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2004 – David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (b. 1965) [47] 2005 – David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930) 2008 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918) [48] 2009 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933)
May 21 is the 141st day of the year ... 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, ... Irish-born, English physician ...
May (in Latin, Maius) was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May. Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for "elders," and that the following month (June) is ...
May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) ... A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon. 1945 ...
1744 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German-born Queen to George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1818) [17] 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1814) 1773 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (d. 1854) 1795 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1873)
Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 46 metres (150 ft) into the water and die. 1980 – In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty ...
2010 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board. 2015 – A train derailment in Philadelphia, United States, kills eight people and injures more than 200. 2015 – Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3,500.
May 14 is the 134th day of the year ... killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city ... Cuban-born American composer and music producer [49] 1959 ...