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Show THIS DATK IN HISTORY MAY 1. "And the spring come slowly up this way." Tbe name is probably derived from Maio, a feuiinlno divinity worshiped at Rome on tlio nret day of this month, ' May first in the festival of the Anglican church In honor of St. Philip and St. James the Less, apostles. IMS-Birth of Sebastian de Vauban, a distill-fruished distill-fruished French military writer and engineer; died 1707. lCrsi Birth of Joseph Addison, political essayist; died 1719; famous for his prose papers In The Spectator. I700--fceath of John Dryden, England's poet laureate; lau-reate; born Aug. 10, 1681; translator of tbe .ffineid, tie. 1707-Act of union with England passed by the Scotch parliament goes into operation. 1709 Birth of Arthur Wf'lesley, Duke of Wcllin--ton, greatest of English generals; defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, June 18, 1815. 1860- Explosion of 8,000 barrete of gunpowder at Benares, India; 80 Teasels destroyed and 1.8J0 persons killed and T-ounded. 1861- Birth of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen V ictoria. 1851 Great London exhibition opened; closed In October. 186SS New Orleans formally occupied by troops under (Sen. B. F. Butler, commanding department depart-ment of the gulf. 1862- Openlng of the International exhibition, South Kensington, England; closed Nov. 1. It63 Union victory at Port Gibson. Miss., alio known as Magnolia Hills. The first engagement engage-ment In Grant's campaign against Vicksburg. Union loss, 868; Confederate loss, 1,650. 1808 Battle of Chancellorsville, Va., followed by engagements until the 4th. Union forces commanded com-manded by Oen. Joe Hooker; Confederates by Robert E. Lee. Union loss in the four days' battles, 18,800; Confederate, 1281. 1805-Alliance between Brazil, Uruguay and Argentine Ar-gentine Confederatim. 1871 The Communist in possession of Pari revolution. 1872 Oreat eruption of Mount Vesuvius, beginning begin-ning April 14. 1878 Opening of International exhibition fn Vienna. Vi-enna. 1870 Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India. 1885 Death of Cornelius K. Garrison, New York merchant, aged 70, |