page_title: May 1966
section_title: May 30, 1966 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: May 1966 / May 30, 1966 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: Graham Hill, 1969 German GP
context_page_description: The following events occurred in May 1966:
context_section_description: English driver Graham Hill won the 50th Indianapolis 500, ahead of Scotland's Jim Clark, whose team protested that Hill had actually been one lap behind Clark when the checkered flag was waved to end the race.  Only seven of the 33 cars, the lowest number ever, actually finished the race.  Before even reaching the first turn, 11 of the cars had been eliminated in a 16-car pileup, delaying the race for nearly an hour and a half.  Another Scotsman, Jackie Stewart, had been leading the race with only ten laps left, but his engine failed.  The next day, Clark's crew reviewed the official racing charts and determined that they (and the operators of the official scoreboard) had overlooked Hill passing by while Clark was at a pit stop.  The scorers had corrected the error later in the race and added a lap for Hill on the scoreboard.
  Surveyor 1, the first American lunar exploration probe, was launched from Cape Kennedy toward a soft landing at the Oceanus Procellarum, the Moon's "Ocean of Storms", and would confirm Soviet discoveries about the suitability of the lunar surface for a manned landing.  On the same day, the Soviet Union lost radio contact with Luna 10, which on April 3 had become the first space probe to orbit the Moon.
  Died:
  Wäinö Aaltonen, 72, Finnish artist and sculptor
  Bob Thompson, 48, African-American abstract expressionist painter
  Alexander MacDonald Shook, 77, Canadian flying ace with 12 kills during World War I
  Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin, 42, Soviet mathematician
caption: Hill
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