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May 25, 1965: Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title.
May 25, 1969: Midnight Cowboy, the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar, was released.
May 25, 1979: The worst air disaster in U.S. history (excluding the Sept. 11 attacks) occurred when a DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport, killing over 270 people.
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May 24, 1844: Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"
May 24, 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.
May 24, 1899: W.T. McCullough of Boston, Mass., opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.
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May 23, 1788: South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.
May 23, 1934: Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.
May 23, 1949: The German Federal Republic came into existence.
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May 22, 1455: The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans.
May 22, 1849: Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.
May 22, 1992: Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show.
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May 22, 1881: Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross.
May 22, 1927: Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic (from New York to Paris) in his monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.
May 22, 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland).
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May 20, 1927: Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.
May 20, 1978: Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.
May 20, 1996: In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
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May 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded.
May 19, 1928: The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California.
May 19, 1935: British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
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May 18, 1896: The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."
May 18, 1953: Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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