May 1960

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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., and Japan
May 16, 1960: Physicist Theodore Maiman makes successful test of the first laser

The following events occurred in May 1960:


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