A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Anti-Qing Dynasty revolutionaries, involved in the Xinhai Revolution, saw Western philosophy as an alternative to traditional philosophical schools ; students in the May Fourth Movement called for completely abolishing the old imperial institutions and practices of China.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

A joint venture between the Irish Rugby Football Union, the FAI and the Government, saw it replaced by a new state-of-the-art 50, 000 seat Aviva Stadium, which opened in May 2010.

Steamboat companies saw nationwide railroads as a threat to their business and on May 6, 1856, just weeks after the bridge was completed, a steamboat captain deliberately crashed the Effie Afton into the bridge.

The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of " Space Oddity ", with light fare such as " Kooks ", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May.

The student protests and general strike of May 1968 saw Paris bedecked in revolutionary, anarchist, and situationist slogans such as L ' ennui est contre-révolutionnaire (" Boredom is counterrevolutionary ") expressed in painted graffiti, poster art, and stencil art.

The student protests and general strike of May 1968 saw Paris bedecked in revolutionary, anarchist, and situationist slogans such as L ' ennui est contre-révolutionnaire (" Boredom is counterrevolutionary ") and Lisez moins, vivez plus (" Read less, live more ").

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

Later on 1 May, Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss saw Goebbels for the last time: " Before the breakout the bunker began, about ten generals and officers, including myself, went down individually to Goebbels's shelter to say goodbye.

However, the terminal illness of Radek's lover, Larissa Reissner, saw Radek lose his inhibitions and he began publicly criticising Stalin, in particular debating Stalin's doctrine of Socialism in One Country at the Communist Academy Radek was sacked from his post at Sun Yat-Sen University in May 1927.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.

Malawi saw its first transition between democratically elected presidents in May 2004, when the UDF's presidential candidate Bingu wa Mutharika defeated MCP candidate John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, who was backed by a grouping of opposition parties.

The County of Nice saw girls and boys " turn the May " with the sound of fife and drum, i. e. to dance rounds of May around the tree of May planted on the place of the village.

Pius XII's refusal to censure the German invasion and annexation of Poland was regarded as a " betrayal " by many Polish Catholics and clergy, who saw his appointment of Hilarius Breitinger as apostolic administrator for the Wartheland in May 1942 as " implicit recognition " of the breakup of Poland ; the opinions of the Volksdeutsche, mostly German Catholic minorities living in occupied Poland, were more mixed.

Boniface IX saw to it that Ladislaus was crowned King of Naples at Gaeta on 29 May 1390 and worked with him for the next decade to expel the Angevin forces from southern Italy.

The 20th century saw a gradual movement to fiat currency, with most of the world monetary system losing its link to precious metals after Richard Nixon took the United States dollar off the gold standard in 1971 ; the last currency backed by gold was the Swiss franc, which became a pure fiat currency on 1 May 2000.

He saw no room for his experimental music and, in May, he headed for the USA.

Sondheim traces his interest in theatre to Very Warm for May, a Broadway musical he saw at age nine.

President Washington visited Charleston, South Carolina in May 1791 on his " Southern Tour ", and saw the under-construction Charleston County Courthouse designed by Irish architect James Hoban.

In a meeting with 8 Jewish and 8 Protestant Dutch leaders in Israel in May 2011, a statement of cooperation was issued, indicating, for the most part, that the Protestant Church recognizes the issues involved with the Palestinian Christians and that this is sometimes at odds with support for the State of Israel, but standing up for the rights of the Palestinians does not detract from the emphasis on the safety of the State of Israel and vice versa.

On 16 May 1545, Xavier wrote to the King of Portugal to establish the Inquisition in Goa: " The second necessity for the Christians is that Your Majesty establish the Holy Inquisition in Goa because there are many who live according to the Jewish Law and according to the Mohammedan Sect, without any fear of God or shame of the World.

But at present Saint John is celebrated on a wide variety of dates in Eastern rites: 29 December for Armenians, 30 December for Copts, 7 May for Syrians and 26 September for Christians of Byzantine Rite.

* " Reincarnation as Taught by Early Christians ", by I. M. Oderberg, from Sunrise magazine, May 1973, Copyright © 1973 by Theosophical University Press.

On May 8 they celebrate the " Feast of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian ", on which date Christians used to draw forth from his grave fine ashes which were believed to be effective for healing the sick.

On May 8 they celebrate the " Feast of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian ", on which date Christians used to draw forth from his grave fine ashes which were believed to be effective for healing the sick.

* May – Battle of Uclés: The Almoravids decisively defeat the Kingdom of Castile and roll back the advances of Reconquista ; several towns recently captured by Christians are lost to the conquering Berbers such as Tarragona.

* May 5 – Emperor Galerius declares on his deathbed religious freedom and issues his Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

Luys Hernandez de Biedma, one of de Soto ’ s officers wrote of a group of men who made their way to what is now Tryon on May 21, 1540: " The next day, they went to Xuala which is a town on a plain between some rivers ; its chief was so well provisioned that he gave to the Christians however much they asked for: slaves, corn, little dogs opossums … and however much he had.

Presented to Benedict XVI on 25 May 2011 by a group of Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians.

May mark the first formal schism between Christianity and Judaism at which it was agreed that Christians did not need to be circumcised or alternately may represent a form of early Noahide Law.

Neighborhood celebrations are held in Cuernavaca, mostly for patron saints, they include include 15 May, the feast of San Isidro Labrador ; 13 June, the feast of San Antonio in the neighborhood of San Antón, with Aztec dances ; 6 August, the feast of the Savior or the Transfiguration in Ocotepec, featuring the Moors and Christians dance, mole, and pulque ; 10 August the feast of San Lorenzo in Chamilpa ; 15 August, the festival of the Assumption of Mary in Santa María Ahuacatilán ; and 8 September, Festival of Nuestra Señora de los Milagros in Tlaltenango.

On May 6, 2001 Pope John Paul II, the first pope to pray in a mosque, delivered an address at Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, saying: " It is important that Muslims and Christians continue to explore philosophical and theological questions together, in order to come to a more objective and comprehensive knowledge of each other's religious beliefs.

Saint Catherine Labouré ( May 2, 1806 – December 31, 1876 ) ( born Zoe Labouré ) was a sister of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary who relayed the request from the Blessed Virgin Mary to create the Miraculous Medal worn by millions of Christians, both Roman Catholic and non-denominational.

Addressing the Christian Youth Conference in Suva on 15 May 2005, he called on young Christians to put their faith into practice, and not to be intimidated by peers who might consider a strong religious commitment to be unfashionable.

There was also a large influx of Christians from Goa, Karnataka and Kerala and this prompted local converts to take the name of ' East Indians ' and form the East Indian Association on 26th May 1887 to distinguish the ' sons of the soil ' who were the first employees of the East India Company, from Indian Christians who came from further down the West coast and shared the same names and religion, and vied for the same jobs.

In May 2010, The NAE established the Generation Forum to explore how evangelical Christians can be involved in collaborative efforts aimed at reducing the number of abortions in the United States.

* It was narrated that he ( peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him ) said: “ May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians, for they took the graves of their Prophets as places of worship .” ‘ Aa ’ ishah ( may Allaah be pleased with her ) said, “ He was warning against what they had done .” ( Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1330 and by Muslim, 529 ).

The so-called Yelwa massacre was actually a series of related incidents of mass violence between Muslims and Christians which took place in Yelwa, Nigeria between February and May 2004 killing over 700 people.

On May 2, 2004 local Christians responded to the February incident by attacking Muslims in Yelwa resulting in roughly 630 dead.

In May 2004, at least 57, 000 people fled after sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in northern and central Nigeria according to officials.

President Olusegun Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Plateau State in central Nigeria on 18 May 2004, following a Christian massacre of Muslims that in turn led to reprisal killings of Christians in the northern city of Kano.

* " Fellow Christians Aggrieved by Business Practices of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis ", Christian Faith and Reason May 27, 2007

In his announcement, Cardinal Sodano implied that the secret was about the persecution of Christians in the 20th century that culminated in the failed assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on 13 May 1981.