All our yesterdays 5

This time, we're looking back to the week of 23rd - 29th. May.

On May 23rd 1934, Bank robbers and murderers Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow died in a hail of bullets when they drove their car into an ambush in Louisiana. More than 50 bullets hit the pair.

On May 24th 1989, A British jury awarded libel damages of £600,000 to Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of sex killer Peter Sutcliffe, the 'Yorkshire Ripper' against the satirical magazine, 'Private Eye'. 'Private Eye' had said that Mrs Sitcliffe had sold a newspaper the story of her marriage for £250,000.

On May 25th 1935, Jesse Owens, a 21-year-old athlete from Alabama, set five new world records and equalled a sixth - a world record in itself for a single day's achievement. In fact, he did it all in a single hour. He equalled the 100 yards record, then set new records for the long jump, 220 yards and 2220-yard hurdles, relentlessly breaking the 200m records on the way.

On May 26th 1940, A strange armada of more than 700 boats set sail from Britain across the English Channel as virtually anything that would float made for the beaches of Dunkirk to rescue 380,000 trapped Allied troops.

On May 27th 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis was forced to abandon his British tour when it was revealed this his wife Myra, was only 13 years old. Not only that, he was still married to his first wife Jane when he married Myra. Although now divorced, and  it wasn't illegal to marry a 13-year-old in the Southern states of America, it outraged the British public and the tour ended after only two performances.

On May 28th 1990, IRA gunmen shot dead two Australian tourists in Holland - mistaking them for British tourists. Stephen Melrose and Nick Spanos, both lawyers, had stopped their British-registered car in Roermond, near the German border, when a car pulled up and two men opened fire with machine guns.

On May 29th 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tanzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were the first to reach the peak of the world's highest mountain.

And finally, this week in 1985, Paul Hardcastle was spending his third of four weeks at the top of the UK charts with his Vietnam-inspired hit, '19'.

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