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On May 30th, 1971, a robotic spacecraft named Mariner 9, part of the NASA Mariner  program, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The eldest of six children, Grace Hoadley Dodge is born this day, May 21st, 1856 in Manhattan to Sarah Tappan and William Earl Dodge from a family of significant wealth in copper mining.

On May 14th, 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began an expedition to explore the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and land in the West.

On May 8th, 1852, Louisa May Alcott's "The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome" was published by The Boston Olive Branch, a weekly paper that circulated from 1836-1857, with elegant, refined writing and leanings toward Christianity.

What happens when a website that you have been relying on as a source is taken down? For scholars that use government data, resources, and information, this is a serious problem for research and academic integrity. Thankfully, information workers have been working to archive the internet.

Citizen Kane premiered on May 1st, 1941 at the RKO Palace at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and Forty-Seventh Street in the northern end of Times Square, Manhattan. Representing the debut of Orson Welles as a film director, it became one of the greatest movies of all time, acclaimed for its innovative use of lighting and editing...