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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	3 1947—Japan forms a new constitutional democracy 1938—Thornton Wilder receives Pulitzer Prize for "Our Town" 1469—Political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli is born in Florence, Italy	4 1970—National Guard troops fire on Kent State student protesters 1953—Ernest Hemingway wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea"	5 2010—Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in Mexico 1948—Children's Day in Japan
6 1935—FDR creates WPA to provide jobs during Great Depression 1862—Henry David Thoreau dies	7 1915—German sub sinks Lusitania 1812—Robert Browning, English poet, is born 1843—Manjiro, first Japanese immigrant to the continental U.S., arrives	8 2012— National Teacher Day 1945—World War II ends in Europe 1864—Lee defeats Grant in Spotsylvannia	9 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 1934—Dust storm sweeps Great Plains 1812—Limerick Day -- Edward Lear, English author who popularized limericks, is born
13 1846—U.S. declares war on Mexico 2012—Mother's Day observed	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 on Brown v. Board of Education, ordering the racial integration of public schools	18 1896—U.S. Supreme Court affirms “separate but equal” principle (Plessy v. Ferguson) 1933—Tennessee Valley Authority is established	19 1930—Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright, is born
20 1862—US 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 1844—Mary Cassatt, American Painter, is born	23 1941—Martin Puryear, American sculptor, is born 1810—Margaret Fuller, American Transcendentalist and women's rights advocate 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 1937—Golden Gate Bridge opens 1889—Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public 1895—Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, is born
27 1941—FDR declares unlimited national emergency	28 1830—Andrew Jackson signs Indian Removal Act 1851—Ohio Woman's Rights Convention meet in Akron 2012—Memorial Day observed	29 1453—Constantinople falls to Ottomans 1736—Patrick Henry, American patriot, is born	30 1854—President Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act	31 1868—Memorial Day first observed 1819—American poet Walt Whitman born 1889—Over 2,000 residents of Johnstown, PA, die in a massive flood

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