288–95, after being amended and passed by the Senate 71–18. Ramon Mercader, a/k/a Jacques Monard, the man who had killed Leon Trotsky with an axe on August 20, 1940, was released from the penitentiary in Juarez, Mexico, after which he emigrated to the Soviet Union. The town of Wilburton, Oklahoma, was destroyed by tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma and Arkansas, killing 27 people and hurting 250. Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, married Antony Armstrong-Jones in a royal wedding at Westminster Abbey. May 7, 1960 (Saturday) Leonid Brezhnev took on the ceremonial post of head of state of the Soviet Union as he succeeded Kliment Voroshilov as Chairman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (generally, but inaccurately referred to in the Western press as the "Soviet President"). Nikita Khrushchev continued as Premier of the Soviet Union (officially the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, equivalent to a prime minister), and as General Secretary of the Communist Party, the de facto leader of the U.S.S.R.; the latter position that would be taken by Brezhnev in 1964. Khrushchev surprised the world by announcing that U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, of Pound, Virginia, had been captured "alive and well" near Sverdlovsk, along with film taken of military bases, and Soviet currency. U.S. officials expressed "amazement" at charges that Powers had been on a spy mission. In the 1960 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Blackburn Rovers 3–0 The World Chess Championship 1960 ended in victory for Mikhail Tal. May 8, 1960 (Sunday) A Nationalist Chinese Sabrejet crashed into a village in Taiwan, killing the pilot and 10 people on the ground. Cuba and the Soviet Union formally re-established diplomatic relations, which had been ended in 1952. The United States severed its diplomatic ties with Cuba eight months later, on January 3, 1961. Born: Franco Baresi, Italian football defender, in Travagliato Died: J. H. C. Whitehead, 55, British mathematician and pioneer in homotopy theory, of a heart attack while visiting Princeton University May 9, 1960 (Monday) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a birth control pill for the first time, as it cleared the prescription of Enovid, manufactured by G. D. Searle & Company, for use as an oral contraceptive. U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers invoked the new Civil Rights Act of 1960 to force the turnover of voters'