May 04 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South

May 26 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta

May 27 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon

May 08 The first practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport TX

May 04 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested

May 10 "Beyond the Fringe" premieres in London

May 31 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens

May 28 Last ever Orient Express from Paris to Bucharest

May 01 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba

May 27 The first "black light" is sold can disco be far ahead?

May 21 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery

May 22 "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1

May 04 Malcolm Ross &Victor Prather reach 34,668 meters (record) in balloon

May 15 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea

May 24 U S President Kennedy asks the nation to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade

May 31 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris

May 01 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

May 28 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

May 20 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery AL

May 24 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

May 24 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson MS

May 26 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours

May 17 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers

May 30 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die

May 31 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves the Commonwealth

May 12 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time

May 25 President Kennedy announces plan to send men to the Moon

May 25 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 meters

May 08 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington

May 25 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade

May 05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American into space

May 22 The first revolving restaurant (Top Of The Space Needle in Seattle), opens

May 28 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)

May 20 Mauritania adopts constitution

May 16 13th Emmy Awards Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck

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