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May 1 - Three spectators were killed and eight others were injured at Lowe's Motor Speedway during an IRL race when a tire went into the grandstand.

May 2 - Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in Weimar, Texas . They were his fourth and fifth victims in his fourth incident.

May 3 - Photo driver licences and banknotes made out of Polymer Substrate are introduced to New Zealand .

May 3 - A F5 Tornado slams in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma killing 38 people. This was the second strongest tornado ever recorded in United States history. (See Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak ). A possible tornado outbreak that has a similar force to it will take place sometime in the next 250-500 years.

May 3 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time. It closes at 11,014.70.

May 5 - Microsoft releases Windows 98 Second Edition .

May 6 - Elections are held in Scotland and Wales for the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly For Wales

May 7 - A jury finds '' The Jenny Jones Show '' and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode.

, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

May 7 - In Guinea-Bissau , President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military Coup

May 8 - Goalkeeper Jimmy Glass saved Carlisle United from certain death when he scored last minuite goal against Plymouth Argyle and relegate Scarborough instead.

May 8 - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Military College Of South Carolina ;The Embassy of People's Republic Of China in Belgrad was bombed by U.S Air Force.

May 12 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament

May 13 - in Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected President of the Republic

May 17 - Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel .

May 18 - The Backstreet Boys release their album, '' Millennium ''.

'' is released in theaters.

May 20 - Bluetooth announced.

May 23 - In Kansas City, Missouri , wrestler Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) falls 90 feet (30 m) to his death while being lowered into a World Wrestling Federation ring during WWF Over The Edge .

May 26 - Indian Air Force launches attack on intruding Pakistan backed militants in Kashmir sparking the Kargil War .

May 26 - Manchester United win the UEFA Champions League at the Nou Camp stadium, Barcelona , beating Bayern Munich to lift their third major trophy in their unprecedented Treble, after winning the English Premier League and FA Cup .

May 26 - Madejczyk Massacre Averted, Bridgman, Michigan School Shooting Plot

May 26 - First Welsh Assembly for over 600 years opens in Cardiff

May 27 - The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia in The Hague , Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for War Crime s and Crimes Against Humanity committed in Kosovo

May 28 - In Milan , Italy , after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo De Vinci 's newly-restored masterpiece " The Last Supper " is put back on display.

May 31 - Nigeria gets a Democratic President in Olusegun Obasanjo