May 10 French Government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria

May 02 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus

May 04 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam

May 16 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia

May 27 French raid in Algiers

May 28 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus

May 27 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

May 12 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves

May 03 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')

May 02 US Methodist church disallows race separation

May 07 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300

May 05 World championships of judo are first held, in Tokyo

May 11 Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV

May 05 The first runner to break the four-minute mile within the United States was Jim Bailey and he was clocked at a speedy 3:58.6 in Los Angeles, CA.

May 15 In Orleans Ontario, a Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashes into the Grey Nuns' Home for the Aged in Orleans, killing 15 people, including 11 nuns.

May 20 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll

May 16 Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China

May 05 The first runner to break the four-minute mile within the United States was Jim Bailey and he was clocked at a speedy 3 58.6 in Los Angeles, CA.

May 22 "Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV

May 20 Jordan government of Samir resigns

May 07 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

May 23 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers

May 25 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas

May 26 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off Rhode Island, killing 103

May 30 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

May 18 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy

May 21 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms

May 23 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Fransisco

May 04 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

May 14 2 RAR attacks communist terrorists near Sungei Siput, Malaya

May 18 Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam

May 24 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha celebrated in India

May 30 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL

May 21 US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

Jan 26 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

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