Historical Events In May - 09
1964 Khrushchev visits Egypt
1964 Peter &Gordon release "World Without Love"
1965 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
1965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) first attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1966 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1967 The first flight of the short haul Fokker F-28 Fellowship is made
1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1971 23rd Emmy Awards All in the Family, Jack Klugman &Jean Stapleton
1971 Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3 01 42)
1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
1971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history
1974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Republic of Cameroon
1977 Patty Hearst let out of jail
1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
1979 US &USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in the Bronx named for a Bronx historian
1986 Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two people to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, dies
1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1987 Actor Tom Cruise (27) &actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
1988 Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
1988 Belgium 8th Government of Martens forms
1989 Journalists petition Chinese Government for freedom of press
1989 Vice President Dan Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"
1990 New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
1991 Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
1992 America's Cup finals begin in San Diego
1992 Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
1992 Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
1993 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
1993 Paraguay holds its first presidential &parliamentary elections in 50 years
1994 Massachusetts murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York
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