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2008-05

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• May 31: Space Shuttle mission STS-124 launches, carrying the Japanese laboratory Kibō's main module for the International Space Station.
• May 30: Grupo TACA Flight 390, an Airbus A320 flying from San Salvador, El Salvador, crashes in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• 100x100px|Usain Bolt at the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka
• May 30: Former Croatian Army general Mirko Norac is sentenced by a Croatian court to seven years in prison for his role in the 1993 Operation Medak Pocket.
• May 29: China begins inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, searching for clues about why they crumbled.
• 100x100px|Model of Materpiscis on display at Museum Victoria, Australia
• 100x100px|ISS Kibo module
• May 29: Snowstorms in eastern Mongolia kill 26 people; 51 people remain missing.
• May 28: In Dublin, over 100 countries adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning cluster bombs.
• 100x100px|Pineapple cluster bomblet
• May 28: Paleontologists discover Materpiscis (model pictured), a 380-million-year-old placoderm fish which is the earliest known animal to bear live young.
• May 28: Nepal is declared a republic by its newly elected government, and King Gyanendra ends his reign as the last of a 240-year-old monarchy.
• May 27: In the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, the People's Republic of China evacuates 100,000 people from Mianyang as engineers prepare to drain the landslide dam-created Tangjiashan Lake.
• 100x100px|Pineapple cluster bomblet
• May 27: The State Peace and Development Council of Burma extends opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest by one year.
• May 26: An earthquake in Colombia kills 11 and seriously injures 54.
• May 26: The BJP will lead the government by itself after elections in the Indian state of Karnataka, a first in South Indian political history.
• May 26: Ethiopia's Supreme Court upholds former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam's conviction and sentences him to death in absentia for his role in the Red Terror.
• May 26: NASA's Phoenix lands on Mars, the first successful powered descent on the planet in over 30 years.
• 100x100px|An American B-1B Lancer drops cluster munitions
• May 25: In auto racing, Scott Dixon wins the Indianapolis 500 and Lewis Hamilton wins the Monaco Grand Prix.
• May 25: The Lebanese Parliament elects General Michel Sleiman, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, to the six-month-vacant post of president.
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