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Bram Stoker
Kaspar Hauser
Dred Scott
Vauxhall Bridge, London
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| National Sorry Day in Australia; | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Georgia (1918) | refimprove section |
| ; Mother's Day in Poland | refimprove section |
| Independence Day in Guyana (1966) | refimprove section |
| 451 – Armenian rebels were defeated by forces of the Sassanid Empire on the Avarayr Plain in Vaspurakan, but the loss played a major factor in their being granted religious freedom 33 years later. | refimprove section |
| 946 – King Edmund I of England was murdered by a thief whom he personally attacked while celebrating St Augustine's Day mass. | unreferenced section |
| 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy at the Milan Cathedral with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. | refimprove section |
| 1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. | refimprove |
| 1865 – American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Army force remaining in the war. | lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 1896 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, at that time representing twelve stocks from various American industries, was first published by journalist Charles Dow as a stock market index. | unreferenced sections |
| 1897 – Dracula, Irish author Bram Stoker's most famous novel, was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed following the breakup of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. | unreferenced section |
| 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow, concluding the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. | refimprove |
| 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1328 – William of Ockham, an English friar who originated the methodological principle Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
- 1637 – Pequot War: An allied Puritan and Mohegan force attacked a fortified Pequot village in the Connecticut Colony, killing 500 people.
- 1822 – The deadliest fire in Norwegian history took place at a church in Grue, Norway, with at least 113 deaths.
- 1857 – American slave Dred Scott, who had previously unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, was emancipated by Henry Taylor Blow, his original owner.
- 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge in London opened, crossing the River Thames between Vauxhall and Westminster.
- 1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee was established to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities by people or organizations suspected of having communist or fascist ties.
- 2008 – Severe flooding began in eastern and southern China that ultimately caused 148 deaths and forced the evacuation of 1.3 million people.
Notes
- Blackwall Tunnel appears on May 22, so Vauxhall Bridge should not appear in the same year
- Battle of Boulogne (1940) appears on May 25, so Dunkirk evacuation should not appear in the same year
British troops evacuating from Dunkirk
- 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claimed victory in the Battle of Montijo.
- 1897 – The Church of England returned the original manuscript of Of Plymouth Plantation, the account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the colony they founded in North America, to Massachusetts.
- 1940 – Second World War: A flotilla of "little ships" (pictured) began a mass evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk.
- 1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004 experienced an uncommanded thrust reverser deployment of an engine and broke apart in mid-air, killing all 223 people on board.
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