May 3rd 1997

Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue.

May 4th 1626

Red Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.

May 5th 1926

Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith".

May 6th 1970

Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mount Everest.

May 7th 1888

George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera".

May 8th 1971

Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden.

May 9th 1975

Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record).

May 10th 1989

General Manuel Noriega's government nullifies Panama's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin.

May 11th 1989

Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds.

May 12th 1951

1st Hydrogen Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll.

May 13th 1952

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes premier of India.

May 14th 1794

Eli Whitney patents cotton gin.

May 15th 1718

James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun.

May 16th 1995

Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with

Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier.

May 17th 1989

Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!

May 18th 1986

Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups.

May 19th 1975

Junko Tabei is 1st woman to scale Mount Everest.

May 20th 1994

Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe.

May 21st 1969

Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death.

May 22nd 1973

President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.

May 23rd 1958

Mao Zedong starts "Great leap forward" movement in China.

May 24th 1958

Cuban President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.

May 25th 2008

NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands in the polar region on Mars.

May 26th 1994

Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26).

May 27th 1942

Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered.

May 28th 1964

Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli.

May 29th 1953

Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest.

May 30th 1896

1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (New York City).

May 31st 1900

U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion.