Events in History
- May 26 Territory South of River Ohio created by US Congress
Constitution of the United States
May 29 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying US Constitution
- May 31 Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca (now the international border between Canada and the US)
- May 31 US copyright law enacted
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Deaths in History
- May 4 Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
- May 9 William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
- May 16 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, dies at 70
- May 21 Thomas Warton, English critic and poet (Pleasures of Melancholy) British Poet Laureate (1785-90), dies at 62
- May 27 Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89
- May 29 Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
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