May

May 1 -1844 Samual Morse sends first telegraphic message

May 4 -1919 FVC Soccer team forms

May 5 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico:  Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla

May 6 - 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris

May 7 - 1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered

May 8 -1884 Harry S Truman born near Lamar, MO

May 11 - 1949 First Polaroid Camera introduced

May 12 - 1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dog first appeared in Mickey's Review by Walt Disney

May 13 - 1908 The Navy Nurse Corps is established

May 14 - 1904 St Louis hosts the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States

May 15 - 2004 The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 7,235,733 digits long, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative efffort

May 18 - 2009 End of Course Biology Exam

May 19 - 1802 the Legion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte

May 20 - 1949 The Armed Forces Security Agency (predecessor to the National Security Agency) is extablished.

May  21 - 1819 the first bicycles (swift walkers - with NO pedels) are introduced in the United States in NYC

May 26 - 1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens

May 27 - 1933 The 3 Little Pigs released by Walt Disney Studios

May 28 - 1972 White House 'plumbers' break into the Democratic Party National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel

May 29 - 1916 the Presidential Flag was adopted