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* May – August-Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman at the United Kingdom Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park, design the British Bombes to help decrypt Wehrmacht Enigma machine signals.
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On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.
E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.
* 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), which falls on May 29.
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:: L. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar ( after May 162 – 10 September 169 ), died young without issue
Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.
Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.
Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
o Bolonhês ), King of Portugal ( 5 May 1210 in Coimbra – 16 February 1279 in Alcobaça, Coimbra or Lisbon ) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.
Afonso IV (; 8 February 1291 – 28 May 1357 ), called the Brave (), was King of Portugal and the Algarve from 1325 until his death.
* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).
Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.
1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
By Béatrice Noon he had Juana Alfonsa Milán y Quiñones de León ( 19 April 1916 – 16 May 2005 )
* King Béla IV of Hungary ( 1206 – 3 May 1270 )
14 May 1234: Beatrice D ' Este ( c. 1215 – before 8 May 1245 ), daughter of Aldobrandino I D ' Este and his wife
He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.
As of May 2004, 30 % of people in the ACT aged 15 – 64 had a level of educational attainment equal to at least an bachelor's degree, significantly higher than the national average of 19 %.
Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.
Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.
May and Turing
As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.
The 2012 Loebner Prize Competition was held on the 15th of May in Bletchley Park in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, in honor of the Alan Turing centenary celebrations.
James Nicholas " Jim " Gray ( born January 12, 1944 ; lost at sea January 28, 2007 ; declared deceased May 16, 2012 ) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 " for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.
Born in London in 1923, he was the only child of Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford, KBE ( 1865-1953 ) and May Aylen ( née May Sommerville Bunny, 1883-1972 ).
* May 28-Alan Turing submits " On Computable Numbers " for publication.
In May 2012 they released a tribute album to Alan Turing, Un dígito binario dudoso, a recital that debuted in their opening shows for The Magnetic Fields Spanish tour.
May and Gordon
Other arrangers of note include Vic Schoen, Pete Rugolo, Oliver Nelson, Johnny Richards, Billy May, Thad Jones, Maria Schneider, Bob Brookmeyer, Steve Sample, Sr, Lou Marini, Nelson Riddle, Ralph Burns, Billy Byers, Gordon Jenkins, Ray Conniff, Henry Mancini, Gordon Goodwin, and Ray Reach.
On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.
On 26 May 2007, Gordon Holmes, a 55-year-old lab technician, captured video of what he said was " this jet black thing, about long, moving fairly fast in the water.
* Leroy Gordon " Gordo " Cooper, Jr., USAF ( 1927 – 2004 ), flew 15 May 1963
As Mitchell was about to graduate from the Washington Seminary in 1918, she met and fell in love with another Harvard student, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail for France on July 17.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. on May, 6th 1876 organized what was billed as the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City.
The historical record states that James Gordon Bennett established the Westchester Polo Club on 6 May 1876 and on 13 May 1876 the Jerome Park Racetrack in Westchester County was the site of the " first " American outdoor polo match.
The Galveston News said on 2 May 1876 that Denison Texas had a Polo Club which was before James Gordon Bennett established his Westchester Club or attempted to play the " first " game.
* Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5 – 6, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8071-1873-7.
* Rhea, Gordon C. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7 – 12, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8071-2136-3.
* Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13 – 25, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8071-2535-0.
* Rhea, Gordon C. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 – June 3, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8071-2803-1.
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, ( 20 December 189415 May 1978 ) was an Australian politician and the 12th Prime Minister of Australia.
In May of the same year, Dr. Gordon M. Shrum was appointed as the university's first Chancellor.
* May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher ( b. 1841 )
* May 15 – Mercury program: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9, the last mission ( on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete ).
* May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver ( racing accident ) ( b. 1946 )
* May 16 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( b. 1792 )
* May 17 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, English wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( d. 1860 )
* May 10 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher ( d. 1918 )
* In May 2000 Gordon Graham murdered Paul Gault at his home in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
They have a daughter, Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan, born on May 13, 2004.
* Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5 – 6, 1864.
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