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Monday, 23 February 2026
Apr 27 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee). 
Apr 27 France grants Togo independence, kicking off the end of the colonial age.
Apr 27 France grants Togo independence
Apr 27 The inaugural atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
Apr 28 "Christine" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
Apr 28 Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87
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 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances.
May 07 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances
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 07 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
May 07 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy.
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.
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