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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
May 06 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in South Carolina 
May 07 Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60.
May 08 Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies.
May 09 Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66.
May 09 New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur.
May 10 "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 45 performances
May 10 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph.
May 10 Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella.
May 10 Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61.
May 12 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
May 12 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million.
May 12 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
May 13 Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies.
May 14 Andre Ameller, composer, dies at 78.
May 14 Dow Jones average hits a record 2821.53
May 15 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million.
May 15 Dow Jones average hits a record 2822.45
May 15 Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe.
May 16 Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
May 16 Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer died on this day
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 17 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
May 17 Dow Jones average hits a record 2831.71.
May 17 European court rules pension rights for both men and women.
May 18 "Return To Green Acres" TV movie airs.
May 18 East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty
May 18 Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies of cancer at 54
May 18 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
May 18 Treaty forming the basis for monetary union between East and West Germany signed
May 20 An estimated 2 million people across China protest Martial Law.
May 20 Hubble Space Telescope sends inaugural photograph's from space.
May 20 The Hubble Space Telescope sends its inaugural photographs back to Earth.
May 21 Dow Jones average hits a record 2844.68
May 21 Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37.
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