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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 .

, 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 .