3rd May 2000

The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

4th May 2000

The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

5th May 2012

Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970

6th May 2010

The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.

7th May 2002

A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

8th May 2010

The last piece of Yankee Stadium falls in the Bronx, New York, marking the end of the two year demolition process.

9th May 2012

United States President, Barack Obama, officially states his support for same sex marriage

10th May 1996

Excel Communications, Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), trading under the symbol (ECI).

11th May 1998

India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device.

12th May 1991

A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest

13th May 1998

India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.

14th May 2012

Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye

15th May 1981

Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto

16th May 1986

The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

17th May 1990

the WHO takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses.

18th May 2006

The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.

19th May 1995

World’s youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai

20th May 2002

The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).

21st May 2006

The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.

22nd May 2002

American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

23rd May 2008

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.

24th May 2001

The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.

25th May 2000

Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.

26th May 2004

The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

27th May 2004

The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

28th May 2008

The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

29th May 2012

Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued at $45 million

30th May 1998

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing upto 5,000 people.

31st  May  2010

Shayetet 13 soldiers tried to stop the flotilla that wanted to break the blockade on Gaza Strip. During the boarding on the MV Mavi Marmara ship, a violent confrontation had started. It caused the death of 9 activists who were on board, and several more injured activists. Moreover, several israeli soldiers were injured.