May 2 General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of
Delaware.
May 4 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's
Babe Ruth 5-4
May 10 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend
Harbor
May 11 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator
wins in 2:10.8
May 13 1st US airmail stamps issued (24 cents)
May 14 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington, DC
May 15 1st regular US airmail postal service between NY,
Philadelphia & Washington, D.C.
May 15 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins
in 1:53.6
May 15 Greeks troops land at Smyrna
Event of interestEvent of Interest
May 15 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18
inning game
May 15 The Finnish Civil War ends
May 16 The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S.
Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
May 18 Dutch Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
May 18 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale,
Pennsylvania, kills 200
May 19 Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in
18 innings
May 20 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)
May 21 US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing
women to vote
May 23 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
May 24 Cleveland Indians Stan Coveleski sets club record for
most innings pitched (19)
May 24 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19th inning
May 24 British officer General Poole lands at Murmansk, the
Russian port on the Barents Sea
May 26 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares
independence from Russia
May 26 Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of
Sardarapat
May 27 Third Battle of Aisne: German offensive overcomes
British forces (WWI)
May 28 Azerbaijan gains independence and declares itself a
Democratic Republic
Famous Birthdays
May 1 Jack Paar, American television host of the Jack Paar
Show (d. 2004), born in Canton, Ohio
May 1 Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
May 2 Frederick Archibald Warner, British diplomat, born in
Blagdon, England (d. 1995)
May 3 Ted Bates, English former footballer, born in
Thetford, England (d. 2003)
May 4 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (1972-74),
convicted of bribe-taking, born in Kariwa, Japan (d. 1993)
May 4 Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist,
born in Randwick, Australia (d. 2004)
May 5 Erbie Bowser, American blues and jazz pianist, born in
Davila, Texas (d. 1995)
May 6 Godfrey Ridout, composer
May 6 Sydney Chatton, England
Person of interestZayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
May 6 Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st President of the
United Arab Emirates, born in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, birth date disputed (d. 2004)
May 7 Argeliers León, Cuban composer, born in Pinar del Río,
Cuba (d. 1991)
Person of interestMike Wallace
May 9 Mike Wallace, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes), born
in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
May 9 Orville Freeman, (Sen-D-Mn)/Sec of Agriculture
(1961-69), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 10 Dr. T Berry Brazelton, American child development
paediatrician, author, TV host (What Every Baby Knows), who developed the
Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), born in Waco, Texas (d. 2018)
May 10 George Welch, American World War II flying ace (Medal
of Honor nominee) and test pilot, born in Wawaset Park, Delaware (d. 1954)
May 11 Richard Feynman, American theoretical physicist, born
in Queens, New York (d. 1988)
May 12 Oscar Beregi Jr, Hungarian actor (Young Frankenstein,
Panic in City), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1976)
Person of interestJulius Rosenberg
May 12 Julius Rosenberg, 1st US civilian executed for
espionage, born in NYC, New York
May 13 John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
May 13 T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d. 1984)
May 14 Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper (England 3
times early 50's)
May 15 Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle
Call, Anytime)
May 15 Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata,
Les Miserables), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2009)
May 16 Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert
May 16 Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro Paramo)
May 16 Kevin Skelton, Bishop (Lichfield)
May 16 Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)
May 17 Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano
(Elektra, Salome)
May 18 Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (Last Tango in Paris,
In the Name of the Law), born in Mogliano, Marche, Italy (d. 2003)
Person of interestFlorence Chadwick
May 19 Florence Chadwick, swimmer (1st to swim English
Channel both ways), born in San Diego, California (d. 1995)
May 19 Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
May 20 Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
(d. 2004)
May 21 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
May 22 David Land, impressario
May 23 Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, band leader and
record producer, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1985)
May 23 Dennis Compton, English cricketer and footballer
(5,807 runs, Arsenal), born in Middlesex, England (d. 1997)
May 24 Coleman Young, 1st African American Mayor of Detroit,
born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
May 24 D V Jennings, solicitor
May 25 Peder Lunde, Norwegian yachtsman (Olympic silver
1952)
May 26 Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
May 27 Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan (1982-87)
May 29 Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show)
May 29 Isabel Dean, English actress (Five Days One Summer
Virgin Island, Ransom), born in Aldridge, Staffordshire (d. 1997)
May 30 Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d.
2000)
May 30 Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
Famous Deaths
May 3 Charlie Soong, Chinese Methodist missionary and key
player in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, dies at 55
May 9 George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
May 12 Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (Violet
Crumble), dies at 73
May 14 James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper
publisher (b. 1841)
May 16 Eusapia Palladino, Italian spiritual medium, dies at
64
May 18 Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer, dies after being shot
in a quarrel at 34
May 19 Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I
fighter pilot and flying ace, dies at 33
May 24 Evan Williams, American oratorio tenor
May 27 Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies
at 80
May 30 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist,
dies
Is our governments ‘useless,’ I think not, but society must
educate them selves so that History cannot repeat itself…
As always, stay safe !
-Bird
