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* May 1-The Rolling Stones announce their forthcoming North American tour by performing Brown Sugar from a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
* May 1-The United Network ( initially known as the Overmyer Network ) launches broadcasting with the talk / variety show The Las Vegas Show — which would be the only show it airs, as both network and show disappear in June due in part to transmission expenses.
* May 1-The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake.
** May 1-The city of Sanjō merged with the town of Sakae and the village of Shitada ( both from Minamikanbara District ).
* May 1-The National Trust in the United Kingdom acquires its first part of Wicken Fen, making it the country's oldest wetland nature reserve.
* May 1-The Capitol Cinema, Ottawa's only movie palace, is closed and later demolished
* May 1-The Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps is established under the command of Lieutenant General Kinichi Yasumitsu.
* May 1-The Derrynaflan Chalice is discovered in a bog.
* May 1-The BBC brings into service the first television transmitter in Ireland, at Glencairn ( Belfast ).
* May 1-The Easter Rising collapses.
* May 1-The Jubilee line on the London Underground opens between Stanmore and Charing Cross.
* May 1-The Kington Tramway, a horse-worked plateway, is opened from Eardisley to Kington, Herefordshire, England.

May and new
Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.
It was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.
In May 2010, Rite Publishing secured a license from Diceless by Design to use the rules system in the creation of a new product to be written by industry and system veteran Jason Durall.
He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.
On May 16, 2006 AOL will launch a new service for AIM.
A new translation by Zinnie Harris at the Donmar Warehouse, starring Gillian Anderson, Toby Stephens, Anton Lesser, Tara FitzGerald and Christopher Eccleston opened in May 2009.
In May 2008, the Navy announced new plans to reposition its forces throughout Brazil.
In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were " back in the studio working on some new songs " and later revealed that they were " in the final stages of recording the album ".
On May 9, 2011, the City of Lubbock held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza, the new home of the statue and the Walk of Fame.
Shareholder nominations can only occur at the general meeting itself or through the prohibitively expensive process of mailing out ballots separately ; in May 2009 the SEC proposed a new rule allowing shareholders meeting certain criteria to add nominees to the proxy statement.
Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.
Pavel Holoborodko computed B < sub > n </ sub > for n = 1. 1 * 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > using Harvey's implementation, which is a new record ( May 2012 ).
A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.
The new CEO, Scott A. Ernest, started on 31 May 2011.
" ( May 1929 ), replacing his existing character Kull of Atlantis with his new hero, and retitling it " The Phoenix on the Sword ".
First transmission in this format was episode 7351 on 31 May 2010 with a new set of titles and re-recorded theme tune.
On 26 May 2010 ITV1 previewed the new HD titles on the Coronation Street website.
A new, completely re-recorded version of the theme tune replaced the original when the series started broadcasting in HD on 31 May 2010.
May 20 Republican Year 37 / 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's inauguration speech as the first President of the Republic of China in the new constitution of 1948
A new Constitution was promulgated in 1947, and Chiang was formally elected by the National Assembly as the first term President of the Republic of China on May 20, 1948.
Earl Mason, hired from Inland Steel effective on May 1996, immediately made an impact as the new CFO.
In May 2007, HP announced in a press release a new logo for their Compaq Division to be placed on the new model Compaq Presarios.
He was videotaped when he spoke at the dedication of WRC-TV's new studios in Washington, D. C., on May 21, 1958.
A joint venture between the Irish Rugby Football Union, the FAI and the Government, saw it replaced by a new state-of-the-art 50, 000 seat Aviva Stadium, which opened in May 2010.

May and sovereign
Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.
After previously denying that Harrods was for sale, Harrods was sold to Qatar Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate of Qatar, on 10 May 2010.
In the charter granted to this company by the German Imperial Government in May 1885, it was given the power to exercise sovereign rights over the territory and other " unoccupied " lands in the name of the government, and the ability to " negotiate " directly with the native inhabitants.
* May 5 – West Germany becomes a sovereign country recognized by important Western foreign countries, such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
* May 11 – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation ; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
* May 3 – Matilda of Boulogne, sovereign Countess of Boulogne and queen of Stephen of England ( b. 1105 )
* May 26-German Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor grants bishops sovereign rights
On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.
In May 1963, Norway asserted sovereign rights over natural resources in its sector of the North Sea.
William II, Prince of Orange ( 27 May 1626 – 6 November 1650 ) was sovereign Prince of Orange and stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 14 March 1647 until his death three years later.
XI ; ; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939 ), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939.
On the death of Prince Louis II, theretofore without a legitimate heir, the throne of Monaco was due to pass to Wilhelm, the German 2nd Duke of Urach, Louis II's cousin, a son of Princess Florestine of Monaco ; to forestall this event, on 15 May 1911 a law was passed recognizing Charlotte as Louis's daughter, and making her a member of the sovereign family.
In the United Kingdom, where the practice originated, Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, also known as the Gracious Address or, less formally, as the Queen's Speech, is typically read by the reigning sovereign at the State Opening of Parliament ; this occurs annually in May — prior to the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011, the State Opening usually occurred in November or December — or soon after a general election.
Following denial that it was for sale, Harrods was sold to Qatar Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar in May 2010.
Sambhaji Bhosle ( 14 May 1657 – 11 March 1689 ) was the eldest son and successor of Chhatrapati ( sovereign ) Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire and his first wife Saibai.
The implementation of the agreements reached at Aburi fell apart upon the leaderships return to Nigeria and on 30 May 1967, as a result of this, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria a sovereign state to be known as BIAFRA :" Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic, now, therefore I, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall, henceforth, be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of The Republic of Biafra.
" The full authority of a sovereign state " was granted to the Federal Republic of Germany on 5 May 1955 under the terms of the Bonn – Paris conventions.
The company subsequently acquired further sovereign and territorial rights from the sultan of Brunei, expanding the territory under control to the Putatan river ( May 1884 ), the Padas district ( November 1884 ), the Kawang river ( February 1885 ), the Mantanani Islands ( April 1885 ), and additional minor Padas territories ( March 1898 ).
When the Republic of Cyprus became part of the European Union on 1 May 2004, the northern third of the island was outside of the effective control of its government, a United Nations buffer zone of varying width separated the two parts, and a further 3 % of the island was taken up by UK sovereign bases ( under British sovereignty since the Treaty of Establishment in 1960 ).
By the Convention of May 11, 1832, Greece was finally recognized as a sovereign state.
The company subsequently acquired further sovereign and territorial rights from the sultan of Brunei, expanding the territory under control to the, Putatan river in May 1884, the Padas district in November 1884, the Kawang river in February 1885, the Mantanani Islands in April 1885 and additional minor Padas territories in March 1898.
Moreover, Overbeck and Dent, in a statement before the Royal Colonial Institute on May 12, 1885, admitted that the deal they forged with the rightful owners of Sabah did not forfeit the sovereign rights of the Sultan of Sulu and Brunei over the territories administered by the British Borneo Company.

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