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			1 1863—Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia —May Day 1987—Mother Goose Day	2 1945—The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin 1938—Thornton Wilder receives Pulitzer Prize for “Our Town” —Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman" wins the Pulitzer Prize	3 1947—Japan forms a new constitutional democracy 1469—Political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli is born in Florence, Italy	4 1961—The Freedom Riders leave Washington, D.C., to challenge segregation laws 1970—National Guard troops fire on Kent State student protesters 1953—Ernest Hemingway wins Pulitzer Prize for “The Old Man and the Sea”
5 1948—Children's Day in Japan 2010—Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in Mexico 1925—John T. Scopes is arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution	6 1812—Martin R. Delany African American abolitionist, doctor, and politician, born 1940—John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1862—Henry David Thoreau dies	7 1915—German sub sinks Lusitania 1812—Robert Browning, English poet, is born 2013— National Teacher Day more	8 1945—World War II ends in Europe 1864—Lee defeats Grant in Spotsylvannia 1753—Phillis Wheatley, first Black American poet, born	9 1800—John Brown, abolitionist, born 1914—Mother’s Day proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson 1860—Sir James Barrie, author of Peter Pan, is born	10 1968—Peace talks began between U.S. and North Vietnam 1940—Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain 1869—First Transcontinental Railroad is completed	11 1888—American composer Irving Berlin born
12 2013—Mother’s Day observed 1934—Dust storm sweeps Great Plains 1812—Limerick Day: Edward Lear, English author who popularized limericks, is born	13 1940—Winston Churchill delivers his "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech 1846—U.S. declares war on Mexico	14 1804—Lewis & Clark set out for Pacific Coast 1935—The Philippines ratifies independence agreement 1607—Jamestown, first permanent British settlement in North America, is established	15 —Walt Whitman registers the title, “Leaves of Grass,” with the U.S. District Court, NY 1856—L. Frank Baum (“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”) born 1886—Emily Dickinson, American poet, dies	16 1868—President Andrew Johnson acquitted during Senate impeachment 1843—First wagon train sets out for the Pacific Northwest on the Oregon Trail	17 1954—Supreme Court unanimously rules in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of schools is unconstitutional	18 1860—Abraham Lincoln nominated by Republican Party for President 1896—U.S. Supreme Court affirms “separate but equal” principle (Plessy v. Ferguson) 1933—Tennessee Valley Authority is established
19 1926—Malcolm X, African American activist, born 1930—Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright, is born 1828—President John Quincy Adams signs protective tariff (aka “tariff of abominations")	20 1862—U.S. Homestead Act is signed	21 1932—Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly solo, non-stop across Atlantic 1927—Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris 1911—The Treaty of Ciudad Juárez peace treaty is signed, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution	22 1964—President Lyndon Johnson delivers "Great Society" speech 1844—Mary Cassatt, American Painter, is born	23 1810—Margaret Fuller, American Transcendentalist and women's rights advocate born 1941—Martin Puryear, American sculptor, is born	24 1883—Brooklyn Bridge opens	25 1803—American essayist, lecturer, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson born 1961—John F. Kennedy pledges support to Space Program 1908—American poet Theodore Roethke born
26 1889—Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public 1937—Golden Gate Bridge opens 1895—Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, is born	27 1941—FDR declares unlimited national emergency 2013—Memorial Day observed	28 1830—Andrew Jackson signs Indian Removal Act 1851—Ohio Woman's Rights Convention meet in Akron	29 1917—President John F. Kennedy born 1453—Constantinople falls to Ottomans 1736—Patrick Henry, American patriot, is born more	30 1871—Frederick Douglass delivers Decoration Day Address 1854—President Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1914—Edgar Lee Masters publishes the first poem of what became “The Spoon River Anthology”	31 1819—American poet Walt Whitman born 1868—Memorial Day first observed 1889—Over 2,000 residents of Johnstown, PA, die in a massive flood

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