May 23 Benin adopts its constitution

May 28 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky

May 12 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation

May 27 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582

May 23 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11

May 26 Movie "Star Wars" debuts

May 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

May 16 Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title

May 26 "Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway

May 31 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances

May 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 14 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games

May 02 "The King &I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances

May 31 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed

May 08 David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings

May 25 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome

May 09 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Republic of Cameroon

May 29 Janet Guthrie becomes first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500

May 14 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms

May 25 "Beatles Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released

May 11 Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game

May 21 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19

May 21 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC

May 14 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games

May 24 USSR President Podgorny resigns

May 23 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell

May 25 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election

May 20 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

May 17 Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel

May 11 Hamburger SV wins 17th soccer Europe Cup II

May 09 Patty Hearst let out of jail

May 19 "Smokey &the Bandit" premieres

May 14 English football international Bobby Moore retires

May 16 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am Building in NYC

May 21 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances

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