May 30

Joan of Arc is executed (1431); Historian and philosopher Voltaire dies (1778); First Indianapolis 500 is held; see footage (1911); Lincoln Memorial is dedicated (1922); Crew Dragon Demo-2 becomes first commercial flight to International Space Station (2020).

May 31

Poet Walt Whitman born (1819); London’s Big Ben ticks for the first time (1859); Clint Eastwood born (1930); Brooke Shields born (1965); Watergate secret source "Deep Throat" is revealed (2005).

May 29

Comedian Bob Hope born (1903); President John F. Kennedy born (1917); Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are first to reach Mount Everest summit (1953); Danica Patrick is first woman to lead at Indy 500 (2005).

May 28

Native American athlete Jim Thorpe born (1887); Volkswagen founded in Germany (1937); Singer Gladys Knight born (1944); Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou dies (2014).

May 27

Marine biologist and author Rachel Carson born (1907); US statesman Henry Kissinger born (1923); Ford ends manufacture of iconic Model T (1927); Golden Gate Bridge opens in California (1937); Outkast rapper André 3000 born (1975).

May 26

Dow Jones Industrial Average begins with 12 stocks (1896); Actor John Wayne born (1907); Legendary jazz musician Miles Davis born (1926); First American woman in space, Sally Ride, born (1951); Musician Lauryn Hill born (1975).

May 24

United Kingdom's Queen Victoria is born (1819); New York's Brooklyn Bridge opens to the public (1883); Musician Bob Dylan is born (1941); Four men are sentenced to 240 years in prison for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (1994); Musician Tina Turner dies (2023)