But Bulgaria, by making the acceptance of Russian arbitration conditional, in effect denied any discussion and caused Russia to repudiate its alliance with Bulgaria ( see Russo-Bulgarian military convention signed 31 May 1902 ).

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

Then the following month, on May 31st 1902, in a letter to William Blackwood, Conrad remarks:

The last two major eruptive phases occurred in 1902: the eruption of May 8, 1902 destroyed Saint-Pierre and took 28, 000 dead in 2 minutes ; that of August 30, 1902 caused nearly 1, 100 deaths, mostly in Morne-Red and Ajoupa-Bouillon.

Frederic Ogden Nash ( August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971 ) was an American poet well known for his light verse.

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.

Hamlisch's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag " The Entertainer " won an Academy Award, and was an American Top 40 hit in 1974, reaching # 3 on 18 May.

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.

By May 1902, the last of the Boer troops surrendered mourning the deaths of 26, 000 mainly women and children who died in British internment.

In May 1902, United Mine Workers went on strike to get higher pay wages and shorter workdays.

* May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer ( b. 1902 )

* May 20, 1902 — Cuba gains independence from the United States.

* May 8, 1902 — In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30, 000.

* May 30 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer, and Christian evangelist ( b. 1902 )

* May 3 – George Murphy, American actor and politician ( b. 1902 )

* May 26 – Al Simmons, American baseball player ( b. 1902 )

* May 23 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician ( b. 1902 )

* May 15 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer ( b. 1902 )

* May 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet ( b. 1902 )

* May 22 – Langston Hughes, American writer ( b. 1902 )

* May 6 – Ethelda Bleibtrey, American Olympic swimmer ( b. 1902 )

* May 17 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet ( d. 1902 )

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.