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Wednesday, 08 July 2026
Apr 30 Lt. Gen. H.D. Graham leaves the Canadian armed forces; last officer with a World War I ribbon to retire. 
May 01 CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk.
May 01 Gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR
May 01 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states
May 01 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
May 02 Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
May 02 Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
May 02 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
May 02 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent)
May 03 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC.
May 05 Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58
May 06 England's Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon).
May 06 Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67.
May 06 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
May 06 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta.
May 07 In this year, Leonid Brezhnev formally adopts in place of Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
May 07 Leonid Brezhnev is recorded as becoming the President of the USSR
May 08 Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88.
May 08 USSR and Cuba resume diplomatic relations.
May 09 Nigeria is recorded as becoming a member of the British Commonwealth
May 09 US is inaugural country to use the birth control pill legally.
May 09 US send U-2 over USSR
May 10 In this year, John F Kennedy claims primary in West Virginia.
May 10 Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61.
May 10 US atomic sub USS Triton completes inaugural circumnavigation of globe under water.
May 11 French liner "France" launched
May 11 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
May 11 John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
May 12 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70
May 12 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
May 13 The inaugural launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed.
May 14 USSR launch inaugural (unmanned) space capsule
May 15 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
May 15 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US.
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