May 09 Nigeria becomes a member of the British Commonwealth

May 24 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed

May 01 CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk

May 02 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice &Consent)

May 06 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960

May 14 USSR launch first (unmanned) space capsule

May 22 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severely damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo HI at 01 04 AM

May 19 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph

May 08 USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations

May 09 US is first country to use the birth control pill legally

May 06 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta

May 02 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions

May 01 Gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR

May 06 England's Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)

May 11 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires

May 12 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special

May 26 The Soviets are accused by UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge of concealing a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that was presented to the U S embassy in Moscow

May 17 The first atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA

May 15 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed

May 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances

May 16 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US

May 22 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severely damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo HI at 01:04 AM

May 15 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US

May 27 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey

May 01 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states

May 02 Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance

May 19 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed

May 01 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis

May 11 French liner "France" launched

May 09 US send U-2 over USSR

May 18 Eileen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for > 30 years)

May 13 The first launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed

May 23 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

May 22 Chile a 9.5 quake was one of the 10 Largest Earthquakes in the World.

May 06 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), freed in México

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