The month of May was named for the Greek goddess Maia. She was the goddess of fertility. In any given year, no month ever begins or ends on the same day of the week as May does. • May 3, 2002 - Spider-Man was released and became the fastest movie ever to earn more than $100 million in a single weekend, as well as the most successful film based on a comic book at the time. • May 15, 1942 - Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACs) was formed, granting women official military status • May 20 ,1927 - American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, NY, on the world’s first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. • May 25, 1977 - Star Wars opened in movie theaters marking the biggest entertainment juggernaut in modern popular culture. • May 27, 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin Count, California opened. • May 28, 1897 – Jell-o was introduced • May 30, 1966 - Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body (the Moon). • May 31, 1859 – Big Ben, located at the top of London’s 320-foot-high St. Stephen’s Tower, began operating.
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