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serial	1408
year	1965
month	5
day	3
event	Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
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5/1 - 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2

5/1 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawksp~ 4 games to 3

5/1 - USSR launches Luna 5: later impacts on Moon

5/1 - Battle of Dong-Yinp~ a naval conflict between ROC and PRCp~ takes place.

5/2 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open

5/2 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational

5/2 - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

5/2 - New Faces of 1965 opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances

5/3 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)

5/3 - KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolisp~ MN (PBS) 1st broadcast

5/3 - Don Steelep~ begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles California)

5/3 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US

5/3 - 3rd Mayor's Trophy Gamep~ Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10

5/3 - 1st use of satellite TVp~ Today Show on Early Bird Satellite

5/4 - Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record

5/5 - 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

5/6 - Lawry & Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies

5/7 - WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausaup~ WI (ABC) begins broadcasting

5/8 - "1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7"")"

5/9 - Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)

5/9 - Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert

5/11 - Florap~ the Red Menace opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 87 performances

5/11 - 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35p~000 (India)

5/11 - Bangladesh windstorm kills 17p~000

5/11 - Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument

5/11 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

5/11 - West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy

5/12 - Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations

5/13 - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel

5/13 - "Rolling Stones record ""Satisfaction"""

5/14 - 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes

5/14 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

5/15 - 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2

5/15 - Canadian Football Players Association organizes

5/15 - Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omahap~ to become NWA champ

5/16 - The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.

5/16 - WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Lindenp~ NY (TEL) begins broadcasting

5/16 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open

5/16 - Spaghetti-O's 1st sold

5/16 - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

5/16 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debutp~ beats Yankees 7-5 & homers

5/16 - Roar of the Greasepaint opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs

5/18 - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt

5/18 - WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphiap~ PA (IND) begins broadcasting

5/19 - Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)

5/19 - West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II

5/20 - Yorkshire all out for 23 v Hampshire at Middlesbrough

5/20 - Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egyptp~ killing 121

5/22 - Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious hits #66

5/22 - "Beatles' ""Ticket to Ridep~"" single goes #1"

5/22 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omahap~ to become NWA champ

5/23 - Franz Jonas elected president of Austria

5/23 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

5/23 - Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawip~ kills 150

5/24 - Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional

5/25 - Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage

5/25 - India & Pakistan border fights

5/25 - Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch

5/25 - Roel van Duynp~ Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo

5/26 - Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes

5/26 - Revised Intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect

5/27 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan

5/28 - Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400

5/29 - Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium

5/30 - France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)

5/30 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

5/30 - Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nangp~ begins

5/30 - Vivian Malonep~ is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama

5/31 - Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy

5/31 - Indianapolis 500: Jim Clark wins in 3:19:05.370 (242.506 km/h)

1965-5-3

Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)