May 1886 in History

Events in History

May 15 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman

May 29 American pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise his patent medicine - Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia

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)

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)