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MAY 9
Kathy Lehane Cawthorne was born.
Tim McElhinney was born.
1914 – Mother’s Day became a public holiday.
1994 – The South African parliament chose Nelson Mandela as president.
MAY 10
John L. Muldoon was born.
Laura Flower Bruns was born.
Karen Potter was born.
Meghan Anderson was born.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.
1940 – Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.
MAY 11
1997 – IBM’s supercomputer, Deep Blue, defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six-game chess match.
May 12
Coleen Lane was born.
Elise Heeran was born.
1932 – The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s kidnapped baby was found.
1943 – Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
May 13
Lynn Heeran was born.
1940 – Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Rome.
May 14
Tricia Davey was born.
Tim Harkins was born.
Bernadette O’Brien was born.
Maureen Hayes was born.
Ginna Siegrist was born.
1904 – The Olympic Games were held in the United States for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri.
1998 – Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82.
May 15
Courtney Donahue was born.
1940 – Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
