On May 7, 1912, the first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD...

On May 8, 1886, pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola..."

On May 9, 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time...

On May 10, 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

On May 11, 1967, the siege of Khe Sanh ended...

On May 12, 1970, Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs, hit his 500th home run...

On May 13, 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip left Britain for Australia. He successfully landed eleven ships full of convicts on January 18, 1788, at Botany Bay. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson...

On May 14, 1878, the name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough...

On May 16, 1618, Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law...

On May 16, 1939, the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League...

On May 17, 1948, the Soviet Union recognized the new state of Israel...

On May 18, 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped...

On May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden...

On May 20, 1861, North Carolina became the eleventh state to secede from the Union...

On May 22, 2011, the world failed to end.:)

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Getting back to reality, on May 24, 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published proof of a sun-centered solar system...

Also on May 24th, in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic.

On May 25, 1925, John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school...

Also on May 25th in 1935- Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.

On May 26, 1946, a patent was filed in the United States for an H-bomb...

Also on May 26th, in 1868, the Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.

On May 27, 1896, 255 people were killed in St. Louis, MO, when a tornado struck...

On May 28, 1957, National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco...

On May 29, 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Washington, DC. to demand cash bonuses they were not scheduled to receive for another 13 years...

Also on May 29th, in 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, left, and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.

On May 30, 1889, the brassiere was invented...

Also on May 30th, in 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

On May 31st in 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa.

On May 31, 1962, Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust...

Double tap.

On May 31, 1927 Ford Motor Company made the LAST Model T.

On June 1, 1935, the Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney...

On June 2nd in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

Also on June 2, 1851, Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol...

On June 3rd in 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to “walk” in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.

Also on June 3, 1856, Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine...

On June 4, 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris giving "complete independence" to Vietnam...

Also on June 4th in 1989, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement; hundreds – possibly thousands – of people died.

On June 5, 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died early the next morning...

On June 6, 1813, the U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario...