** The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope.

** Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey ( 39th government, a four-party coalition, so-called First National Front ())

** 30 May – Bob Sweikert wins the 39th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the John Zink Special Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser.

** 39th Army-General Wu Xinquan

** 39th Fighter Division

** 39th Berkshire Company

** 39th Annual Japan Record Awards " Grand Prize-Album "-Beloved

** 39th Annual Japan Record Awards " Best Album "-Beloved

** 39th Annual Japan Record Awards " Excellent work prize "-" However "

** 2 / 39th ( Dorsetshire ) Regiment of Foot

** 1 / 39th ( Dorsetshire ) Regiment of Foot

** 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division-Ohrdruf

** 39th Field Battery

** Round 1: 2: 19. 34 ( 7th in heat 6, did not advance, 39th overall )

** 339 points ( 39th overall )

** Heat: 1: 09. 65 ( 39th overall, did not advance )

** Heat: 51. 11 s ( 39th overall, did not advance )

** Heat: 2: 07. 40 ( 39th overall, did not advance )

** 2: 20: 31 ( 39th overall )

** 39th Infantry Regiment

** 39th Field Artillery Battalion

** 39th Guards Missile Division at Novosibirsk with 36 Topol

** Field Engineers Brigade ( 39th )

** 12 Mechanized Battalions ( 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th )

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.

** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.

** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).

** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )