- 0305 – Emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Jovius of Rome resigns
- 1006 – Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
- 1048 – Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth
- 1394 – Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & it’s surroundings from an old badger
- 1523 – Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
- 1528 – P nfilo the Narva‚z begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
- 1544 – Turkish troops occupy Hungary
- 1551 – Council of Trente resumes
- 1598 – Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
- 1625 – Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
- 1625 – Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
- 1628 – Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women
- 1682 – Louis XIV & his court inaugurates Paris Observatory
- 1703 – Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
- 1704 – Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
- 1707 – England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
- 1711 – Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
- 1715 – Prussia declares war on Sweden
- 1725 – Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
- 1751 – 1st American cricket match is played
- 1756 – France & Austria sign alliance
- 1757 – Austria & France divide Prussia
- 1759 – British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
- 1776 – Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
- 1777 – RB Sheridans “School for Scandal,” premieres in London
- 1781 – Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
- 1786 – Mozart’s opera “Marriage of Figaro” premieres in Wien (Vienna)
- 1822 – John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
- 1834 – Belgian parliament accept railway laws
- 1840 – 1st adhesive postage stamps (“Penny Blacks” from England) issued
- 1841 – 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
- 1844 – Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
- 1844 – Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
- 1846 – Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
- 1850 – John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
- 1851 – Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London
- 1853 – Argentina adopts it’s constitution
- 1854 – Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
- 1857 – William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
- 1861 – Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper’s Ferry
- 1862 – Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
- 1863 – Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
- 1863 – Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
- 1863 – Confederate “National Flag” replaces “Stars & Bars”
- 1863 – Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
- 1864 – -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
- 1864 – Atlanta campaign, GA
- 1864 – Wilderness campaign
- 1866 – American Equal Rights Association forms
- 1867 – Howard University chartered
- 1867 – Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
- 1869 – Folies BergŠre opens in Paris
- 1873 – 1st US postal card issued
- 1873 – Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World’s Fair in Vienna
- 1873 – International Exhibition opens in Vienna
- 1875 – 238 members of “Whiskey Ring” accused of anti-US activities
- 1883 – “Buffalo Bill” Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
- 1883 – Amsterdam World’s Fair opens
- 1883 – Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
- 1883 – NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
- 1884 – Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
- 1884 – Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
- 1885 – Maria “Goeie Mie” Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth
- 1886 – US general strike for 8 hour day, begins
- 1889 – 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
- 1889 – Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
- 1891 – Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland’s League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
- 1892 – US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
- 1893 – World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
- 1898 – George Dewey commands, “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley” as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
- 1900 – Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
- 1900 – Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
- 1901 – Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
- 1901 – Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
- 1901 – Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
- 1906 – Phillie’s John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
- 1907 – Belgium govt of De Trooz forms
- 1907 – Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
- 1908 – World’s most intense shower (2.47″ in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
- 1909 – Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
- 1912 – Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
- 1912 – Beverly Hills Hotel opens
- 1913 – Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St NYC
- 1914 – China’s 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
- 1915 – British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
- 1915 – German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
- 1919 – Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
- 1920 – Babe Ruth’s 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
- 1920 – Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
- 1920 – Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
- 1921 – Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
- 1922 – Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game
- 1924 – Admiral Paul Koundouri¢tis becomes president of Greece
- 1925 – A’s Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
- 1925 – Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
- 1926 – British coal-miners go on strike
- 1926 – Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
- 1926 – Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
- 1927 – 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
- 1927 – Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
- 1927 – Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
- 1928 – 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
- 1928 – Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
- 1928 – Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
- 1928 – Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
- 1928 – Rotterdam soccer team Black White ‘28 forms
- 1929 – Brooklyn’s Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
- 1929 – Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
- 1929 – Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
- 1930 – Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
- 1931 – Empire State Building opens in NYC
- 1931 – Norway claims Peter I Island
- 1931 – Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
- 1932 – 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
- 1934 – Austria signs pact with Vatican
- 1934 – Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
- 1934 – Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
- 1935 – Boulder Dam completed
- 1935 – Canada’s 1st silver dollar is circulated
- 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
- 1936 – FBI’s J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
- 1937 – FDR signs act of neutrality
- 1939 – Batman comics hit street
- 1939 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
- 1940 – 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
- 1940 – The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
- 1941 – “Citizen Kane,” directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY
- 1941 – General Mills introduces Cheerios
- 1941 – German assault on Tobruk
- 1942 – Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear “Jewish star”
- 1943 – 1st edition of illegal “The Free Artist” appears in Amsterdam
- 1943 – 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
- 1943 – Food rationing begins in US
- 1943 – German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
- 1943 – German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
- 1943 – Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
- 1944 – Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
- 1944 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
- 1944 – Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
- 1945 – 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
- 1945 – Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
- 1945 – Australian & Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
- 1945 – General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
- 1945 – Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
- 1945 – Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
- 1945 – Soviet army reach Rostock
- 1946 – Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
- 1946 – Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named “American Mother of Year”
- 1947 – Cleve Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad
- 1947 – Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
- 1947 – Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
- 1947 – Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
- 1948 – 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4
- 1948 – North Korean proclaims itself People’s Democratic Republic of Korea
- 1948 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
- 1948 – Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked “for Negroes”
- 1949 – A’s Elmer Valo is 1st AL’er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
- 1949 – Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
- 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
- 1950 – Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
- 1950 – New marriage laws enforced in People’s Republic China
- 1950 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
- 1950 – WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1951 – 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
- 1951 – Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
- 1951 – Mickey Mantle’s 1st HR
- 1951 – Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
- 1952 – Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
- 1952 – Mr Potato Head, introduced
- 1952 – TWA introduces tourist class
- 1954 – 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
- 1954 – Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
- 1954 – HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)
- 1954 – WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
- 1955 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
- 1955 – Bob Feller’s 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
- 1957 – Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
- 1957 – Larry King’s 1st radio broadcast
- 1957 – US give Poland credit of $95 million
- 1957 – Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
- 1958 – Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
- 1958 – Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina
- 1959 – Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1959 – West Germany introduces 5 day work week
- 1959 – White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
- 1960 – India’s Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
- 1960 – Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
- 1960 – Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
- 1961 – 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
- 1961 – Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
- 1961 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- 1961 – Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
- 1962 – 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
- 1962 – Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
- 1962 – France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- 1962 – JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
- 1963 – 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
- 1963 – Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
- 1964 – 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
- 1965 – 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
- 1965 – Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
- 1965 – USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
- 1966 – Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
- 1966 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
- 1966 – Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
- 1966 – US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
- 1967 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
- 1967 – Elvis Presley & Pricilla Beaulieu wed
- 1967 – Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
- 1967 – Priscilla Beaulieu & Elvis Presley wed in Las Vegas
- 1967 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
- 1968 – “Ben Franklin in Paris” closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 perfs
- 1968 – Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
- 1969 – 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
- 1969 – Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
- 1969 – Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
- 1969 – Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
- 1971 – 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2
- 1971 – Amtrak Railroad begins operation
- 1971 – Rolling Stones release “Brown Sugar”
- 1972 – “Different Times” opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
- 1972 – North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
- 1972 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
- 1972 – Radio’s Mutual Black Network premieres
- 1973 – SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
- 1975 – Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
- 1976 – 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6
- 1976 – Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2)
- 1977 – Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
- 1977 – Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
- 1977 – Empress Lilly dedicated
- 1978 – 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
- 1978 – MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
- 1978 – Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
- 1979 – Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
- 1979 – Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
- 1979 – Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
- 1980 – “Day in Hollywood, A Night…” opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf
- 1980 – 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
- 1980 – Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
- 1980 – Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
- 1981 – Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
- 1981 – Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
- 1981 – Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
- 1982 – 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4
- 1982 – 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
- 1982 – Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
- 1983 – “My One & Only” opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances
- 1983 – Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament
- 1983 – Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
- 1984 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1984 – Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
- 1985 – “Communist” bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
- 1985 – US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
- 1985 – William Hoffman’s “As Is,” premieres in NYC
- 1986 – Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
- 1986 – Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
- 1986 – Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
- 1987 – 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
- 1987 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
- 1988 – “Romance/Romance” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 perfs
- 1988 – IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
- 1988 – Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
- 1989 – 135 acre Disney’s MGM studio officially opens to public
- 1989 – Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
- 1989 – US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
- 1990 – “Prelude to a Kiss” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
- 1991 – “Will Rogers Follies” opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances
- 1991 – A’s Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks
- 1991 – Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
- 1991 – Angola’s civil war ends
- 1991 – Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge
- 1991 – Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
- 1991 – Nolan Ryan pitches his 7th no-hitter, beating Toronto
- 1991 – Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal
- 1991 – Tx Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
- 1991 – Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbain, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
- 1992 – Eric Houston kills 4 in a Calif HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
- 1992 – LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
- 1992 – NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils)
- 1992 – Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
- 1993 – 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
- 1993 – Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
- 1994 – “My Fair Lady” closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
- 1994 – “Rise & Fall of Little Voice” opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 perfs
- 1994 – -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
- 1994 – Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
- 1994 – Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
- 1994 – Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
- 1995 – “On the Waterfront” opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
- 1995 – Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia v WI at Sabina Park
- 1996 – “Ideal Husband” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
- 1996 – Gerald Williams is 1st NY Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
- 1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
- 1997 – Toni Blair elected PM of UK
- 1999 – 125th Kentucky Derby
