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Show Memorable days during May May 1, 1873 Penny post cards were sold for the first time by the United States Post Office. (The first post cards origniated four years earlier in Austria) . May, 1933 Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross was sworn in as the first woman director of the United States Mint. May 5, 1920 One of the most spectacular and contro-versal contro-versal trials of the century got underway at Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested on charges of murdering murder-ing two payroll guards at South Braintree, Mass. May 6, 1840 The first postage stamp, the "penny black" was issued in England. May 7, 1912 Final plans for establishing Pulitzer Prizes were approved by Columbia University. May 8, 1914 President Wilson issued a proclamation, approved by Congress, establishing estab-lishing an annual Mother's day on the second Sunday in May. May 11, 1832 Presidential campaigners for Henry Clay became the first politicians to draw up a political platform in Washington, D. C. May 14, 1904 The Olympic Games international athletic competitions were initiated with the United States as host to the games for the first time. (The festival was held in St. Louis, Missouri). May 22, 1868 The Great Train Robbery was staged on an Indianopolis bound train netting the seven Reno gang members $98,000 in cash. Motorists in 1963 raced down the nation's highways to a new all-time auto death record for the first time exceeded 42,000 fatalities. This tragic toll topped top-ped the figure of nearly 40,000 persons killed in 1941 a record rec-ord high which stood for 20 years and even surpassed the new record of 40,500 deaths established in 1962. |