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4th June 1855: United States Camel Corps initiated when USS Supply departed New York City for the Mediterranean to obtain camels

The camels proved themselves to be both fast and strong, easily outperforming the horses and mules that the Army had used up until that ...

2nd June 1774: The British Parliament passes the Quartering Act, the fourth of the punitive laws passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party

Just a few months later the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, uniting the colonies in the face of increasingly oppressive British ...

1st June 1916: Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

As a Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis wrote opinions in favor of individual liberty and freedom of speech, while protecting citizens’ right to ...

31st May 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre breaks out in Oklahoma

The final report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot, published in 2001, estimated that around 300 people may have died in the ...

30th May 1899: Female bandit Pearl Hart and her partner, Joe Boot, commit one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies

Pearl Hart became a celebrity and acquired the nickname ‘Bandit ...

29th May 1942: The song “White Christmas” recorded by Bing Crosby

“White Christmas” has since gone on to become the world’s biggest-selling single of all ...

28th May 1830: The Indian Removal Act signed into law by President Andrew Jackson

While some tribes signed agreements with the American government, tens of thousands of Native Americans were forcibly resettled by the ...

26th May 1647: Alse Young of Windsor, Connecticut, is the first person to be executed for witchcraft in America

Young was executed in Hartford on 26th May ...

23rd May 1934: Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde ambushed by police and killed in rural Louisiana

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were driving their stolen Ford V8 when they were engulfed in a hail of more than 100 ...

19th May 1962: Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to President John F. Kennedy

Kennedy joked that he could ‘retire after having had “Happy Birthday” sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome ...