🎒🐰💭’16 May 1891, The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current.
🎒🐰💭’15 May 2010, Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
🎒🐰💭’14 May 1973, Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
🎒🐰💭’13 May 1950, The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
🎒🐰💭’12 May 1926, The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
🎒🐰💭’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.