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Anne Boleyn was executed on May 19, 1536, on charges almost certainly fabricated by the king who had married her. The charges against her are still debated. Her impact on history is not.
May 19, 2026
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The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, was the deadliest volcanic event in American history — and one of the most thoroughly documented natural disasters ever recorded.
May 18, 2026
Brown v. Board of Education, decided on May 17, 1954, did not end school segregation. But it changed what America was legally allowed to say it stood for.
May 17, 2026
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — the largest Jewish armed revolt of the Holocaust — ended on May 16, 1943. The photograph taken by its suppressor became one of history's most enduring indictments.
May 16, 2026
When Leo XIII published Rerum Novarum on May 15, 1891, he launched the Catholic Church into the debate over industrial capitalism — and created a framework for social justice that still shapes the world.
May 15, 2026
The declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, was one of the most consequential political acts of the twentieth century — and one that was almost not made.
May 14, 2026
On May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca shot Pope John Paul II four times in St. Peter's Square. The Pope survived. What he did next was more remarkable than surviving.
May 13, 2026
Florence Nightingale was not just 'the lady with the lamp.' She was a statistician, a reformer, and the founder of modern nursing as a profession. Born May 12, 1820.
May 12, 2026
When Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, it was not just a chess match. It was the first time a computer had beaten the best human in the world at a game of pure intellect — and nobody quite knew what that meant.
May 11, 2026
Nelson Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first democratically elected president on May 10, 1994, was one of the great political moments of the twentieth century — and the beginning of its hardest work.
May 10, 2026
