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NATO foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg.
A funeral will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, for James Earl Ray, confessed assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
The fourth annual "Viva Elvis" festival begins in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

On Friday, May 29, Adam Pletcher of Long Grove, Illinois, is expected to be sentenced in an attempt to extort money from Microsoft head Bill Gates.
On Saturday, May 30, the MTV Movie Awards will be presented in Santa Monica, California.
On Sunday, May 31, Pope John Paul II visits Poland.
On Monday, June 1, the hurricane season begins in the Central Pacific.
On Tuesday, June 2, the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on a 10-day mission.

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Amnesty International was formed on this day in 1961. Today the group has more than a million members in 150 countries who work to guarantee human rights for everyone.		Armenia celebrates Restoration of Statehood. It is Day of the Republic in Azerbaijan Republic. Malaysia celebrates Raja of Perlis' Birthday. Actress Carroll Baker ("Harlow") is 67. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is 54. Singer Gladys Knight ("If I Were Your Woman") is 54. Actress Sondra Locke ("Bronco Billy") is 51.

In 1156, William of Sicily crushed a revolt against his rule, defeating the Byzantine fleet at Brindisi.
In 1937, in Britain, Neville Chamberlain took over as prime minister at the head of a coalition government after Stanley Baldwin's retirement.
In 1940, Belgium's King Leopold surrendered to Nazi Germany.
In 1940, Norwegian and British forces captured Narvik in Norway.
In 1940, evacuation of the defeated Allied armies from Dunkirk began. By its completion on the night of June 2, a total of 224,585 British and 112,546 French and Belgian troops had been saved.
In 1982, Pope John Paul II arrived in Britain on the first papal visit there since 1531.
In 1982, in the Falklands war, British troops recaptured Port Darwin and Goose Green from the Argentine army, taking at least 1,400 prisoners.
In 1987, a 19-year-old West German, Mathias Rust, flew a plane from Helsinki to Moscow, passing through Soviet airspace unchallenged and eventually landing on Red Square.
In 1991, NATO defense ministers approved a radical shakeup of its forces in post-cold war Europe, including creation of a Rapid Reaction Force.
In 1991, in Ethiopia, rebel tanks blasted their way into Addis Ababa at dawn, toppling the remnants of a Marxist government whose 17-year rule brought war and famine.
In 1995, Russia's worst recorded earthquake killed 1,989 people in the Far East oil-producing town of Neftegorsk, on the north of Sakhalin Island.
In 1995, Bosnia's Foreign Minister Irfan Ljubijankic was killed when his helicopter was downed in a rocket attack near the Croatian border.
In 1996, President Jacques Chirac announced France would end military conscription from 1997, earlier than previously planned.