| 2005 | Star Trek: Enterprise broadcasts it's final show in the U.S. |
| 1997 | Eddie Murray is 6th baseball player to play in 3,000 games |
| 1996 | O. J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict |
| 1995 | 6.5 earthquake hits Greece |
| 1995 | New Zealand beats U.S. for the America's Cup |
| 1995 | Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA |
| 1994 | Indians, begin a 18 home game hoome win streak at Jacobs Field |
| 1993 | 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street |
| 1993 | Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands |
| 1993 | CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands |
| 1993 | Kansas City Royal George Brett hits his 300th home run |
| 1993 | Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South Africa, kills 50 |
| 1992 | 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time |
| 1992 | Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup |
| 1992 | Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured |
| 1992 | Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV |
| 1992 | Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show |
| 1991 | "Michael Jackson: Magic and Madness" goes on sale |
| 1991 | Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0 |
| 1991 | South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks |
| 1991 | Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco |
| 1990 | "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1990 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China |
| 1989 | Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game |
| 1989 | Trinidad and Tobago ties U.S. 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
| 1987 | Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II |
| 1985 | Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases |
| 1985 | Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA |
| 1985 | Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11 |
| 1984 | "Oliver!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| 1984 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Johan Cruyffs last competitive match |
| 1983 | Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times |
| 1982 | Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy |
| 1982 | Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
| 1982 | Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros) |
| 1982 | Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi and Lebedev for 211 days in space |
| 1982 | Terri Lea Utley, 20, (Arkansas), crowned 31st Miss USA |
| 1981 | Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca |
| 1981 | Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II |
| 1981 | Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St. Peter's Square |
| 1980 | Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 home runs in 5th inning vs New York Mets |
| 1979 | "Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall" opens and closes at Mark Hellinger New York City |
| 1979 | Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
| 1979 | Shah and family sentenced to death in Teheran |
| 1978 | "Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1978 | "Runaways" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 199 performances |
| 1978 | Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4) |
| 1978 | Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels |
| 1978 | Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor, New York |
| 1976 | 9th and final ABA championship: New York Nets beat Denv Nuggets, 4 games to 2 |
| 1975 | "Rodgers and Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 108 performances |
| 1975 | Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3 |
| 1975 | Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee |
| 1973 | "Cyrano" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1973 | Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in California |
| 1973 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1972 | 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi department store (Osaka Japan) |
| 1972 | Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12) |
| 1971 | Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident |
| 1970 | Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres |
| 1968 | 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle and Pompidou |
| 1967 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career home run #500 off Stu Miller |
| 1967 | Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries |
| 1966 | Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" |
| 1966 | Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
| 1965 | Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction" |
| 1965 | Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1960 | 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed |
| 1960 | Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game |
| 1960 | WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR |
| 1959 | Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1958 | French settlers riot against French army in Algeria |
| 1958 | Jordan and Iraq form Arab Federation |
| 1958 | Pierre Pflimlin forms French government |
| 1958 | Rioters attack U.S. Vice President Nixon in Venezuela |
| 1958 | Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits |
| 1956 | Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
| 1955 | Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive home runs of at least 463' |
| 1954 | "Pajama Game" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 1063 performances |
| 1954 | Labour Party wins British municipal elections |
| 1954 | Robin Roberts gives up a home run then retires next 27 men in a row |
| 1954 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1953 | New York Giants Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each hit 2 home runs and a triple |
| 1952 | Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings |
| 1952 | Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India |
| 1950 | Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards |
| 1949 | 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight |
| 1947 | Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions |
| 1946 | Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians vs. Surrey |
| 1946 | U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death |
| 1946 | Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam |
| 1945 | U.S. troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa |
| 1944 | 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2 |
| 1943 | German and Italian forces in Africa surrender |
| 1943 | German occupiers confiscate all radios |
| 1942 | Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight |
| 1942 | Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 home runs in a game |
| 1941 | Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany |
| 1941 | Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins |
| 1941 | Willy Lewis' U.S. jazz band performs in Switzerland |
| 1940 | British bomb factory at Breda |
| 1940 | Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" |
| 1940 | Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England |
| 1940 | German breakthrough at Grebbelinie |
| 1939 | 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8 |
| 1939 | SS St. Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives |
| 1936 | Quiroga government takes office in Spain |
| 1934 | Great dustbowl storm |
| 1933 | 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02 |
| 1932 | Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar |
| 1931 | Paul Doumer elected president of France |
| 1930 | Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas, only known fatality due to hail |
| 1927 | "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange |
| 1927 | VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk |
| 1926 | German government of Luther falls |
| 1923 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) |
| 1922 | 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6 |
| 1922 | 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6 |
| 1918 | 1st U.S. airmail stamps issued (24 cents ) |
| 1917 | 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal |
| 1917 | Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres |
| 1916 | 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day |
| 1916 | 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04 |
| 1916 | Native American Day is 1st observed |
| 1913 | 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia) |
| 1912 | Royal Flying Corps forms in England |
| 1911 | 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05 |
| 1911 | New York Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st) |
| 1909 | Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands |
| 1906 | Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem |
| 1905 | James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ |
| 1891 | 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52 |
| 1890 | 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75 |
| 1890 | Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria |
| 1888 | DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat" |
| 1888 | Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Aurea" abolishing slavery |
| 1887 | 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39 |
| 1884 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms |
| 1882 | Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition |
| 1877 | Cesar Franck's "Lesson Eolides," premieres |
| 1876 | Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens |
| 1874 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite" |
| 1865 | S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed |
| 1864 | Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca Georgia |
| 1861 | Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality |
| 1846 | U.S. declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins |
| 1835 | 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms |
| 1830 | Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president |
| 1828 | U.S. passes Tariff of Abominations |
| 1820 | Opera "Die Jagarsbraut" is completed |
| 1787 | Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay |
| 1779 | War of Bavarian Succession ends |
| 1777 | University library at Vienna opens |
| 1767 | Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg |
| 1654 | Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish |
| 1652 | Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki |
| 1643 | Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists |
| 1643 | Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago, Chile; kills 1/3 of population |
| 1637 | Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife |
| 1624 | Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru |
| 1607 | English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA |
| 1588 | King Henri III flees Paris |
| 1568 | Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside |
| 1559 | Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel |
| 1497 | Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola |
| 1364 | Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven |
| 1110 | Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath |
| 1106 | Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Netherlands-Lutherans |
| 641 | Eligius (Saint Eloy) becomes bishop of Doornik-Noyon |
| 609 | Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into Catholic church |
| 535 | St. Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
