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DecemberMay 1 - Three spectators were killed and eight others were injured at
Lowe's Motor Speedway during an
IRL race when a tire went into the grandstand.
May 2 - Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by
Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in
Weimar, Texas. They were his fourth and fifth victims in his fourth incident.
May 3 - Photo driver licences and banknotes made out of
polymer substrate are introduced to
New Zealand.
May 3 - A
F5 tornado slams in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma killing 38 people. This was the second strongest tornado ever recorded in United States history. (See
Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak). A possible tornado outbreak that has a similar force to it will take place sometime in the next 250-500 years.
May 3 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time. It closes at 11,014.70.
May 5 -
Microsoft releases
Windows 98 Second Edition.
May 6 - Elections are held in
Scotland and
Wales for the new
Scottish Parliament and
National Assembly for WalesMay 7 - A jury finds
The Jenny Jones Show and
Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of
Scott Amedure after the show purposely deceived
Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode.
May 7 -
Kosovo War: In
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three
Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a
NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in
BelgradeMay 7 - In
Guinea-Bissau, President
João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military
coupMay 8 - Goalkeeper
Jimmy Glass saved
Carlisle United from certain death when he scored last minuite goal against
Plymouth Argyle and relegate
Scarborough instead.
May 8 -
Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from
The Military College of South Carolina;The Embassy of
People's Republic of China in Belgrad was bombed by U.S Air Force.
May 12 -
David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern
Scottish ParliamentMay 13 - in
Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected President of the
republicMay 17 -
Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of
Israel.
May 18 - The
Backstreet Boys release their album,
Millennium.
May 19 -
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is released in theaters.
May 20 -
Bluetooth announced.
May 23 - In
Kansas City, Missouri, wrestler
Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) falls 90 feet (30 m) to his death while being lowered into a
World Wrestling Federation ring during
WWF Over the Edge.
May 26 -
Indian Air Force launches attack on intruding
Pakistan backed militants in
Kashmir sparking the
Kargil War.
May 26 -
Manchester United win the
UEFA Champions League at the
Nou Camp stadium,
Barcelona, beating
Bayern Munich to lift their third major trophy in their unprecedented Treble, after winning the
English Premier League and
FA Cup.
May 26 - Madejczyk Massacre Averted, Bridgman, Michigan school shooting plot
May 26 - First
Welsh Assembly for over 600 years opens in
CardiffMay 27 - The
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in
The Hague,
Netherlands indicts
Slobodan Milošević and four others for
war crimes and
crimes against humanity committed in
KosovoMay 28 - In
Milan,
Italy, after 22 years of restoration work,
Leonardo de Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "
The Last Supper" is put back on display.
May 31 -
Nigeria gets a
democratic president in
Olusegun Obasanjo
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