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May 29, 1989 | Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt. |
May 9, 1948 | Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect. |
May 1, 1753 | Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. |
May 2, 1986 | Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. |
May 31, 1961 | The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the Republic of South Africa, which remains outside the Commonwealth of Nations until 1 June 1994, when South Africa is returned to Commonwealth membership. |
May 14, 1943 | World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. |
May 22, 1998 | A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. |
May 31, 1977 | The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed. |
May 18, 1652 | Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced. |
May 31, 1610 | The pageant London's Love to Prince Henry on the River Thames celebrates the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales. |
May 9, 1980 | In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die. |
May 18, 1993 | Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators. |
May 23, 2013 | A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington. |
May 3, 1952 | The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. |
May 10, 1924 | J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972. |
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