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Suffering hundreds of death threats for his politically incorrect stand on the value of human life, William Lloyd Garrison died MAY 24, 1879. "Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion."

MAY 20, 1927, at 7:52am, one of the greatest feats in aviation began as 25-year-old Charles A. Lindbergh left Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, in his silver monoplane named "The Spirit of St. Louis."

After the State of Israel came into being on MAY 14, 1948, a homeland for the thousands of Jews who were persecuted and displaced during World War II. Against all odds, Israel survived.

After twenty-six years of work, Noah Webster published the first American Dictionary of the English Language. He left Yale for four years to fight in the Revolutionary War and died MAY 28, 1843.

"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet born on MAY 25, 1803.