May 2015 Roll Call

[Panchi]

5 points for signing in, 5 points for mentioning a historical event that happened in May (you can google too)

 

May 8, 1945: Allies won in Europe in World War 2

[Niniel]

May 17, 1814 - Christian Frederik became king of Norway and  signed the new constitution. That was the first step for Norway to break free from Sweden. (Oh why did we let it go!!!)

[Talya]

May 18th 19** My birthday

 

May 2nd 2015 - little girl born to Duchess of Cambridge!

[Leyrann]

Oh c'mon Talya you don't need to be afraid to show your age lol. It's already clear to us you're 73 years old. :P

 

May 10 1940: Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands (and Belgium and Luxembourg, but who cares about that).

 

EDIT: Oh, you know what, let's add May 5 1945: The Netherlands officially liberated.

 

EDIT2:

 

[Kaylee]

Here!

 

 

May 1st - Observed as May Day, a holiday and spring festival since ancient times, also observed in socialist countries as a workers' holiday or Labor Day.

[dicetosser1]

Dice is here!!

 

 

May contains a day of GREAT historical significance!  it has May the Force be with you day!!!  This is a day which has historically celebrated the mightiest of Fantasy movies ever known... STAR WARS!!!

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

May 1, 1960 - An American U-2 spy plane flying at 60,000 feet was shot down over Sverdlovsk in central Russia on the eve of a summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The sensational incident caused a cancellation of the meeting and heightened existing Cold War tensions. The pilot, CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, survived the crash, and was tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Russian court. Two years later he was released to America in exchange for an imprisoned Soviet spy. On his return to America, Powers encountered a hostile public which apparently believed he should not have allowed himself to be captured alive. He died in a helicopter crash in 1977.

[Sooh]

May 17, 1814 - Christian Frederik became king of Norway and  signed the new constitution. That was the first step for Norway to break free from Sweden. (Oh why did we let it go!!!)

Thievses! You stole my event!

 

May 4th 1985 - Bobbysocks won the Eurovision Song Contest. It was Norway's first win.

 

or if that's not historical enough...

 

May 19th 1536 - Anne Boelyn was executed at the Tower of London.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Her husband Henry viii married his next wife Jane Seymour 11 days later

[Turin Turambar]

Hiya!

 

May 1, 1707 - Great Britain was formed from a union between England and Scotland. The union included Wales which had already been part of England since the 1500's. The United Kingdom today consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[BFG]

Mandela became president of S Africa 1994

[Cairos]

Here!

 

May 5th - Celebrated in Mexico as Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in remembrance of the Battle of Puebla in 1862, in which Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza, outnumbered three to one, defeated the invading French forces of Napoleon III.

[Zander?]

Howdy!!

 

May 31, 1862 - During the American Civil War, the Battle of Seven Pines occurred as Confederate General Joseph E Johnson's Army attacked Union General George McClellan's troops in front of Richmond Virginia and nearly defeated them. Johnston was badly wounded. Confederate General Robert E. Lee then assumed command, replacing the wounded Johnston. Lee renamed his force the Army of Northern Virginia.

 

May 31, 1981- World was forsaken as I was born!

[Yates]

Aloha.

 

May 2, 2011. Abbottabad, Pakistan. Interior: Bin Laden Compound. "Geronimo E.K.I.A"

[Yates]

May contains a day of GREAT historical significance!  it has May the Force be with you day!!!  This is a day which has historically celebrated the mightiest of Fantasy movies ever known... STAR WARS!!!

You screwed it up. It's "May the 4th be with you..."

[Songstress]

Aloha.

 

May 2, 2011. Abbottabad, Pakistan. Interior: Bin Laden Compound. "Geronimo E.K.I.A"

 

Someday we may actually get Yates to post here and join the group if he's gonna keep signing in!  

 

May 11, 1888 - Irving Berlin was born!

 

[Guest]

Dice is here!!

 

 

May contains a day of GREAT historical significance!  it has May the Force be with you day!!!  This is a day which has historically celebrated the mightiest of Fantasy movies ever known... STAR WARS!!!

I 8 u, u stole my reference >.<

 

 

May 2nd 2015, the second season of Penny Dreadful is launched!

[DusanDukaJankovic]

HERE!!! The 1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Sarajevo occurred on 3 May 1992 in Dobrovoljačka Street, Sarajevo, when members of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) attacked a convoy of Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) troops that were exiting the city of Sarajevo according to the withdrawal agreement.

[Mashiara Sedai]

Here!

 

Last year, on May 22nd, I completed my first school year of working with 6th graders!  Yay!  What an accomplishment! 

[Nikonis]

Here

 

- Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a player for the Boston Red Sox on May 6, 1915.

[jlgarner84]

Here!

 

May 7th 1942 - During World War II in the Pacific, the Battle of the Coral Sea began in which Japan would suffer its first defeat of the war. The battle, fought off New Guinea, marked the first time in history that two opposing naval forces fought by only using aircraft without the opposing ships ever sighting each other.

[Shadar Alantin]

May 5.

Cinco de Mayo

[Gabby]

Hello! Not sure if it's already been said, but May 2nd Osama bin Laden was killed. 

[TheMasterDude]

May 14, 1796 smallpox vaccine was developed by Dr. Edward Jenner in England.

[ReleaseTheEvil]

Victoria Day is in Canada during May