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May 14 Through the Years 

 1607- Jamestown, Virginia is settled

 1878- The last Witchcraft Trial in the US opens in Salem, Massachusetts 

 1973- Skylab is launched 

May 13 Through the Years

  1780- Cumberland  Compact is signed

May 12 Through the Years  

 1784- The Treaty of Paris goes into effect

 1949- Soviet Blockade of Berlin ends

May 11 Through the Years 

 1647- Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam(New York City) and replaces William Kieft as Director-Governor of New Netherlands(New York)

 1792- Captain Robert Gray sails into the Columbia River

 1858- Minnesota becomes the 32nd State

 1894- Pullman Strike in Illinois

 1927- The Academy of  Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is created

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May 10 Through the Years 

 1497- Amerigo Vespucci sets sail for the New World

 1503- Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands

1534- Jacques Cartier visits New Foundland

 1773- Parliament passes the Tea Act

 1774- Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France 

 1775- Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga

 1801- First Barbary War starts 

 1908- Mother's Day is celebrated 

May 9 Through the Years  

 1662- Mr. Punch( Punchband Judy) makes his first appearance 

 1671- Thomas Blood tries to steal the British Crown Jewels

 1865- Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders 

 1926- Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole

1941- The German Egnima Machine is captured aboard the U-110

May 8 Through the Years  

 1541- Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississipp

 1861- Richmond, Virginia is named the Capital of The CSA 

 1877- The First Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is held

 1886- John Pemberton starts selling Coca-Cola

 1912- Paramount Pictures is founded

May 7 Through the Years  

 1429- Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orleans

 1664- Louis XIV begins construction of the Palace of Versailles

 1718-The City of New Orleans is founded

 1763- Pontiac's War begins

 1794- Robespierre introduces The Cult of the Supreme Being as the French National Religion

 1942- The Battle of the Coral Sea

 1945- General Alfred Joel signs Unconditional Surrender

 1998- Mercedes Benz buys Chrysler

  2004- The death of Nick Berg

May 6 Through the Years  

 1835- James Gordon Bennett Sr. publishes the 1st Issue of the New York Herald

 1877- Crazy Horse surrenders

 1882- Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act

 1889- The Eiffel Towers Opens

 1910- George V becomes King of England

 1915- Babe Ruth hits his 1st Home Run

 1935- WPA is created

 1937- Hindenburg Disaster

 1945- Roger Bannister breaks the 4 Minute Barrier in the Mile Run

 1966- Myra Hindley and Ian Brady receive Kife Sentences for their involvement in the Moor Murders

 1983- The Hitler Diaries are proved forgeries

 1996- Former CIA Director William Colby is found dead

 1998- Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Astros

 2013- The victims of the Ariel Castro Kidnappings are discovered  

May 5 Through the Years  

 1260- Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire 

 1494- Columbus claims Jaimaca for Spain

 1809- Mary Kies receives a patent

 1821-  Napoleon dies in exile

 1862- Cinco de Mayo

 1864- The Battle of the Wilderness begins

 1866- First Memorial Day observed

 1886- Bay View Massacre

 1904- Cy Young throws the 1st Perfect Game

 1912- Pravda goes into publication 

 1925- John T. Scopes is arrested

 1961- Alan Shepard becomes the 1st American in Space

 1987- Televised Congressional Hearings for the Iran Contra Affair begins

"Rainy Days and Mondays get me down"

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May 4. Through the Years

 1776- Rhode Island becomes first American colony to break from King George III

 1871- The National Association opens play in Fort Wayne

 1886- Haymarket Affair

 1901- US begins building the Panama Canal

May 3 Through the Years 

 1802- Washington DC is incorporated 

 1937- Gone with the Wind wins the Pulitzer Prize

 1948- Shelley vs Kraemer Supreme Court Decision

 1952- Kentucky Deby televised for the 1st Time

 1957- Walter O'Malley decides to move the Dodgers to LA

The Sun is actually shining in TigerTown 

May 2 Through the Years  

 1536- Anne Boleyn is arrested and charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft  

 1611- The King James Version of the Bible is published

 1918- General Motors acquires Chevrolet Brothers

 1920- The Negro National League holds its first game in Indianapolis 

 1955- Tennessee Williams wins a Pulitzer Prize for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

May 1 Through the Years  

 1707- The Act of Union joins the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and forms the Kingdom of Great Britian

 1884- Moses Fleetwood breaks the Color Barrier in Professional Baseball

 1931- The Empire State Building is dedicated 

 1948- Kim Il-sung establishes North Korea

 1956- Salk's Polio Vaccine is made available to the Public

 1967- Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu 

 1994- Ayrton Senna dies in a race crash

April 30 Through the Years  

 1492- Spain grants Columbus his commission of Exploration

 1789- George Washington becomes the first President  

 1803- US make the Louisiana Purchase 

 1812- Louisiana becomes the 18th State

 1885- The Niagra  Reservation is created

 1900- Hawaii becomes a US Territory with Stanford B. Dole as governor 

  1927-.Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the 1st Celebrities to leave their footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater

 1956- Albee Barkley dies while delivering a speech in Virginia 

 1973- Nixon fires John Dean and H. R. Halderman and John Erlichman have resigned over the Watergate Scsndal

 1975- Fall of Saigon

April 29 Through the Years  

 1770- James Cook arrives in Australia

 1861- Maryland decides not to secede

 1862- Farragut captures New Orleans

 1864- Theta Xi Fraternity is founded

 1945- Dauchau Concentration Camp is liberated 

 1992- Los Angeles Riots

 2015- The Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox play in front of zero fans

April 28 Through the Years  

 1788- Maryland is the 7th State to ratify the US Constitution 

 1789- Mutiny of the Bounty

 1881- Billy the Kid escapes the Lincoln County Jail

 1923- Wembley Stadium opens

 1930- The Independence Produce s host the first night game in baseball

 1945- Benito Mussolini and his mistress are exited

 1947- Thor Heyerdahl sets sail in the The Kon-Tiki

April 27 Through the Years 

 1521- Ferdinand Magellan is killed by Philippine Natives

 1570- Pope Pius V calls Elizabeth I a heretic 

 1667- John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost

 1861- President Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus

 1865- Cornell University created

1936- The United Auto Workers gains autonomy from  American Federation of Labor

 1967- Expo 67 opens in Montreal

 1986- Chernobyl Nuclear Disater

April 26 Through the Years 

 1865- John Wilkes Booth shot and killed

 1933- The Gestapo is established 

April 25 Through the Years 

 1792- Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes first person executed by the Guillotine

 1792- La Marseillaise is composed

  1847-.The Last survivors of the Donner Party are brought out if the wilderness

 1898- US declares war on Spain 

 1938- US Supreme Court rules on Erie Railroad Co. vs Tompkins

 1944- The United Negro College Fund is incorporated 

 1953- Francis Crick and James Watson publishes their book on the Double Helix of DNA

1954- The First practical solar cell is demonstrated

1959- The Saint Lawrence Seaway is opened 

April 24 Through the Years 

 1184 BC- Fall of Troy

 1704- The Boston News-Letter is published for the 1st Time

 1800- Library of Congress established 

 1884- Annie Oakley joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

 1913-The Woolworth Building opens in NYC