22nd May

1772 Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (founded Brahmo Sabha), born in Radhanagar, British India (d. 1833)
1885 Victor Hugo, French author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables), dies at 83

23rd May

1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the English
1908 John Bardeen, American physicist, an electrical engineer and co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel 1956, 1972), born in Madison, Wisconsin (d. 1991)

24th May

1819 Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland (1837-1901), born in London (d. 1901)
1844 Samuel Morse taps out “What hath God wrought” in the world’s first telegraph message

25th May

1899 Birthday of Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India

26th May

1805 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy
1926 Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam. She was shot when she tried to flour the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam.
1927 Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford

27th May

1703 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1952 United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party – National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as the leader.

28th May

1963 Estimated 22,000 die in a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal (India)
1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

29th May

1658 Dara Shukoh was utterly defeated by Aurangzeb in the battle of Samugarh near Agra
1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition

30th May

1431 Hundred Years’ War: 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France
1826 The first Hindi newspaper ‘Udant Martand’ was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.
1883 Stampede caused by a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse kills 12

31st May

1818 Samachar Darpan, the first vernacular newspaper, was published in the Bengali language by Carey and Marshman from Serampore.
1928 Birthday of Pankaj Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad)