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Apr 28 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr is recorded as becoming inaugural black admiral in US Navy 
Apr 28 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2093 Genichesk.
Apr 29 Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore and Fillmore East.
Apr 29 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
Apr 30 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
May 01 Amtrak railroad begins operation.
May 01 Amtrak, the U S passenger railroad system that combines the operations of 18 intercity railroads, goes into service.
May 01 Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75
May 01 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
May 03 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
May 03 Nixon administration arrests 13000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
May 03 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun).
May 04 Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
May 04 Mud slide buries part of St-Jean Vianney Quebec, killing 31 people; $1 million damage.
May 05 Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81.
May 05 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
May 06 Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
May 07 Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83.
May 08 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden
May 09 23rd Emmy Awards All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton
May 09 Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3 01 42).
May 09 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes.
May 09 Largest walk in crowd (31626) in Baltimore Oriole history.
May 10 Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79
May 12 J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies
May 12 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall.
May 13 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident.
May 13 Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67
May 15 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
May 16 In this year, Bulgaria formally adopts it's constitution.
May 17 Washington State bans sex discrimination
May 18 Bulgarian constitution comes into force.
May 18 In this year, President Nixon rejects the 60 formally claims of Congressional Black Caucus.
May 18 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim are discovered.
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