May 01 West Germany introduces 5 day work week

May 11 "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4

May 20 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship

May 04 The first Grammy Awards: Perry Como &Ella Fitzgerald win

May 24 The first house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)

May 08 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore

May 19 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands

May 01 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

May 28 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts

May 29 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government

May 10 Soviet forces arrive in Afghánistán

May 20 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"

May 22 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes first black general-major in USAF

May 11 Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once Upon a Mattress" premieres in NYC

May 06 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships

May 25 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional

May 04 The first Grammy Awards Perry Como &Ella Fitzgerald win

May 11 Elvis Presley's first entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"

May 21 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens

May 30 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality

May 12 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)

May 28 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became first animals retrieved from a space mission

May 24 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England

May 01 Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.

May 04 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)

May 30 World's first hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England

May 30 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua

May 20 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands

May 25 Khrushchev visits Angola

Jan 17 The African country of Mali is formed with the joining of Senegal and French Sudan

Jan 01 Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community

Jan 05 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV

Jan 01 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dominican Republic

Jan 29 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released

Jan 01 Fidel Castro leads Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.

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