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100 years ago: MAY 1922

• Ivy Williams was the first woman to be called to the English bar.

• Actor Christopher Lee, who played Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, was born.

• Actor Denholm Elliott was born.

90 years ago: MAY 1932

• British physicist James Chadwick discovers the neutron.

• American aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman

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