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by Terah Shelton on May 18, 2007
May 18, 1980: Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years.
May 18, 1642: The city of Montreal was founded by the French.
May 20, 1927: Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.
May 20, 1932: amelia earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
May 20, 1978: Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.
May 20, 2002: East Timor became the newest nation.
May 21, 1542: Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto died while searching for gold on the banks of the Mississippi River.
May 22, 1972: Ceylon became Sri Lanka.
May 24, 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.
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