Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, Closer.

Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, was a synthesiser-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division.

The head of Stephens City's government is Mayor Joy B. Shull, a former member of the Town Council, who was elected in an unopposed May 4, 2010 election, and is serving four years as mayor.

* May 18 – Ian Curtis, vocalist of pioneering post-punk group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Macclesfield home, just one day before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U. S. tour.

* May 18 – Ian Curtis ( 23 ), lead singer of Joy Division ( suicide )

The Factory name was first used for a club in May of that year, which featured local bands including The Durutti Column ( managed at the time by Erasmus and Wilson ), Cabaret Voltaire from Sheffield and Joy Division.

On 18 May 2010, the 30th anniversary of Ian Curtis ' death, The Light performed a set of Joy Division songs including every number off Unknown Pleasures.

Personalities hosting call-in talk shows on the Ideas Network ( as of May 2012 ) include Joy Cardin ( early morning weekdays ), Kathleen Dunn ( mid-morning Monday through Thursday ), Veronica Rueckert ( mid-morning Fridays ), Larry Meiller ( late morning and early afternoon weekdays ), and Ben Merens ( late afternoon / early evening weekdays ).

Speaking on Joy Radio, a station he owns, on May 12, 2008, Muluzi denied any plot against Mutharika and expressed exasperation with threats made by Mutharika.

Speaking on Joy Radio on May 27, Muluzi said that the documents were " laughable and fake " and accused the government of attempting to " intimidate and silence the opposition ".

In early 1994, Ross cancelled The Joy of Painting to continue battling the disease, with his final show airing on May 17, 1994.

Sharon Joy Grierson was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, on 4 May 1951.

K ' an Joy Chitam I ( May 4, 490 – February 8, 565 ) was a ruler of the Maya city-state of Palenque.

*" The Joy of Not Cooking ," The Atlantic, May 2011.

In May 2009, Francine Bellson fascinated jazz fans when she told The Jazz Joy and Roy syndicated radio show, " I like to call ( Sacred ) ' how The Master used two maestros ,'" adding, " When ( Ellington ) did his sacred concert back in 1965 with Louie on drums, he told Louie that the sacred concerts were based on ' in-the-beginning ,' the first three words of the bible.

When Amtrak commenced nationwide operations on May 1, 1971, the Broadway Limited continued to use the all-PRR route, with a split at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for trains to Washington, DC via Perryville, Maryland along the former Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, Columbia and Port Deposit Railway and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad until November 30, 1975.

Saville's album design for Joy Division's last album, Closer, released shortly after Ian Curtis ' suicide in May 1980, was controversial in its depiction of Christ's body entombed.

** Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis commits suicide on May 18, 1980 at the age of 23.

From this moment, started the struggle for emancipating led by Colonel Coimbra until 22 May 1891, when was denominated Town of St. Sebastian of Joy and, in 1895, the town's name was changed back into " Pederneiras ".

Adams recorded four albums with Avalon, In a Different Light ( March 23, 1999 ), Joy: A Christmas Collection ( September 26, 2000 ), and Oxygen ( May 22, 2001 ) as well as a remix album, O2: Avalon Remixed ( March 2002 ).

The first series was released on Region 2 DVD on 23 May 2005, with a short reunion documentary " Brothers in Magic " and audio commentaries on selected episodes by Carpenter, Bayldon, Davies and Executive Producer Joy Whitby.

Diane Joyce Bish, born on May 25, 1941, in Kansas, is an organist and composer as well as executive producer of the Joy of Music television series.

He returned to the Western Front in early 1916 as a general staff officer in the 33rd Division and took part in the Battle of Arras in April / May 1917.

In May 1923, Montgomery was posted to the Territorial 49th Division.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

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.

Mountbatten was appointed a Personal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George VI on 23 June 1936, and, having joined the Naval Air Division of the Admiralty in July 1936, he attended the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.

Market and Trade Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA, May 30, 2001. stock # ERSWRS01-1.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Alexander brought the 1st Infantry Division to France, where, in late May 1940, he successfully led the division's withdrawal to Dunkirk.

The Brewers struggled during the first month of the season, losing their first 4 games of the season and fell as far down as to 5th place in the NL Central Division, but the Brewers rebounded starting at the end of May and throughout June and early July.

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.

Endeavour was delivered by Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division in May 1991 and first launched a year later, in May 1992, on STS-49.

* May 21 – Army Aviation Section separated from Signal Corps and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.

** The US 11th Armored Division liberates the prisoners of Mauthausen concentration camp, including Simon Wiesenthal. American soldiers fighting in the Pacific War | Pacific theater listen to radio reports of Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945.

** Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. Marines of 1st Marine Division Battle of Okinawa | fighting on Okinawa, May 1945.

( Mott's 4th Division was discontinued on May 13 and its brigades were distributed to other divisions in the corps.

On May 18, a new 4th Division was constituted with reinforcements of heavy artillery regiments from Washington, D. C., under the command of Brig.

( Following the wounding of Robinson on May 8, his 2nd Division was temporarily disbanded and the brigades distributed to other divisions in the corps.

( Stevenson was killed on May 10 and was replaced in command of the 1st Division by Col. Daniel Leasure then Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden )

( On May 8, Jubal Early assumed temporary command of the Third Corps ; his replacement in command of Early's Division was Brig.

Cessna was re-sold to Textron in January 1992, the San Diego missile production to General Motors-Hughes Aerospace in May 1992, the Fort Worth aircraft production to Lockheed in March 1993 ( a nearby electronics production facility was separately sold to Israeli-based Elbit Systems, marking their entry into the United States market ), and its Space Systems Division to Martin Marietta in 1994.

In preparation for the offensive in the Pacific in May 1942, U. S. Marine Major General Alexander Vandegrift was ordered to move his 1st Marine Division from the United States to New Zealand.