May 1960

the éphéméride | All on May and 1960.

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May 1st:

a American Reconnaissance aircraft of type U2 (spy plane) is cut down above the Soviet territory. The American pilot Francis Gary Powers is stopped and condemned the 17 August to 10 years of prison for espionage.

May 2nd:

In the United States, Caryl Chessman is definitively brought in the gas chamber of the penitentiary of San Quentin. Condemned to died for murder, it had awaited its execution for 12 years and had succeeded in pushing back it 8 times.

May 3rd:

the USSR accepted the Western proposals to exclusively limit the nuclear tests underground to research.

May 4th:

the United States and India sign the Pacte of the corn allowing greater product sales agricultural.
the federal Jury of Pittsburgh rejects a complaint tending to make recognize that lung cancer is related to the dependence with the cigarettes Chesterfield.

May 5th:

Léonid Brejnev succeeds the marshal Kliment Vorochilov and becomes the new chief of the Soviet State.

May 7th:

Nikita Khrouchtchev reaches the presidency of the USSR.

May 9th:

Legalization of the contraceptive Pill on the American territory. The FDA (Food and DRUG Administration) approves the pill like average contraceptive. As of the May 9th the sale of the contraceptive pill “ Enovid ” is authorized in the United States.

May 10th:

the nuclear submarine US Nautilus carries out the first underwater Circumnavigation of the ground, without increase on the surface.

May 11th:

Put in flood of the steamer France, in Saint-Nazaire (Brittany).
President Eisenhower recognizes publicly that the United States carried out reconnaissance missions air above Soviet territory during the four last years. May 15th, he announces that more no flight of espionage will be made.
In Argentinian, four agents of the Israeli Mossad, removes the fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann hiding under the name of Ricardo Klement . The capture is announced the May 23rd by Israeli the Prime Minister David Ben Gourion.
Death of the American billionaire John Davison Rockefeller Junior which leaves with his wife a fortune of 150 million American dollars.

May 13rd:

First rise of the Dhaulagiri, 7th more high mountain of the world.

May 14th:

Summit of the four great powers, in Paris, with Eisenhower, Macmillan, Khrouchtchev and de Gaulle.

May 15th:

Launching of the first Russian spaceship Vostok placing on orbit Sputnik 4. Of a weight of 9.988 books, it contains a factitious man.

May 16th:

the Soviet president Nikita Khrouchtchev benefits from the business of the U2 plane to ruin the conference of Paris, by requiring excuses on behalf of the US president Dwight D. Eisenhower for the U-2 spy plane which had flown over the Soviet territory whereas the top of the four in Paris finished.

May 17th:

Death of the poet Jules Supervielle.

May 18th:

Birth of the French tennis player Yannick Noah.

May 21st:

the government of Cuba takes the control of all the independent written press.

May 22nd:

Earthquake record with the Chile (9,5 on the scale of Richter), it makes 2000 dead on the spot and 250 because of the Tsunami S with the Japan, with the Filipino , in Alaska and in the islands Hawaii.

May 23rd:

a Tsunami, with a wave of 35 feet top, strikes Hilo (Hawaii) causing the death of 39 people and making property damages for 50 million US dollars.

May 24th:

the US Air Force puts on orbit the satellite Midas I to detect any nuclear attack.

May 27th:

In Turkey, the General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'etat to reverse President Celal Bayar and the democratically elected government.

May 28th:

Martin Luther King is discharged charge of perjury in the business of the boycott of the buses of Montgomery in 1956.

May 30th:

Death of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak (70 years), Nobel Prize of literature.

Without exact date:

In France, revision of the Constitution relating to the European Community.

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