Historical Events in May, Month of May Events

Here is a list of some historical events in May. You can learn What major event happened in May?

Date Event
May 1, 1486 Christopher Columbus presents his plans discovering a western route to the Indies to the Spanish Queen Isabella I of Castile.
May 20, 1971 In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
May 24, 2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
May 12, 1593 London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.
May 12, 2015 A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
May 26, 2004 United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
May 5, 1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
May 14, 1836 The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
May 30, 1961 Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from Lisbon Airport, killing 61.
May 27, 2001 Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
May 9, 1450 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
May 4, 1471 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
May 14, 1608 The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
May 5, 1809 Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
May 17, 2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

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