"He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana
- 1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia
- 1796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
- 1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
- 1896 Lowest U.S. temperature in May recorded -10 degrees F - Climax, Colorado
- 1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
- 1960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
- 1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
- 1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen Square
- 1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader
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