The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Crusade’]
23 May 1951
Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Point_Agreement’]
22 May 2015
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Irish_constitutional_referendums’]
21 May 1936
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes…
20 May 1873
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss’]
19 May 1991
Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Croatian_independence_referendum’]
18 May 1965
Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen’]
17 May 1900
The children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz’]
16 May 1943
The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising’]
15 May 495 BC
A newly constructed temple in honour of the god Mercury was dedicated in ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills….