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May 10, 1961: Bennett, Cook, Miller and Moore launch satire boom with Beyond the Fringe
This Day In History
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Adolf Eichmann, smuggled out of Argentina by Israeli agents on this day in 1960
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May 8, 1945 Millions rejoice on VE Day as German surrender ends World War II in Europe
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The Brazilian Formula 1 legend was killed in 1994
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May 9, 1949 Britain's first launderette sets a revolution in motion
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May 3, 2007 British toddler Madeleine McCann disappears while on holiday in Portugal
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May 4, 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the UK’s first woman Prime Minister
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May 5, 1980 SAS storm Iranian Embassy to end six day siege in front of millions of TV viewers
May 6, 1937 Hindenburg disaster and marks the end of the ‘age of the airship’
May 7, 1946 Electronics pioneer Sony founded in Tokyo out of the ruins of post war Japan
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May 10, 1961 Four Oxbridge graduates launch satire boom with Beyond the Fringe
May 11, 1985 Triumph turns to tragedy as football fans perish in Bradford City stadium fire
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May 12, 1994 John Smith's death leaves Britain mourning 'the best prime minister it never had'
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May 13, 1981 Catholic Church calls for prayers as Pope John Paul II is gunned down in Rome
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May 13, 1880 Edison's 1st test of electric railway
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May 14, 1955 Cold War deepens as communist states sign Warsaw Pact
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May 14, 1973 Skylab launches into space
May 15, 1957 Britain reclaims superpower status with first successful H bomb test
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May 16, 1990 Minister John Gummer enlists daughter's help in fight against mad cow disease
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May 16, 1938 Sketchpad creator Ivan Sutherland is born
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May 17, 1902 Gears are discovered on the Antikythera mechanism
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May 18, 1991 Helen Sharman becomes the first Briton in space
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May 18, 1969 Apollo 10 launches
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May 19, 1980 Apple III introduced
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May 19, 2004 Dads' group hits Tony Blair with purple flour during Prime Minister's Questions
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May 20, 1891 1st public display of the Kinetoscope
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May 21, 1937 Drift ice is used for scientific research settlement
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May 21, 1979 Elton John's tour of the USSR puts the first cracks in the Iron Curtain
May 22, 1849 Lincoln is issued a patent
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May 22, 1980 Iconic video game character Pac Man makes his first appearance
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May 23, 1934 Moog synthesizer inventor is born
May 23, 1969 The Who launch the ‘rock opera’ era with release of the album Tommy
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May 24, 1940 Modern helicopter design takes flight
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May 24 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge is opened
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May 24, 1989 Hislop fury as Yorkshire Ripper's wife wins £600,000 damages from Private Eye
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May 24 1543 Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies
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May 24 1964 Riot erupts at soccer match
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May 25, 1977 Star Wars is released
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May 25, 1961 Kennedy ramps up the Space Race by pledging to put a man on the Moon
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6 Year old Etan Patz—boy on milk carton—goes missing
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May 26, 1998 Australia acknowledges 'Stolen Generation' on first National Sorry Day
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Dracula goes on sale in London 1897
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May 26, 1951 Astronaut Sally Ride is born - The first American woman to travel to space.
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May 26 1868 President Johnson acquitted
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1991 Plane crashes in Thai jungle
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Japanese war crimes trial begins May 03, 1946 - This Day In History
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Trains collide near Tokyo, killing more than 160 people May 03, 1962
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National Guard kills four students in Kent State shootings May 4, 1970 - This Day In History
GE finally initiates cleanup of polluted Hudson River May 15, 2009 - This Is In History
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Sojourner Truth delivers powerful speech on African American women's rights May 29, 1851
Discovery of Ozone Hole announced May 16, 1985 - This Day In History
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Mount St. Helens erupts May 18, 1980 - This Day In Histort
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EgyptAir flight 804 disappears over the Mediterranean Sea May 19, 2016 - This Day In History
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Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans May 20, 1873 - This Day In History
