Can you name the year that these May events occurred? by Djibouti

Date	Year	Event
May 01		Francis Gary Powers is shot down in a U-2 spyplane over the Soviet Union
May 02		Soviet forces take control of the Reichstag building and announce the capture of Berlin
May 03		The Battle of the Coral Sea - the first modern naval engagement - begins
May 04		Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the UK
May 05		Napoleon Bonaparte dies while in exile
May 06		The German zeppelin Hindenburg is destroyed in a fire while attempting to land in New Jersey
May 07		The RMS Lusitania is torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat
May 08		Major combat ends in Europe ends as Germany forces agree to an unconditional surrender
May 09		L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is first released
May 10		General Stonewall Jackson succumbs to injuries sustained from friendly fire
May 11		The IBM computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov and wins their 6 game rematch
May 12		The body of the Lindbergh baby is found
May 13		Pope John Paul II is shot at St. Peter's Square
May 14		The State of Israel proclaims its independence
May 15		Dutch forces surrender to Germany beginning 5 years of occupation
May 16		The first Academy Awards ceremony is held

Date	Year	Event
May 17		The US Supreme Court reaches a unanimous decision in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
May 18		India becomes the 6th nation to successfully detonate a nuclear weapon
May 19		Oscar Wilde is released from prison
May 20		The Spirit of St. Louis departs from Roosevelt field on Long Island, New York
May 21		In a referendum, Montenegrins vote 55.5% in favor of independence from Serbia
May 22		The Republic of Yemen is unified
May 23		Head of the SS Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while in Aliied custody
May 24		The German battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood
May 25		Star Wars is released
May 26		Bram Stoker's Dracula goes on sale in London
May 27		Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia
May 28		Comedian Phil Hartman is shot to death by his wife in a murder-suicide
May 29		Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Mt. Everest
May 30		Royal Air Force planes carry out Operation Millennium over Cologne
May 31		The Boer War ends

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