And the next date in the calendar is....

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30 April 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

 

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1 May 1769 – Birth of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington

 

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Women's magazine Good Housekeeping was first published on May 2, 1885 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Then:

Now:

 

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3 May 1973 – The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.

 

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On Monday, May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others at the Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during an anti-war protest. (Also known as the Kent State Shootings.)

 

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5 May 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.

 

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On May 6, 1981, a panel of architects and sculptors unanimously selected the entry from Maya Lin, a 21-year old student from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut--out of a pool of 1,421 entries--as the winner for the design of the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

 

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7 May 1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of_Greece

 

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Gay artist Touko Laaksonen, better known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was born on May 8, 1920 in Kaarina, Finland.

 

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9 May 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.

 

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Mother's Day was first celebrated, officially, in the U.S.A on May 10, 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

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11 May 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.

 

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French composer Gabriel Fauré was born on May 12, 1845.

 

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13 May 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.

 

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14 May 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

 

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15 May 2008 – California becomes the second US state (after Massachusetts in 2004) to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

 

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16 May 1905 – Birth of Henry Fonda

 

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17 May 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.

 

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Victoria Day

May 18 in any year where this falls on a monday preceding the 25th, Victoria Day (the "Queen's Birthday), Canada

1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2009

and incidentally the 18th is the earliest it can fall.

 

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19 May 1536 – Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.