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• On May 2,1908, the original version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". withmusic by Albert Von Tilzer and lyrics by Jack Norworth, was copyrighted by Von Tilzer's York Music Co.
• On May 3, 1986, in NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.
• On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire durng an anti-war protest at Kent University, killing four students and wounding nine others.
• On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.
• On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War 2.
• On May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
• On May 10, 205, a hand grenade landed about 65 feet from U.S. President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilist, Georgia, but it malfunctioned and did not detonate.
• On May 11, 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
• On May 12, 1978, the Commerce Department said hurricanes would no longer be given only female names.
• On May 13, 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.  The colonists went ashore the next day.
• On May 14, 1860, the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States arrived in Washington.
• On May 16, 1868, President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial ended in acquittal by one vote.
• On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down racially segregated public schools in its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision.
• On May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
• On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindberg took off from Long Island aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.  In 1932, Amelia Earthart took off fromNewfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
• On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 1/2 hours.  Five years later, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
• On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
• OnMay 26, 1940, the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War 2.
• On May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Martin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicular traffic began crossing the bridge the next day).
• On May 28, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of freed blacks, left Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War.
• On May 30, 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dediciated in Washington in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.