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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