Al Jolson. Famous American Jazz singer is born.

  37. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 26/05/1909. Sir Matt Busby. Former manager of Manchester United & father of the “Busby Babes” is born. 26/05/1935. American athlete Jesse Owens breaks 5 World records & equals another.

  38. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 26/05/1966. British Guiana( now Guyana) becomes an independent nation. 27/05/1564. John Calvin. French Religious reformer dies. 27/05/1703. Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of St Petersburg in Russia. 27/05/1927. The Ford Motor company ceases production of the Model T Ford.

  39. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 27/05/1937. The Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco. 27/05/1964. Jawaharlal Nehru. India’s first Prime Minister dies.

  40. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 27/05/1967. Australians vote in favour of a Referendum to include Aborigines in the Census paving the way to giving them “The Right to Vote.” 27/05/2005. Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years jail for drug smuggling in Indonesia.

  41. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 28/05/1909. Ian Fleming. Famous English author is born. 28/05/1912. Patrick White. Australian novelist is born. 28/05/1952. Women are given the right to vote in Greece. 28/05/1964. The Palestine Liberation Organisation(P.L.O) is formed.

  42. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 28/05/1964. Jeff Fenech. 3 time Australian World Boxing champion is born. 29/05/1493. The Ottman Turks capture Constantinople (now Istanbul) 29/05/1660. The monarchy is restored in England.

  43. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 29/05/1917. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born. 29/05/1953. Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary become the 1st people to climb Mount Everest. 29/05/1985. 39 spectators are killed when a wall collapses during the European Cup Final between Liverpool & Juventus.

  44. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 29/05/2017. Manuel Noriego – Military Dictator of Panama dies. 30/05/ 1431. St Joan of Arc is burnt at the stake. 31/05/526. An earthquake occurs in Antioch, Turkey killing 250,000 people. 31/05/1813. Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains in N.S.W.

  45. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYMAY 31/05/1930. American actor & film director Clint Eastwood is born. 31/05/1961. South Africa becomes a Republic.

  46. QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “The dream comes true.” Tenzing Norgay to Sir Edmund Hillary as they become the 1st. people to climb the world’s highest mountain – Mount Everest. 29th. May 1953.

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