| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, Tennessee on WMFS 92.9 FM |
| 1995 | 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire |
| 1994 | "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1994 | 64th French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61) |
| 1994 | 64th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (64 64) |
| 1994 | 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 1994 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 1993 | "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith hits #18 |
| 1993 | 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8 |
| 1993 | 63rd French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (46 62 64) |
| 1993 | Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives |
| 1993 | Singer Mariah Carey weds Tommy Mottola, CEO (Sony Music) |
| 1993 | Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani |
| 1991 | Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church |
| 1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1991 | Space Shuttle STS-40 (Columbia 12) launched |
| 1990 | South African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling |
| 1989 | 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Randy Travis |
| 1989 | Billy Smith, last original New York Islander, retires |
| 1989 | Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt" |
| 1989 | Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Mil Brewers win 5-3 |
| 1988 | 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000 |
| 1988 | 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61) |
| 1988 | Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone |
| 1988 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in New York |
| 1988 | Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary |
| 1987 | "Nightline" presents it's 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM |
| 1987 | Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation and allows wins game |
| 1986 | San Diego Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time |
| 1984 | Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1 |
| 1984 | Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple |
| 1983 | 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy and Cats win |
| 1983 | 53rd French Mens Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76) |
| 1983 | Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1982 | "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39 |
| 1982 | 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28 |
| 1982 | 52nd French Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger, 76 61 |
| 1982 | Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle |
| 1981 | Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader, 1,777 |
| 1981 | Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays, AIDS |
| 1981 | George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England" |
| 1980 | Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 1979 | Seychelles adopts constitution |
| 1977 | 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2 |
| 1977 | 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box and Annie win |
| 1977 | Coup in Seychelles, National Day |
| 1977 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament |
| 1977 | Los Angeles Dodgers retire Walt Alston's #24 |
| 1976 | "Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57 |
| 1976 | 108th Belmont: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Bold Forbes wins in 2:29 |
| 1976 | Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage, 14 die |
| 1975 | 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor |
| 1975 | British population agrees to European Common Market membership |
| 1975 | Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967 |
| 1974 | A's Reggie Jackson and Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit |
| 1973 | 43rd French Mens Tennis: Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60) |
| 1972 | "If You Had Wings" opens |
| 1972 | U.N. Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm |
| 1972 | Yugoslav president Tito visits U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6 |
| 1970 | KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, Montana (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns |
| 1969 | Race riot in Hartford Connecticut |
| 1968 | Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day |
| 1967 | 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin |
| 1967 | Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair |
| 1967 | WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent and 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible |
| 1966 | Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and Pharaohs hits #2 |
| 1965 | 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6 |
| 1965 | Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras |
| 1964 | Davie Jones and King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me," group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie |
| 1963 | Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina |
| 1963 | State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested |
| 1960 | "George Gobel Show," last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1960 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| 1959 | Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota |
| 1957 | New York narcotics investigator, Dr. Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes |
| 1956 | "Milton Berle Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1956 | Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const |
| 1955 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| 1955 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' home run off Chicago Billy Pierce |
| 1954 | "Your Show Of Shows," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1954 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos |
| 1953 | Denmark adopts a new constitution |
| 1953 | U.S. Senate rejects China membership to U.N. |
| 1952 | 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing |
| 1952 | Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman vs. India at Headingley |
| 1952 | Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for hw boxing title |
| 1950 | U.S. Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation |
| 1948 | Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23 |
| 1947 | Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines Marshall Plan |
| 1946 | Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois) |
| 1945 | Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London |
| 1945 | U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., France declare supreme authority over Germany |
| 1944 | 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure |
| 1944 | 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day |
| 1944 | Allies march into Rome |
| 1944 | General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 |
| 1944 | King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto |
| 1943 | 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2 |
| 1943 | German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor |
| 1942 | British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie |
| 1942 | Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54 |
| 1942 | USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania |
| 1941 | Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ |
| 1940 | 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh |
| 1940 | Battle of France begins in WW II |
| 1940 | General Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme |
| 1940 | General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense |
| 1940 | Governor of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees |
| 1940 | Netherlands rations petroleum |
| 1937 | 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6 |
| 1937 | Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week |
| 1934 | 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (New York City) |
| 1933 | Gold standard abolished |
| 1931 | Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium |
| 1929 | Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain |
| 1927 | 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9) |
| 1927 | Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard and 200-yard free-style swim record |
| 1926 | Indians triple-play Yankees and win 15-3 |
| 1925 | 29th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass |
| 1920 | 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell |
| 1920 | A's Vice President Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier |
| 1917 | 10 million U.S. men begin registering for draft in WW I |
| 1915 | 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6 |
| 1913 | Dutch Disability laws go into effect |
| 1912 | U.S. Marines invade Cuba, 3nd time |
| 1911 | Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win |
| 1907 | Automatic washer and dryer are introduced |
| 1900 | Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria |
| 1899 | Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted |
| 1888 | Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president |
| 1886 | 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41 |
| 1884 | William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected" |
| 1882 | Storm and floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die |
| 1879 | 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75 |
| 1876 | Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia |
| 1875 | Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens |
| 1873 | Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar |
| 1872 | Republican National Convention meets, Philadelphia |
| 1870 | Constantinople in fire; 900 die |
| 1869 | 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04 |
| 1864 | Battle of Piedmont, Virginia, Augusta City |
| 1863 | Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia, Deep Run |
| 1863 | CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic |
| 1861 | Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE |
| 1857 | Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta |
| 1855 | Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention |
| 1849 | Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy |
| 1848 | Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled |
| 1846 | Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Balt |
| 1833 | Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage |
| 1827 | Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ |
| 1808 | Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians |
| 1806 | 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile, Yankee |
| 1806 | Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland |
| 1805 | 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley", Southern Illinois |
| 1794 | Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces |
| 1783 | Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight |
| 1752 | Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter |
| 1716 | England and Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty |
| 1661 | Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 1632 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond |
| 1625 | Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda |
| 1507 | England and Netherlands sign trade agreement |
| 1305 | Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V |
| 1288 | Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I |
| 754 | Friezen murders bishop Boniface and over 50 companions |
| 70 | Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem |
