May 2: Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.
May 5: Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of Perception.
May 9: France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with King Norodom Sihanouk.
May 10: The town of Chemnitz in East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.
May 11: The Waco tornado outbreak: A F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas, killing 114.
May 15: The Standards And Recommended Practices (SARPS) for Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) were adopted by the ICAO Council. These SARPS are in Annex 15 to the Chicago Convention and 15 May is celebrated by the AIS community as "World AIS Day".
May 18: At Rogers Dry Lake, Californian Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
May 25: Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its only nuclear artillery test: Upshot-Knothole Grable.
May 29: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest. (source: Wikipedia)
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| Description: | A beautiful girl in Dodge named "Tacetta" causes a hanging in the jail, a gunfight with Chester, and another gunfight with Marshal Dillon. | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-05-02 - Venus Space Factory | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Swinging in wide orbits around the planet Venus are two gigantic constructions, popularly known as 'space factories'. Power is obtained from the sun by use of solar energy reflectors. These privately-owned factories are inspected at regular intervals ... | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 83 - Beware the Walking Dog | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 181 - Lili and the Colonel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Three people vacationing in the Appalachians run afoul of a pagan cult looking for human sacrifices to offer to their stone idol. | ||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 827 - Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 511 - Othello, Part 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 42 - Quartined for the Plague | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A buffalo hunter named Gatliff brings a dying buffalo skinner into Dodge. His face had been pushed into a pan of hot lead! Soon afterwards, a nester is found stabbed to death. | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-05-09 - Cosmic Ray Detector | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In Commander Corry's central office at Space Patrol headquarters on Terra, Cadet Happy is checking through a file of search mission reports from the Venus command, as the Secretary-General's daughter, Carol enters..." | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 316 - Captain Hook First Comic - Beetle Bailey | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 182 - The Vessel of Wrath | |||||||||||||
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| Hall of Fantasy s2 25 - Spectre of Denston Castle | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 512 - Othello, Part 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 162 - Rochester Theft Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A beautiful woman, wearing an expensive fur coat is killed ... the coat being a clue to the previous robbery. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 496 - Gildy Almost Goes to Europe | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 154 - Wild Bill's New Deputy | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-05-14 - 86) Night Before the Fair | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 43 - Chasing the Papillion | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 155 - Grandpa Rides Again | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 56 - The Big Con | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An interesting show about a fascinating, original way to rob a bank! | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-05-16 - Secret of Sub Level 7 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | All day long, huge crowds have thronged United Planets Park on the man-made planet Terra. All the leading scientists from Mercury to Pluto have been demonstrating improvements in spaceship equipment, in surface cars,also in such also in such home appliances ... | ||||||||||||
| Escape 183 - North of Polaris | |||||||||||||
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| Hall of Fantasy s2 26 - The Crawling Thing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ambitious scientist invents a formula that, when injected into a tarantula, causes the critter to grow really, really big. Can't be too long before it goes on a homicidal rampage. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3174 - The Last of the Carson Gang | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 829 - The Girl in White | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 513 - Vial of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 163 - Emily Braddock Matter | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 497 - Leroy Writes a Theme | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 156 - Ten Minute Mayor (1 - | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 44 - Command of the La Mouch | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 157 - One Fresh Onion | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 57 - Print Asper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rabb is a dishonest lawyer who tries to cheat John Asper out of his ranch. Lawyer Rabb is found shot four days later, it looks as if one of Asper's son's did the shooting. | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-05-23 - Treachery in Outer Space | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Commander Corry and Cadet Happy, in their space battlecruiser Terra V, are headed toward Jupiter where Buzz is to hold a conference with the Governor of that giant planet, but they've just received a message concerning a wanted bandit ship reported in the area, ... | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 27 - The Twisting Weeds of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A teenager returns from a supposedly haunted house on the seashore with a tale for the local sheriff about witnessing the murder of a young woman there; but there has been no such murder - at least not for twenty years, anyway. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3177 - Heritage of Treason | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 830 - Lure of the Wilderness | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 514 - Pigeon in the Cage | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-05-26 - 89) The Cattleman's War | |||||||||||||
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| My Friend Irma 273 - Irma Wins a Trip to England | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 164 - Brisbane Fraud Matter | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 498 - Witness to a Wedding | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 158 - Little Lady in Distress | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-05-28 - 90) Contraband | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 45 - Prisoner and Rescue of Spanish | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 159 - A Day of Danger | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 58 - Fall Semester | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lee Dargan is being cheated by his foreman Jim Slater. His cattle are being stolen, but he doesn't know how! | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-05-30 - Immortal Brain | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Electronic computers prove their worth. With lightning speed they foretold the path of rockets and predicted the weather. In the 30th century, these amazing electronic brains supply information and guidance for government leaders and all major industries. The giant ... | ||||||||||||
| Escape 185 - A Good Thing | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 212 - Cosmopolitan Magazine Pictures | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 142 - The William Holland Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The program is now on Sundays at 7:30 P. M. Diamond and Walt Levinson travel to Bolivia to find the missing William Holland. Diamond finds a Russian agent instead ... mining pitchblende! | ||||||||||||
