| * 1002 |
After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11 |
| * 1092 |
Lincoln Cathedral consecrated |
| * 1336 |
Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux |
| * 1386 |
Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England |
| * 1460 |
Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings |
| * 1502 |
Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World |
| * 1519 |
Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government |
| * 1573 |
Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king |
| * 1588 |
Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris |
| * 1671 |
Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels |
| * 1689 |
English King Willem III declares war on France |
| * 1738 |
England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies |
| * 1753 |
King Louis XV disbands French parliament |
| * 1754 |
1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die" |
| * 1766 |
John Byron back in England after trip around the world |
| * 1785 |
British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle |
| * 1788 |
English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade |
| * 1836 |
HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius |
| * 1837 |
"Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies |
| * 1846 |
Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande |
| * 1862 |
Battle of Farmington, MS |
| * 1862 |
Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS |
| * 1862 |
US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI |
| * 1864 |
-20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia |
| * 1864 |
Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling) |
| * 1864 |
Battle of Dalton, GA |
| * 1864 |
Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark |
| * 1868 |
Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres |
| * 1874 |
Victoria Embankment, in London opens |
| * 1882 |
Telegraph Hill RR Co organized |
| * 1889 |
15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34« |
| * 1896 |
1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) |
| * 1899 |
Lawn mower patented |
| * 1901 |
Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne |
| * 1901 |
Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2 |
| * 1908 |
Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname |
| * 1911 |
Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland |
| * 1913 |
17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote |
| * 1914 |
40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4 |
| * 1914 |
Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day |
| * 1915 |
German & French fight Battle of Artois |
| * 1916 |
British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey |
| * 1925 |
Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid |
| * 1926 |
Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole |
| * 1927 |
53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6 |
| * 1927 |
Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia |
| * 1929 |
NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates |
| * 1929 |
WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions |
| * 1930 |
56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6 |
| * 1931 |
57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59 |
| * 1932 |
58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8 |
| * 1932 |
Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity |
| * 1932 |
WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC |
| * 1933 |
Spanish anarchists call for general strike |
| * 1934 |
Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University! |
| * 1936 |
1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire |
| * 1936 |
Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia) |
| * 1937 |
Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6) |
| * 1939 |
Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha |
| * 1941 |
English Army breaks German spy codes |
| * 1942 |
68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57 |
| * 1943 |
5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia |
| * 1943 |
Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens |
| * 1944 |
1st eye bank opens (NYC) |
| * 1944 |
Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana |
| * 1944 |
Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested |
| * 1944 |
Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness |
| * 1944 |
Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol |
| * 1945 |
Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day) |
| * 1945 |
Jersey liberated from nazis |
| * 1945 |
Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested |
| * 1945 |
New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier |
| * 1945 |
Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested |
| * 1945 |
Victory celebration at Red Square |
| * 1946 |
1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres |
| * 1946 |
1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres |
| * 1946 |
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto |
| * 1949 |
Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London |
| * 1949 |
Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco |
| * 1950 |
French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS |
| * 1950 |
Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville |
| * 1951 |
Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River |
| * 1955 |
German Federal Republic joins NATO |
| * 1958 |
Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship |
| * 1959 |
Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox |
| * 1960 |
Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth |
| * 1960 |
US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally |
| * 1960 |
US send U-2 over USSR |
| * 1961 |
Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins |
| * 1961 |
FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland" |
| * 1961 |
Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings |
| * 1962 |
Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone |
| * 1962 |
Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time |
| * 1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| * 1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| * 1964 |
Khrushchev visits Egypt |
| * 1964 |
Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love" |
| * 1965 |
Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert |
| * 1965 |
Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails) |
| * 1966 |
1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) |
| * 1966 |
China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| * 1967 |
1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship |
| * 1967 |
Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam |
| * 1969 |
BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick |
| * 1970 |
100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War |
| * 1971 |
23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton |
| * 1971 |
Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) |
| * 1971 |
Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes |
| * 1971 |
Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history |
| * 1971 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open |
| * 1973 |
For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game |
| * 1974 |
House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment |
| * 1975 |
Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) |
| * 1975 |
Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead |
| * 1976 |
"So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 perfs |
| * 1976 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament |
| * 1977 |
Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed |
| * 1977 |
Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon |
| * 1977 |
Patty Hearst let out of jail |
| * 1978 |
"Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 perfs |
| * 1978 |
Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found |
| * 1978 |
Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage |
| * 1978 |
Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in NYC |
| * 1978 |
PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth |
| * 1979 |
US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons |
| * 1980 |
35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge |
| * 1981 |
Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian |
| * 1982 |
"9" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 739 performances |
| * 1982 |
Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in NYC |
| * 1982 |
Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| * 1983 |
18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson |
| * 1984 |
Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000 |
| * 1984 |
Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8) |
| * 1984 |
White Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game |
| * 1987 |
183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw |
| * 1987 |
Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry |
| * 1987 |
Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games |
| * 1988 |
A's winning streak hits 14, ends tommorow |
| * 1988 |
Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth |
| * 1988 |
Belgium: 8th govt of Martens forms |
| * 1989 |
"Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances |
| * 1989 |
Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press |
| * 1989 |
NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop |
| * 1989 |
NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher |
| * 1989 |
VP Quayle say in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste" |
| * 1990 |
NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur |
| * 1990 |
Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II |
| * 1991 |
Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession |
| * 1991 |
Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer |
| * 1992 |
America Cup finals begin in San Diego |
| * 1992 |
Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV |
| * 1992 |
Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe |
| * 1993 |
"Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs |
| * 1993 |
"Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs |
| * 1993 |
Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300 |
| * 1993 |
Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| * 1993 |
Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in NYC |
| * 1993 |
Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years |
| * 1994 |
"Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances |
| * 1994 |
Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY |
| * 1995 |
Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0 |
| * 1995 |
Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus |
| * 1997 |
1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam |
| * 1997 |
San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones |
| * 1998 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by |
