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May 1961
The following events occurred in May 1961:
==May 1, 1961 (Monday)==
*Betting shops became legal in the United Kingdom, permitting UK residents to place bets, through a bookie, on horse races without going to the track.〔Wray Vamplew and Joyce Kay, ''Encyclopedia of British Horseracing'' (Routledge, 2005) p360〕
*For the first time since Fidel Castro took power, an American airplane was hijacked to Cuba.〔"Hijacking of U.S. Planes Began with Seizure at Marathon May 1", ''St. Petersburg (FL) Times'', August 4, 1961, p16-A〕 A man who was listed on the manifest as "Cofresi Elpirata", after the 19th century Caribbean pirate Roberto Cofresí, entered the cockpit of a National Airlines flight that was en route from Miami to Key West, then forced the pilot to fly to Havana. Castro allowed the plane, its crew and all but one of its passengers, to return to the U.S. the next day.〔"Hijacked U.S. Plane Returns From Cuba", ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', May 2, 1961, p1〕 Staying behind was "Cofresi", Miami electrician Antuilio Ortiz, who would live comfortably in Cuba for two years before becoming homesick for the U.S. After being incarcerated several times in Cuban prisons, Ortiz would finally be allowed to leave in 1975, and would spend four years in an American prison for the 1961 crime.〔Joseph T. McCann, ''Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators from the Famous to the Forgotten'' (Sentient Publications, 2006) p99〕
*Born: Clint Malarchuk, Canadian ice hockey player, in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Malarchuk nearly bled to death in an NHL game in 1989.
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