South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

Chiang was reelected by the National Assembly to be the President of the Republic of China ( ROC ) on May 20, 1954, and again in 1960, 1966, and 1972.

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.

A few months later, the novel was serialized in the March, April, and May 1954 issues of Playboy.

In May 1954, the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh discovered a fourth pit, a long, narrow rectangle, still covered with slabs of stone weighing up to 15 tons.

The service began operating in Palm Springs, California on November 27, 1953, but due to pressure from the FCC, the service ended on May 15, 1954.

In May 1954, Stroessner ordered his troops into action against the government after Chaves had tried to dismiss one of his subordinates.

Robert Pirsig married Nancy Ann James on May 10, 1954.

This boat was rediscovered in May 1954 when archeologist Kamal el-Mallakh and inspector Zaki Nur found two ditches sealed off by about 40 blocks weighing 17 to 20 tonnes each.

Another series of the fiftes, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers broadcast live Saturdays from April 18, 1953 to May 29, 1954.

Moon formally founded the church in Seoul on May 1, 1954, calling it " The Holy Spirit ( ual ) Association for the Unification of World Christianity.

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 21 – Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1954 )

* May 26 – Roderick McMahon, American professional boxing and wrestling promoter ( d. 1954 )

* May 5 – Bobby Sands, Irish republican ( hunger strike ) ( b. 1954 )

* May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist ( d. 1954 )

Dial M for Murder opened in theaters in May 1954 to both positive reviews and box-office triumph.

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

Without prejudice to the provisions of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954 ,' and of other relevant international instruments, it is prohibited:

The novel, somewhat abridged, was originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( May, June, July 1954 ) as " Star Lummox " and then published in hardcover as part of Scribner's series of Heinlein juveniles.

On May 17, 1954, the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its decision regarding the case called Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in which the plaintiffs charged that the education of black children in separate public schools from their white counterparts was unconstitutional.

On May 18, 1954 Greensboro became the first city in the South to publicly announce that it would abide by the U. S. Supreme Court ’ s Brown v. Board of Education ruling which declared racial segregation in the nation ’ s public schools unconstitutional.

* "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock "-US # 23 on May 29, 1954 only one week ; UK # 17, in December 1954

Fighting lasted until May 1954, when the Viet Minh won the decisive victory against French forces at the gruelling Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.

His nephew Baldwin was paraded in public, wearing his crown as Baldwin V. Baldwin IV finally succumbed to his leprosy in May 1185.

The school's name was changed to the Maria L. Baldwin School on May 21, 2002, in honor of the African-American principal of the school who served from 1889 until 1922.

Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders.

On 7 May 1788, he married the widow Mary Pitt ( née Baldwin ) at St Laurence's Church, Upton in Slough.

* May 16 – Baldwin, Count of Flanders is crowned emperor of the Latin Empire a week after his election by the members of the Fourth Crusade.

* April – King Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures Arsuf and Caesarea ( in May ).

In May 1267, he concluded the Treaty of Viterbo with the exiled Baldwin II of Constantinople and William II Villehardouin ( through his chancellor Leonardo of Veruli ).

* May 7 – Battle of Harran: Baldwin II, count of Edessa, is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks ; Tancred becomes regent.

* May 27 – Treaty of Viterbo: Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople gifts the Principality of Achaea to King Charles I of Sicily in the hope that Charles can help him restore the Latin Empire.

On May 5, 1990, the Gunds officially sold their share of the North Stars to Baldwin and were awarded a new team for the Bay Area, based in San Jose.

The name Dunkirk ( Dutch for “ Church in the dunes ”) was first mentioned in a tithe privilege of 27 May 1067, issued by Count Baldwin V of Flanders.

Baldwin provided him with a fleet and he landed in the Isle of Wight in May 1066, where he collected money and provisions.

Part of the land ceded by the Creek Nation in the Treaty of Fort Wilkinson in 1802 was used to create Baldwin County on May 11, 1803, by the Georgia General Assembly, the state's legislative body.

Albert Baldwin Wood ( December 1, 1879 – May 10, 1956 ) was an inventor and engineer from New Orleans, Louisiana.

In May 1910, near what is currently known as Plaza Elementary School on Seaman Avenue and Rockville Drive in Baldwin, a breakthrough in American aviation history was made.

Robert Baldwin " Robbie " Ross ( May 25, 1869 – October 5, 1918 ) was a Canadian journalist and art critic.

To this intent, he signed the Treaty of Viterbo with Baldwin ( May 1267 ).

Robert Baldwin ( May 12, 1804 – December 9, 1858 ) was born at York ( now Toronto ).

Robert Baldwin, Esquire, Barrister, of York ( now Toronto ) married Augusta Elizabeth Sullivan, daughter of Daniel Sullivan, on May 3, 1827.

Like many of the Coalition leaders he did not hold office in the Conservative governments of 1922 – 4, although as an elder statesman he was consulted by the King in the choice of Baldwin as Bonar Law's successor as Conservative leader in May 1923.

On Andrew Bonar Law's retirement as Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for the job in favour of Stanley Baldwin, despite having written Bonar Law a lengthy letter earlier in the year complaining of rumours that he was to retire in Baldwin's favour, and listing the reasons why he should have the top job.

Davidson telephoned Reith about his idea on 7 May, saying he had spoken to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, who had said he would not stop the broadcast, but would prefer it not to happen.