Events in History
Historic Event
May 15 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman
Historic Invention
May 29 American pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise his patent medicine - Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia
Birthdays in History
- May 2 Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist, born in Mansfelf, Germany (d. 1956)
- May 9 Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (1941-45), born in Paris (d. 1968)
- May 10 Felix Manalo, Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
- May 10 Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
- May 10 Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
- May 12 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter (d. 1964)
Alfonso XIII (1886-1941)
May 17 King of Spain (1886-1931), born in Madrid, Kingdom of Spain
- May 25 Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, born in Blantyre, Scotland (d. 1952)
- May 25 Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India, born in Bengal, India (d. 1945)
- May 28 Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-American mobster, born in Cianciana, Sicily, Italy (d. 1954)
- May 30 Randolph Bourne, American writer (Education and Living), born in Bloomfield, New Jersey (d. 1918)
Deaths in History
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
May 15 American poet (Collected Poems), dies of nephritis at 55
John Deere (1804-1886)
May 17 American blacksmith and manufacturer (founded Deere & Company), dies at 82
Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886)
May 23 German historian who founded the modern concept of source-based history, dies at 90