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Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president on May 10, 1994 .   In April 1994 the Mandela-led ANC won Sou...

On May 9, 1962 , a pulse light laser beam sent by a team of scientists from MIT successfully bounced off the moon, the first lunar lase...

William Francis Kemmler was born on May 9, 1860 and he  was a convicted murderer and the first person in the world to be executed using ...

Jean Henri Dunant ( Henry Dunant ) was born on May 8, 1828 . He was known as the founder of Red Cross.  He was a Swiss businessman and s...

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is observed annually on May 8 .

  Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. He was born on  May 7, 1861 . Author o...

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque on 6th July 2001 during a trip to Syria.

International Midwives' Day was first celebrated May 5, 1991 , and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The id...

  \The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959 . They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958.

The UN General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day to raise awareness of the importance of freed...

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 and he was the founder of  alQaeda, the jihadist organization that claime...

  Miles Axe Copeland III was born on May 2, 1944 , he is an American entertainment executive, best known for founding I.R.S. Records .  ...

The Bombay State was a state of India, split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states on May 1, 1960 .    The States Reorganisation Act,...

International Workers' Day or May Day is a celebration of the international labour movement on May .

  Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Fuhrebunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by in...

Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first female judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India and the first Muslim woman to be appo...

Harold Clayton Urey was born on  April 29, 1893 and he was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the...

  International Dance Day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), UNES...

Workers' Memorial Day , International Workers' Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day ...

  Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791, he is an American inventor. He contributed to the invention of a single-wire ...