Anniversaries

20th May 1764 (245 Years)

Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor, designed the Quadriga chariot driven by Victoria atop the Brandenburg Gate, is born.

20th May 1818 (191 Years)

William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express, was born.

20th May 1891 (118 Years)

First public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

20th May 1913 (96 Years)

The first Chelsea Flower Show held in London.

20th May 1956 (53 Years)

Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his novel Zuleika Dobson, dies.

21st May 1844 (165 Years)

Henri Rousseau was born.

21st May 1932 (77 Years)

Amelia Earhart completes first female solo transatlantic flight.

21st May 1932 (77 Years)

Amelia Earhart completes first female solo transatlantic flight.

22nd May 1907 (102 Years)

Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, is born.

22nd May 1907 (102 Years)

Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, was born.

22nd May 1938 (71 Years)

William James Glackens, American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American art, died.

22nd May 1967 (42 Years)

Langston Hughes, American jazz poet, dies.

23rd May 1618 (391 Years)

Beginning of the Thirty Years War, it will last for 29 years, 11 months, and 22 days.

23rd May 1934 (75 Years)

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot dead by police.

24th May 1543 (466 Years)

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun at the centre of the universe, died.

24th May 1743 (266 Years)

Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician, involved in the French Revolution, was born.

24th May 1816 (193 Years)

Emanuel Leutze, German-born American artist, was born.

24th May 1819 (190 Years)

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, was born.

25th May 1693 (316 Years)

Madame Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, French author, died.

25th May 1895 (114 Years)

Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons", and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

26th May 1867 (142 Years)

Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor George V, was born.

26th May 1867 (142 Years)

Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor George V, was born.

26th May 1926 (83 Years)

Miles Davis, ,American trumpet player, composer and band leader, was born.

26th May 1927 (82 Years)

15,000,000th Ford Model T comes off the assembly line.

26th May 2008 (1 Years)

Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, died.

27th May 1877 (132 Years)

Angela Isadora Duncan, American dancer who performed throughout Europe, was born.

27th May 1877 (132 Years)

Angela Isadora Duncan, American dancer who performed throughout Europe, was born.

27th May 1937 (72 Years)

The Golden Gate Bridge opens.

27th May 1940 (69 Years)

The start of the Dunkirk Evacuation. One of the most famous British triumphs in WWII.

27th May 1964 (45 Years)

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, dies.

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