Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for “fifth of May” and is a Mexican civic holiday that commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over French forces at the Battle of
Puebla on May 5, 1862. It is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla and the
United States.

Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State University students
protesting the invasion of Cambodia, the escalation of the Vietnam War and
the presence of the guard on campus located in the city of Kent, Ohio. Four
students died and nine were wounded. The incident became an icon for many 
of the Baby Boom generation.

The shooting site on the Kent State campus today with the Victory Bell

The memorial on the campus of Kent State

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German
industrialist credited with saving the lives of almost 1,200 Jews during the
Holocaust of  World War ll by Nazi Germany. Oskar employed them in his
enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now
Poland and the Czech Republic. He is the subject of the novel Schindler’s Ark
(1982) by Australian author Thomas Keneally , and the 1993 Steven Spielberg
film Schindler’s List.

Oskar Schindler (center) with some of his Jewish workers at the Krakow
enamel factory around 1943

Liam Neeson (top) and Ralph Fiennes star in the Steven Spielberg film

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) made
his last official appearance in a farewell address to the U.S. Congress on April
19, 1951. The address was interrupted by fifty ovations and is considered to
be one of the most impressive and divisive oratorical performances of recent  
times.