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MAY 1, 1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, Illinois.
MAY 1, 1917 – Fyodor Khitruk is born in Tver, Russia.
MAY 1, 1969 – Wes Anderson is born in Houston, Texas.
MAY 2, 1929 – Link Wray is born in Dunn, North Carolina.
MAY 2, 1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
MAY 2, 1913 – William Inge is born in Independence, Kansas.
MAY 3, 1933 – James Brown is born in Barnwell, South Carolina.
MAY 3, 1960 – The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
MAY 4, 1415 – John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
MAY 4, 1929 – Audrey Hepburn is born in Ixelles, Belgium.
MAY 4, 1958 – Keith Haring is born in Reading, Pennsylvania.
MAY 5, 1813 – Soren Kierkegaard is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
MAY 5, 1898 – Blind Willie McTell is born in Thomson, Georgia.
MAY 5, 1959 – Ian McCulloch is born in Liverpool, England.
MAY 5, 1987 – Televised hearings of the Iran–Contra Affair begin.
MAY 6, 1758 – Maximilien Robespierre is born in Arras, France.
MAY 6, 1856 – Sigmund Freud is born in Príbor, Czech Republic.
MAY 6, 1895 – Rudolph Valentino is born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla in Castellaneta, Italy.
MAY 6, 1915 – Orson Welles is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
MAY 6, 1940 – Gladys Nilsson is born in Chicago, Illinois.
MAY 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath
MAY 7, 1943 – Terry Allen is born in Wichita, Kansas.
MAY 7, 1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
MAY 8, 1885 – Arnold Ronnebeck is born in Nassau, Germany.
MAY 8, 1895 – Edmund Wilson is born in Red Bank, New Jersey.
MAY 8, 1911 – Robert Johnson is born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi.
MAY 8, 1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
MAY 8, 1940 – Ricky Nelson is born in Teaneck, New Jersey.
MAY 8, 1958 – Nick Zedd is born in Takoma Park, Maryland.
MAY 8, 1970 – Naomi Klein is born in Montreal, Canada.
MAY 9, 1958 – Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo premieres in San Francisco, California.
MAY 9, 1970 – Ghostface Killah is born Dennis Coles in Staten Island, New York.
MAY 10, 1863 – Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after being shot by his own troops.
MAY 10, 1952 – Sly Dunbar is born Lowell Fillmore Dunbar in Kingston, Jamaica.
MAY 10, 1957 – Sid Vicious is born John Simon Ritchie in London, England.
MAY 11, 1904 – Salvador Dalí is born in Catalonia, Spain.
MAY 11, 1918 – Richard Feynman is born in Queens, New York.
MAY 11, 1997 – Deep Blue, the chess-playing supercomputer, defeats world-champion chess player Garry Kasparov.
MAY 12, 1907 – Katharine Hepburn is born in Hartford, Connecticut.
MAY 12, 1928 – Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri.
MAY 12, 1933 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies.
MAY 12, 1937 – George Carlin is born in New York City, New York.
MAY 13, 1882 – Georges Braque is born in Argenteuil, France.
MAY 13, 1945 – Magic Dick is born Richard Salwitz in New London, Connecticut.
MAY 13, 1950 – Stevie Wonder is born Stevland Hardaway Morris in Saginaw, Michigan.
MAY 13, 1964 – Stephen Colbert is born in Washington, D.C..
MAY 13, 1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
MAY 14, 1925 – Oona O'Neill is born in Warwick Parish, Bermuda.
MAY 14, 1939 – Verushka is born Veruschka von Lehndorff in Konigsberg, Germany.
MAY 14, 1940 – Peggy Moffitt is born in Los Angeles, California.
MAY 14, 1979 – Dan Auerbach is born in Akron, Ohio.
MAY 14, 1973 – Skylab is launched.
MAY 15, 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov is born in Kiev, Ukraine.
MAY 15, 1930 – Jasper Johns is born in Augusta, Georgia.
MAY 15, 1948 – Brian Eno is born in Suffolk, England.
MAY 15, 1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
MAY 16, 1946 – Robert Fripp is born in Dorset, England.
MAY 16, 1951 – Jonathan Richman is born in Natick, Massachusetts.
MAY 16, 1965 – Kris Novoselic is born in Compton, California.
MAY 16, 1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers his lecture concerning alternating currents.
MAY 17, 1866 – Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France.
MAY 17, 1936 – Dennis Hopper is born in Dodge City, Kansas.
MAY 17, 1942 – Taj Mahal is born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks in Harlem, New York.
MAY 17, 1973 – Josh Homme is born in Joshua Tree, California.
MAY 17, 2004 – Same-Sex Marriages are legally performed in the State of Massachusetts.
MAY 18, 1831 – Kawanabe Kyosai is born in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
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MAY 18, 1890 – Mildred Burrage is born in Portland, Maine.
MAY 18, 1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears from a Venice, California beach.
MAY 18, 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh is born in Akron, Ohio.
MAY 18, 1986 – Abby Owens is born in Indiantown, Florida.
MAY 19, 1925 – Malcolm X is born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska.
MAY 19, 1946 – Andre The Giant is born in Grenoble, France.
MAY 19, 1948 – Grace Jones is born in St. Catherine, Jamaica.
MAY 19, 1951 – Joey Ramone is born Jeffrey Ross Hyman in Queens, New York.
MAY 19, 1962 – Marilyn Monroe's performs her rendition of Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
MAY 20, 1882 – Sigrid Undset is born in Kalundborg, Denmark.
MAY 20, 1985 – Radio Martí begins broadcasting to Cuba.
MAY 21, 1869 – Hutchins Hapgood is born in Chicago, Illinois.
MAY 21, 1951 - The Ninth Street Show opens featuring Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock.
MAY 22, 1879 – Jack White is born in Broughshane, Ireland.
MAY 22, 1990 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.
MAY 23, 1810 – Margaret Fuller is born Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MAY 23, 1958 – Lea DeLaria is born in Belleville, llinois.
MAY 23, 1981 – Gwenno Saunders is born in Cardiff, Wales.
MAY 23, 1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
MAY 24, 1941 – Bob Dylan is born in Duluth, Minnesota.
MAY 24, 1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
MAY 25, 1878 – Bill Mr Bojangles Robinson is born in Richmond, Virginia.
MAY 25, 1908 – Theodore Roethke is born in Saginaw, Michigan.
MAY 25, 1925 – John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
MAY 25, 1958 – Paul Weller is born in Surrey, England.
MAY 26, 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the United States Congress.
MAY 26, 1916 – Moondog is born in Marysville, Kansas.
MAY 26, 1926 – Miles Davis is born in Alton, Illinois.
MAY 26, 1975 – Lauryn Hill is born in South Orange, New Jersey.
MAY 27, 1877 – Isadora Duncan is born in San Francisco, California.
MAY 27, 1894 – Dashiell Hammett is born in St Mary's, Maryland.
MAY 27, 1911 – Vincent Price is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
MAY 27, 1986 – Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
MAY 28, 1952 – The women of Greece are granted the right to vote.
MAY 28, 1981 – Victoria Legrand is born in Paris, France.
MAY 29, 1917 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
MAY 29, 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola.
MAY 30, 1860 – Helga Estby is born in Oslo, Norway.
MAY 30, 1902 – Stepin Fetchit is born Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry in Key West, Florida.
MAY 30, 1989 – The Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square.
MAY 31, 1790 – The United States enacts the Copyright Act of 1790.
MAY 31, 1963 – Wesley Willis is born in Chicago, Illinois.