- 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
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- 1303 – Flemings conquers Middelburg
- 1471 – Battle of Tewkesbury – King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
- 1493 – Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
- 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
- 1540 – Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
- 1572 – Veere sides with Geuzen
- 1626 – Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
- 1626 – Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
- 1634 – Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
- 1652 – Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
- 1715 – French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
- 1728 – Georg F H„ndels opera “Tolomeo, re di Egitto,” premieres in London
- 1747 – Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
- 1776 – Rhode Island declares independence from England
- 1780 – American Academy of Arts & Science founded
- 1780 – Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
- 1783 – Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
- 1805 – Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
- 1814 – Bourbon reign restored in France
- 1818 – Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
- 1834 – Charles Darwin’s expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
- 1839 – The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
- 1843 – Great-Britain annexes Natal
- 1846 – US state Michigan ends death penalty
- 1847 – NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
- 1851 – 1st major SF fire
- 1858 – War of Reform (M‚xico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
- 1861 – At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
- 1862 – -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
- 1862 – Yorktown, VA – McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains
- 1863 – Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
- 1863 – End of Chancellorsville – Beaten Union army withdraws
- 1864 – -16] actions at Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia
- 1864 – Gen Grant’s Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
- 1864 – Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
- 1865 – Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
- 1865 – Battle of Mobile, AL
- 1866 – Woodward’s Gardens opens to public
- 1871 – 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
- 1878 – Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
- 1883 – John Gordon Cashmans begins “Vicksburg Evening Post” (Miss)
- 1886 – Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
- 1888 – Italy & Spain sign military covenant
- 1893 – Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
- 1896 – 1st edition of London Daily Mail (« penny)
- 1896 – Grease fire ignites « ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
- 1897 – 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12«
- 1897 – Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
- 1898 – 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
- 1899 – 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
- 1910 – Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
- 1910 – Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
- 1910 – Tel Aviv founded
- 1912 – Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
- 1915 – Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
- 1916 – At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
- 1917 – Arabs sack Tel Aviv
- 1918 – Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox’s Babe Ruth 5-4
- 1919 – 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
- 1919 – FVC soccer team forms
- 1919 – Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
- 1922 – KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
- 1923 – Bloody street battles between nazi’s, socialist & police in Vienna
- 1923 – NY state revokes Prohibition law
- 1924 – 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
- 1924 – German Republic election fascists & communists win
- 1925 – League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
- 1926 – General strike hits Britain
- 1927 – 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
- 1927 – Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
- 1927 – Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
- 1929 – Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
- 1931 – Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
- 1932 – Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
- 1933 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
- 1935 – 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05
- 1936 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
- 1938 – Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
- 1940 – 21 “not neutral” nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
- 1940 – 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
- 1942 – Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
- 1942 – Food 1st rationed in US
- 1942 – German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
- 1942 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
- 1943 – NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
- 1945 – German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
- 1946 – 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
- 1946 – 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
- 1946 – Wash’s Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
- 1948 – The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
- 1949 – Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
- 1952 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
- 1953 – Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
- 1954 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
- 1956 – Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
- 1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
- 1957 – 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
- 1957 – Alan Freed hosts “Rock n’ Roll Show” 1st prime-time network rock show
- 1957 – Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
- 1958 – Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
- 1959 – 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
- 1959 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
- 1960 – 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
- 1961 – 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
- 1961 – 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
- 1961 – CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
- 1961 – Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
- 1961 – South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
- 1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- 1963 – 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
- 1963 – Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
- 1964 – “Another World” & “As the World Turns” premieres on TV
- 1964 – 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
- 1964 – KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1964 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
- 1965 – Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott’s 511th NL record
- 1966 – Soviet govt signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
- 1967 – Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
- 1968 – 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3
- 1968 – 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins
- 1968 – Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02«
- 1969 – Charles Gordone’s “No Place to be Somebody,” premieres in NYC
- 1969 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
- 1969 – Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
- 1970 – National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
- 1970 – Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
- 1970 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi’s Truth)
- 1972 – Vietcong forms revolutionary govt in Quang Tri South Vietnam
- 1973 – 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
- 1973 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella
- 1973 – Longest game in Veterans’ Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
- 1973 – Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
- 1973 – Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
- 1973 – Wings release “Red Rose Speedway” in UK
- 1974 – 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04
- 1975 – Ed Bullins’ “Taking of Miss Jane,” premieres in NYC
- 1975 – Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
- 1975 – Houston’s Bob Watson scores baseball’s one-millionth run of all time
- 1975 – Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
- 1976 – “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 perfs
- 1976 – Kiss performs their 1st concert
- 1978 – Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany
- 1979 – Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
- 1979 – Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
- 1979 – NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
- 1980 – Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
- 1980 – Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women’s Internationalional Golf Tournament
- 1980 – White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
- 1981 – Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
- 1981 – Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
- 1981 – Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
- 1982 – British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
- 1982 – Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
- 1982 – Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
- 1983 – China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
- 1984 – Dave Kingman’s fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
- 1985 – 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
- 1986 – President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
- 1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1989 – Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
- 1989 – US launches Magellan to Venus
- 1989 – US space shuttle STS-30 launched
- 1990 – Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
- 1990 – Latvia’s parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
- 1990 – Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
- 1990 – Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
- 1991 – 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03
- 1991 – ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
- 1991 – Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
- 1991 – Indians’ Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9)
- 1991 – Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
- 1991 – NY Mets M Sasser & Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
- 1991 – Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
- 1993 – “Angels in America-Millennium Approaches” opens at Kerr for 367 perfs
- 1994 – Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
- 1994 – Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
- 1996 – 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
- 1996 – ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
- 1996 – Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
- 1997 – Bruno’s Memorial Senior Golf Classic
- 1997 – Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open
- 1997 – Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship
- 1997 – Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship
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- 1294 – John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
- 1342 – Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
- 1382 – Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
- 1455 – Jews flee Spain
- 1494 – Columbus discovers Jamaica
- 1494 – Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it “St Iago”
- 1512 – 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- 1512 – Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
- 1515 – Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
- 1616 – Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
- 1621 – Francis Bacon accused of bribery
- 1624 – Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
- 1629 – French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
- 1640 – English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
- 1654 – Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
- 1660 – Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
- 1661 – Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
- 1662 – Royal charter granted Connecticut
- 1678 – French conquering fleet at Cura‡ao, 1200 die
- 1715 – Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon “Baily’s Beads”
- 1722 – Pierre de Marivaux’ “La Double Inconstance,” premieres in Paris
- 1747 – Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
- 1765 – 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
- 1802 – Washington DC incorporates as a city
- 1808 – Goya’s “Executions of 3rd of May”
- 1810 – Lord Byron swims Hellespont
- 1815 – Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
- 1822 – Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
- 1830 – 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
- 1845 – 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
- 1845 – Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
- 1846 – Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
- 1851 – Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
- 1855 – Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
- 1861 – Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
- 1861 – Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
- 1863 – Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
- 1863 – Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye’s Heights)
- 1863 – Battle of Salem Church, VA
- 1864 – 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
- 1886 – M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
- 1898 – Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
- 1900 – 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06¬
- 1901 – Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
- 1902 – 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
- 1903 – AVC Heracles (SC Heracles ‘74) soccer team forms in Almelo
- 1906 – British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
- 1909 – 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
- 1917 – 1st performance of Ernest Bloch’s symphony “Israel”
- 1919 – Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
- 1919 – America’s 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
- 1921 – West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
- 1922 – Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
- 1922 – Salt layer find at Winterswijk
- 1923 – 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
- 1926 – British general strike-3 million workers support miners
- 1926 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
- 1926 – US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
- 1929 – Prussia bans anti-fascists
- 1932 – 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
- 1933 – 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
- 1934 – Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours
- 1936 – French People’s Front wins elections
- 1936 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
- 1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With the Wind”
- 1938 – Concentration camp at Flossenbrg goes into use
- 1938 – Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn’t lose there until May 12 1941
- 1938 – Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
- 1941 – -4] German air raid on Liverpool
- 1941 – 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
- 1942 – Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
- 1942 – Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
- 1942 – Nazi’s execute 72 OD’ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
- 1942 – Nazi’s require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
- 1943 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon’s Teeth)
- 1943 – Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
- 1943 – US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
- 1944 – “Meet Me in St Louis” opens on Broadway
- 1944 – Meat rationing ends in US
- 1945 – 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
- 1945 – Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
- 1945 – British troop join in Rangoon
- 1945 – German ship “Cap Arcona” sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
- 1946 – International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
- 1947 – 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
- 1947 – Japan forms a constitutional democracy
- 1948 – Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
- 1949 – 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
- 1951 – Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
- 1951 – NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
- 1952 – “Call Me Madam” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
- 1952 – 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
- 1952 – 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
- 1953 – WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 – Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims “Freedom to Read”
- 1954 – KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
- 1954 – WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1956 – “Most Happy Fella” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
- 1956 – A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000′)
- 1956 – Frank Loesser’s musical “Most Happy Fella,” premieres in NYC
- 1958 – 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
- 1958 – WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
- 1959 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
- 1959 – Tiger’s Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
- 1960 – Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones’ musical “Fantasticks,” premieres in NYC
- 1961 – Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
- 1962 – Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
- 1963 – Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
- 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr delivers his “I have a dream” speech
- 1964 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational
- 1965 – 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
- 1965 – 3rd Mayor’s Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
- 1965 – Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
- 1965 – Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (LA Calif)
- 1965 – KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
- 1965 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
- 1966 – WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1967 – Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
- 1968 – Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
- 1969 – “Trumpets of the Lord” closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 perfs
- 1969 – 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
- 1970 – 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
- 1970 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
- 1971 – All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
- 1971 – Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
- 1971 – National Public Radio begins programming
- 1971 – Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
- 1971 – Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
- 1973 – Chicago’s Sears Tower, world’s tallest building (443 m), topped out
- 1973 – KC Royals’ George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
- 1975 – 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
- 1975 – Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
- 1976 – Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
- 1976 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt’s Gift)
- 1978 – “Sun Day” – solar energy events are held in US
- 1978 – Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
- 1978 – Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
- 1978 – WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game
- 1979 – 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
- 1979 – Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
- 1979 – Martin Sherman’s “Bent,” premieres in London
- 1980 – 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
- 1980 – Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
- 1980 – Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
- 1981 – “Can-Can” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
- 1981 – “Moony, Shapiro Songbook” opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
- 1981 – Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women’s Golf International
- 1982 – ABC’s All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
- 1982 – NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA’s budget
- 1982 – Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
- 1983 – Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
- 1983 – Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
- 1983 – US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
- 1985 – Date of $5 million check in “View to a Kill”
- 1986 – 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
- 1986 – Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
- 1986 – Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
- 1986 – NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
- 1986 – NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
- 1987 – “Mikado” closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
- 1987 – Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
- 1987 – Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
- 1988 – 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
- 1988 – Jasper Johns’ “Diver” sold for $4,200,000
- 1991 – Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
- 1991 – 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
- 1992 – Balt’s Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
- 1992 – Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
- 1992 – Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
- 1992 – NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
- 1992 – Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
- 1992 – Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
- 1993 – “Kiss of the Spider Woman” opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs
- 1994 – 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
- 1994 – D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
- 1994 – US space probe Clementine launched
- 1995 – “My Thing of Love” opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
- 1995 – Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
- 1995 – David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
- 1996 – Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks v Glam
- 1997 – 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
- 1997 – ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
- 1997 – Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
- 1998 – wins Titleholders Golf Championship
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