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Goodman had decided to issue a stay of execution as Chessman was being strapped into his chair, and instructed his secretary to call the prison, but the secretary had copied only four of the five digits of the telephone number, after which the call took a full minute to go through. In San Francisco, defense attorneys had asked to present an argument, and U.S.

in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin Prison after ten years on Death Row. Caryl Chessman was executed at 10:03 a.m.Goetz, a German-born surgeon, led a team at the Van Etten Hospital in the Bronx (now the Jacobi Medical Center) in performing the first coronary artery bypass surgery on a human patient. in 1978, and in Great Britain, France, Ireland and Italy between 19.

Cauthen would ride horses to victory in the premier horse races in the U.S. Triple Crown winner Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year at age 17 in Covington, Kentucky. Born: Steve Cauthen, American jockey, 1978 U.S.Maharashtra and Gujarat were formed as the 14th and 15th States of India, when the Bombay State was split along linguistic lines.Powers parachuted and chose not to commit suicide, and landed near Sverdlovsk, where he was captured alive. At 9:53 am (0653 GMT), his plane was struck by shrapnel from an exploding Soviet SA-2 missile while he was at 70,500 feet (21,488 m). The U-2 Incident began when an American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, entered Soviet airspace ten minutes after takeoff from a U.S.and Japan May 16, 1960: Physicist Theodore Maiman makes successful test of the first laser (Sunday) Wreckage of the U-2, on display in a Moscow museum May 1, 1960: USSR shoots down American U-2 spy plane and captures USAF spy pilot Francis Gary Powers alive May 22, 1960: Earthquake strikes Chile, triggers tsunamis and aftershocks that kill over 5,000 people in Chile, U.S. The following events occurred in May 1960: 1960 January February March April May June July August September October November December >

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