Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)

Birth

Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson

Birth

Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)

Birth

Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores

Event

-May 17] Battle of Princeton WV

Event

Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia

Event

Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London

Event

Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens

Event

Department of Agriculture created

Event

Battle of New Market, Virginia

Event

Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)

Event

Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion)

Birth

Dutch Govt of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls

Event

National Woman Suffrage Assn forms

Event

Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87

Death

Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53

Death

Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [NS]

Birth

2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38¬

Event

Francisco Pujol, composer

Birth

Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)

Birth

May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania

Event

Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany

Event

Stanley Robert Marchant, composer

Birth

Canadian M‚ti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan

Event

Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55

Death