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Events
- 1660 – Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1792 – Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1796 – Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally–wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, cries out "Don't give up the ship!"
- 1855 – American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
- 1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
- 1886 – The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
- 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1925 – Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995.
- 1956 – First international flight (to YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
- 1958 – Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
- 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 2005 – The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurred in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
- 2007 – Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10–25 year prison term for second–degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.