15th May
1943 Halifax bombers sink U-463
1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz
16th May
1911 Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah.
1920 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) canonized a saint
1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
17th May
1792 24 merchants formed the New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
2014 BJP wins landslide election victory in India
18th May
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate
1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb
19th May
1498 Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Count of Vidigueira, met the Jamerin of Calicut after arriving in India three days ago at Malabar Coast. He was joined by an experienced Gujarati pilot at Malindi. He was the 6th Governor and 2nd Viceroy of India.
2012 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (28) weds his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan at a small ceremony in Palo Alto, California
2016 EgyptAir flight MS804 goes missing over the Mediterranean on route Paris to Cairo
20th May
1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea
1927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain in the Treaty of Jeddah
21st May
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic
1998 Indonesian president Suharto resigns after 31 years in power
