May 23, 1960 Israel announces Israeli agents have captured former Nazi official SS Lt. Col. Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichmann is tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.

May 24, 1968 President De Gaulle of France proposes a referendum and students set fire to Paris. Rioters set fire to the Paris Bourse.

May 25, 1961 President Kennedy asks the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by