Seventh Grade Science

Yearbook 07/08

Creative Writing 

What happened in the month of May?

Check out what events in history happened in May!!

• •The first United States Postal Card was issued, 1873
• •The Empire State Building opened, 1931
• •Artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France, 1519
• •Captain John Smith landed at Jamestown, 1607
• •Good Housekeeping magazine first published in Holyoke, •Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city, 1802
• •West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax, 1921
• •Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on present-day Manhattan Island, 1626
• •Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, 1776
• •Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on St. Helena, 1821
• ••Astronaut Alan Shepard went on the first manned space flight, 1961
• •The Hindenburg crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., 1937
• •The Transcontinental Railroad was completed, 1869  
• •B.F. Goodrich Company developed the tubeless tire, 1947
• •The first vaccination against smallpox was administered by English doctor Edward Jenner, 1796
• •Lewis & Clark's expedition began, 1804
• •Issuance of the nickel coin was authorized by Congress, 1866

                How do each of these events relate to physical science?