26 May 1897     ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker was published.
26 May 1923     The first 24 Hours Le Mans endurance race took place.
26 May 1927     The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

27 May 1199     John was crowned King of England.
27 May 1930     New York’s Chrysler Building, the world’s tallest man-made structure at the time, opened to the public.
27 May 1933     Walt Disney’s short film ‘3 Little Pigs’ was released.
27 May 1937     The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrians.
27 May 1940     British and Allied forces began the evacuation of Dunkirk.
27 May 1977     The Sex Pistols released ‘God Save the Queen’.
27 May 1999     The Space Shuttle docked with the International Space Station for the first time.
27 May 2003     Angelina Jolie divorced Billy Bob Thornton.
27 May 2022     ‘Top Gun Maverick’ was released starring Tom Cruise 36 years after the original film.

28 May 1742     The first indoor swimming pool opened at Goodman’s Fields in London.
28 May 1907     The first Isle of Man TT race took place.
28 May 1937     Volkswagen, the German car maker, was founded.
28 May 1984     Eric Morecambe died.
28 May 2013     Courteney Cox and David Arquette divorced after 13 years of marriage.
28 May 2017     F1 driver Takuma Sato won his first Indianapolis 500.

29 May 1942     Bing Crosby recorded Irving Berlin’s song ‘White Christmas’.
29 May 1953     Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
29 May 1968     Manchester United won the European Cup.

30 May 1536     King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, the lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
30 May 1911     The RMS Titanic was launched in Belfast.
30 May 1974     The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft went into service.
30 May 2003     Air France retired its fleet of Concorde aircraft.
30 May 2008     Usain Bolt broke the world record in the 100m sprint, with a 9.72 seconds.

31 May 1976     The Who set a record for the loudest concert at 120 decibels at 50 meters, at The Valley stadium in London.
31 May 1998     Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls.
31 May 2007     Rihanna released her breakthrough album ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’.
31 May 2007     Billie Piper and DJ Chris Evans divorced.
31 May 2014     Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ became the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube.

01 June 1533    Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England.
01 June 1967    The Beatles released “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
01 June 1980    CNN was launched.