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.

Albrecht Dürer (; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528 ) was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

On 4 May 1945 he took the German surrender at Luneburg Heath in northern Germany.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

On 21 May 1935 Hitler gave a speech in which he proclaimed that German rearmament offered no threat to world peace.

A German cavalry patrol in May 1940, during the Battle of France.

Westermann's 1911 Die Sudanic languages | Sudansprachen. Diedrich Hermann Westermann ( June 24, 1875 – May 31, 1956 ) was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist.

In 2001 Enya recorded " May It Be ", which was featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one.

Louis XIV had hoped that a show of force would lead to a quick resolution to his dynastic and territorial disputes with the princes of the Empire along his eastern border, but his intimidatory moves only strengthened German resolve, and in May 1689 Leopold I and the Dutch signed an offensive compact aimed at repelling French aggression.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

LYMEC is led by German politician Alexander Plahr ( FDP, Germany ), who was elected to a two-year term as LYMEC President in May 2010, and has a collective membership of over 200, 000 young liberal Europeans.

On the night 9 May / 10 May 1940, Kelly was torpedoed amidships by a German E-boat S 31 of the Dutch coast and Mountbatten subsequently commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin.

However Kelly was sunk by German dive bombers on 23 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete.

The German producer Artur Brauner expressed interest in remaking The Indian Tomb ( a story that Lang had developed in the twenties that was ultimately taken from him by studio heads and directed instead by Joe May ), so Lang abandoned his plans for retirement and returned to Germany in order to make his " Indian Epic ".

Franz Anton Mesmer ( May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815 ) sometimes incorrectly referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal ( animal magnetism ) and other spiritual forces often grouped together as mesmerism.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814 ) was a German philosopher.

Shortly after taking power in 1933 ( so called Machtergreifung ), May Day ( May 1 ) was established as a national holiday in the German Empire.

They accelerated only after May 1926, because of an increase in Polish exports by sea, economic prosperity, the outbreak of the German – Polish trade war which reverted most Polish international trade to sea routes, and also thanks to the personal engagement of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Polish Minister of Industry and Trade, also responsible for construction of Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy.

May 14, 1928 issue of German lesbian periodical Die Freundin ( The Girlfriend ).

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

Nova Scotia celebrates Arbour Day on the Thursday during National Forest Week, which is the first full week in May.

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

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

Iglehart, the Orioles ' largest shareholder at 32 % and owner of a sizable amount of CBS stock, straightened out his conflict of interest issues on May 25, 1965 by selling his 64, 000 shares in the ball-club to the National Brewing Company, an original team investor which finally had controlling interest at 65 %.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.

In May 2007, a series of reports on national Colombia news reported more than 300 dead sheep in the region of Boyaca, and the capture of a possible specimen to be analyzed by zoologists at the National University of Colombia.

In May 2009, the National Federation of State High School Associations released the results of their first true high school participation study.

A new Constitution was promulgated in 1947, and Chiang was formally elected by the National Assembly as the first term President of the Republic of China on May 20, 1948.

Chiang was reelected by the National Assembly to be the President of the Republic of China ( ROC ) on May 20, 1954, and again in 1960, 1966, and 1972.

* John Roach, " Delphic Oracle's Lips May Have Been Loosened by Gas Vapors " in National Geographic news, August 2001

In May 2009 at the World Economic Forum, Jordan announced its plans to construct the " Jordan National Red Sea Development Project " ( JRSP ).

In May 1997, following the demonstrations that led to the ousting of Bucaram and appointment of Alarcón, the people of Ecuador called for a National Assembly to reform the Constitution and the country's political structure.

However after the National Referendum that took place on the 5th of May in 2011, the proposition impulsed by the government of Mr. Correa won and now the Judiciary Council change its formation making a constitutional amendment.

U. S. advertisement for the 11th edition from the May 1913 issue of National Geographic Magazine

I ", Los Alamos National Laboratory ( through predecessor agency Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ( May 1955 ).

Former First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Lady Bird Johnson, Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the National Garden Gala, A Tribute to America's First Ladies, May 11, 1994.

The Ship as Symbol in Prehistoric and Medieval Scandinavia: Papers from an International Research Seminar at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, 5 – 7 May 1994.

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.