May 1868 in History

Events in History

May 16 US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote

May 20 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
May 22 Train robbery at Marshfield, Indiana by the Reno Brothers Gang, who make off with $98,000
May 26 US President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
May 29 Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade
May 30 "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states
May 31 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio

May 18 Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia (1894-1917), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1918)

May 19 John Fillmore Hayford, American Geodesist who established the theory of isostasy and founded the modern science of geodesy (precise measurements of the shape of the earth), born in Rouses Point, New York
May 24 Charles E. Taylor, American first aircraft maintenance professional, born in Cerro Gordo, Illinois (d. 1956)
May 28 Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)

May 7 Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, dies at 89
May 10 Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
May 14 John Newton Brown, American publisher and Baptist teacher, dies at 64
May 17 Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
May 22 Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies

May 23 Kit Carson, American frontiersman, Indian fighter and army officer, dies of an aortic aneurysm at 58

May 26 Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
May 29 Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
May 29 Levi Lincoln, Jr., American lawyer and 13th Governor of Massachusetts (1825-34), dies at 85