Movies set in May
Sonny Liston dies of a heroin overdose
A group of friends' annual month long game of tag begins
Donna Rice is followed to a house where she meets Gary Hart
Ayrton Senna's death
Jamie Lyn Dennis and Michael Gianako kill Anne Marie Camp
Aron Ralston amputates his own arm and walks to safety
George Bush gives his Mission Accomplished speech
The May Day festival
Stonewall Jackson's arm is amputated
Clara Immerwahr commits suicide
Leo Demidov raises the Soviet flag on top of the Reichstag
J. Edgar Hoover dies
The General Belgrano is sunk in the Falklands Islands
The Battle of Hogwarts
Molly Bloom pleads guilty and avoids a prison sentence
Manchester United reach the FA Cup Final
Héctor Lavoe moves to New York
The main Frost/Nixon interview
Margaret Thatcher becomes the UK's first female Prime Minister
The Battle of New York
May the Fourth
The battle
Ben Hall is betrayed and shot to death by police
Desmond Doss saves 75 men
The counterfeiters avoid death when their concentration camp is liberated
Danny Trejo throws a rock at a prison guard during a baseball game
Bobby Sands dies as a result of his refusal to eat
Three boys are murdered
Mr. Fox announces he wants a new house
The Hindenburg exploded
The Hindenburg exploded
André Stander is found guilty of multiple robberies
Steve Jobs unveils the new iMac
Pim Fortuyn is assassinated
Marc Hall's case against Durham Catholic School Board is heard in court
Nicolas Sarkozy is elected president of France
Joan of Arc is wounded by the English at Orléans
The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat
Nicolas Sarkozy is appointed Interior Minister
Neeraj Grover is murdered
The English forces agree to retreat from Orléans
Kiranjit Ahluwalia sets fire to her husband while he sleeps
John Wayne Gacy is executed
Jan Lewan's wife wins the Mrs. Pennsylvania contest
Louis XV dies
The Indian Rebellion begins
Stonewall Jackson dies
Start of the 11 day battle for Ap Bia Mountain
Badshah Khan is arrested
Neil Baldwin plays for Stoke City in a testimonial soccer match for Gordon Cowans
John Wayne Gacy is executed
Nelson Mandela is voted in as president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela is voted in as president of South Africa
Subhas Chandra Bose arrives in Tokyo
Adolf Eichmann is captured in Buenos Aires
Kenny Waters is convicted
Nelson Mandela starts his first day as president of South Africa
Karla Homolka talks with her therapist about her sister
William Wilberforce first speaks about abolition in the House of Commons
The Duke of York is crowned King George VI
Jonathan Osterman is introduced to Janey Slater
MacArthur's visit to West Point
Danny Greene survives his house being bombed
A T-800 is sent through time to kill Sarah Connor
American housing compounds in Saudi Arabia are attacked
Alex Browning and several classmates leave a plane just before it explodes on takeoff
Top Gun Day
Jamestown Island is chosen for a settlement
The Capricorn One capsule "lands" on Mars
Gordon Cooper launches in Atlas 9, ending the Mercury program
A CSX Transportation freight train carrying hazardous chemicals runs out of control
Marie Antoinette marries the Dauphin of France, Louis-Auguste
The attack on several dams
Two nuclear bombs are detonated on the same day, by the US and USSR
The Monuments Men rescue artworks stored by the Germans in the Altaussee salt mine
Oliver Hardy suffers a heart attack
John Nardi is killed by a car bomb
Ian Curtis and Debbie Woodruff fight for the last time
Ernie Davis dies of leukaemia
Ian Curtis commits suicide at 23 years old
Hack Heaven is published
Edwin Valero is found hanged in his cell
The band Warsaw, soon to be renamed to Joy Division, forms
Deepak Ahluwalia dies of his injuries
The friends, apart from Linus, watch The Phantom Menace on its opening day
Sully arrives on Pandora
A group of boys ransack Bastøy Boys' Home
Charles Lindbergh lifts off from Long Island
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic Ocean
Linda Thomas dies
South Australian police find eight dead bodies in barrels in a bank vault
Robert Guérin forms FIFA
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, giving women the right to vote, is passed
Hachikō's owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, dies
Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris
Adolf Eichmann is flown out of Buenos Aires to Israel
Katherina Brow is murdered
Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated
John Bunting, Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis are arrested
Lord Mansfield presides over the Gregson v. Gilbert appeal
John Gotti helps in the killing of James McBratney
Saroo's "birthday", the day he was taken in by Indian authorities before being given to an adoptive family
Evilenko appears in court
Mine That Bird wins the Kentucky Derby
The attack on New York by a monster
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
Joan of Arc is captured
Joan of Arc is captured
Joan of Arc is captured
Lola gets to replay her day
Marcus Grier, based on and played by 50 Cent, is shot nine times
Brian Banks' conviction for rape is overturned
Muhammad Ali hits Sonny Liston with a "phantom punch"
The Springboks beat the Wallabies
Malavath Poorna reaches the top of Mount Everest
Towel Day
The first day of the evacuation of allied soldiers at Dunkirk
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released
Senator Charlene Roan wins the election in a landslide
The children appear in Swan Lake, and Gru steals the moon
An ultimately successful attempt is made on Reinhard Heydrich's life
Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated by soldiers involved in Operation Anthropoid
Louis Zamperini's plane crashes in the ocean, and the three surviving crew are stranded in inflatable rafts
Lev Yashin's farewell match
James Randi exposes Peter Popoff on The Tonight Show
Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Myanmar general election
The last day of school
An injunction is issued against the Kehler-Corner protests
Percy Fawcett sends his last letter to his wife
Hank Williams and Audrey Sheppard divorce
Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Everest
Start of the 2010 Isle of Man TT Races
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
William Wilberforce marries Barbara Ann Spooner at the Church of St Swithin
Steve Prefontaine dies in a car crash
A Secunda CTL site is attacked, and Patrick Chamusso is wrongly accused of the attack
A group of friends' annual month long game of tag ends