May 3rd 1997

Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue

May 4th 2010

An auction at Christie’s in New York sets a record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction when it sells Pablo Picasso’s ‘Nude, Green Leaves and Bust’ for $106 million

May 5th 1926

Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for “Arrowsmith”

May 6th 1970

Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mount Everest

May 7th 1982

IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1

May 8th 1971

Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden

May 9th 1960

U.S. is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally

May 10th 1857

Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut

May 11th 1916

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity presented

May 12th 1997

Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

May 13th 1952

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes premier of India

May 14th 1971

The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes

May 15th 1991

Edith Cresson becomes France’s 1st  female premier

May 16th 1975

Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest’s summit

May 17th 1980

Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours

May 18th 1986

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

May 19th 2010

Buildings across Bangkok are set on fire by red shirt protesters after the military stormed a protest camp in the center of the city

May 20th 1940

Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention

May 21st 1945

German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

May 22nd 1972

Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified

May 23rd 1922

Walt Disney incorporates his 1st  film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

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 1987

Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka

May 27th 1977

New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed

May 28th 1980

Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12’5"

May 29th 1849

Lincoln says “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of time”

May 30th 1896

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

May 31st 1879

Madison Square Garden opens