May

WHO declares 8 May 1980

1980

• May 5 — Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building.
• May 8 — World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated.

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.

• May 18 — “An exotic new disease” among homosexuals is reported in New York Native, a gay newspaper. This was the first news story on a disease, which came to be known as HIV/AIDS.

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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