Richard M. Hollingshead Jr.'s ‘Automobile Movie Theatre’ opened on a 400-acre plot of land on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken Township, and could accommodate 400 cars parked on ramps facing a 40 foot by 50 foot ...

5th June 1947: U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivers a speech at Harvard University outlining his financial plan for post-war Europe

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The Marshall Plan provided aid to 16 Western European nations, distributing more than $13 billion of aid over a four year ...

4th June 1855: United States Camel Corps initiated when USS Supply departed New York City for the Mediterranean to obtain camels

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The camels proved themselves to be both fast and strong, easily outperforming the horses and mules that the Army had used up until that ...

3rd June 1943: Zoot Suit Riots erupt in Los Angeles, California, during the Second World War

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The riots began on the night of 3 June, 1943, when a group of sailors on shore leave clashed with Mexican American youths in downtown Los ...

2nd June 1774: The British Parliament passes the Quartering Act, the fourth of the punitive laws passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party

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Just a few months later the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, uniting the colonies in the face of increasingly oppressive British ...

1st June 1916: Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

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As a Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis wrote opinions in favor of individual liberty and freedom of speech, while protecting citizens’ right to ...

31st May 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre breaks out in Oklahoma

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The final report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot, published in 2001, estimated that around 300 people may have died in the ...

30th May 1911: Indianapolis 500 automobile race takes place for the first time

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Ray Harroun secured victory with a time of 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 8 seconds, averaging a speed of 74.59 miles per ...

29th May 1942: The song “White Christmas” recorded by Bing Crosby

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“White Christmas” has since gone on to become the world’s biggest-selling single of all ...

28th May 1830: The Indian Removal Act signed into law by President Andrew Jackson

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While some tribes signed agreements with the American government, tens of thousands of Native Americans were forcibly resettled by the ...

27th May 1942: Reinhard Heydrich fatally injured in an assassination attempt in Prague, Czechoslovakia

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Heydrich's death triggered brutal reprisals from the Nazis against the Czechoslovakian people, including the complete destruction of the village of Lidice and the massacre of its ...

26th May 1647: Alse Young becomes the first person to be executed for witchcraft in America at Windsor, Connecticut

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Alse Young was executed for witchcraft in Hartford on 26th May ...

25th May 1521: Edict of Worms issued by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V against Martin Luther

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The Edict of Worms condemned Luther’s writings as heretical and prohibited their publication, distribution, and possession within the Holy Roman Empire. The edict effectively excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church and sought to suppress

24th May 1798: United Irishmen Rebellion, also known as the Irish Rebellion of 1798, begins in Ireland

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The United Irishmen, a revolutionary republican organization inspired by Wolfe Tone, saw Irish Protestants join with the Catholic majority to achieve Irish independence and establish a ...

23rd May 1934: Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde ambushed by police and killed in rural Louisiana

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Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were driving their stolen Ford V8 when they were engulfed in a hail of more than 100 ...

22nd May 1939: The Pact of Steel signed between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

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The Pact of Steel stipulated that Germany and Italy would support each other militarily and politically in the event of war, promising mutual assistance and ...

21st May 1904: FIFA founded in Paris as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association

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The founding members of FIFA included football associations from Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. England joined the following ...

20th May 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law

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Approximately 270 million acres of land were claimed and settled under the provisions of the act, with parcels of land continuing to be claimed in Alaska as late as the ...

19th May 1962: Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to President John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy joked that he could ‘retire after having had “Happy Birthday” sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome ...

18th May 1896: The Supreme Court delivers its verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson that approves the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine

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Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal ...

17th May 1792: The Buttonwood Agreement signed by 24 stockbrokers, establishing the New York Stock Exchange

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These original New York stockbrokers traded from the Tontine Coffee House at 82 Wall Street before moving to their first dedicated trading space in ...

16th May 1771: The Battle of Alamance ends the Regulator Movement in Provincial North Carolina

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The Battle of Alamance has since been seen by some as a precursor to the American ...

15th May 1943: Stalin dissolves the Communist International (Comintern) that aimed to promote worldwide communism

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After Germany's invasion of the USSR, Stalin begin actively seeking to improve relations with capitalist powers in order to focus on the war effort against the Axis forces so made the decision to dissolve the Comintern as a gesture of goodwill

14th May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia, established as the first permanent English settlement in North America

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They quickly began to construct a triangular fort containing a number of houses alongside a storehouse and a church, which they named James Fort after King James ...