May 17, 2020 This Day in History: May 17 The New York Stock Exchange has its beginnings. The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision.
May 15, 2020 This Day in History: May 15 Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace is shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for president in Laurel, Md.; President Barack Obama dedicates the National September 11 Memorial & Museum
May 14, 2020 This Day in History: May 14 The United States launches Skylab 1, its first manned space station. Comic legend Tim Conway, a four-time Emmy-winning star of "The Carol Burnett Show," dies at age 85.
May 13, 2020 This Day in History: May 13 Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, are spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded;
May 7, 2020 This Day in History: May 7 President Gerald R. Ford formally declares an end to the “Vietnam era.” A $180 million out-of-court settlement is announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit
May 6, 2020 This Day in History: May 6 The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg catches fire and crashes; Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, welcomed their firstborn child
May 5, 2020 This Day in History: May 5 The first Three Stooges short for Columbia Pictures, “Woman Haters,” is released.; astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes America’s first space traveler.
May 4, 2020 This Day in History: May 4 The first group of “Freedom Riders” leaves Washington, D.C.; Ohio National Guardsmen open fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University; the 'Unabomber' is sentenced