🎒🐰💭’11 May 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
🎒🐰💭’10 May 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
🎒🐰💭’9 May 2012, Mark Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow” becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars.
🎒🐰💭’8 May 1978, The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
🎒🐰💭’7 May 1992， The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission STS-49.
🎒🐰💭’6 May 1954, Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
🎒🐰💭’On 5 May 1961, The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
🎒🐰💭’On 4 May 1959, The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
🎒🐰💭’On 3 May 1960, The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time
🎒🐰💭’On 2 May 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.