I can't believe it's May already?! 
Did you know?
According to the early Roman calendar, May was the third month. Later, the ancient Romans used January 1 for the beginning of their year, and May became the fifth month. May has always had 31 days.

• Empire State Building opened May 1, 1931.
• Hudson's Bay Company chartered May 2, 1670.
• Catherine the Great of Russia born May 2, 1729.
• First U.S. medical school opened in Philadelphia, May 3, 1765.
• Napoleon died on St. Helena, May 5, 1821.
• Mexicans defeated French at Puebla, May 5, 1862.
• Memorial Day first observed, May 5, 1866.
• First postage stamp issued in England May 6, 1840 
• Robert Browning, English poet, born May 7, 1812.
• A German submarine sank the passenger liner Lusitania in World War I, May 7, 1915.
• Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, was born in Lamar, Mo., May 8, 1884.
• John Brown, American abolitionist, born May 9, 1800.
• Sir James Barrie, Scottish author, born May 9, 1860.
• Mother's Day became a public holiday, May 9, 1914.
• First transcontinental railway completed in Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869.
  
• Minnesota admitted to the Union May 11, 1858.
  
• Irving Berlin, American songwriter, born May 11,1888.
• Florence Nightingale, English nurse, born May 12, 1820.
• Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole, May 12, 1926.
• Austrian Empress Maria Theresa born May 13, 1717.
• Sir Arthur Sullivan, English composer, born May 13, 1842.
• United States declared war on Mexico May 13, 1846.
  
• Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist, born May 14, 1686.
• Robert Owen, social reformer, born May 14, 1771.
• Edward Jenner, a British physician, performed the first vaccination against smallpox in May 14, 1796.
• Lewis and Clark began trip up Missouri River, May 14, 1804.
  
• Israel became an independent country as the last British troops left Palestine, May 14, 1948.
• Pierre Curie, codiscoverer of radium, born May 15,1859.
• U.S. began first regular airmail service May 15, 1918.
  
• William Seward, American statesman who arranged the purchase of Alaska, born May 16, 1801.
  
• John Hopkins, American philanthropist, born May 19, 1795.
  
• Homestead Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln, May 20, 1862.
  
• Amelia Earhart began the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean May 20, 1932.
  
• Albrecht Durer, German engraver, born May 21, 1471.
• Alexander Pope, English poet, born May 21, 1688.
• First Democratic National Convention held May 21, 1832.
  
• Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross May 21, 1881.
  
• Charles Lindbergh finished first translantic solo flight May 21, 1927.
  
• Richard Wagner, German composer, born May 22,1813.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, born May 22, 1859.
• Laurence Olivier, British actor, born May 22, 1907.
• South Carolina became the eighth state May 23, 1788
• First permanent English settlement in America established in Jamestown, VA., May 24, 1607.
  
• Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic, May 24, 1883.
  
• Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia with George Washington as president, May 25, 1787.
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet, born May 25, 1803.
  
• Julia Ward Howe, American poet who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", born May 27, 1819.
  
• Jay Gould, American financier, born May 27, 1836.
  
• Isadora Duncan, American dancer, born may 27, 1878.
  
• Golden Gate Bridge opened at San Francisco May 27, 1937.
  
• Patrick Henry, American statesman and orator, born May 29, 1736.
  
• Rhode Island ratified the Constitution, becoming the 13th state, May 29, 1790.
  
• Wisconsin became the 30th state, May 29, 1848.
  
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born in Brookline, Mass, May 29, 1917.
  
• Christopher Columbus began his third voyage May 30, 1498.
  
• U.S. Copyright law enacted May 31, 1790.
  
• Walt Whitman, American poet, born May 31, 1819.
  
• Amendment 17 to the Constitution, providing direct election of senators, proclaimed, May 31, 1913.

The May sketch is up at My Sketch World and I think it's one of my favorite sketches by Lucy.
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May Sketch:

My take on the May sketch after I turned it upside down.