May 21 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect

May 26 The first legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City

May 12 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female

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

May 01 Naomi Uemura became first to reach North Pole overland alone

May 18 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work

May 23 General strike in Peru

May 05 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds smacked his 3,000th major-league hit.

May 25 "Star Wars" released

May 13 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels

May 03 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II

May 26 The first legal casino east of the Mississippi opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey

May 03 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston

May 03 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US

May 06 South Africa military goes into Angola

May 04 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany

May 12 The U S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decides that hurricanes will no longer be given only female names

May 11 Margaret A Brewer is first female general in the US Marine Corps

May 10 Liverpool wins 23rd Europe Cup I

May 20 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris France

May 21 118 Unification church couples wed in England

May 03 West Indies all set to lose cricket test vs Australia at Kingston till riots end game

May 24 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect

May 29 A 1 oz letter costs 15-cents to mail today, as the US post office raises the old rate by two cents

May 09 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found

May 28 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.363 mph), 3 times

May 18 Italy legalizes abortion

May 20 US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces first global radar map of Venus

Jan 28 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV

Jan 02 Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey

Jan 06 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary

Jan 31 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

Jan 26 Mario Soares forms Portuguese government

Jan 02 Rhino Records releases their first album "Wildmania"

Jan 10 The USSR sends two cosmonauts into orbit to rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory.

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