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1931 The Empire State Building in New York Officially opens
2 May1952 The worlds first commercial Jet Airliner a De Havilland Comet from London for Johannesburg
3 May1979 Margaret Thatcher Becomes British Prime Minister
4 May1970 National Guards fired on protesters at Kent State University and 4 were killed and a further 10 were injured.
5 May1925 John Thomas Scopes a teacher from Dayton, Tennessee is arrested for violating Tennessee's Butler Act
6 May1937 The German airship Hindenburg the largest dirigible ever built burst into flames
7 May1945 Germany signs unconditional surrender at Rheims in France bringing to an end six years of war in Europe.
8 May1988 Murder Via Cyanide in Excedrin Capsules
9 May1960 The Food and Drug Administration approved the first pill for contraceptive use in Birth Control
10 May1994 South Africa's newly elected parliament chose an Unopposed Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
11 May1934 A huge dust storm is spotted moving from the Midwest. The dust storm was 1,500 miles long, 900 miles across and two miles high
12 May1937 King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
13 May1985 Philadelphia Police Department drop a bomb containing C-4 and Tovex from a helicopter onto MOVE's residence part of a row of tenements on Osage Avenue
14 May1948 The independent state of Israel is proclaimed as British rule in Palestine came to an end.
15 May1942 Gas rationing goes into effect across 27 US states as part of the war effort.
16 May1929 The First ever Academy Awards of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards were handed out at a banquet held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
17 May1954 The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education , ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional.
18 May1980 Mount St. Helens located in the Cascade Range erupted and blasted 1,300 ft off it's top that sent hot mud, gas and ashes running down it's slopes
19 May1962 Marilyn Monroe performed a rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy for his forty-fifth birthday during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
20 May1927 Charles Lindbergh who many called the "flying fool" sets off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, NY, flying the "Spirit of St. Louis" on an epic flight from New York to Paris. He completed the 33-hour, 30-minute flight and landed at Le Bourget Airport, Paris on the evening of 21 May.
21 May1927 Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, completing the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight
22 May1972 Ceylon changes it's name from Ceylon to Sri Lanka
23 May1934 Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow gunned down with over 100 rounds of ammunition by police in Black Lake, Louisiana.
24 May1961 Two buses carrying 27 'Freedom Riders' 25 Negroes and two whites were arrested by city police officers in Jackson Mississippi and charged with disobeying an officer and breach of peace.
25 May1935 Jesse Owens broke three world records at the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan including broad jump, the 220-yard dash and the low hurdles.
26 May1969 Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono stage a public 'bed in' for world peace - staying in bed for a week in a hotel in Montreal.
27 May1997 F5 tornado ( Winds Greater Than 260 MPH )and almost 800 feet wide strikes Jarrell, Texas, destroying the town and killing 27 people.
28 May1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
29 May1932 World War I veterans known as the " Bonus Army " begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years be paid early to allow them to survive
30 May1911 The first ever running of the Indianapolis 500
31 May1977 The almost 800 miles long Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline is completed