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1980
- May 5 — Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building.[1]
- May 8 — World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated.[1]
1981
- May 13 — Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded allegedly by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.[2]
- May 18 — “An exotic new disease” among homosexuals is reported in New York Native, a gay newspaper.[3] This was the first news story on a disease, which came to be known as HIV/AIDS.[4]
1988
- May 20 — Traci Lords makes her mainstream screen debut at 19 in a leading role of the 1988 remake of Roger Corman’s Not of This Earth (1957).
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.onthisday.com/date/1980
- ↑ https://www.onthisday.com/date/1981
- ↑ Republican American, Today in History, May 18
- ↑ Wikipedia, HIV/AIDS#Discovery
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