May 16 Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer: died on this day

May 04 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence

May 10 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph

May 14 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53

May 28 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)

May 31 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles

May 12 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting

May 23 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion

May 27 Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game

May 15 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million

May 31 Soviet Legislature televised for the first time

May 20 The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photographs back to Earth

May 16 Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected

May 02 South Africa &African National Congress open talks to end apartheid

May 26 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China

May 29 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,870.49

May 29 Boris Yeltsin is elected president by the Russian parliament

May 30 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56

May 28 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica

May 31 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce

May 20 An estimated 2 million people across China protest Martial Law

May 06 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in South Carolina

May 17 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,831.71

May 28 César Gaviria Trujillo installed as President of Colombia

May 12 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million

May 15 Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe

May 18 Treaty forming the basis for monetary union between East and West Germany signed

May 23 A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna

May 10 Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella

May 16 St.-Amable Quebec, fire breaks out at Quebec's largest tire dump (3 million tires) near Montreal; rages for four days before being put out.

May 27 Radical Democratic Party holds first political meetings in Moscow

May 24 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1

Jan 28 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London

Jan 09 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

Jan 12 Civil Rights activist Reverand Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Brooklyn

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