Events in History
- May 8 British-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
- May 10 Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war
- May 12 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Kentucky
Event of Interest
May 17 Native American fighter General William T. Sherman escapes from the Comanches in an ambulance
Birthdays in History
- May 4 Mynona, Polish writer (The Creator), born in Gołańcz, Poland (d. 1946)
- May 6 Christian Morgenstern, German poet (Ich und die Welt), born in Munich (d. 1914)
- May 6 Victor Grignard, French chemist (Nobel 1912 - development of the Grignard reaction), born in Cherbourg, France (d. 1935)
- May 11 Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
- May 17 Henk Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Modern Kunstwerken), born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1956)
- May 18 Franiska [Franny] zu Reventlow, German writer and feminist, born in Husum, Germany (d. 1918)
- May 19 Reginald Aldworth Daly, Napanee Ontario, Canadian-American Geologist who independently developed the theory of magmatic stopping
- May 26 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), born in Bilzen, Belgium (d. 1968)
- May 27 Georges Rouault, French expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre), born in Paris (d. 1958)
Deaths in History
- May 7 Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian political reformer (Patriote movement), dies at 84
John Herschel (1792-1871)
May 11 English astronomer and photographer who invented the blueprint and catalogued southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
- May 12 John F. W. Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies at 79
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