10th » Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
22nd » Reconstruction Era called Reconstruction: President of the United States e.g U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1872
1st » Sidónio Pais, Portuguese politician, 4th President of Portugal (d. 1918)
1st » Harry Leon Wilson, American author (d. 1939)
6th » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1934)
10th » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1950)
12th » Anton Korošec, Slovenian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1940)
14th » Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
18th » Bertrand Russell e.g Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
28th » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
31st » W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator (d. 1944)
Famous Deaths for May 1872
7th » Alexander Loyd, American politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
24th » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)