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May 13, 2008

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World Events

• Biafra secedes from Nigeria (May).
  
  
• Israeli and Arab forces battle; Six-Day War ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank (June 5). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
  
  
• Right-wing military coup deposes King Constantine II of Greece.
  
  
• Communist China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb (June 17).
  
  
• The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Background: nuclear disarmament
  
  

U.S. Events

• Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23).
  
  
• Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2).
  
  
• Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).
  
  

Economics

Sports

Super Bowl

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• Congress creates PBS.
• Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional magazines.

Movies

• The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke

Music

• The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Books

• Donald Barthelme, Snow White
• Elizabeth Bishop, Selected Poems
• Robert Bly, The Light Around the World
• Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
• Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
• W. S. Merwin, Lice
• Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
• Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights
• William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

Science

• Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel (UK) discover pulsars. Background: Astronomy
• Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller particles called quarks.
• The MIRV (Multiple Indepenently Targetable Reetry Vehicle), which allows one missile to carry several nuclear warheads, is developed. Background: nuclear weapons
• Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3). The patient dies 18 days later.

Deaths

• Ernesto "Che" Guevara
  
  
• Spencer Tracy
  
  
• Woody Guthrie
  
  
• Langston Hughes
  
  
• Alice B. Toklas
  
  
• John Coltrane
  
  

Year by Year: 1900-2008

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