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Events that happened in May – Can you name the year?
All these 40 events happened in May – But in which year?
- First ‘ Penny Black’ stamp issued. (20 Years)
- Citizen Cane Premiers. (10 Years)
- King Feisal II becomes king of Iraq On the same day, King Hussein I, installed as king of Jordan. (10 Years)
- Lord Byron follows in the wake of Leander and swims the mile across the Hellespont. Leander was besotted with a girl called Hero. (30 Years)
- Al Capone sent to Atlanta Penitentiary. (5 Years)
- Olympic Games Opens in Stockholm. (5 Years)
- Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles. (10 Years)
- Amy Johnson takes off from Croydon in her Gypsy Moth She landed in Darwin Australia on 24th May. (10 Years)
- Linus Yale patents the Yale lock. (25 Years)
- Elizabeth Taylor’s first marriage to Conrad Hilton. (5 Years)
- Channel Tunnel opens joining England and France. (5 Years)
- George Eastman patents ‘ Kodak box camera’. (20 Years)
- England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21. (7 Years)
- Robert Thompson patents rubber tyre. (25 Years)
- Britain’s first launderette opens in Queensway London. (10 Years)
- Indian Mutiny begins with revolting Sepoys in Delhi. (25 Years)
- First regular TV broadcast by RCA and NBC – Felix the cat. (7 Years)
- Mick Jagger marries Bianca. (5 Years)
- Royal Flying Corp. (Later the Royal Air Force) formed. (10 Years)
- Paraguay gains independence from Spain. (50 Years)
- Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in ‘ Crazy Plane’. (7 Years)
- Napoleon was declared Emperor of France. (25 Years)
- The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax. (20 Years)
- Omar Khayyám, Persian poet born. (200 Years)
- Post Office authorizes use of postcards. (15 Years)
- Krakatoa eruption begins. (20 Years)
- New Zealand became a British colony. (30 Years)
- Humphrey Bogart marries Lauren Bacall. (6 Years)
- Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube. (20 Years)
- Microsoft launches Windows 30. (5 Years)
- Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy. (75 Years)
- Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed in a police ambush in Louisiana. (5 Years)
- John Wesley has a religious experience which causes him to found the Methodist Church. (50 Years)
- Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) KOs Sonny Liston in first round and takes heavyweight boxing title. (5 Years)
- Bahrain adopts its First Constitution following independence from British protectorate. (10 Years)
- Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. (75 Years)
- Samuel Morse completes first telegraph line of code. (20 Years)
- Jomo Kenyatta becomes first PM of Kenya. (10 Years)
- Hoover Dam Colorado is completed. (Named after J Edgar Hoover). (10 Years)
- Albania is formed from the Ottoman empire. (20 Years)
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Bonus Which date in May are these?
May Day
Which date in May do these numbers line up: 1 2 3 4 5 6. For example this happens on May 12th or 31st.
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