Historical Events in May, Month of May Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| May 12, 1588 | French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs. |
| May 20, 1864 | American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. |
| May 8, 1842 | A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people. |
| May 4, 1942 | World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before. |
| May 13, 1998 | India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. |
| May 31, 2013 | The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries. |
| May 12, 907 | Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule. |
| May 2, 1941 | Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. |
| May 2, 2008 | Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. |
| May 18, 1973 | Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board. |
| May 26, 1900 | Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro. |
| May 25, 1953 | The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston. |
| May 30, 1989 | Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. |
| May 17, 1863 | Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language. |
| May 11, 1894 | Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike. |
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