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May 1 1931 |
The Empire State Building opened
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May 2 1964 |
Northern Dancer became the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby
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May 3 1915 |
Lt.-Col. John McCrae, a Canadian army medical officer wrote the poem In Flanders Fields
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May 4 1910 |
The Royal Canadian Navy was established
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May 5 1821 |
Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena
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May 7 1994 |
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch, was recovered almost three months after it was stolen from an Oslo museum
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May 8 1886 |
Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented the flavor syrup for Coca-Cola
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May 9 1994 |
South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president
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May 11 1969 |
Monty Python comedy troupe forms
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May 12 1870 |
Royal assent was given to the Manitoba Act, allowing Manitoba to become Canada's fifth province
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May 13 1965 |
The Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
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May 14 1796 |
English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox
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May 15 1940 |
Nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States
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May 16 1920 |
Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome
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May 17 1996 |
Marc Garneau became the first Canadian to fly twice in space
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May 18 1642 |
The Canadian city of Montreal was founded
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May 19 1536 |
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded
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May 20 1932 |
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
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May 21 1804 |
Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
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May 22 1933 |
Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly
sighted by John MacKay
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May 23 1873 |
Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established
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May 24 1989 |
Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
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May 25 1977 |
"Star Wars" is released
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May 26 1932 |
Parliament passed an act establishing the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
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May 27 1937 |
The
Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco
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May 28 1934 |
The Dionne Quintuplets were born
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May 29 1953 |
Mount Everest was conquered by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand
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May 30 1932 |
The Rideau Canal, linking the Ottawa River at Ottawa with Lake Ontario at Kingston, was opened to traffic
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May 31 1678 |
Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes
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