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** Indianapolis 500 – won by Dan Wheldon in the Andretti Green Racing # 26 Dallara / Honda.
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** Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with the rape of Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.
** The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed ( Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City ) by Clessie Cummins, founder of the Cummins Motor Co ..
** The Glencoe ( Indianapolis, Indiana ), listed on the NRHP in Center Township of Indianapolis, Indiana
** 26 May – Johnny Rutherford wins the 58th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Bowes Seal Fast Special McLaren M16-Offenhauser
** 28 & 30 May – Gordon Johncock wins the 57th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the STP Double Oil Filter Eagle-Offenhauser
** 30 May – Mark Donohue wins the 56th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Sunoco Special McLaren-Offenhauser
** 29 May – Al Unser, Sr. wins the 55th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Johnny Lightning Special Colt-Ford.
** Calls / Branding Morning News — Tribune Broadcasting's local morning news show format usually seen on Tribune's CW and Fox affiliates, such as WPIX in New York City, New York ; WGN in Chicago, Illinois ; KTLA in Los Angeles, California ; KCPQ in Seattle, Washington ; and WXIN in Indianapolis, Indiana ; though this format has also been used on non-Tribune owned Fox and CW stations ( e. g. ; Fox 25 Morning News on KOKH in Oklahoma City ) under a more generic title form
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** 2 × 7. 7 mm ( 0. 303 in ) Type_97_light_machine_guns in the engine cowling, with 500 rounds per gun.
** RPG-7V2: Reloadable RPG launcher, PG-7VL with ~ 500 mm RHA penetration, PG-7VR with ~ 600 mm RHA penetration after ERA
** The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros ; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
** Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250, 000 – 500, 000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic " March Against Death ".
** At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
** A Serbian ammunition depot explodes at Smederevo on the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia, killing 2, 500, and injuring over 4, 500.
** In South Africa, fighting breaks out between the Xhosa people and the Zulu people ; more than 500 people are killed by the end of August.
** A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1, 500, leaving 2, 000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
** Adolph Coors III, the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped, and his captors demand a ransom of $ 500, 000.
** Approximately 500, 000 people march on Washington, D. C. in support of abortion rights in advance of oral arguments in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
** Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government ; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.
** The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time rising 2. 40 points, or 0. 48 %, to 500. 24.
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