May 22 "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1

May 20 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes

May 31 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia

May 23 Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate

May 19 French air force bombs Damascus Syria

May 09 Richard Byrd &Floyd Bennett make first flight over North Pole

May 25 The birth of Miles Davis, American jazz trumpet player

May 17 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

May 25 Sholom Schwarzband kills exiled Ukrainian Nationalist leader Simon Petlura.

May 18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice CA; She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped

May 28 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal

May 20 Railway Labor Act became law

May 11 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for first air crossing of Arctic Ocean

May 01 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League

May 08 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park

May 26 Lebanon adopts constitution

May 03 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933

May 01 British coal-miners go on strike

May 22 Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop

May 05 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"

May 04 General strike hits Britain

May 31 Portuguese President Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup

May 17 German Government of Marx takes power

May 20 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

May 23 Lebanon becomes a republic

May 08 The birth of David Attenborough, English director

May 08 The first flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)

May 28 US Customs Court created by congress

May 12 British general strike ends

May 13 German Government of Luther falls

May 15 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike

May 20 Belgian Government of Jaspar takes power

May 03 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)

May 12 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared

May 22 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China

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