Historical Events in May, Month of May Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| May 20, 1996 | Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. |
| May 9, 2002 | The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries. |
| May 13, 1989 | Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike. |
| May 1, 2003 | Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended". |
| May 6, 1988 | All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Mt. Torghatten in Brønnøy. |
| May 16, 1877 | The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France. |
| May 15, 1941 | First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft. |
| May 27, 1933 | New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. |
| May 24, 1958 | United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. |
| May 23, 1971 | Seventy-eight people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present-day Rijeka, Croatia (then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). |
| May 22, 760 | Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. |
| May 3, 1491 | Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I. |
| May 26, 1971 | Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh. |
| May 12, 1743 | Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| May 10, 1688 | King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to the revolution of 1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. |
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