Anniversaries

5th May 1961 (48 Years)

Alan Bartlett Shepard, American naval officer and aviator, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, became the first American to travel into space.

6th May 1856 (153 Years)

Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, known as the father of psychoanalysis, is born.

6th May 1880 (129 Years)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge" was born.

6th May 1889 (120 Years)

The Eiffel Tower was completed.

6th May 1895 (114 Years)

The Italian-American film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s, Rudolph Valentino, was born.

6th May 1915 (94 Years)

Orson Welles, American actor, writer and director, was born.

6th May 1915 (94 Years)

20-year-old pitcher Babe Ruth hits his first home run during his 18th time at bat in the major leagues.

6th May 1937 (72 Years)

The Hindenburg Disaster takes place in Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey.

6th May 1937 (72 Years)

The Hindenburg disaster occurs as a the German passenger airship caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst.

6th May 1941 (68 Years)

Joseph Stalin became Premier of the Soviet Union.

6th May 1951 (58 Years)

The devastating El Salvador earthquake literally razed the city of Jucuapa in the Central American republic.

6th May 1992 (17 Years)

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich, German and American actress and singer, died.

7th May 1718 (291 Years)

The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.

7th May 1840 (169 Years)

The Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born.

7th May 1867 (142 Years)

Alfred Nobel receives English patent for dynamite.

7th May 1915 (94 Years)

The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by the Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 off the south-west coast of Ireland.

7th May 1919 (90 Years)

María Eva Duarte de Perón, second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and First Lady of Argentina, was born.

7th May 1945 (64 Years)

World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.

8th May 1864 (145 Years)

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War (that lasted until the 21st May).

8th May 1945 (64 Years)

Winston Churchill announced the end of the war.

9th May 1860 (149 Years)

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, Scottish novelist who created Peter Pan, was born.

9th May 1914 (95 Years)

Mother's Day is proclaimed by President Wilson in the United States. 110 years.

9th May 1936 (73 Years)

Albert Finney, English actor, especially successful in theatre plays by William Shakespeare before he switched to films, was born.

9th May 1941 (68 Years)

WWII: the Royal Navy captured the U-boat U-110 and found on board an Enigma machine, later used to break coded messages.

9th May 1945 (64 Years)

World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.

9th May 1994 (15 Years)

Nelson Mandela was chosen to become the first black President of South Africa.

10th May 1838 (171 Years)

John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of President Lincoln, is born.

10th May 1849 (160 Years)

Katsushika Hokusai died.

10th May 1863 (146 Years)

Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil War, dies.

10th May 1866 (143 Years)

Léon Bakst, Russian painter and scene- and costume designer, is born.

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