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1966-5-26
Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
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5/1 - Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
5/1 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
5/1 - Radio RSAp~ South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
5/1 - US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
5/2 - Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
5/3 - WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledop~ OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
5/4 - Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
5/5 - Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
5/5 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wingsp~ 4 games to 2
5/5 - Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
5/6 - Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
5/6 - Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
5/6 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
5/7 - Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
5/7 - "Mamas & Papas ""Monday Monday"" hits #1"
5/7 - 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
5/8 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
5/8 - Last game at old Busch stadiump~ St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF
5/8 - Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
5/9 - 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
5/9 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
5/10 - 25q*F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
5/11 - Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I
5/12 - St Louis' Busch Stadium opensp~ Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
5/13 - "Rolling Stones release ""Paint it Black"""
5/13 - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
5/14 - A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
5/14 - 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
5/15 - 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricketp~ Essex v Somerset
5/15 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
5/15 - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhistsp~ about 80 die
5/16 - Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
5/16 - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
5/16 - "Beach Boys' ""Pets Sounds"" is released"
5/17 - KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayrep~ OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
5/21 - Downtown by Mrs Miller hits #82
5/21 - Time for Singing opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
5/21 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
5/21 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
5/21 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
5/22 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
5/23 - "Beatles release ""Paperback Writer"""
5/24 - Mame opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
5/25 - Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima: 248 die
5/26 - Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hu_ South-Vietnam
5/26 - Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
5/27 - 6 French fighters crash above Spain
5/27 - 55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes
5/28 - Ballad Of Irving by Frank Gallop hits #34
5/28 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 11th String quartetp~ premieres in Leningrad
5/29 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational
5/30 - 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
5/30 - Indianapolis 500: Graham Hill wins (232.2 kph)
5/30 - US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon