* May 1-The Rolling Stones announce their forthcoming North American tour by performing Brown Sugar from a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

* May 1-The United Network ( initially known as the Overmyer Network ) launches broadcasting with the talk / variety show The Las Vegas Show — which would be the only show it airs, as both network and show disappear in June due in part to transmission expenses.

* May 1-The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single realm under Queen Anne, with the support of Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.

** May 1-The city of Sanjō merged with the town of Sakae and the village of Shitada ( both from Minamikanbara District ).

* May 1-The National Trust in the United Kingdom acquires its first part of Wicken Fen, making it the country's oldest wetland nature reserve.

* May 1-The Capitol Cinema, Ottawa's only movie palace, is closed and later demolished

* May 1-The Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps is established under the command of Lieutenant General Kinichi Yasumitsu.

* May 1-The Derrynaflan Chalice is discovered in a bog.

* May 1-The BBC brings into service the first television transmitter in Ireland, at Glencairn ( Belfast ).

* May 1-The Easter Rising collapses.

* May 1-The Jubilee line on the London Underground opens between Stanmore and Charing Cross.

* May 1-The Kington Tramway, a horse-worked plateway, is opened from Eardisley to Kington, Herefordshire, England.

The 1910 census, taken in May before his birthday, further confirms his birth year as 1893, and indicated the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near Lemon Jefferson's birthplace.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

So in May 1893 a new regulation to all chiefs of police, stated that the police should not intervene, if the two last fields in the flag were longer than 6 / 4 as long as these did not exceed 7 / 4, and provided that this was the only rule violated.

:* 3 August 1889: Benadir Coast Italian Protectorate ( in the northeast ), ( unoccupied until May 1893 ).

The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

* May 22 – Ernst Toller, German playwright ( b. 1893 )

* May 26 – Edsel Ford, American President of Ford Motor Company ( b. 1893 )

* May 30 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand ( b. 1893 )

* May 5 – Adriana Admiraal-Meijerink, Dutch olympic fencer ( b. 1893 )

* May 18 – Sidney Franklin, American film director ( b. 1893 )

* May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA.

* May 5 – Panic of 1893: A crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.

* May 6 – Milton Ager, American songwriter ( b. 1893 )

* May 29 – Soong Ching-ling, Head of State of the People's Republic of China ( b. 1893 )

The first performance abroad was in Vienna, on 21 May 1893.

Dedication ceremonies for the fair were held on October 21, 1892, but the fairgrounds were not actually opened to the public until May 1, 1893.

The fair opened in May and ran through October 30, 1893.

With the aid of funds collected by his Madras disciples and Rajas of Mysore, Ramnad, Khetri, Dewans and other followers, Vivekananda left for Chicago on 31 May 1893 from Bombay assuming the name Vivekananda — the name suggested by the Maharaja of Khetri, Ajit Singh.

With the advent of flexible film, Thomas Alva Edison quickly set out on his invention, the Kinetoscope, which was first shown at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

In May 1893, George proposed, and May accepted.

May married Prince George, Duke of York, on 6 July 1893 at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, in London.

* 26 May 1867 – 6 July 1893: Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Mary of Teck

# Mary of Teck ( 9 November 1901 – 6 May 1910 ) — Married George, Duke of York, on 6 July 1893 and became Duchess of York ; became Duchess of Cornwall on the accession of her father-in-law as Edward VII of the United Kingdom on 22 January 1901 ; became Princess of Wales on 9 November 1901 ; became queen consort upon accession of husband George V on 6 May 1910.

* May 12 – The Louisiana World's Fair opens.

May 1: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago.

* May 1 – A crowd of over 100, 000 attends the first day of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.

In a story written by E. Nelson Bridwell for World's Finest Comics # 262 ( cover date April / May 1980 ), Shazam's origins are further explored.

The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.

In May 2012, a group of intrepid Tryonite volunteers, in conjunction with the Town of Tryon and The Tryon Daily Bulletin ( The World's Smallest Newspaper!

The " World's Longest Hot Wheels Track " was built at the Kyle Petty Farm in Trinity, North Carolina, on May 9, 1999.

Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World's Fair in Expo ' 74 on May 4, becoming the smallest city yet to host a World's Fair.

The World's Work: A History of Our Time, VIII, May 1904: pp. 4737 – 4739.

Stone went with her daughter to Chicago in May, 1893 and gave her last public speeches at the World's Congress of Representative Women where she saw a strong international involvement in women's congresses, with almost 500 women from 27 countries speaking at 81 meetings, and attendance topping 150, 000 at the week-long event.

The first instance of Adams drawing Batman in an interior story was " The Superman-Batman Revenge Squads " in World's Finest Comics # 175 ( May 1968 ).

The International Jew: The World's Problem in The Dearborn Independent, May 22, 1920

*" Docking The World's Great Liners " Popular Mechanics, May 1930, article on docking large ships in the first half of the 20th century using tugboats

The Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held in Buffalo, New York, United States, from May 1 through November 2, 1901.

The premiere of the completed Kinetoscope was held not at the Chicago World's Fair, as originally scheduled, but at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on May 9, 1893.

Uni-5: The World's Enemy was released on May 4, 2010.

* 1993, ' May Your Hearts Blossom ,' the Parliament of the World's Religions 100th Anniversary ( Chicago )

* 2004, ' May Peace & Happiness Prevail ,' Parliament of World's Religions ( Barcelona )

* 2004 Barcelona 2004 Parliament of World's Religion " May peace and happiness prevail "

May 1: World's Columbian Exposition ( Chicago ) with Romanesque Statue of the Republic | statue of Historical Columbia | Columbia overlooking man-made lake.