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May 2nd, 1945 - The end is near for World War II in Europe. The Soviet Union announces the fall of Nazi Germany's capital, Berlin. And the Allies announce the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. 1519 - Leonardo Da Vinci, the Itali
May 3rd, 1469Niccolo Machiavelli, the philosopher who gave new meaning to what's now known as Political hardball, is born in Florence, Italy. 1948The U.S. Supreme Court rules covenants barring the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other rac
May 12th,1949The Soviet Union announces an end to its blockade of Berlin, one of the first major crises of the Cold War. A reporter from the US armed forces Radio Network is on the scene and then the divided German city. The first vehicles are going
May 11th, 1973. Charges are dropped against Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. A judge cites government misconduct by officials in President Richard Nixons White House, illegal wiretaps on Ellsbergs phone and a br
May 10th, 1869At Promontory, Utah --- a golden spike is driven into the ground, completing the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. 1933,Months after taking power in Germany, the Nazis stage massive public burnings of books conside
May 5th,1961 -Alan Shepard becomes Americas first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three, Two, One, Zero. Ignition. Shepard makes 15-minute suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom Seven. 1821 -Frances fo
May 13th, 1981, Somebody said: its the Pope. Hes shot. You know, we just shocked, it was just unbelievable. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded by a Turkish gunman in St. Peters Square. The pontiff recovers and a few years
May 9th, 1960. Make way for the Pill. The Food and Drug Administration approves the oral contraceptive Enovid is safe for birth-control use. The pill is the first of its kind to be available by prescription in the United States, unleashing a social r
May 6th, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, the German dirigible Hindenburg burns into flames and crashes upon arriving for landing. Reporter Herbert Morrison is there. It's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen, the smoke and it's flames now and the f
May 22nd,1939In Europe, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign the Pact of Steel-- forming a military alliance just months before the start of World War II. 1972Richard Nixon begins the first visit by an American President to what's then Soviet Union. H
May 16th, 1868. In Washington, the U.S. Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson on the first article of impeachment against him. Johnson is eventually acquitted on all charges prompted by his clashes with the Post Civil War Congr
May 14th1607, colonists travel ashore to Virginia to begin building Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the western hemisphere. 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark leave Saint Louis on their expedition to explore the Louisiana t
May 15th, 1972. Alabama governor George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Maryland. The shooting leaves Wallace paralysed for the rest of his life. In later years, he apologizes for his o
May 19th 1962Actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday for President John F. Kennedy. It happens during a Democratic Party fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden where Kennedy is guest of honor. 1925To resort to an
May 12th, 1949. The Soviet Union announces an end to its blockade of Berlin, one of the first major crisis of the Cold War. Our reporter from the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Network is on the scene and then divided German city. The first vehicles are goi
May 17th, 1954In Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down racially segregated public schools as separate and unequal. The court's ruling in Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka fuels America's civil rights movement and the eventual end of
May 21st, 1927He made it. Charles Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy they call him. Aviator Charles Lindbergh completes the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He lands near Paris in the Spirit of St.Louis some 33 hours after taking off from New
May 24th, 1844Inventor Samuel Morse opens America's first telegraph line. He transmits the message What hath God wrought from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. 1994In New York, four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center the year before are each
May 25th, 1961President John F. Kennedy challenges the United States to aim high in its Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving a goal before this decade is out, of landing a man on the
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