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- !May events - Version 9.06\=
- B050219-- Quinn Redeker, actor (Rex Sterling-Young & Restless)\-
- B05021936 Quinn Redeker, Woodstock Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)\=
- B05031902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)\=
- B05031922 Walter Slezak, Vienna Austria, actor (Made in America) [1902]\-
- B05051938 Michael Murphy, actor (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Unmarried Woman)\-
- B05051944 Jean-Pierre Leaud, author [dup]\-
- B05061812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, pioneer black nationalist\=
- B050619-- Dana Hill, actress (Cross Creek, Fallen Angel, Shoot the Moon)\-
- B05061964 Dana Hill, Van Nuys Calif, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)\=
- B05061976 Sage Stallone, Sylvestor's son, actor (Rocky 5)
- B050819-- Deborah Harmon, actress (Elizabeth-Just the 10 of Us) [1951]\-
- B05081951 Deborah Harmon, actress (Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us)\=
- B050919-- Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Making the Grade, Wonder Years)\-
- B0509195- Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years)\=
- B051519-- Lee Horsley, actor (Eathen Allen Cord-Guns of Paradise)\-
- B05161911 Margaret Sullavan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
- B05201934 Peggy Cass, game show panalist (To Tell the Truth)\-
- B05201962 Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model
- B05251971 Matt Borlenghi, LA Calif, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children) [1969]\-
- B052619-- Charles Van Eman, Pitts Pa, actor (Sean-Dynasty II)\-
- B05261963 Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)\=
- B05291991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77
- B05301961 Trey Parker, actor (Newsies)
- D05011981 Dr Clarence A Bacote, historian & political scientist, dies at 75
- D05031916 Pádraic Pearse, executed by British firing squad
- D05081915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
- D05091952 Canada Lee, black actor, dies at 45 in NYC
- D05111981 Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57
- D05121951 Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
- D05161979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
- D05181848 William A Leidesdorf, black, dies at 38 in SF
- D05181955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
- D05221948 Claude McKay, poet dies at 58 in Chicago
- D05251919 Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 52
- D05251971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
- D05271975 Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion, dies at 53 in Chicago
- D05281981 Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
- H0531 [Zimbabwe] Independence Day (1979)
- S05011863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
- S05011867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
- S05011900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
- S05011919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke
- S05011919Cthrough crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
- S05011920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
- S05011928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
- S05011946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"
- S05011948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for
- S05011948Ctrying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
- S05011991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
- S05021972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
- S05031845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Mass)\=
- S05031845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
- S05031901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
- S05031962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train
- S05031962Cand a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
- S05031967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
- S05041864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
- S05041896 Grease fire ignites ½ ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
- S05041961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
- S05051842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
- S05051905 "Chicago Defender," begins publishing\=
- S05051939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
- S05051947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
- S05051971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
- S05051972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
- S05061787 African Lodge # 459 organizes in Boston
- S05061853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
- S05061960 Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
- S05061967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
- S05061975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho\=
- S05061975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
- S05061975C3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
- S05071840 Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 300
- S05071867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
- S05071885 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
- S05071902 Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
- S05071946 William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
- S05081784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
- S05081858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
- S05081958 VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru\=
- S05081958 Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
- S05081959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers
- S05081959Cwho capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore
- S05081984 Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)
- S05091837 "Sherrod" burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
- S05091977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
- S05091984 Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8)
- S05101652 John Johnson, a free black granted 550 acres in Northampton Va
- S05101919 Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed
- S05101951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
- S05101972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into resevoir, killing 77
- S05101992 Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
- S05111833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
- S05111953 Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)\=
- S05111965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
- S05121898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause"
- S05121898Cdesigned to eliminate black voters
- S05121910 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
- S05121967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
- S05121967CNonviolent Coordinating Committee
- S05121970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
- S05121972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
- S05131972 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)
- S05131972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
- S05131991 "Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness" goes on sale
- S05141961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
- S05141970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
- S05151911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
- S05151929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
- S05151968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
- S05151972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
- S05151991 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panama"
- S05161874 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
- S05161875 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
- S05161930 Ellen Church becomes the 1st airline stewardess. (1930)\-
- S05161938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
- S05161966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
- S05161966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
- S05171881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
- S05171909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
- S05171915 National Baptist Convention chartered
- S05171923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
- S05171927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
- S05171957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
- S05171980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
- S05181896 Plessy v. Ferguson upholds "separate but equal" policy
- S05181927 "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapes
- S05181971 Pres Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
- S05191878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
- S05191893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
- S05191928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
- S05191965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
- S05191975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66
- S05191975Cin truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
- S05201861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede [dup]\-
- S05201868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
- S05201965 Pakistani airliner crashed at Cairo Egypt, killing 120
- S05201971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
- S05211961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
- S05211970 National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
- S05211971 National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
- S05211975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Comm
- S05211977 SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
- S05221858 Confederación Granadina (now Colombia) forms\=
- S05221863 War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
- S05221915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
- S05221960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly
- S05221960Cdamaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
- S05221967 Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
- S05231878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
- S05231965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
- S05241854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
- S05241861 Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
- S05241929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
- S05241951 Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal
- S05241954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
- S05241961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
- S05241963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
- S05241971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
- S05251943 Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
- S05251947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co.'s Mine #5 killing 111
- S05251955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
- S05261943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)\=
- S05261956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
- S05261961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
- S05261973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28)
- S05271896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo)
- S05271917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
- S05271958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
- S05271975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges
- S05271975CDibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
- S05281962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
- S05281963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
- S05281965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
- S05281973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26)
- S05291973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif\=
- S05291973C $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records\=
- S05291980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban Leag pres
- S05301822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
- S05301854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
- S05301946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport
- S05301956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
- S05301962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
- S05301965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
- S05311870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
- S05311909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
- S05311935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
- S05311947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
- S05311955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
- S05311961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
- S05311964 SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)\=
- S05311970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by earthquake. (50-70,000 die)
- S05311979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
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- B05041956 Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield Ohio, PhD/astronaut
- B05061949 David C Leestma, Muskegon Mich, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)\=
- B05301958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
- S05221992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show\=
- S05251992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"