🎒🐰💭’19 May 1961, Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus.
🎒🐰💭’17 May 1969, Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
🎒🐰💭’16 May 1891, The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current.
🎒🐰💭’14 May 1973, Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
🎒🐰💭’12 May 1926, The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
🎒🐰💭’11 May 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
🎒🐰💭’7 May 1992, The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission STS-49.
🎒🐰💭’On 5 May 1961, The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
🎒🐰💭’On 2 May 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
🎒🐰💭’On 30 April 1993, CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.