Page 7: Historical Events In May - 02

1952  1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music".   

1953  Feisal II installed as king of Iraq   

1953  Hussein I installed as king of Jordan   

1954  Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82   

1955  India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable.   

1955  Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)   

1955  Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66.   

1956  US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus   

1956  US Methodist church disallows race separation   

1957  Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-Wisc), dies at 47   

1958  Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89.   

1960  Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance   

1960  House investigating committee, looking into payola questions   

1960  Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent).   

1960  Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39.   

1961  J C White, cricketer (49 wickets in 15 Tests for Engld 1921-31), dies.   

1962  In this year, Benfica claims 7th Europe Cup I   

1962  OAS strikes in Algeria.   

1962  US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island.   

1963  Jack Crawford, cricketer (469 runs and 39 wickets in 12 Tests), dies.   

1964  Beatles' "Second Album" goes #1 and stays #1 for for 5 weeks   

1964  Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champion   

1964  Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies.   

1965  Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service.   

1966  Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days).   

1968  Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London   

1968  Israeli television begins transmitting   

1968  Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69   

1969  British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York   

1969  Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89.   

1970  Twenty-six persons were rescued by a VC-8 helicopter from a Dutch Antillean Airlines DC-9 ditched in the Caribbean   

1972  Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine - 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)   

1972  Lieutenant General Vernon A Walters, USA, is recorded as becoming deputy director of CIA   

1972  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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1360  Yongle: Emperor of china   

1451  René ii: Duke of lorraine   

1458  Leonor of viseu: Queen of portugal   

1551  William camden: English historian (brittania, annales)   

1601  Athanasius kircher: German jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)   

1660  Pietro alessandro gaspare scarlatti: Palermo italy, composer (tigrane)   

1695  Giovanni niccolo servandoni: Italian-born architect   

1702  Friedrich christoph oetinger: German theologian   

0373  Death of Athanasius: Patriarch of alexandria (b. 298)   

0649  Maruta of tagrit: Theology/1st mafriaan jakobitische church,   

0756  Emperor shōmu: Emperor of japan (b. 701)   

0907  Death of Boris i of bulgaria: Boris i of bulgaria   

1230  William de braose: Lord of abergavenny (b. 1197)   

1250  Toeransa: Sultan of egypt, murdered   

1300  Blanche of artois: Regent of navarre (b. 1248)   

1450  William de la pole: 1st duke of suffolk, english military leader (b. 1396)