May 01 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins

May 15 Shawn Weatherly, Sumter SC, crowned 29th Miss USA/Miss Universe-1980

May 01 American Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)

May 16 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis

May 21 Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt

May 20 Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157

May 16 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album

May 18 Belgium 3rd Government of Martens forms

May 18 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected President of Peru

May 20 In a referendum, 59.5% of Québec voters reject separatism

May 25 "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances

May 14 Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II

May 18 In Washington State, a 5.2 quake was felt (V) at Yakima and (IV) in many parts of Washington and Oregon. This earthquake occurred only seconds before the explosion which began the eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano.

May 20 Peter Criss quits as drummer for the rock band Kiss

May 29 53rd National Spelling Bee Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate

May 30 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million

May 22 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry

May 17 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live

May 24 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 2

May 29 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League president

May 15 Ottawa agrees to extend natural gas pipeline from Montreal to Quebec City.

May 20 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss

May 01 American Book Award William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)

May 30 The first papal visit to France since 1814

May 02 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 05 Saipan and other Navy ships provided humanitarian search and rescue support operations for the vast sealift of Cuban refugees heading for the U.S. through the Florida Straits.

May 14 Department of Health & Human Services begins operation

May 18 China People's Republic launch first intercontinental rocket

May 09 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge

May 21 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is first woman to graduate from US service academy

May 31 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38

May 24 Stanley Cup New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 2

May 27 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

May 24 Iran rejects a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages

May 16 Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes

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