| 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 Pottstown NY |
| 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 | 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0 |
| 1874 | Harvard beats University of McGill (Montreal) in football, 3-0 |
| 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 |
