May 16th

1920 Joan of Arc canonized

1929 The first Acadamy Awards

1995 Japanese police arrest doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara for nerve gas attack

May 14th 1804

Lewis and Clark depart on an expedition which led to valuable U.S. claims to Orgeon Territory.

May 12th

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surreder

1932 Lindbergh baby found dead

1949 Soviet union announces end to the Berlin blockade

May 9th

1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make first flight over the nNorth Pole.

1960 The FDA approves "The Pill"

May 8th, 2008

1846-First major battle of the Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Tx. (General Zachary Taylor won)

1973 Mililitant Americans Indians at Wounded Knee Surrender

Today

1915 - German U-Boat sank the British line Lusitania
1945-Germany Signs unconditional surrender
1954 French lose the battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam

Oh the Humanity!

1889 - The hindenburg crashes and burns in New Jersey.

space monkeys

1961 - Alan B. Spepard Jr. becomes America's first space traveler.
1925 - John T. Scopes arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

Today

1945- Fall Of Berlin

1994 - Nelson Mandela wins south africa's first democratic election

1994 - Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister

Empire State Building Dedicated

On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building's lights. Hoover's gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New York.

Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide

On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler's dreams of a "1,000-year" Reich.

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