| * 218 |
7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| * 352 |
Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I |
| * 884 |
St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| * 1525 |
Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels |
| * 1527 |
P nfilo de Narva‚z departs to explore Florida |
| * 1536 |
Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed |
| * 1544 |
Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII |
| * 1579 |
Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian |
| * 1620 |
1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey) |
| * 1630 |
Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface |
| * 1631 |
Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg |
| * 1648 |
Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria |
| * 1672 |
Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada) |
| * 1673 |
Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi |
| * 1678 |
King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty |
| * 1712 |
Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands" |
| * 1733 |
England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions |
| * 1742 |
Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians |
| * 1744 |
French army takes Austrian Netherlands |
| * 1750 |
-18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem |
| * 1756 |
Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War) |
| * 1787 |
English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes |
| * 1792 |
24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street |
| * 1794 |
Hard frost in southern New England |
| * 1803 |
John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine |
| * 1804 |
Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase |
| * 1809 |
Papal States annexed by France |
| * 1814 |
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day) |
| * 1814 |
Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll |
| * 1837 |
Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly) |
| * 1845 |
Rubber band patents |
| * 1846 |
Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax |
| * 1848 |
Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns |
| * 1849 |
Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri |
| * 1853 |
Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election |
| * 1862 |
Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities |
| * 1863 |
Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS |
| * 1864 |
Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat |
| * 1871 |
Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches |
| * 1872 |
Bohemian Club incorporated |
| * 1875 |
1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75 |
| * 1876 |
7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln |
| * 1877 |
Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm |
| * 1881 |
7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40 |
| * 1881 |
Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC |
| * 1881 |
Revised version of New Testament |
| * 1883 |
Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha |
| * 1884 |
Alaska becomes a US territory |
| * 1890 |
Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC |
| * 1890 |
Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London |
| * 1890 |
Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome |
| * 1894 |
19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49¬ |
| * 1895 |
W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol |
| * 1898 |
Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503] |
| * 1899 |
Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England |
| * 1900 |
British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) |
| * 1903 |
Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio |
| * 1904 |
Maurice Ravel's "Sh‚h‚razade," premieres in Paris |
| * 1905 |
Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball |
| * 1906 |
Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic |
| * 1909 |
White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks |
| * 1910 |
Canada sets the designs for the 1˘-50˘ coins |
| * 1911 |
36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51 |
| * 1915 |
40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58 |
| * 1915 |
Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever |
| * 1915 |
Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls |
| * 1915 |
National Baptist Convention chartered |
| * 1916 |
British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced |
| * 1920 |
1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol |
| * 1920 |
1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij) |
| * 1921 |
Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union |
| * 1921 |
President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show |
| * 1923 |
Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) |
| * 1924 |
50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 |
| * 1925 |
Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit |
| * 1926 |
Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton |
| * 1926 |
German govt of Marx takes power |
| * 1927 |
Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings |
| * 1928 |
9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam |
| * 1930 |
56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6 |
| * 1932 |
Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico" |
| * 1937 |
Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier |
| * 1938 |
Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy |
| * 1938 |
Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network |
| * 1939 |
1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball |
| * 1940 |
Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France |
| * 1940 |
Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance |
| * 1941 |
Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack |
| * 1942 |
Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler |
| * 1944 |
-18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java |
| * 1944 |
Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma |
| * 1944 |
General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th |
| * 1944 |
Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea |
| * 1945 |
2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu |
| * 1946 |
KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections |
| * 1946 |
Pres Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike |
| * 1947 |
"Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances |
| * 1948 |
Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi |
| * 1948 |
Soviet Union recognized Israel |
| * 1949 |
British government recognizes Republic of Ireland |
| * 1952 |
78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 |
| * 1953 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open |
| * 1953 |
Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game |
| * 1954 |
Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision |
| * 1955 |
Dutch Govt of Drees resigns |
| * 1957 |
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) |
| * 1957 |
School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education |
| * 1958 |
84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2 |
| * 1958 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria |
| * 1959 |
Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122 |
| * 1960 |
1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA |
| * 1961 |
Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers |
| * 1962 |
Marin County withdraws from BART district |
| * 1963 |
Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ |
| * 1963 |
Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1 |
| * 1963 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| * 1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
| * 1964 |
Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s |
| * 1966 |
KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| * 1967 |
Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back" |
| * 1968 |
European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite |
| * 1968 |
Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game |
| * 1968 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| * 1969 |
"My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman & The Agents hits #92 |
| * 1969 |
95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6 |
| * 1969 |
Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL |
| * 1969 |
Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus |
| * 1970 |
Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits |
| * 1970 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament |
| * 1970 |
Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra |
| * 1971 |
Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway |
| * 1971 |
Washington State bans sex discrimination |
| * 1972 |
Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors |
| * 1972 |
Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London |
| * 1973 |
"Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances |
| * 1973 |
Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run |
| * 1973 |
Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
| * 1973 |
Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
| * 1973 |
US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado |
| * 1973 |
Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's |
| * 1974 |
Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels |
| * 1974 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet |
| * 1975 |
"Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79 |
| * 1975 |
101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4 |
| * 1975 |
10cc releases "I'm Not in Love" |
| * 1975 |
Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches |
| * 1975 |
NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time |
| * 1976 |
28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned |
| * 1976 |
Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed |
| * 1977 |
Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel |
| * 1978 |
Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run |
| * 1979 |
-12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) |
| * 1979 |
Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation |
| * 1979 |
Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs |
| * 1980 |
106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2 |
| * 1980 |
Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours |
| * 1980 |
Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured |
| * 1980 |
Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live |
| * 1981 |
"Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances |
| * 1981 |
Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff |
| * 1981 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| * 1983 |
Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty |
| * 1983 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games |
| * 1984 |
Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning |
| * 1984 |
Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA |
| * 1985 |
Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska |
| * 1986 |
"Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart |
| * 1986 |
112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8 |
| * 1987 |
"Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances |
| * 1987 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| * 1987 |
USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die |
| * 1989 |
Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000! |
| * 1989 |
Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart |
| * 1989 |
Nelson Mandela receives a BA from U of S Africa |
| * 1989 |
Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M |
| * 1990 |
Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI |
| * 1990 |
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71 |
| * 1990 |
European court rules pension rights for both men & women |
| * 1990 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann |
| * 1991 |
Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe |
| * 1992 |
38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King |
| * 1992 |
Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk) |
| * 1993 |
Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled |
| * 1994 |
Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election |
| * 1996 |
Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe |
| * 1996 |
Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs |
| * 1997 |
123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54 |
| * 1997 |
Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London |
| * 1997 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom |
| * 1998 |
44th McDonald's LPGA Championship |
