Anniversaries

2nd May 1964 (54 Years)

Nancy Astor, the American-born British politician who was the first female MP, died.

3rd May 1937 (81 Years)

Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel 'Gone with the Wind'.

3rd May 1951 (67 Years)

King George VI inaugurated the Festival of Britain and opened the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank.

3rd May 1987 (31 Years)

Yolanda Cristina Gigliotti, better known as Dalida, Egyptian-born Italian singer and actress, died.

4th May 1929 (89 Years)

Audrey Hepburn was born.

4th May 1979 (39 Years)

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister in the United Kingdom.

4th May 2000 (18 Years)

Ken Livingstone, English politician and former member of the Labour Party, becomes the first Mayor of London.

5th May 1215 (803 Years)

Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England - part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.

5th May 1818 (200 Years)

Karl Marx, philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist, was born.

5th May 1891 (127 Years)

The Music Hall in New York City (later Carnegie Hall) had its grand opening with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

5th May 1914 (104 Years)

Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer, was born.

5th May 1961 (57 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 (162 Years)

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

6th May 1880 (138 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 (129 Years)

The Eiffel Tower was completed.

6th May 1895 (123 Years)

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

6th May 1915 (103 Years)

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

6th May 1915 (103 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 (81 Years)

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

6th May 1937 (81 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 (77 Years)

Joseph Stalin became Premier of the Soviet Union.

6th May 1951 (67 Years)

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

6th May 1992 (26 Years)

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

7th May 1718 (300 Years)

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

7th May 1840 (178 Years)

The Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born.

7th May 1867 (151 Years)

Alfred Nobel receives English patent for dynamite.

7th May 1915 (103 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 (99 Years)

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

7th May 1945 (73 Years)

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

8th May 1864 (154 Years)

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

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