May 22, 1906 - The Wright Brothers are granted a patent for their "flying machine.”
May 22, 1972 - President Richard Nixon became the first American president to visit Moscow. Four days later, Nixon and Soviet Russia's leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pact pledging to freeze nuclear arsenals at current levels.
May 23, 1785 - Benjamin Franklin invents bifocals.
May 23, 1934 - Legendary bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush in Louisiana.
May 24, 1844 - Telegraph inventor Samuel Morse sent the first official telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?" from the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
May 24, 1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge is formally opened.
May 25, 1787 - The Constitutional Convention began in Philadelphia with delegates from seven states forming a quorum.
May 25, 1927 - Ford ceases production of the Model "T".
May 25, 1961 - President John F. Kennedy announces a goal to put an American astronaut on the moon.
May 26, 1805 - Lewis and Clark first see the Rocky Mountains.
May 26, 1940 - During WWII, the trapped British Expeditionary Force evacuates the European mainland from Dunkirk, France.
May 27, 1647 - Achsah Young is the first woman to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts.
May 27, 1941 – The British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck.
May 28, 1961 - Amnesty International is founded by London lawyer Peter Berenson. Today Amnesty International has over a million members in 150 countries working to free prisoners of conscience, stop torture, abolish the death penalty, and guarantee human rights for women.
