May 23 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150

May 26 Revised international Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect

May 03 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)

May 25 India &Pakistan border fights

May 12 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations

May 11 The first of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)

May 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 03 The first use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite

May 22 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1

May 02 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

May 25 Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles &is knocked unconscious on stage

May 19 Patricia R Harris named first US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)

May 20 Yorkshire all out for 23 vs Hampshire at Middlesbrough

May 26 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes

May 19 West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II

May 22 "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66

May 18 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for the Star Trek Captain

May 13 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel

May 24 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional

May 03 In El Salvador a 6.0 earthquake left 125 persons dead, about 500 injured, and an estimated 48,000 homeless

May 16 Spaghetti-O's first sold

May 11 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument

May 30 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)

May 20 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121

May 11 West Indies becomes first holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy

May 30 Vivian Malone, is first black to graduate from University of Alabama

May 11 U.S. destroyers deliver first shore bombardment of Vietnam War.

May 22 Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champion

May 14 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes

May 23 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria

May 19 30th Naval Construction Regiment activated at Danang, Vietnam

May 05 The first large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

May 16 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

May 01 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon

May 09 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert

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