Sunday, June 10, 2007

May 1950


Updating the year 1950-beginning with May 1950.
May
May 6 - "Cazin uprising" in town of Cazin (Bosnia) against Communist and their agrarian reforms.
May 6 - Tollund Man is found.
May 9 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
May 9 - L. Ron Hubbard publishes "Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health".
May 11 - Kefauver Committee hearings about US organized crime begin.
May 25 - Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic.
May 29 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia

info from wikipedia.org and Google.com

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