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May is
Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month!
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Birth date of
Kate Smith,
American singer,
1907
Lou Gehrig ends recordbreaking streak of
consecutive games, 1939
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Cinco de Mayo
Birth date of
Sugar Ray
Robinson,
champion
boxer, 1921
Spider-Man
becomes the
first film to make
$100 million in its
opening weekend,
2002
Birth date of Audrey Hepburn,
fashion icon and Hollywood
legend, 1929
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Mother’s Day
Transcontinental
Railroad is
completed,
1869
The Supreme Court
outlaws racial segregation
in public schools in
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
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William Morris tests his
telegraph, “What hath
God Wrought!”, 1844
Birth date of Patricia
Roberts Harris,
ground-breaking
African American
stateswoman, 1924
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Birth date of
Katharine Hepburn,
Hollywood Legend,
1907
International
Museum Day
Birth date of
Frank Capra,
great film
director, 1897
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Memorial Day
President
Kennedy
challenges
Americans
to put a
man on the
moon before
decade’s end,
1961
Glenn Miller records the
Chattanooga Choo Choo,
1941
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Jamestown Settlement
established, the first
permanent British colony
in America, 1607
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Charles Lindbergh
takes off on the Spirit
of St. Louis, 1927
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Birth date of
Aaron Douglas,
modern
American
painter, 1899
Birth date of
William Seward, statesman,
1801
Birth date of Katherine Anne
Porter, American short story
and prose master, 1890
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American Red Cross
founded, 1881
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The US, Great Britain, and
Soviet Union sign a pact
banning nuclear weapons in
space, 1967
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Birth date of President
Harry S. Truman,
33rd President, 1884
World War II ends in Europe
(V-E Day), 1945
Skylab is launched, 1973
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Captain Byrd
flies over the
North Pole,
1926
FDR creates the Works
Public Administration,
the New Deal’s largest
agency, 1933
Birth date of Martha Graham,
American choreographer, 1894
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Minnesota is the 32nd
state to join the Union,
1858
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Birth date of Harvey Milk,
equal rights activist, 1930
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Rhode Island is the
13th state to join the
Union, 1790
South Carolina is the
eighth state to join the
Union, 1788
New York
Public Library
dedicated,
1911
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Wisconsin is the 30th state
to join the Union, 1848
The Golden Gate Bridge
opens, 1937
John Muir founds environmental
organization the Sierra Club in
San Francisco, 1892
Birth date of President
John F. Kennedy,
35th President, 1917
Birth date of Mel Blanc,
cartoon legend, 1908
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