- 0553 – 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
- 1382 – Battle of Beverhoutsveld – population beats drunken army
- 1430 – Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
- 1494 – On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
- 1640 – English Short Parliament unites
- 1646 – King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
- 1665 – Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
- 1726 – Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Op‚ra of Paris
- 1749 – Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year” [?]
- 1762 – Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty
- 1764 – Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls
- 1780 – 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
- 1789 – French States-General for It first since 1614 together
- 1797 – Napoleon I’s sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
- 1809 – Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
- 1809 – Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
- 1814 – British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
- 1816 – American Bible Society organized (NY)
- 1834 – Charles Darwin’s expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
- 1835 – King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway
- 1842 – City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
- 1847 – American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
- 1854 – English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast
- 1855 – NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
- 1861 – Alexandria, VA – CS troops abandon city
- 1862 – French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
- 1862 – Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
- 1863 – Battle of Tupelo, MS
- 1863 – Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
- 1864 – Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
- 1864 – Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
- 1864 – Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
- 1864 – Campaign in Northern Georgia – Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA
- 1865 – 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
- 1874 – Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
- 1881 – Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
- 1891 – Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
- 1893 – Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
- 1900 – “The Billboard” began weekly publication
- 1904 – Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Phila A’s (3-0)
- 1905 – Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper “Chicago Defender”
- 1908 – 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2
- 1908 – Great White Fleet arrives in SF
- 1912 – 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
- 1912 – Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
- 1915 – German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
- 1916 – US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
- 1917 – St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
- 1920 – German-Latvian peace treaty signed
- 1920 – Polish troops occupy Kiev
- 1920 – US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
- 1921 – 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired
- 1921 – Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
- 1922 – Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)
- 1924 – Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
- 1925 – John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
- 1925 – Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
- 1925 – Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
- 1926 – Geldrop soccer team forms
- 1926 – Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for “Arrowsmith”
- 1927 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch’ 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
- 1930 – 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
- 1930 – Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours
- 1932 – Japan & China sign a peace treaty
- 1934 – 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04
- 1935 – Jessie Owens of US, sets then long jump record at 26′ 8¬”
- 1936 – Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
- 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
- 1938 – Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning
- 1939 – Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
- 1940 – Norwegian govt in exile forms in London
- 1941 – 2 Fokker’s employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England
- 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
- 1941 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
- 1942 – British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
- 1942 – US begins rationing sugar during WW II
- 1943 – Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
- 1944 – Gandhi freed from prison
- 1944 – Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
- 1945 – Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
- 1945 – Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
- 1945 – Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
- 1945 – Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
- 1947 – Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
- 1947 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men)
- 1948 – 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
- 1948 – Belgian govt of Spaak resigns
- 1949 – Council of Europe forms
- 1949 – KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1949 – Statue of Council of Europe drawn
- 1949 – Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame
- 1950 – Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
- 1951 – “Out of This World” closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 perfs
- 1951 – 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6
- 1952 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
- 1952 – Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate’s Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
- 1954 – Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
- 1955 – “Damn Yankees” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
- 1955 – Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
- 1955 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
- 1955 – West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
- 1956 – 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4
- 1956 – Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
- 1956 – Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif
- 1956 – World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
- 1957 – Adolf Sch„rf elected president of Austria
- 1957 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
- 1958 – KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1958 – Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
- 1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
- 1961 – Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
- 1962 – 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4
- 1962 – LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0
- 1962 – West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
- 1963 – Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
- 1964 – Separatists riot in Quebec
- 1965 – 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
- 1966 – Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
- 1966 – Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
- 1966 – Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
- 1968 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
- 1969 – 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
- 1969 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
- 1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
- 1971 – “Earl of Ruston” opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
- 1971 – Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
- 1972 – Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
- 1973 – 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4
- 1974 – Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
- 1975 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
- 1975 – A’s release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, & scored 33 runs)
- 1976 – Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II
- 1976 – Train collision at Schiedam Neth, kills 24
- 1978 – Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
- 1979 – 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4
- 1979 – Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
- 1979 – Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
- 1980 – Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building
- 1981 – 16th & final Mayor’s Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge
- 1983 – Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
- 1983 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1984 – 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4
- 1985 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women’s Golf Invitational
- 1986 – Hall of Fame & Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
- 1987 – Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
- 1987 – Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
- 1987 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
- 1988 – Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US archbishop
- 1989 – Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
- 1990 – 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02
- 1990 – ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren
- 1990 – Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
- 1991 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
- 1992 – Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
- 1994 – “Sally Marrand Her Escorts” opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
- 1994 – Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
- 1994 – North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
- 1995 – Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
- 1996 – “Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore” closes at Belasco after 12 perfs
- 1996 – Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship
- 1996 – Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe
- 1997 – “Married With Children” final episode on Fox TV
- 1997 – Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
- 2000 – Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
