During Pope Shenouda III's visit to Rome from 4 to 10 May 1973, Pope Paul VI gave the Coptic Patriarch a relic of Athanasius, which he brought back to Egypt on 15 May.

The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.

Accordingly, on 15 May 1973, after consulting with the NSA, NBS solicited proposals for a cipher that would meet rigorous design criteria.

The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973.

The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

The first computer used at Lysator was a Datasaab D21, delivered to Lysator on 25 May 1973.

After Juan Perón's return from 18 years of exile and the 1973 Ezeiza massacre, which marked the definitive split between left and right-wing Peronism, the Montoneros were expelled from the Justicialist party in May 1974 by Perón.

Elquemedo Willett, born 1 May 1953, famous Nevisian cricket player and former Leeward Islands and West Indies left-arm spinner, was the first Leeward Islander to play Test cricket for the West Indies in 1973, when he was 19 years old.

* " Reincarnation as Taught by Early Christians ", by I. M. Oderberg, from Sunrise magazine, May 1973, Copyright © 1973 by Theosophical University Press.

May 14, 1973

It was established by Pope John Paul II on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substituted for the Committee for the Family of Pope Paul VI, which had been established in 1973.

The structure was completed in May 1973.

Skylab was launched 14 May 1973 by a Saturn V ( the last launch of such a rocket ) with the upper stage removed, but with the avionics remaining in the same position ( different from the Saturn INT-21 rocket, which could launch payloads not based on the S-IVB ) into a 235-nautical-mile ( 435-km ) orbit.

The station underwent extensive repair during a spacewalk ( extra-vehicular activity, or EVA ) by the crew of the SL-2 mission, which launched on 25 May 1973 atop a Saturn IB.

' Traditional Taekwon-Do ' may refer to ITF Taekwon-Do as created by the founder of ITF Taekwon-Do General Choi Hong Hi on April 11 1955 ; or WTF Taekwondo, founded by Dr Kim Un Yong on May 25, 1973.

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British commemorative postage stamps issued on 16 May 1973 for the County Cricket Centenary featured three sketches of W. G. Grace by Harry Furniss.

The couple separated in 1973 and the two began living separate lives, Ono pursuing her career in New York and Lennon living in Los Angeles with personal assistant May Pang in a period commonly referred to as his " lost weekend.

* May 20 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier, that fought in Yom Kippur ( d. 1973 )

* May 4 – Dory Funk, American professional wrestler ( d. 1973 )

* May 8 – Lex Barker, American actor ( d. 1973 )

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008.

The first German labour party, the General German Workers ' Association ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV ) was founded in Leipzig on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle ; about 600 workers from across Germany travelled to the foundation on the new railway line.

A Royal Mail press release in April 2003 said that the railway would be closed and mothballed at the end of May that year.

Despite a report by the Greater London Authority in support of continued use, the railway was closed in the early hours of 31 May 2003.

On May 2006 TransTeleCom Company and North Korea ’ s Ministry of Communications have signed an agreement for the construction and joint operation of a fiber-optic transmission line ( FOTL ) in the section of the Khasan – Tumangang railway checkpoint.

On May 2006 TransTeleCom Company and North Korea ’ s Ministry of Communications have signed an agreement for the construction and joint operation of a fiber-optic transmission line ( FOTL ) in the section of the Khasan – Tumangang railway checkpoint.

Founded under Conservative legislation that privatised the railways, Railtrack took control of the railway infrastructure on 1 April 1994 and was floated on the Stock Exchange in May 1996.

The exact border, the maintenance of cross-border railway traffic and other necessary co-operations, as well as equal rights for all inhabitants in both parts of Upper Silesia, were all fixed by the German-Polish Accord on East Silesia, signed in Geneva on May 15, 1922.

* May 9 – GWR 3440 City of Truro becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph.

* May 28 – Boxer Rebellion: The Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station.

* May 22 – The Quintinshill railway disaster in Scotland leaves more than 200 dead.

* May 21 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Vitznau – Rigi Railway on Mount Rigi in Switzerland.

* May 13 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

The now disused Kingston railway station served the Kingston to Montego Bay main line with branches from Spanish Town to Ewarton, Bog Walk to Port Antonio, Linstead to New Works and May pen to Frankfield.

The line was opened in two stages, from St Kilda railway station to Middle Brighton on 5 May 1906 and to Brighton Beach terminus on 22 December 1906.

It provides a road link running east-west between the city center and the A10 ring-road, and since May 2005 also provides a tram link between the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Haveneiland, IJburg.

Drogheda railway station opened on 25 May 1844.

With the opening of the railway line between Brussels and Mechelen on 5 May 1835, one of King Leopold's fondest hopes — to build the first railway in continental Europe — became a reality.

Oola railway station opened on 9 May 1848 and finally closed on 9 September 1963.

* An attack on the HASAG factory in May 1943 and the takeover of the Kielce Herbskie railway station.

By May 1870 the District railway had opened its line from West Brompton to Blackfriars via Gloucester Road and South Kensington, services being operated at first by the Metropolitan.

Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent ( Watling Street ).

Belmont railway station opened in May 1865 and was originally called ' California Station ', named after the California Arms public house on the opposite side of Brighton Road which was built by John Gibbons in approximately 1858.