The 14 year old Marie Antoinette marries 15 year old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France. In 1768, Louis XV dispatched a tutor to…
15 May 1958
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. On May 15, 1958, the USSR launched its Third Artificial Satellite. While two previous Soviet orbiters were propelled into…
14 May 1998
The final show of television series, Seinfeld airs on NBC. “It’s just very difficult to end a series,” Sopranos creator David Chase once said, years…
13 May 1995
Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. In 1995, Hargreaves determined to climb, unaided, the three…
12 May 1932
The kidnapped infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, 10 weeks after being abducted. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.,…
11 May 1927
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is formed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also known as simply the Academy is…
10 May 1908
Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in Grafton, West Virginia. Prior to the Civil War, Anne Reeves Jarvis worked to start clubs to…
9 May 1887
Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show starts in London. A well-known scout for the army and a buffalo hunter for the railroads (which earned him…
8 May 1912
Paramount Pictures is established. Paramount Pictures Corp. was established in 1914 by W.W. Hodkinson as a film distributor, offering Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players Film Company,…
7 May 1915
A German submarine U-20 sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people. On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat operating off the coast of Ireland fired…