* May 26-A fire aboard the United States aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Narragansett Bay kills 103 crewmen.

* May 26-A bridge collapse in Victoria, British Columbia kills 55 people

* May 26-A special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.

In May 1822 he paid a visit to Naples, to superintend the construction of wax moulds for an equestrian statue of the perjured Bourbon king Ferdinand VII.

On May 9, 2011, the City of Lubbock held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza, the new home of the statue and the Walk of Fame.

By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.

In May 2002, then-Prime Minister, Tony Blair unveiled a statue of Dewar at the top of Glasgow's Buchanan Street — and in keeping with his famous unkempt appearance, it showed Dewar wearing a slightly crushed jacket.

The statue of Christ flown by helicopter over Rome to Saint Peter's Square was inspired by an actual media event on May 1, 1956, which Fellini had witnessed.

In May 2002, Moore was present as cable TV network TV Land dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis to the television character she made famous on Mary Tyler Moore.

On 30 May 2010, a life-sized bronze statue of Tintin and Snowy, and more than 200 other Tintin items, including many original panels by Hergé, sold for 1. 08 million euros ($ 1. 3 million USD ) at a Paris auction.

* May 21 – In Rome, Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's " Pietà " statue with a sledgehammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.

A 10-foot bronze replica of the original Iron Felix statue was placed on the grounds of the military academy in Minsk, Belarus in May 2006.

In May there was an outbreak of statue smashing.

In Linares the Segovia Museum " Fundación Andrés Segovia " was established in May 1995 and this birth-town of Segovia, also has a bronze statue in his honour, created by Julio López Hernández and unveiled on 25 May 1984.

On May 8, 2002, Moore was in attendance when cable TV network TV Land dedicated a statue to her that captured her iconic throw.

On May 1, 2007, the Staples Center sports arena announced that a bronze statue of Oscar De La Hoya would join similar tributes to Los Angeles sports stars Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretzky at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Seated beneath this statue are sculpted girls singing the Catalan song Les Flors de Maig ( The Flowers of May ).

According to the Scientific American of May 27, 1893, Osawatomie was struck by a meteor on April 8, 1893, striking the statue of John Brown.

The granite statue was designed by Heather Baird, with Jerry Lynch, and features a fisherman's wife and her two children located inside a giant compass and looking out onto the sheltering waters of Cape May harbor.

There is a statue of Baggesen on Havnepladsen in Korsør, unveiled on 6 May 1906, by Professor Vilhelm Andersen.

* Mae West has a statue at Hollywood-La Brea Boulevard in Los Angeles, designed by Catherine Hardwicke built to honor of multi-ethnic leading ladies of the cinema together with Dolores del Rio, Dorothy Dandridge and Anna May Wong.

The abstract equestrian statue by noted Norwegian sculptor, Knut Steen, was unveiled on 21 May 1998.

Henry died on 13 May 1878, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of northwest Washington, D. C. John Phillips Sousa wrote the Transit of Venus March for the unveiling of the Joseph Henry statue in front of the Smithsonian Castle.

The most important one was the Panathenaia in honor of the goddess Athena, a ritual procession carried out once a year in May and once every four years in July, in which the town presented a new veil ( peplos ) to the old wooden statue of Athena Poliada.

On May 13, 1920, pilgrims defied government troops to install a statue of the Virgin Mary in the chapel, and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was first officially celebrated there in January 1924.

The largest crowds gather on 13 May and 13 October, when up to a million pilgrims have attended to pray and witness processions of the statue of Our Lady of Fátima, both during the day and by the light of tens of thousands of candles at night.

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

Saint Felix I is mentioned as Pope and Martyr, with a simple feast, on 30 May.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

* May 7 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor ( b. 1863 )

* May 18 – Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher ( b. 1813 )

* May 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian ( d. 1780 )

* Krämer, Felix ( May 2007 ).

In May 1967, Ensslin gave birth to their son Felix Robert Ensslin.

In May 430, Aëtius accused Felix of plotting against him and had him and his wife killed.

Raul Gonzalez fought Felix Trinidad on May 3, 1992 in Cayey, Puerto Rico.

On May 1, 1916, Frederick Stock and the orchestra recorded the Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohn's music to A Midsummer Night's Dream for what was then known as the Columbia Graphophone Company.

Fanny Hensel, 1842, by Moritz Daniel OppenheimFanny Mendelssohn ( 14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847 ), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

He had long resisted the views of Father Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, " Felix ", one of the leading intellectuals concerned with French Catholic youth, but in May 1830, Lamennais converted him to his liberal version of ultramontanism, that is, the adherence to the absolute universal authority of the papacy in opposition to nationalist and secularist ideas.

* May 13 – Italian Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn is premiered ( and taken back for revision ).

Felix Manalo, born on May 10, 1886 in Taguig, Philippines, was baptized a Roman Catholic.

The wedding took place on 24 May 2008 in Møgeltønder Church – in which the christening of Prince Felix had taken place – near Schackenborg Manor.

On 9 January 1970, General Odumegwu-Ojukwu handed over power to his second in command, Chief of General Staff Major-General Philip Effiong, and left for Côte d ' Ivoire, where President Felix Houphöet-Biogny – who had recognised Biafra on 14 May 1968 – granted him political asylum.

A commercial license was extended to him on May 21, 1565 by honorable sirs Rodrigo Caso, city regular mayor, Hernando Castilla, Miguel de Castellanos, treasurer, Lazaro de Vallejo Alderete, quartermaster, Baltasar de Castellanos and Domingo Felix, aldermen.

Einstein Tower in PotsdamErwin Finlay-Freundlich ( May 29, 1885 – July 24, 1964 ) was a German astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein.

Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky ( January 1, 1806 – May 18, 1853 ) was a 19th-century chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which because of its brilliance was named " The Immortal Game ".

Archduke Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernhard Felix Maria of Austria-Teschen ( 21 May 1863 – 30 December 1954 ) was an Archduke of Austria and a Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.

Felix Arndt ( May 20, 1889October 16, 1918 ) was an American pianist and composer of popular music.