This time around, we're looking at the week from May 9th - 15th
On May 9th, 1968, 21 people, including The Krays are charged with offences including conspiracy to murder and Fraud.
On May 10th, 1940, Following a furious argument in Parliament over military bungling in Norway, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as the British prime minister and formed an all-party war government.
On May 11th, 1981, Bob Marley died of cancer. He was 36. Born in the slums of Jamaica, Marley went on to bring Reggae and his religion to world attention.
On May 12th, 1971, Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger married Nicaraguan Bian Perez Morena de Macias, in a Roman Catholic ceremony in the South of France. Guests included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton. Bianca had met Mick six months earlier at a Rolling Stones concert.
On May 13th, 1981, A crowd of 20,000 people in St. Peter's Square in Rome saw Pope John Paul II shot four times by a Turkish gunman. The gunman, Mehmet Ali Agea, aged 23, had escaped from Turkey where he was apparently being held for Murder. He shot the Pop in protest at 'American and Russian imperialism.'
On May 14th 1973, space exploration entered a new era as the US space station 'Skylab 1' basted into orbit. Successive there man crews will live on the space station for weeks on end.
On May 15th, 1998, it was 'Goodbye to 'ol blue eyes' as veteran singer, Frank Sinatra, died after a sparkling career of 60 years in show business.
And in this week in 1968, Louis Armstrong was spending his second of three weeks at the top of the British charts with his song, 'What A Wonderful World.'
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