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….
14 May 1973
Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab’]
13 May 2012
Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadereyta_Jim%C3%A9nez_massacre’]
12 May 2003
The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_compound_bombings’]
11 May 2013
Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanl?, Turkey. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Reyhanl%C4%B1_car_bombings’]
10 May 1908
Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day’]