The Thread of Random Internetz

May 1 - A Soviet missile shoots down an American Lockheed U2 spy plane; the pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.

# May 1 - In India, May 1st is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e., Maharashtra Day (the same day is also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e., Workers Day).

May 4 - West German refugee minister Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his Nazi past.

May 6 - President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.

May 9 - The U.S. FDA announces that it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making it the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.

7:43 eta atm.

May 11 - In Buenos Aires, 4 Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was using the alias "Ricardo Klement".

May 13 - A Swiss/Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.

May 14 - The Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded in Kenya, when 3 political parties join forces.

May 15 - Sputnik 4 is launched into Earth orbit.