In May 1894 King Alexander staged another coup: he abolished King Milan's liberal constitution of 1888 and restored the conservative one of 1869.

The " Golden spike ", connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, was hammered on May 10, 1869.

* May 10 is Golden Spike Day ( 1869 – Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad – Promontory Summit, Utah )

One early mention of the name was in Putnam's Magazine in May 1869: " I had plenty of ammunition in reserve, to say nothing, Tom, of our pig Latin.

His financial support ceased by May 1869, and the paper began to operate in debt.

On 28 May 1869, after years of ill health, Pauline died at Schaerbeek, in Belgium, at the age of thirty-two, of smallpox.

# Indiana ( May 14, 1869 )

# Connecticut ( May 19, 1869 )

*, was a civilian steamship purchased by the US Navy from a prize court 4 September 1862 and was decommissioned and sold 8 May 1869

* July 18 – May Moss, Australian women's rights activist ( b. 1869 )

* May 22 – Gaetano Bresci Italian anarchist and assassin ( born 1869 )

* Purdue University opens its doors on May 6, 1869 for the first time under a land grant from the Morrill Act

* May 19 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist ( b. 1869 )

* May 18 – Big Bill Haywood, American labor leader ( b. 1869 )

* May 14 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist ( b. 1869 )

* May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist ( d. 1869 )

* May 17 – Herbert Croly, American political author ( b. 1869 )

At the ceremony for the driving of the Golden spike | " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869

Opened for through traffic on May 10, 1869, with the driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, the road established a mechanized transcontinental transportation network that revolutionized the population and economy of the American West.

It was here on May 10, 1869, that Stanford drove The Last Spike ( or golden spike ) which is now on display at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, that joined the rails of the transcontinental railroad.

Display ads for the CPRR and UPRR the week the rails were joined on May 19, 1869 UPRR & CPRR " Great American Over-Land Route " Timetable cover 1881When the golden spike was driven, the rail network was not yet connected to the Atlantic or Pacific, but merely connected Omaha and Sacramento.

The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.

Title page of a libretto for performances at the Teatro Pagliano in Florence in April – May 1869 which used the Italian translation by Achille de Lauzières

William Hale Thompson ( May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944 ) was Mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.

May 14, 1869

It was really a May and December combination.

That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.

Washington evidently was anxious for Morgan to be cautious as well as aggressive, for on May 17th, 18th and 20th he admonished the leader of the riflemen-rangers to be on the alert.

He has been in prison since May, 1958, when his aircraft was shot down over Moluccas.

Du Pont's counterproposal was filed on May 14, 1958.

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

The 10.3-cm observation of Sloanaker was made on May 20, 1958, using the 84-foot reflector at the Maryland Point Observatory of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

From March 3 to May 1, 1949, the patient was maintained on dexamethasone, 3 to 6 mg. daily.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.

This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Perhaps it was Dora May.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

It was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.

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.

In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May, but continued to command his troops for some weeks.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.