| 2013 | American actress Angelina Jolie announces she underwent elective double mastectomy surgery because she carried the BRCA1 gene and had a family history of breast cancer |
| 2013 | The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station |
| 2012 | U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August |
| 2012 | Scientists at Stanford University invent a working bionic eye the is powered only by focused light; the eye could eventually restore the sight of millions of people suffering from macular degeneration and retinal pigmentosa |
| 2011 | The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami death toll now exceeds 15,000 with 9,000 still missing and 115,000 evacuees still living in shelters |
| 2011 | In efforts to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from floods, the Morganza Spillway is opened on the Mississippi River, deliberately flooding 3,000 square miles of rural Louisiana |
| 2010 | Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda sign an agreement seeking more water from the Nile; Kenya issues support while Egypt and Sudan remain opposed |
| 1998 | Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC, commercials are $2 million each |
| 1997 | Baseball's Executive Council suspends New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner |
| 1996 | New York Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0 |
| 1995 | "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1995 | 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins |
| 1995 | Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th) |
| 1995 | Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader |
| 1994 | Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617 |
| 1994 | FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London |
| 1994 | Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46) |
| 1992 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll |
| 1991 | 42 die in a train collision is Japan |
| 1991 | Robert M. Gates becomes head of CIA |
| 1991 | World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs |
| 1991 | Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal |
| 1990 | 46th time opposing pitchers hit home run, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos) |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53 |
| 1989 | 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta) |
| 1989 | 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett) |
| 1989 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square |
| 1989 | Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs |
| 1989 | Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC |
| 1988 | "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| 1988 | 1st non-pitcher, Jose Oquendo, in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and St. Louis Cardinals lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn |
| 1987 | "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany |
| 1987 | Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000 |
| 1986 | Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary |
| 1986 | Reggie Jackson hit his 537th home run passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place |
| 1984 | 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama |
| 1983 | "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5 |
| 1983 | Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
| 1983 | Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) |
| 1982 | Guinea adopts constitution |
| 1981 | 35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2 |
| 1981 | NASA launches space vehicle S-192 |
| 1980 | "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 15 performances |
| 1980 | Department of Health and Human Services begins operation |
| 1980 | Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II |
| 1980 | Bucky Dent hits an inside park home run, Royals walk 14 Yankees including 5 with bases loaded, Yankees win 16-3 |
| 1978 | "Working" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
| 1977 | English football international Bobby Moore retires |
| 1977 | Kansas City Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0 |
| 1977 | Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms |
| 1977 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
| 1976 | Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter |
| 1976 | Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast |
| 1975 | Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II |
| 1975 | French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia |
| 1975 | U.S. forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship |
| 1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed |
| 1973 | Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London |
| 1973 | Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1973 | Skylab launched, 1st Space Station |
| 1973 | U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military |
| 1972 | 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner and Jean Stapleton |
| 1972 | In Willie Mays 1st game as a New York Met his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4 |
| 1970 | Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) |
| 1970 | Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court |
| 1970 | New York City local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing |
| 1970 | RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin |
| 1969 | Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada |
| 1969 | Last Chevrolet Corsair built |
| 1968 | Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp |
| 1968 | Czechoslovakian government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek |
| 1968 | RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin |
| 1967 | Mickey Mantle's 500th home run off Oriole's Stu Miller |
| 1966 | A Lover's Concerto by Mrs. Miller hits #95 |
| 1965 | 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes |
| 1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | Underground America Day is 1st observed |
| 1963 | Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations |
| 1962 | Ex-president Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years |
| 1962 | Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1961 | Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open |
| 1960 | "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden New York City after 216 performances |
| 1960 | U.S.S.R. launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule |
| 1960 | Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Potsdam, New York |
| 1957 | "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 432 performances |
| 1957 | Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in New York City |
| 1955 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| 1955 | Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania |
| 1954 | Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months |
| 1951 | "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 40 performances |
| 1951 | Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC |
| 1951 | Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in New York City |
| 1950 | Pittsburgh Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 home runs |
| 1949 | "Love Life" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 252 performances |
| 1949 | 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56 |
| 1949 | Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral |
| 1948 | Israel declares independence from British administration |
| 1948 | Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast |
| 1948 | Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem |
| 1948 | U.S. grants Israel de facto recognition |
| 1948 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1948 | WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres |
| 1945 | Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise |
| 1945 | U.S. offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered |
| 1944 | 91 German bombers harass Bristol |
| 1944 | British troops occupy Kohima |
| 1944 | General Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler |
| 1942 | U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms |
| 1941 | 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested |
| 1940 | Admiral Furstner departs to England |
| 1940 | Boston's Jimmie Foxx home run goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof |
| 1940 | German breakthrough at Sedan |
| 1940 | Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production |
| 1940 | Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany |
| 1938 | 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8 |
| 1938 | English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3 |
| 1935 | Griffith Planetarium opens in Los Angeles, 3rd in US |
| 1935 | Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement |
| 1932 | "We Want Beer!" parade in New York |
| 1928 | John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg |
| 1927 | "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie |
| 1927 | 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06 |
| 1921 | Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death |
| 1921 | Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats |
| 1920 | Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit |
| 1920 | Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season |
| 1919 | 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53 |
| 1919 | Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta |
| 1918 | Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19) |
| 1918 | Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington D.C. |
| 1914 | Chicago Jim Scott no-hits Cleveland, gives up 2 hits in 10th and loses 1-0 |
| 1913 | John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation |
| 1913 | French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands |
| 1913 | Washington Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings |
| 1910 | Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins |
| 1908 | 1st passenger flight in an airplane |
| 1906 | Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising |
| 1905 | 2nd official International soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0 |
| 1904 | 1st Olympics in U.S. are held (St. Louis) |
| 1903 | President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco |
| 1897 | Great Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia |
| 1896 | Lowest U.S. temperature in May recorded -10 degrees F - Climax, Colorado |
| 1894 | Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings |
| 1892 | Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem |
| 1890 | 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45 |
| 1888 | 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38 |
| 1886 | 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36 |
| 1885 | 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37 |
| 1884 | Anti-Monopoly party forms in U.S. |
| 1878 | Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly) |
| 1874 | Harvard beats McGill University in football, 3 - 0, 1st admission charge at a football game |
| 1864 | Battle of Reseca, Georgia -Atlanta- |
| 1863 | Battle of Jackson, Mississippi |
| 1862 | Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph |
| 1845 | Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens |
| 1842 | 1st edition of London Illustrated News |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile |
| 1832 | Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides," premieres |
| 1811 | Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day) |
| 1804 | Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis for Pacific Coast |
| 1800 | Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar |
| 1796 | 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner |
| 1787 | Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up U.S. constitution |
| 1767 | British government disbands Americans import duty on tea |
| 1702 | England and Netherlands declares war on France and Spain |
| 1702 | Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw |
| 1664 | Turkish great Koprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers |
| 1643 | Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France |
| 1638 | Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon |
| 1607 | 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia |
| 1590 | Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League |
| 1576 | Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten |
| 1509 | Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy |
| 1264 | Baron's War fought in England |
| 1264 | Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III |
| 1027 | Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France |
| 1004 | Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy |
| 649 | Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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