Historical Political Events for May 3 Year Event 1971 National Public Radio begins programming with All Things Considered , a daily news program. NPR's...
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Historical Political Events for May 4 Year Event 1911 U.S. Supreme Court orders dissolution of Standard Oil Co. 1970 National Guard kills 4 students , who were...
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Historical Political Events for May 5 Year Event 1682 William Penn publishes his Frame of Government for Pennsylvania which creates a governmental structure of...
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Historical Political Events for May 6 Year Event 1861 The Confederacy Congress declares that a state of war exists with the U.S. The Arkansas legislature votes...
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Historical Political Events for May 7 Year Event 1525 The German Peasants' Revolt was crushed by the ruling class and the church. 1926 U.S. troops land in...
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Historical Political Events for May 8 Year Event 1914 The Smith-Lever Act is passed by Congress. It establishes agricultural extension services in the counties...
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Historical Political Events for May 9 Year Event 1902 Oleomargarine and opium were defined to be evil substances by the government and several laws were passed...
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Historical Political Events for May 10 Year Event 1865 Jefferson Davis, president of the fallen Confederate government (U.S. Civil War), was captured with his...
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Historical Political Events for May 11 Year Event 1935 The Rural Electrification Administration established by President Roosevelt's Executive Order will...
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Historical Political Events for May 14 Year Event 1787 Constitutional Convention meets to revise the "Articles of Confederation". Instead they created our...
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Historical Political Events for May 12 Year Event 1933 Federal Emergency Relief Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA ) passed. Among other things, the...
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Historical Political Events for May 13 Year Event 1607 104 English settlers from the London Company, under captains Christopher Newport and John Smith,...
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Historical Political Events for May 15 Year Event 1765 The Quartering Act became law in the American colonies. It required colonists to provide barracks and...
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Historical Political Events for May 16 Year Event 1918 The Sedition Act is passed , defining as criminal the direct advocacy of treason and criticism of the...
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Historical Political Events for May 17 Year Event 1954 " Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas", decided this date, was one of the most important cases...
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Historical Political Events for May 18 Year Event 1896 The Supreme Court upholds racial segregation in a ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson , that lays down the...
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Historical Political Events for May 19 Year Event 1828 "Tariff of Abominations" bill becomes law. Imposed high tariffs on imported goods. Mainly directed at...
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Historical Political Events for May 20 Year Event 1777 Cherokee Indians ceded all their lands in South Carolina in the treaty of "DeWitts Corner". 1861 The...
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Historical Political Events for May 21 Year Event 1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins 1951 Tibet concedes to Chinese takeover . "Seventeen Point Agreement",...
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Historical Political Events for May 22 Year Event 1455 The Wars of the Roses begin when forces under Richard, Duke of York, and the Neville earls of Warwick...
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May 21, 2001 7:57 am
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Historical Political Events for May 23 Year Event 1618 The beginning of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) which ravaged Germany. 1838 General Winfield Scott...
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Historical Political Events for May 24 Year Event 1824 President Monroe signs bill establishing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . A favorite funnel for...
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Historical Political Events for May 25 Year Event 1925 The "Monkey Trial" began in a small town in Tennessee. School teacher, John Scopes, who was charged with...
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Historical Political Events for May 26 Year Event 1924 The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act , becomes law, further restricts immigration to the US for all...
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Historical Political Events for May 27 Year Event 1647 The first recorded American execution of a "witch" , Achsah Young, took place in Salem, Massachusetts....
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Historical Political Events for May 28 Year Event 1830 President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act , requiring Eastern Indians to be resettled west of the...
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Historical Political Events for May 29 Year Event 1790 Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution , becoming the 13th state of the Union. 1917 John F. Kennedy,...
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Historical Political Events for May 30 Year Event 1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake by the bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, after being duly convicted of...
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Historical Political Events for May 31 Year Event 1913 The 17th Amendment , providing for direct election of Senators, is ratified by the states. 1921 Tulsa...
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Historical Political Events for June 1 Year Event 1774 Virginians expressed their sympathy for Bostonians (the British imposed act of closing the Boston Port...
