Historical Events In May - 20

1973 25th Emmy Awards Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore win

1974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth

1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris France

1978 US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces first global radar map of Venus

1980 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated

1980 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss

1980 Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157

1980 In a referendum, 59.5% of Québec voters reject separatism

1980 Peter Criss quits as drummer for the rock band Kiss

1983 Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1983 Michael Dokes & Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1985 Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1300 for first time

1985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR

1985 Israel exchanges 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers

1985 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti

1986 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA

1986 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv

1987 Götenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee

1987 Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king"

1989 China declares martial law in Beijing

1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live

1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top

1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends first photograph's from space

1990 The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photographs back to Earth

1991 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP

1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad

1992 FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London

1992 India launches its first satellite independently

1992 Rap singer raps 597 syllables in 55.12 seconds

1993 10 meter meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)

1993 274th & final "Cheers" on NBC

1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns

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