The Thread of Random Internetz

May 16 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.

May 16 - Theodore Maiman operates the first laser.

May 20 - In Japan, police carry away Socialist members of the Diet; Parliament then approves a security treaty with the United States.

May 22 - Great Chilean Earthquake: Chile's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to Taitao Peninsula, causing a tsunami and one of the greatest earthquakes on record. Seismographs in Valdivia crash.

May 23 - Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.

May 27 - In Turkey, a bloodless military coup d'état removes President Celal Bayar and installs General Cemal Gürsel as head of state.

# June 1 - New Zealand's first television transmission occurs when a switch is flicked in Shortland Street, Auckland

June 4 - The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.

June 6 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary.

June 9 - Typhoon Mary kills 1,000,000 in the Fukien province of China.