Historical Events
- May 4 Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
May 24 Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Famous Deaths
- May 21 Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician, dies at 83
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