Events
- May 12–25 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis conducted the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
- May 24 – Brazilian driver Hélio Castroneves won the 93rd Indianapolis 500 in Speedway, Indiana, United States.
- May 27 – The planets Jupiter and Neptune experienced a triple conjunction.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden into history, it is the stories we didn’t write, the questions we didn’t ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)