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Events in History

  • May 3 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out
  • May 4 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
  • May 4 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella
  • May 4 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
  • May 6 1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1
  • May 7 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)

Wounded Knee Occupation Ends

May 8 Wounded Knee Occupation ends after 10 weeks as 200 Oglala Lakota of the American Indian Movement surrender the South Dakota hamlet

Civil Rights Activist Ralph Abernathy
  • May 10 Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania
  • May 11 Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times dismissed
  • May 11 Dutch government of Uyl forms
  • May 14 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
  • May 14 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
  • May 14 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
  • May 17 Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone
  • May 17 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
  • May 17 US Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings into the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.

Brezhnev Visits West Germany

May 18 Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev visits West Germany

Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev
  • May 18 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill
  • May 20 2 motorcycle racers killed and a dozen injured in a crash during the 1973 Nations Grand Prix in Monza,Italy
  • May 22 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
  • May 24 George [Earl] Jellicoe resigns as British Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords
  • May 25 Peronist Hector Campora installed as President of Argentina
  • May 25 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
  • May 26 Bahrain adopts its constitution
  • May 29 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
  • May 29 Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California

Birthdays in History

  • May 8 Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist (Fullmetal Alchemist), born in Makubetsu, Japan
  • May 25 Daz Dillinger [Delmar Drew Arnaud], American hip-hop performer, born in Long Beach, California

Weddings in History

Brian Mulroney

May 26 Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney (34) weds Mila Pivnicki (19)

Brian Mulroney

Deaths in History

  • May 4 Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright, dies at 56
  • May 11 Grigory Kozintsev, Russian director, dies at 68
  • May 14 Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet, dies at 67
  • May 15 Willem Huibert Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist (Pandji), dies at 95
  • May 17 Alexander J. Kropholler, Dutch architect and writer, dies at 91

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)

May 18 American politician, 1st woman elected to US Congress (R-Montana), women's rights advocate and pacifist, dies at 92

Jeannette Rankin
  • May 21 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer and writer (War Diary), dies at 79
  • May 21 Ivan Konev, Russian general (Marshal of the Soviet Union - led Red Army on WWII Eastern Front, commanded Warsaw Pact forces), dies at 75
  • May 26 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish-French-American painter and cubist sculptor, dies at 81
  • May 31 Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89

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