| spring | | Mexican indpendence day |
| Kentucky Derby | | 4 students gunned down on this Ohio college campus |
| Indianapolis | | joins the country east and west with tracks and golden spike |
| Mexico | | Americas first war ends this month |
| VE day | | site of 500 mile race |
| Alan Shepherd | | this San Francisco monument opens this month |
| Memorial Day | | May is the end of this season |
| mothers day | | Lucky Lindy flies across this body of water |
| May Day | | celebrates all veterans at months end |
| osama bin laden | | terrorist kingpin killed May 2nd |
| Christopher Columbus | | US declares war on souther neighbor in 1846 |
| Cinco de Mayo | | his second new world trip discovers Jamaica |
| Kent State | | first of the month, the soviet labor day |
| Atlantic | | famous horse race ran second sunday |
| Golden Gate Bridge | | gangster couple gunned down by the cops |
| Jhonstown Flood | | first american in space |
| Empire state building | | tallest building in New York opens this month |
| Trans Contenintal Railroad | | Germany surrenders ending war in Europe |
| Revolutionary War | | more tsunami than flood hundred die in Pennsylvania |
| bonnie and clyde | | celebrates mom |
