1607 – 1st permanent English settlement established in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia.1767 – British government disbands Americans import duty on tea.
1787 – Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution.
1804 – Meriwether Lewis & William Clark’s expedition commissioned by Thomas Jefferson sets out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast.
1853 – Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk.
1896 – Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10 degrees a Climax, Colorado)
1908 – 1st passenger flight in an airplane.
1918 – Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington, DC.
1927 – “Ain’t She Sweet?” hits #1 on the singles chart by Ben Bernie.
1938 – “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland is released.
1942 – US Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms.
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.
1967 – Mickey Mantle’s 500th HR off Oriole’s Stu Miller.
1969 – Last Chevrolet Corvair built.
1973 – Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV.
1980 – Department of Health & Human Services begins operation.
1987 – Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000.
1997 – Baseball’s Executive Council suspends NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
1998 – Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)
2005 – Former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the US Navy, deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. Largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2012 – Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye.
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