On May 5, 1821, at 5:49 in the evening, Napoleon Bonaparte died in his bedroom at Longwood House on the island of Saint Helena, a British-held territory in the South Atlantic Ocean
On May 6, 1260, a kurultai, the formal assembly of Mongol tribal chiefs and princes, proclaimed Kublai Khan the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, the supreme ruler of the largest co
On the afternoon of May 4, 1979, a fifty-three-year-old woman who had once said in a television interview that she did not think there would be a woman prime minister in her politi
At 12:24 p.m. on May 4, 1970, twenty-eight members of the Ohio National Guard turned and opened fire on a crowd of students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. In thirteen seco
On the morning of May 4, 1919, student representatives from thirteen colleges and universities gathered in Beijing to discuss a catastrophic diplomatic betrayal. By the afternoon,
On the evening of May 4, 1886, a crowd of approximately 1,500 workers gathered in the open street near Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, to listen to speeches protesting polic
On May 4, 1776, the Rhode Island General Assembly convened at the Old State House on Benefit Street in Providence and did something no American legislature had done before. By unan
On May 5, 1494, a fleet of ships carrying Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived off the north coast of an island the local Taino people called Xaymaca, meaning “land of w
On the afternoon of May 3, 1999, the skies over central Oklahoma turned a color that experienced residents recognized with dread. By the time the day was over, 74 tornadoes had tou
On May 3, 1947, the Constitution of Japan came into force, replacing the Meiji Constitution of 1889 that had governed the country for nearly sixty years. In a single stroke, the ne
