This Week in History

05 May
1981 Hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in the Maze prison 66 days after first refusing to eat.
2005 Labour under Tony Blair wins a third term but with a greatly reduced majority.

06 May
1954 Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, becomes the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
1994 The Channel Tunnel, linking England to France, officially opens.

07 May
1945 Nazi Germany signs an unconditional surrender to the Allies.
1997 The new Chancellor, Gordon Brown, gives the Bank of England independence from political control.

08 May
1968 The Kray twins, Reginald and Ronnie, and their 41-year-old brother Charlie are arrested after a series of dawn raids in London.
1984 Twelve weeks before the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, the USSR announces it is boycotting them.

09 May
1926 American aviators Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett become the first to fly over the North Pole.
1999 China sees the biggest demonstrations for years following the destruction by Nato bombs of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

10 May
1940 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; he is succeeded by Winston Churchill.
1994 Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first black president after the ANC wins the first multiracial election.

11 May
330 Constantinople becomes the new capital of the Roman Empire.
1997 IBM computer Deep Blue beats chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game series.

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