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19		1 The Empire State Building officially opened in 1931.	2 The Scottish newspaper Inverness Courier reported a sighting of the Loch Ness Monster in 1933, beginning a media and tourist frenzy.	3 Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Fletcher and Lieutenant Colonel William Benedict piloted the first plane to land at the North Pole in 1952.	4 A storm system of an estimated 76 tornadoes hit the Midwest on this day in 1999, killing 44 people.	5 Today is Free Comic Book Day! Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on May 5th.	6 The Eiffel Tower officially opened in Paris in 1889.
20	7 The American Medical Association was founded in 1847.	8 Militant members of the American Indian Movement, who had occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for 70 days, surrendered to federal officials in 1973.	9 The first newspaper political cartoon was published in America in 1754.	10 A ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States in 1869.	11 The first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro, were produced in 1998.	12 Poet Edward Lear was born in 1812.	13 President Wilson proclaimed the first national Mother's Day in 1914. Mathematician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot was born in 1753.h
21	14 Lewis and Clark began their famous expedition to explore the American West in 1803.	15 U.S. airmail began service in 1918.	16 Congress voted to issue the five-cent nickel in 1866.	17 Sue, the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found to date, went on display at the Field Museum in Chicago in 2000.	18 Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980.	19 The U.S. Congress passed the Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants, in 1921.	20 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862.
22	21 Pioneering fossil collector Mary Anning was born in 1799.	22 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, was born in 1859.	23 Captain William Kidd was hanged for piracy in 1701.	24 The Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic in 1883.	25 Congress passed the first copyright law in 1790.	26 The treaty resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972.	27 Industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in 1794.
23	28 Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, fell to forces of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front in 1991. May 28th is Memorial Day.	29 Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, became the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.	30 Mariner 9 departed for Mars in 1971.	31 Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu was born in 1912.

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