| 2010 | The Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens sensitive marshes and wildlife along the Gulf Coast; Admiral Thad Allan is appointed to lead the Federal response to the spill |
| 1998 | India resumes underground nuclear tests after more than a 20 year gap |
| 1997 | "Play On!" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| 1997 | New York Mets C. Everett and Butch Huskey are 9th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1997 | Paine Webber Senior Golf Invitational |
| 1997 | Sara Lee LPGA Classic |
| 1997 | Scott McCarron wins Bellsouth Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Sara Lee Classic |
| 1996 | Florida Marlin Al Leiter no hits Colorado Rockies, 11-0 |
| 1996 | Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die |
| 1994 | "Grease," opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater New York City for 1,503 performances |
| 1994 | "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult," released in France |
| 1994 | 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa |
| 1994 | Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup |
| 1993 | 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins |
| 1993 | Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire |
| 1990 | New York Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt |
| 1989 | 217th and final episode of "Dynasty" is aired |
| 1989 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1989 | Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds |
| 1989 | President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama |
| 1988 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1988 | KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II |
| 1988 | Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) |
| 1987 | 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) |
| 1987 | Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines |
| 1986 | Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1985 | 40 die and 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground |
| 1985 | Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India |
| 1985 | Madonna's "Crazy For You," single goes #1 |
| 1985 | Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands |
| 1985 | Soccer stadium in Bradford England catches fire; 53 die |
| 1985 | Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cincinnati Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez and Cesar Cedeno |
| 1984 | Johan Cruijff quits soccer |
| 1984 | Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4) |
| 1984 | Transit of Earth as seen on Mars |
| 1983 | "Dance a Little Closer" opens and closes at Minskoff Theater New York City |
| 1983 | Aberdeen wins 23rd Europe Cup II |
| 1983 | Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth |
| 1982 | Canucks 4-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| 1981 | Andrew Lloyd Webber/T.S. Eliot's musical "Cats", premieres in London |
| 1981 | Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks |
| 1980 | Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
| 1980 | Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, and home in one inning for Phillies |
| 1978 | Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps |
| 1977 | Hamburger SV wins 17th soccer Europe Cup II |
| 1977 | Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game |
| 1976 | Emmy 3rd Daytime Award presentation |
| 1976 | Last broadcast of "Marcus Welby, MD" on ABC-TV |
| 1975 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| 1975 | Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games |
| 1975 | Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market |
| 1974 | "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83 |
| 1974 | "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7 |
| 1974 | Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number" |
| 1973 | Dutch government of Uyl forms |
| 1972 | Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams and cash |
| 1972 | John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show |
| 1972 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 2 |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1971 | Cleveland's Steve Dunning becomes last AL pitcher to hit grand slam |
| 1970 | Sammy Davis, Jr. weds Altovise |
| 1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1969 | Monty Python comedy troupe forms |
| 1968 | Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park" |
| 1968 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games |
| 1968 | Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured |
| 1967 | "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1967 | 100,000,000th U.S. phone connected |
| 1967 | Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark apply for Common Market membership |
| 1966 | Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I |
| 1965 | "Flora, the Red Menace" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 87 performances |
| 1965 | 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India) |
| 1965 | Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000 |
| 1965 | Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy |
| 1963 | "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2 |
| 1963 | Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats New York Giants, 8-0 |
| 1963 | Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama |
| 1962 | Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1962 | U.S. sends troops to Thailand |
| 1960 | French liner "France" launched |
| 1960 | Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires |
| 1959 | "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes and Connie Stevens hits #4 |
| 1959 | Elvis Presley's 1st entry on U.K. charts with "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 1959 | Rodgers and Barer's musical "Once upon a mattress," premieres in New York City |
| 1959 | Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends |
| 1958 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1957 | Gabriel Paris forms government of Colombia |
| 1956 | Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1955 | Israel attacks Gaza |
| 1953 | Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas and causes $39M damage |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory |
| 1951 | Jay Forrester patents computer core memory |
| 1950 | Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die |
| 1950 | Eugene Ionesco's "La Cantatrice Chauve," premieres in Paris |
| 1949 | 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 in New York City |
| 1949 | By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of U.N. |
| 1949 | Siam renames itself Thailand |
| 1948 | Haganah takes control of Safed and port of Haifa |
| 1948 | Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy |
| 1947 | BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire in Akron, Ohio |
| 1947 | Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy |
| 1946 | 1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1) |
| 1946 | 72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4 |
| 1945 | U.S. Marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa |
| 1944 | Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer |
| 1944 | Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison |
| 1943 | Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders |
| 1943 | U.S. 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st U.S. territory recaptured) |
| 1942 | Japanese troops conquer Kalewa |
| 1941 | 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England |
| 1940 | 66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6 |
| 1940 | New York World's Fair reopens |
| 1935 | 61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4 |
| 1931 | Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe |
| 1929 | 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week) |
| 1929 | Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx |
| 1928 | 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4 |
| 1928 | 54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2 |
| 1928 | 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St. George's |
| 1928 | General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, New York) |
| 1927 | Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer |
| 1927 | Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| 1926 | Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean |
| 1925 | Communist Party of Holland splits |
| 1925 | Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR |
| 1924 | Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election |
| 1924 | Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) |
| 1923 | 10 home runs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1921 | Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality |
| 1919 | Yankees' Jack Quinn and Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie |
| 1918 | 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8 |
| 1917 | Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand |
| 1916 | Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented |
| 1912 | 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4 |
| 1910 | Montana's Glacier National Park forms |
| 1907 | Bank of San Francisco incorporated |
| 1904 | Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace |
| 1900 | James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1897 | Washington Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers |
| 1894 | American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co |
| 1893 | Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km) |
| 1892 | 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41 |
| 1888 | 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49 |
| 1887 | 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39 |
| 1881 | Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa," premieres in Prague |
| 1875 | George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout |
| 1867 | Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg |
| 1864 | Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge) |
| 1864 | General J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern |
| 1862 | Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia |
| 1858 | Minnesota admitted as 32nd U.S. state |
| 1850 | Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco |
| 1833 | "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg and sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215 |
| 1818 | Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0 |
| 1816 | American Bible Society forms in New York |
| 1812 | Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on! |
| 1792 | Columbia River discovered and named by U.S. Captain Robert Gray |
| 1784 | England and Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty |
| 1772 | Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed |
| 1752 | 1st U.S. fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia) |
| 1751 | 1st U.S. hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) |
| 1749 | British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization |
| 1745 | Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war |
| 1690 | English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia |
| 1689 | Battle of Bantry Bay, French and English naval battle |
| 1678 | French Admiral Jean d'Estrees' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaeao |
| 1674 | Netherlands and Cologne sign peace treaty |
| 1625 | Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper-Austria |
| 1548 | Great fire in Brielle |
| 1502 | Columbus begins 4th and last trip to "Indies" |
| 1421 | Jews are expelled from Styria Austria |
| 1330 | Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire |
| 1189 | Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa and 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg |
| 330 | Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire |
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