The Wasteland Speech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.

* " Assessment of the speech by Minow and 24 commentators for the Federal Communications Law Journal " May 2003

On May 9, 1961, at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters new FCC chairman Newton Minow delivered a scathing speech directed at the " procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western badmen, Western goodmen, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons, and, endlessly, commercials, many screaming, cajoling, and offending, and, most of all, boredom [...] Is there one network president in this room who claims he can't do better?

The previous season had been excoriated by FCC chairman Newton Minow in May 1961.

When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

In 1998 Rau stepped down from his positions as SPD Chairman and Minister President, and on 23 May 1999, was elected Federal President by the Federal Assembly of Germany to succeed Roman Herzog ( CDU ).

He has been a member of Carlyle Group's European Advisory Board since 1998 and was appointed Chairman of Carlyle Europe in May 2001.

Najibullah succeeded Karmal as PDPA General Secretary on 4 May 1986 at the 18th PDPA meeting, but Karmal still retained his post as Chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Council.

On 15 May Najibullah announced that a collective leadership had been established, which was led by himself consisted of himself as head of party, Karmal as head of state and Sultan Ali Keshtmand as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

* Thomas Hays, former Chairman of The May Department Stores Company

On May 2, he is replaced as Chairman of the Military Council by Elias Phisoana Ramaema.

( See GAO Report — Perchlorate: A System to Track Sampling and Cleanup Results is Needed — Report to the Chairman, Dr. Adam Dierkers, Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives — May 2005 ).

• Marco Tronchetti Provera – Chairman and CEO of Pirelli & C. S. p. a. from May 7, 2003

• Alberto Pirelli – Deputy Chairman of Pirelli & C. S. p. a. since May 7, 2003

After two attempts to break into the Watergate Complex failed, on May 17, Liddy's team placed wiretaps on the telephones of DNC Chairman Lawrence O ' Brien and Executive Director of Democratic States ' Chairman R. Spencer Oliver, Jr.

Heavy fighting having broken out between Israel and Syria following Israeli work undertaken on Arab-owned land in the DMZ, the Security Council in Resolutions 92 ( 1951 ) and 93 ( 1951 ) of 8 and 18 May 1951 called upon the parties to cease fighting and endorsed the request of the Chief of Staff of UNTSO that the Israeli company involved be instructed to cease all operations in the DMZ until such time as an agreement is arranged through the Chairman of the MAC for continuing its project.

On May 28, 2008, Kuomintang Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung made a landmark visit to Beijing., and met and shook hands with the Communist General Secretary Hu Jintao, at the Great Hall of the People.

Mitchell and Nixon Finance Committee Chairman Maurice H. Stans were indicted in May 1973 on federal charges of obstructing an investigation of Vesco after he made a $ 200, 000 contribution to the Nixon campaign.

On May 21, 2010, it was revealed that Bennett S. LeBow, Chairman of Vector Group, was making a large private investment in Borders stock.

* Arthur Holmes Howell ( May 3, 1872 – July 10, 1940 ) Chairman of the American Society of Mammalogists, teacher of Luther Goldman.

Gorham frequently served as Chairman of the Convention's Committee of the Whole, meaning that he ( rather than the President of the Convention, George Washington ) presided over convention sessions during the delegates ' first deliberations on the structure of the new government in late May and June 1787.

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

He was sworn into office as president on May 20, 2008, and sworn in as the Chairman of the Kuomintang on October 17, 2009.

On 15 April 2009, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Swiss banking giant UBS, holding this post until 3rd May 2012.

( Duncan Smith served as the centre's Chairman until he joined the Cabinet in May 2010, and remains its Life Patron.

On May 18, Svinhufvud became Protector of State or Regent, retaining this post as Head of State after he stood down as Chairman of the Senate on May 27.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

In late May 1932, with the resignation of Karl Buresch's Christian-Social government, Dollfuss, age 39 and with only one year's experience in the Federal government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party.

It was formally approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the constitution of those states of West Germany that were initially included within the Federal Republic.

John Edgar Hoover ( January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972 ) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) of the United States.

" On May 17, 1847, President James K. Polk offered Davis a Federal commission as a brigadier general and command of a brigade of militia.

He is currently serving his sentence, with a projected release date of May 23, 2019, at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Indiana in the Communication Management Unit.

* 4 May 1960 – Hans Wilhelmi ( CDU ) succeeds Lindrath ( d. 27 February ) as Minister of Federal Economic Possessions.

The Federal Court ordered on 23 May 2007 that Macquarie University Union Ltd be wound up.

Mark Edward Whitacre ( born May 1, 1957 ) came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM ), he was the highest-level corporate executive in U. S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) whistleblower.

The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is demolished on May 23, 1995, over a month after the incident.

More than a month after the bombing, at 7: 02 am CST on May 23, the Murrah Federal building was demolished.

In May 2010, Turkey and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia also signed a military training agreement, in keeping with the provisions outlined in the Djibouti Peace Process.

On January 16, 2001 the Federal Bureau of Prisons set May 16, 2001 as McVeigh's execution date.

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

* May 23 – Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council

* May 23 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established.

* May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( b. 1849 )

* May 4 – A Sudanese Federal Airlines jet crashes on a domestic flight in a severe dust storm, while making an emergency landing 325 kilometres northeast of Khartoum, killing all 53 passengers and crew.

* May 23 – Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.

* May 30 – Karl Carstens, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany ( b. 1914 )

* May 2 – J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director ( b. 1895 )