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This month in history: May anniversaries--momentous or merely memorable.

Publication: Smithsonian

Publication Date: 01-MAY-05
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60 YEARS AGO: IT WAS IN ALL THE PAPERS

Five and a half years after invading Poland, Germany surrenders to the Allies and the Soviet Union in Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in a Reims, France, schoolhouse May 7, 1945. V-E Day, May 8, dawns with a euphoria tempered by an awareness of the job ahead; war will rage in the Pacific for four more months.

70 YEARS AGO: SMASH...

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