* 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 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake.

** 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 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 bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

Its original appearance is shown in an engraving published in the `` Massachusetts Magazine '' in May 1793, which is reproduced herewith ( Fig. 1 ).

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

`` A Night in New Orleans '' is the gayety planned by members of the Thrift Shop Committee for May 6 at Philmont Country Club.

The Vienna meeting will bring together a seasoned, 67-year-old veteran of the cold war who, in Mr. Kennedy's own words, is `` shrewd, tough, vigorous, well-informed and confident '', and a 44-year-old President ( his birthday is May 29 ) with a demonstrated capacity for political battle but little experience in international diplomacy.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

As of May 2012, it is on loan to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for a major exhibition.

It is frozen from October to late May and has a maximum flow in June with the snowmelt.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

* Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest ; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter day.

Nova Scotia celebrates Arbour Day on the Thursday during National Forest Week, which is the first full week in May.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

This consumption grows during autumn and winter, or in the cold regions of the country ; there are two dates where consumption of chocolate infusions is traditional in the primary educational centres: 25 May and 9 July, that is, the two national dates of Argentina.

The actual anointing of the sick person is done on the forehead, with the prayer " Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit ", and on the hands, with the prayer " May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up ".

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

Adam Carolla ( born May 27, 1964 ) is an American radio personality, television host, comedian, and actor.

In May 1968 he completed an essay, " Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ", where the anti-ballistic missile defense is described as a major threat of world nuclear war.

The European season usually starts in late April or Early May and is usually over by mid October.

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.

In May 1924, O ' Banion discovered that their Sieben Brewery was going to be raided by federal agents and sold his share to Torrio.

Depiction of the Crux ( labelled ' Las Guardas ') by physician-astronomer Mestre João Faras in his letter of May 1, 1500, to King Manuel I of Portugal from the newly discovered land of Brazil

They interviewed Echols on May 7, two days after the bodies were discovered.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

It was considered to be the first species of the genus Homo until May 2010, when a new species, Homo gautengensis was discovered in South Africa, that most likely arose earlier than Homo habilis.

In May 1954, the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh discovered a fourth pit, a long, narrow rectangle, still covered with slabs of stone weighing up to 15 tons.

In May, 2010, a research paper by researchers from Microsoft Research and Indiana University discovered that detailed sensitive user data can be inferred from side channels such as packet sizes.

This worked on the B-1 prototype step of the chip, but Digital Research discovered problems with the emulation on the production level C-1 step in May, which would not allow Concurrent DOS 286 to run 8086 software in protected mode.

In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone ( the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested in 1988 ) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum.

They were eventually discovered and prosecuted for stealing and damaging library books in May 1962.

* In 1888, Friedrich Reinitzer ( 1858 – 1927 ) discovered the liquid crystalline nature of cholesterol extracted from carrots ( that is, two melting points and generation of colors ) and published his findings at a meeting of the Vienna Chemical Society on May 3, 1888 ( F. Reinitzer: Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Cholesterins, Monatshefte für Chemie ( Wien ) 9, 421 – 441 ( 1888 )).

According to Nicely, his contact person at Intel later admitted that Intel had been aware of the problem since May 1994, when the flaw was discovered during testing of the FPU for its new P6 core, first used in the Pentium Pro.

In May 2001, India's Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Science and Technology division, Murli Manohar Joshi, announced that the ruins of an ancient civilization had been discovered off the coast of Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat.

Most historical accounts state the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, on his voyage home from India, and that he named it " Santa Helena " after Helena of Constantinople.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

As instruments improved, the rate of discovery grew rapidly: by January 2000, a total of 257 had been discovered ; by May 2003, the number had grown to 1, 600. there are 3, 404 known Trojan asteroids at and 1, 759 at,

The ships left England in May 1846 and were never heard from again, although since then much has been discovered about the fate of the 129 officers and crew.

* May 1 – Nereid, a moon of Neptune, is discovered by Gerard P. Kuiper.

* May 26 – Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.

* May 26, 1828 – Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.

* May 25 – The English ship Tryall, which left Plymouth, England for Batavia ( now Jakarta ), wrecks on the Tryal Rocks, 9 months later ( wreck discovered in 1969 ).

* May 4 – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered west of the Azores are Spanish.

* In May 2003, after a cow with BSE was discovered in Alberta, Canada, the American border was closed to live Canadian cattle, but was reopened in early 2005.

As Reagan visited Germany as part of the G6 conference in Bonn, the pair visited Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 5 May, and more controversially the German military cemetery in Bitburg, discovered to hold 49 members of the Waffen-SS buried there.