Baseball Record
May 1 A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals all time MLB record 939th base in 7-4 win vs New York Yankees in Oakland
- May 1 Angolan civil war ends
- May 1 Cy Coleman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green' s musical "The Will Rogers Follies" opens at The Palace Theater, NYC; runs for 981 performances, winning 6 Tonty Awards
- May 1 Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
Baseball Record
May 1 Texas Rangers starter Nolan Ryan pitches MLB record 7th no hitter; beats Toronto, 3-0; at 44, Ryan is oldest to throw no-hitter
- May 1 West Indian batsman Gordon Greenidge plays his last Test cricket innings, scoring 43 vs Australia in Antigua; 7,558 runs @ 44.72; 19 x 100s
Catholic Encyclical
May 2 Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
Television Finale
May 3 356th & final episode of CBS second longest running series TV show "Dallas", (2nd only to "Gunsmoke")
- May 3 The Declaration of Windhoek (on press freedom) signed by African journalists
- May 4 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley wins aboard Strike the Gold, the first of 2 Derby victories
- May 4 36th Eurovision Song Contest: Carola for Sweden wins singing "Fangad av en stormvind" in Rome
- May 4 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
- May 4 MLB Cleveland Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9)
- May 4 MLB New York Mets Mackey Sasser & Mark Carreon are 8th teammates to hit consecutive pinch-hit HRs
Doctorate of Music
May 4 Phil Collins, Al Jarreau, Ikutaro Kakehashi and Joe Zawinul receive honorary doctorate degrees from the Berklee College of Music in Boston [1]
- May 4 US politician Mo Udall, Representative for Arizona (1961-91), resigns due to Parkinson disease
Event of Interest
May 4 US President George H. W. Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
- May 5 A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after Salvadoran man is shot by police
- May 6 Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees
- May 6 Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9"
- May 6 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
- May 7 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- May 7 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
Event of Interest
May 8 CIA director William H. Webster resigns
- May 9 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession (conviction overturned 2006)
TV Show Appearance
May 9 Michael Landon appears on The Tonight Show to talk about his cancer prognosis
- May 10 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Minnesota North Stars beat Edmonton Oilers, 4 games to 1
Music History
May 13 "Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale
Event of Interest
May 14 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
- May 14 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
- May 15 Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female prime minister
- May 15 Manchester United of England win 31th European Cup Winner's Cup against FC Barcelona 2-1 in Rotterdam
- May 15 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
- May 15 Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
- May 15 US President George H. W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game
- May 16 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (fictional Superman character)
Event of Interest
May 16 Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
- May 17 Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
- May 18 116th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54
- May 18 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- May 18 Republic of Somaliland declares independence from Somalia
- May 18 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
- May 19 Alan Janes' jukebox musical "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story", starring Paul Hipp, closes at Shubert Theatre, NYC, after 225 performances
- May 19 Willy T. Ribbs overcomes numerous mechanical problems in qualifying to become first African-American driver to make Indianapolis 500 starting grid
- May 20 44th Cannes Film Festival: "Barton Fink" directed by Ethan and Joel Coen wins the Palme d'Or
Sports History
May 20 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP
- May 20 Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save
- May 20 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
- May 21 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
- May 22 NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994
- May 22 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
- May 23 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
- May 23 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tommy Greene no-hits Montreal Expos, 2-0
- May 23 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
- May 23 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
- May 25 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
- May 25 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
- May 25 Stanley Cup Final, Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, MN: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Stars, 8-0 for a 4-2 series win; Penguins' first Final series appearance
- May 27 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
- May 28 "Forever My Lady" debut studio album by Jodeci is released (Billboard Album of the Year, 1992)
- May 28 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
- May 29 35th European Cup: Red Star Belgrade beats Marseille (0-0, 5-3 on penalties) at Bari
- May 30 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling 'antipyretic'
- May 30 Mexican-American Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance, covering 21.101 km; record broken in 2007
- May 30 US Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable (Burns v, Reed)
- May 31 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
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