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29 Composer Duke Ellington is born in 1899 Also try: Jazz, Piano, Big Bands	30 U.S. doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 Also try: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark	1 May Day Also try: Labor Movement, Working Class, International Worker's Day	2 Inventor Elijah McCoy is born in 1844 Also try: The Real McCoy, Inventors, Engines	3 National Teacher's Day Also try: Teachers, Teacher Appreciation Margaret Thatcher becomes the United Kingdom's first female Prime Minister in 1979 Also try: Parliament, Prime Minister	4 Four student protestors are killed at Kent State in 1970 Also try: Vietnam, Student Protests	5 Cinco de Mayo Also try: Battle of Puebla, Benito Juarez
6 Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is born in 1856 Also try: Psychoanalysis, Dream Symbolism, Ego	7 The RMS Lusitania sinks Also try: WWI, u-boats, Germany	8 President Harry Truman is born in 1884 Also try: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Atomic Bombings German Surrender is signed on VE Day in 1945 Also try: Victory in Europe Day, WWII	9 Abolitionist John Brown is born in 1800 Also try: Harper's Ferry, Slavery	10 Ceremony is held to mark completion of 1st U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 Also try: Railroad, Transportation, Trains	11 Artist Salvador Dali is born in 1904 Also try: Surrealism	12 Nurse and Activist Florence Nightingale is born in 1820 Also try: Nursing, Lady With the Lamp
13 Mother's Day Also try: Motherhood, Mothers, Families Great Dust Bowl storm occurs in 1934 Also try: Depression, Migrants, Oakies, Grapes of Wrath	14 Lewis and Clark begin their expedition in 1803 Also try: Louisiana Purchase	15 Johannes Kepler discovers the Law of Harmonics in 1618 Also try: Scientific Revolution, Laws of Planetary Motion	16 Mississippi River steamboat service begins in 1817 Also try: Mississippi River	17 Supreme Court rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education in 1954 Also try: Civil Rights, Segregation, Separate but Equal	18 Mt. St. Helens erupts in 1980 Also try: Volcanoes	19 Ringling Bros. circus premieres in 1884 Also try: Ringling Bros.
20 Entrepreneur Levi Strauss markets blue jeans in 1873 Also try: Clothing, Jeans	21 Aviator Charles Lindbergh lands the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris in 1927 Also try: Aviation, Spirit of St. Louis	22 First reported sighting of the Loch Ness monster in 1933 Also try: Nessie	23 Scientist Carolus Linnaeus is born in 1707 Also try: Taxonomy, Classification	24 Brooklyn Bridge is opened in 1883 Also try: Bridges, Suspension Bridges	25 Athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour in 1935 Also try: African Americans, Olympics, Track and Field	26 Astronaut Sally Ride is born in 1951 Also try: Astronauts, Space Travel
27 Queen Mary sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage in 1936 Also try: Transportation, Passenger Ships	28 Memorial Day Also try: Memorial Day, U.S. Soldiers, Federal Holiday, veterans Olympic Champion Jim Thorpe is born in 1888 Also try: Olympics, Pentathlon, Decathlon	29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mt. Everest summit in 1953 Also try: Edmund Hillary, Tenzig Norgay, Mountain Climbing, Explorers	30 U.S. launches Surveyor I to the moon in 1966 Also try: Lunar Exploration, Space Travel, NASA	31 Poet Walt Whitman is born in 1819 Also try: Leaves of Grass, O Captain My Captain	1 First Superman comic is published in 1938 Also try: Comics, Superheroes, Heroes	2 Demonstrations occur at Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1989 Also try: China, Student Protests, Human Rights