On this Day: On May 31, 1578 Martin Frobisher sailed from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually he mined…

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On May 30, 1911 the 1st Indianapolis 500 was held.  Ray Harroun driving a Marmon Wasp for Nordyke & Marmon Company comes out of retirement, and wins the inaugural event; his average speed: 74.602 mph (120.060 km/h). The Indianapolis 500, also formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, or simply the Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis. The event is traditionally held over Memorial Day weekend, usually the last weekend of May.

On May 29, 1919 Charles Strite filed a patent for the automatic pop-up toaster. In pop-up or automatic toasters, a single vertical piece of bread is dropped into a slot on the top of the toaster. A lever on the side of the toaster is pressed down, lowering the bread into the toaster and activating the heating elements. The length of the toasting cycle (and therefore the degree of toasting) is adjustable via a lever, knob, or series of pushbuttons, and when an internal device determines that the toasting cycle is complete, the toaster turns off and the toast pops up out of the slots.

  On this Day: On May 28,1830 United States President, Andrew Jackson, signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal…

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On this Day: On May 27, 1997 the first all female (20 British women) team reach the North Pole. Answering an ad in a newspaper,…

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On May 26, 1828 a mysterious feral child, Kaspar Hauser, is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, born April 30, 1812—died December 17, 1833, in Ansbach, Bavaria [Germany]), was a German youth around whom gathered one of the 19th century’s most-celebrated mysteries.

On May 25, 2001, 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker. He was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

On May 24, 1976  in the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines. This changed a centuries-old status quo and rocked the 'civilized' world to it's roots.

On May 23, 1969, the BBC ordered 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Monty Python was born in May 1969, at the Light of Kashmir tandoori restaurant in Hampstead, where five Brits (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) and an American (animator Terry Gilliam) first sat down to discuss working together on a new BBC comedy series.

On this Day: On May 21, 1971 Marvin Gaye' eleventh album "What's Going On" is released; considered the best album off all-time by critic surveys…

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