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May 1

Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman

American actor and director

Amistad, crime thriller Kiss the Girls, and science fiction disaster film Deep Impact. In 2004, he played Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris in Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2011, Freeman received the AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Freeman has also narrated several documentaries and television series, including Cosmic Voyage, Slavery and the Making of America, March of the Penguins, and Breaking the Taboo. (Full list...
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May 4

A child with measles
A child with measles

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May 8

Statue of Winston Churchill on Parliament Square, Westminster
Statue of Winston Churchill on Parliament Square, Westminster

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Cenotaph in Whitehall. So great is the number of memorials in the borough that Westminster City Council has deemed an area stretching from Whitehall to St James's to be a "monument saturation zone", where the addition of new memorials is generally discouraged. (Full list...
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May 11

Pete Rose
Pete Rose

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May 15

George Harrison
George Harrison

W H Smith & Son stores – the first single to reach number one on the Top Pops chart was "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. The charts and paper were published weekly with effect from 22 June 1968. On 20 September 1969 the paper was rebranded Top Pops & Music Now, and subsequently became Music Now from 21 March 1970. From 27 February 1971 the chart was no longer published and in May 1971 the newspaper ceased publication. The only song to be knocked off number one and then regain the top spot was "Mony Mony" by Tommy James and the Shondells. The final chart-topper was "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison (pictured). (Full list...
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May 18

The University of North Dakota's University Avenue
The University of North Dakota's University Avenue

There are twenty-one colleges and universities in the U.S. state of North Dakota that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Fargo-based North Dakota State University (NDSU) is the largest public institution, with an enrollment of 14,407 students for fall 2010. The state's second-largest post-secondary institution, the University of North Dakota (UND) (University Avenue pictured), enrolls 14,194 students as of fall 2010 enrollment data. University of Jamestown, founded in 1883 – six years before North Dakota became a state – is the oldest post-secondary institution. The North Dakota University System contains eleven public colleges, which includes NDSU. Including University of Jamestown, there are also seven private universities in North Dakota. The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, a part of UND, is the state's only medical school. The majority of North Dakota's post-secondary institutions are accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Most are accredited by multiple agencies. (Full list...)

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May 22

English order of Knighthood star
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May 25

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James Gunn, at the time the Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction. From 1987 through 1994 the award was given out by a panel of science fiction experts led by Orson Scott Card. Beginning in 1995, the committee was replaced by a group of jurors, who vote on the nominations submitted for consideration. The winner is selected by May of each year, and is presented at the Campbell Conference awards banquet in June at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. During the 28 years the award has been active, 167 authors have had works nominated, 29 of whom have won, including one tie. No author has won more than once. (Full list...
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May 29

1888–89 New Zealand Native football team
1888–89 New Zealand Native football team

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Auckland. They played 74 matches in the British Isles—with 36 of these in their first three months. Following their departure from Plymouth in March 1889, the Natives travelled to Melbourne, Australia. There the team played eight Victorian rules football matches, and two rugby games. (Full list...
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