On May 5, 1936, Capra was also host of the 8th Academy Awards ceremony.

Despite winning the League Cup, Liverpool could only finish 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012.

The Roman Catholic festival of All Saints is known to have been introduced in the early 7th century, on the occasion of the dedication of the Pantheon as a church, but on the continent, it was celebrated on 13 May throughout the 7th and 8th centuries.

On May 21, Williams passed Chuck Klein for 10th place, on May 25 Williams passed Rogers Hornsby for 9th place, and on July 5 Williams passed Al Simmons for 8th place all-time in career home runs.

* May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English inventor and studio potter ( d. 1920 )

* May 24 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English lawyer ( d. 1769 )

* May 27 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury ( executed ) ( born 1473 )

* Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury ( 14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541 ); married Sir Richard Pole ; executed by Henry VIII.

Her ship sat at anchor for a full week before Richard finally arrived on the 8th of May.

On May 8th, Riley was named NBA Coach of the Year, becoming the first NBA coach to win that award on three separate teams.

The former mayor Joe Matthews challenged Mayor Mullen for the Democratic nomination, but was defeated in the May 8th primary 55 %- 45 %.

Add to this, during World War II, from May 1942 to July 1945, the U. S. Army Air Force's 8th Air Force Bomber Command, code-named " Pinetree ", was based at a former girls ' school at High Wycombe.

HammerFall's 8th album was released on 20 May 2011, under the name Infected.

When he was forced to repeat the 8th grade again the next year, he dropped out of school on May 30, 1938.

* Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster ( 27 May 1914-3 December 2004 )

On 6 May 1824, at the age of 27, he joined the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.

( Receiving marks on the back indicate that it arrived in Hamburg on the 8th of May.

What is clear is that because of Clark's change of plan, Operation Diadem ( during which U. S. 5th and British 8th Armies sustained 44, 000 casualties ) failed in its objective of destroying the German 10th Army and condemned the Allies to a further year of brutal combat notably around the Gothic Line from August 1944 to May 1945.

* Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke ( 18 May 1699 – 29 January 1702 )

* 1870-20 May 1924 Agvaanluvsanchoyjindanzanvaanchigbalsambuu ( Ngag-dbang-blo-bzang-chos-rje-nyi-ma-bstan -' dzin-dbang-phyug rJe-btsun-dam-pa Bla-ma ), 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu and Bogd Khan ( b. 1869-d. 1924 )

Redgrave's funeral was held on the 8th of May at the First Congregational Church in Kent, Connecticut.

At about 04: 00 on 1 May, Krebs talked to General Vasily Chuikov commander of the Soviet 8th Guards Army.

Book based on the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée, when it erupted on May 8th 1902 killing over 30, 000 people.

The New York Metropolitan Opera Company will be here in May, and the board will sponsor the Saturday night, May 13, performance of `` Turandot '' as a benefit.

In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.

The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

No. 1 ( Commander / Leader ) for the 2011 – 2012 seasons was originally Commander Dave Koss ; effective 27 May 2011, Koss " stepped down Friday in the wake of a subpar performance at a Virginia air show.

After one-hitting Boston on May 2, 1904, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell taunted Young to face him so that he could repeat his performance against Boston's ace.

Elwes was set to portray George Harrison in Zemeckis's 3D performance capture re-telling of Yellow Submarine ; however in May 2011, Disney withdrew from the project, leaving its fate uncertain.

Devo also confirmed that they would be performing at All Tomorrow's Parties on May 6 and 8, with the May 6th performance featuring the band performing their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?

Having lost their academic home in May 2003, they increasingly cross genres and print write-ups of all books and media received, as well as of events that feature creative works that imaginatively challenge gender such as intentional communities, performance events, and film festivals.

Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, which had its original performance in the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on May 30, 1927.

Following his performance of Richard III on May 12, the Boston Transcript < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > review the next day called Booth " the most promising young actor on the American stage ".

In May she also had a better-than-par performance at a strong tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, finishing third.

* P-51B Mustang performance test report, May 1943

Lou Ferrigno's epic tug-o '- war performance in May 1979 is considered the greatest feat in ' Battle ' history.

Both Robin and Marian were certainly associated with May Day festivities in England ( as was Friar Tuck ), but these may have been originally two distinct types of performance – Alexander Barclay in his Ship of Fools, writing in c. 1500, refers to " some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood " – but the characters were brought together.

At the same time Prokofiev also composed music for children ( Three Songs for Children and Peter and the Wolf, among others ) as well as the gigantic Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, which was banned from performance and had to wait until May 1966 for a partial premiere.

The requested posters were printed up and posted in the Burgtheater in time for the third performance on 24 May.

The Hungarian poet Ferenc Kazinczy was in the audience for a May performance, and later remembered the powerful impression the work made on him:

Tom Waits and the Nocturnal Emissions toured the United States and Europe extensively from October 1976 until May 1977, including a performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking " on cult BBC2 television music show the Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1976.

In May 2003 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates ; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon.

* May 5 – The Music Hall in New York ( now known as Carnegie Hall ) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.