May 27, 1907 American biologist Rachel Carson , who was known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the ...

 

  May 26, 1940 The British and Allied Forces Escape at Dunkirk On this day in 1940, during World War II , the British Expeditionary Force (...

 

  May 25, 2020 George Floyd , an unarmed African American man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, setting off massive pr...

  May 24, 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge A brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge —spanning the East River fr...