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.

Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.

The Honduras-El Salvador Border Protocol ratified by Honduras in May 1999 established a framework for a long-delayed border demarcation, which is currently underway ; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua likely would be required.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.

Martin Ludwig Bormann ( 17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945

Wedgwood put the first edition on private show between April and May 1790, with that exhibition proving so popular that visitor numbers had to be restricted by only printing 1900 tickets, before going on show in his public London showrooms.

The city surrendered to British forces under Frederick Roberts on 5 June 1900 and the conflict was ended in Pretoria with the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

In 1900 the ZAR was annexed by the United Kingdom during the Second Boer War although the official surrender of the territory only took place at the end of the war, on 31 May 1902.

* May 4 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter ( d. 1900 )

* May 2 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader ( b. 1900 )

* May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, German head of the SS ( suicide ) ( b. 1900 )

* May 21 – Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer ( b. 1900 )

* May 22 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer ( b. 1900 )

* May 7 – May 9 – Bava-Beccaris massacre: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed when General Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris orders troops to fire on a rally in Milan, Italy ( in 1900, King Umberto I of Italy is killed in an act of vengeance for his praise of the shooting ).

* May 13 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer ( d. 1900 )

The first telephone cable using loaded lines put into public service was between Jamaica Plain and West Newton in Boston on May 18, 1900.

Meanwhile, he detached a small force to relieve Baden-Powell, and the Relief of Mafeking on 18 May 1900 provoked riotous celebrations in Britain.

From late May 1900, the first successes of the Boer strategy were at Lindley ( where 500 Yeomanry surrendered ), and at Heilbron ( where a large convoy and its escort were captured ) and other skirmishes resulting in 1, 500 British casualties in less than ten days.

The Siege of Mafeking lasted 217 days from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell into a national hero.

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO ( 13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900 ) was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry.

John Sherman, nicknamed " The Ohio Icicle " ( May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900 ), was a U. S. Representative and U. S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century.

It was rumoured that Camilla's grandmother, Sonia Keppel ( born in May 1900 ), was the illegitimate daughter of Edward, but she was " almost certainly " the daughter of George Keppel, whom she resembled.

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* May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor ( b. 1938 )

* May 12 – Robert Reed, American actor ( b. 1932 )

Tree also fathered several illegitimate children, including six with ( Beatrice ) May Pinney and other mistresses, including film director Carol Reed and Peter Reed, the father of the British actor Oliver Reed.

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Sylvanus Reed and educator Caroline Gallup Reed, on 20 May 1884.

*" Thomas and Sally: Interview with Annette Gordon Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello ", Peter S. Onuf, Back Story, American History Guys, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, ( Excerpted from Black & White: The Idea of Racial Purity ), podcast, 22 May 2009

Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Reed of the 12th Indiana Calvary seized the town on May 29, 1864 during the American Civil War.

Patricia Pomeranz was elected in a special election held on November 8, 2011, following the resignation of John Moran ( At Large ) in April 2011 ; The seat had been filled though the appointment of Gina Reed in May 2011.

In May / June 2010, Anderson curated the Vivid Sydney festival in Sydney, Australia together with Lou Reed.

During a 7-night stint at The Town Hall in New York City, Bright Eyes welcomed the following guests on stage for special performances: Lou Reed on May 25 ; Ben Kweller on May 26 ; Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice on May 28 ; Norah Jones, Little Willie and Derrick E on May 29 ; Nick Zinner, Maria Taylor and Ben Gibbard on May 30, Steve Earle on May 31, and finally Ron Sexsmith and Britt Daniel on June 1.

The son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed, Carol Reed was born in Putney, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury, an independent school.

Arnold's second heart attack occurred just a month later, on May 10, 1943, and resulted in a 10-day stay in Walter Reed.

In May 2011, reports surfaced that British fashion retailer Superdry was to move into the building occupied by Austin Reed, which in turn was to move across the road into Aquascutum.

Several Appalachian musicians obtained renown during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, including Jean Ritchie, Roscoe Holcomb, Ola Belle Reed, Lily May Ledford, and Doc Watson.

Following the war, the Reed family also moved to Scyene and May Shirley married Jim Reed in 1866, after having had an earlier crush on him as a teen.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

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

This was a topic of major commercial effort at the time, dominating shows like the National Computer Conference ( NCC ) in Anaheim in May 1983.

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 Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Daytime readings in Moundou, the major city in the southwest, range from in the middle of the cool season in January to about in the hot months of March, April, and May.

In a major May 1999 decision on " New Media ", the CRTC held that under the Broadcasting Act the CRTC had jurisdiction over certain content communicated over the internet including audio and video, but excluding content that is primarily alphanumeric such as emails and most webpages.

In 2011, the major story line of John Stape and his murder spree came to an end in May after he jumped off a hospital roof but left before he could be arrested.

After a major rehabilitation program, the company restarted copper production in December 2007 and cobalt production in May 2008.

Freenet 0. 7, released on the 8 May 2008, is a major re-write incorporating a number of fundamental changes.

The Nazis initially attempted to form a corporatist economic system like that of Fascist Italy, creating the National Socialist Institute for Corporatism in May 1933, which included many major economists who argued that corporatism was consistent with National Socialism.

* 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

On May 22, the Marlins hit bottom with a major league worst record of 19 – 29, having lost 6 straight games.

His major success was the capture of Arminius ' wife Thusnelda in May 15.

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

Hawk's contract with Fox ended in May 1929, and he never again signed a long-term contract with a major studio but managed to remain an independent producer-director for the rest of his long career.

In 1993 Honduras had three major labor confederations: the Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación de Trabajadores de Honduras — CTH ), claiming a membership of about 160, 000 workers ; the General Workers Central ( Central General de Trabajadores — CGT ), claiming to represent 120, 000 members ; and the Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras — CUTH ), a new confederation formed in May 1992, with an estimated membership of about 30, 000.

Alexander returned to Britain in May 1920 as a major, second in command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards ; in May 1922, he was promoted substantive lieutenant-colonel and appointed commanding officer.

The last major version of IRIX was IRIX 6. 5 which was released in May 1998.

The Italian Army did not take part in combat operations of the 2003 Second Gulf War, dispatching troops only after May 1, 2003 – when major combat operations were declared over by the U. S. President George W. Bush.

Isabella d ' Este ( 19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539 ) was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure.

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

In May 1991, the militias ( with the important exception of Hizballah ) were dissolved, and the Lebanese Armed Forces began to slowly rebuild themselves as Lebanon's only major non-sectarian institution.