Fox Nation Patriot's Almanac

Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al-Qaeda, is killed by Navy SEALs in Pakistan May 1, 2011.

Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive games played comes to an end on May 2, 1939.

On May 3, 1802, Washington, D.C., was officially incorporated as a city.

On May 4, 1961, the Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., in hope of challenging segregation laws.

On May 5, 1988, the first Thursday in May is designated as the National Day of Prayer.

On May 6, 1940, John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for the classic American novel, "The Grapes of Wrath."

On May 7, 1789, George Washington traveled north from his home of Mount Vernon, Va., to attend the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

On May 8, 1945, Americans celebrated VE Day after a tremendous victory in Europe over Nazi Germany.

On May 9, 1754, Benjamin Franklin published "Join, or Die," America's first political cartoon.

The First Transcontinental Railroad is opened to traffic May 10, 1869.

A storm known as the Dust Bowl strikes May 11, 1934.

On May 12, 1864, one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War occurred at Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia.

On May 13, 1864, Union Pvt. William Henry Christmas, 21, becomes the first soldier buried at Arlington.

On May 14, 1973, the U.S. space station and laboratory Skylab is launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin a journey of discovery.

Lower Manhattan's National September 11 Memorial & Museum is dedicated in New York City on May 15, 2014.

On May 16, 1842, about 100 pioneers set out from Independence, Mo., in one of the first wagon trains to follow the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest.

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case establishes that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

At 8:32 a.m. on May 18, 1980, an earthquake hits below the north face of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, triggering the largest landslide in recorded history and a major eruption.

The Empire State Building is designated as an official New York City landmark May 19, 1981.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh attempts to fly solo nonstop from New York City to Paris.

Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross on May 21, 1881.

In 1972, Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit Moscow to help thaw tensions during the Cold War.

Lawmen ambush and kill outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Louisiana in 1934.

In 1961, Freedom Riders are arrested for using whites-only facilities in Jackson, Miss.

Vice President Hubert Humphrey dedicates the Gateway Arch monument in St. Louis in 1968.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average debuts in 1896.

Foghorns announce the opening of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge at 6 a.m. on May 27, 1937.

In 1957, National League owners vote to allow baseball's New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to move to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively.

In 2004, the National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

Memorial Day is widely observed for the first time in 1868.

The last Ford Model T rolls off the production line in 1927.