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May 11931: Empire State building dedicated
May 2
1863: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville
May 3
1898: Golda Mier is born
May 4
1979: Margaret Thatcher is sworn in as British prime minister
May 5
1821: Napoleon dies
May 6
1937: Hindenburg disaster
1994: The Chunnel (English Channel tunnel) opens
May 7
1917: Lusitania sinks
1945: Germany surrenders in World War II
1975: Vietnam War ends
May 8
1884: Harry Truman is born
1945: Victory in Europe Day
May 9
1800: John Brown is born
May 10
1940:Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister
May 11
1888: Irving Berlin is born
May 12
1937: King George VI is crowned
May 13
1568: Mary, Queen of Scots, is defeated
May 14
1973: Skylab is launched
May 15
1756: Seven Years' War begins
May 16
1920: Joan of Arc is canonized
May 17
1973: Watergate hearings begin
May 18
1804: Napoleon proclaimed emperor
1920: Pope John Paul II is born
May 19
1898: William Gladstone dies
May 20
1506: Christopher Columbus dies
May 21
1881: American Red Cross founded
May 22
1813: Richard Wagner is born
May 23
1945: Heinrich Himmler dies
May 24
1819: Queen Victoria is born
May 25
1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson is born
May 26
1896: Nicholas II is crowned czar
May 27
1923: Henry Kissinger is born
May 28
1940: Belgium surrenders to Germany
May 29
1814: Empress Josephine dies
1917: John F. Kennedy is born
May 30
1431: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
May 31
1962: Adolf Eichmann is hanged
