May 20 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

May 22 Egyptian president Nasser closes Straits of Tiran to Israel

May 29 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II

May 29 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19

May 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 30 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo

May 10 Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia

May 01 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua

May 20 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)

May 15 Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman

May 30 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria

May 06 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College

May 19 The United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom agree to ban nuclear weapons from outer space

May 22 Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)

May 11 "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 14 performances

May 01 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer)

May 22 "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)

May 18 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London

May 30 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball

May 30 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles

May 04 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7

May 19 US bombs Hanoi

May 31 Bayern München wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg

May 08 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army

May 19 USSR ratifies treaty with England &US banning nuclear weapons in space

May 11 100,000,000th US phone connected

May 17 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as the film "Don't Look Back"

May 06 Zakir Hussain elected first Moslem President of India

May 03 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University

May 11 Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for EG membership

May 09 The first flight of the short haul Fokker F-28 Fellowship is made

May 01 In Greece a 5.75-6.0 earthquake in the mountainous area of northern Arta Province, 9 were killed, 56 injured, and over 100 houses destroyed

May 12 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

May 25 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce

May 18 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial

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