15th » The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1850
1st » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (d. 1942)
8th » Ross Barnes, American baseball player (d. 1915)
12th » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (d. 1924)
18th » Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1925)
21st » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
Famous Deaths for May 1850
9th » Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
9th » Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)