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In May 1972, the Sunshine Mine of Kellogg was the site of one of the worst U. S. mining accidents, resulting in the deaths of 91 miners ; as a result, every miner in the U. S. now carries a " self-rescuer " ( a breathing apparatus made with hopcalite and much simpler than a SCBA ), which gives the miner a chance to avoid death due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
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The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.
On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.
He has used birth dates of December 24, 1972 and May 28, 1979.
The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.
* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.
# Measures, numbers, money, days, months, years, clock time, and international words are in English forms, e. g. Date / Time: 20 May 1972 at 21: 00
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.
The EMSBL ( East Meadow Strat-o-Matic Baseball League ), founded in 1972 started its 41st consecutive year of play in May 2012 and is believed to be the oldest continuously playing fantasy baseball league in the world.
Banks played his 73rd England game in a 1 – 0 win over Scotland at Hampden Park on 27 May 1972 and was awarded the Football Writers ' Association Footballer Of The Year honour.
The Astros ' acquisition of Lee May added more power to the lineup in 1972.
John Edgar Hoover ( January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972 ) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) of the United States.
Hoover maintained strong support in Congress until his death at his Washington, D. C., home on May 2, 1972, from a heart attack attributed to cardio-vascular disease.
After publishing in the last issue of the magazine an analysis of the May 1968 revolts, and the strategies that will need to be adopted in future revolutions, the SI was dissolved in 1972.
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In May 1972, Bushnell had visited the Magnavox Profit Caravan in Burlingame, California where he played the Magnavox Odyssey demonstration, specifically the table tennis game.
The other members of the group from North East London, the " Stoke Newington Eight " were prosecuted for carrying out bombings as the Angry Brigade in one of the longest criminal trials of English history ( it lasted from 30 May to 6 December 1972 ).
In May 2006, Petersen's $ 160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel ( and popular 1972 disaster film ) The Poseidon Adventure, was released by Warner Bros., but performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $ 60 million in box office receipts by early August, although international profits surpassed $ 121 million.
* May 11 – Thomas H. Robbins, Jr., American admiral ( d. 1972 )
* May 26 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist ( d. 1972 )
* May 23 – Zack Wheat, Baseball Hall of Famer ( d. 1972 )
* May 5 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1972 )
* May 11 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( d. 1972 )
May and Sunshine
* Audio recording of Mayday call made from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse, Tampa Bay, Florida, May 1980 ( MP3 format ) ( updated URI, Jun 29 2005 )
Tragedy struck on May 9, 1980 when the southbound span of the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge was struck by the freighter MV Summit Venture during a storm, sending over 1200 feet ( 366m ) of the bridge plummeting into Tampa Bay.
Weeks later the group's success broke wide open, with " Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In " from the musical Hair topping the Hot 100 in April and May and " Wedding Bell Blues " doing so in November, with a U. S. # 20 cover of Neil Sedaka's " Workin ' On A Groovy Thing " in-between.
The group performed and sang a medley consisting of " What the World Needs Now Is Love " and The Beatles ' " All You Need Is Love " on 23 February 1969 and performed and sang " Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In " on 18 May 1969, the day after the medley fell from the Hot 100 summit.
* The Sunshine Boys starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths ( 17 May 2012 – 28 July 2012 )
In May 2009, Weaving accepted a costarring role in the docudrama Oranges and Sunshine, about the forced migration of thousands of British children to Australia in the 1950s.
On 14 May 1994, the BBC aired the first of three episodes of a mini-series called Bring Me Sunshine, as a tribute to Eric Morecambe.
In a controversial network switch Sunshine switched to WAPA-TV in 1998 and was the host of a show named " Club Sunshine ", which was aired until May 2009.
Miles Beresford Kington ( 13 May 1941 – 30 January 2008 ) was a British journalist, musician ( a double bass player for Instant Sunshine and other groups ) and broadcaster.
However they used the tune of the Russian song May There Always Be Sunshine by Arkady Ostrovsky, who was never credited because of political reasons.
Parts of the north and south ridings of the Shire of Braybrook ( later City of Sunshine ) were annexed to Melton as the Rockbank Riding on 24 May 1916, and this was added to in 1951.
The Dukes released their debut album, Lil ’ Sunshine, in May 2005.
* Audio recording of Mayday call made from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse, Tampa Bay, Florida, May 1980 ( MP3 format ) ( updated URI, June 29, 2005 )
Tony Sunshine was released from Sony BMG in May, 2006 and was signed to Urban Box Office.
In early May 2008, Urban debuted a new song at the Grand Ole Opry titled " A New Sunshine ".
May There Always Be Sunshine ( or Солнечный круг ) is a popular Russian children's song created in 1962.
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It culminated at the Parade of Champions on May 4, 1986 where Sunshine beat Hyatt in a pig-sty mud match.
On May 9, 1980, a freight ship collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, resulting in several vehicles, including a Greyhound bus, falling into the Tampa Bay.
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