Jen and Jon Johnson

On May 24, 1899, the first public parking garage in the United States was
established in Boston, Massachusetts & was advertised as a “stable for
renting, sale, storage, and repair of motor vehicles.”

On May 21, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his single engine plane entitled the
Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, France, completing the first solo airplane
flight across the Atlantic Ocean.  It took 33.5 hours.

On May 9, 1960, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the 1st
commercially produced birth-control bill-Enovid-10 ending a struggle that
began in 1916 by Margaret Sanger.

On May 7, 1915, during World War I the passenger ship the Lusitania is sunk
by German submarines off the coast of Ireland.  The boat sinks in just 20
minutes killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans.

On May 2, 1945, approx. 1 million Nazi soldiers lay down their arms as part
of the Nazi unconditional surrender & in Berlin the Soviets take 134,000
German soldiers prisoner – ending WWII in Europe

On May 1, 1960, during the Cold War, an American U-2 spy plane, run by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is shot down while conducting espionage
over the Soviet Union