| 2012 | German opera singer and baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, dies age age 86 |
| 2012 | Sybrand van Haersma Buma becomes the top candidate for 2012's Dutch general election after being elected as the new party leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal |
| 2011 | The U.S. intends to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, for alleged human rights breaches during the 2011 Syrian Uprising |
| 2011 | Queen Elizabeth II visits Ireland's Croke Park in Dublin, where the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920 occurred during the Irish War of Independence |
| 2010 | Christina Figueres of Costa Rica is appointed by U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon to lead efforts to combat global warming and climate change |
| 2009 | The C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group meets for the third time in Seoul |
| 1997 | "King David," opens at New Amsterdam Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 43rd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Chris Johnson |
| 1997 | Cadillac NFL Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic |
| 1996 | 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2 |
| 1996 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner |
| 1995 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma |
| 1994 | AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona |
| 1994 | Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip |
| 1994 | Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
| 1993 | Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty |
| 1993 | Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola |
| 1992 | Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs |
| 1991 | 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54 |
| 1991 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1991 | U.S.S.R. launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station |
| 1990 | 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty |
| 1990 | Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak |
| 1990 | Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant |
| 1990 | Return To Green Acres TV movie airs |
| 1989 | Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl |
| 1988 | Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen |
| 1988 | In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16 |
| 1986 | "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 367 performances |
| 1986 | Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups |
| 1986 | David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool |
| 1986 | South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia |
| 1986 | Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups |
| 1985 | "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3 |
| 1985 | 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4 |
| 1985 | 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa) |
| 1983 | Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program |
| 1982 | Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive home runs |
| 1982 | Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion |
| 1980 | Belgium 3rd government of Martens forms |
| 1980 | China launch 1st intercontinental rocket |
| 1980 | Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru |
| 1980 | Mount St. Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die |
| 1978 | Italy legalizes abortion |
| 1978 | Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work |
| 1977 | A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164 |
| 1977 | Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao |
| 1977 | Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister |
| 1977 | Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164 |
| 1974 | "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
| 1974 | 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6 |
| 1973 | Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany |
| 1973 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill |
| 1972 | "Me and The Chimp," last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1972 | John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded |
| 1971 | 4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
| 1971 | Bulgarian constitution goes into effect |
| 1971 | President Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus |
| 1971 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
| 1969 | "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 122 performances |
| 1969 | Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit |
| 1969 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
| 1968 | 94th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 1:56.8 |
| 1968 | AL Kaline hits his 307th home run, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger |
| 1968 | Frank Howard ties AL record with home run in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the most in 6 games |
| 1967 | Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London |
| 1967 | Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial |
| 1965 | Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain |
| 1965 | WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC |
| 1964 | Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years |
| 1963 | "Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1963 | "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1 |
| 1963 | 89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2 |
| 1961 | "Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| 1960 | Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs) |
| 1960 | Jean Genets "Le Balcon," premieres in Paris |
| 1959 | "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52 |
| 1959 | "Judy" by David Seville hits #86 |
| 1959 | "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer and Spencer hits #91 |
| 1958 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| 1957 | 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2 |
| 1956 | Hungarian party leader Matyas Rakosi enforces his own policy |
| 1956 | Mickey Mantle hits home run from both sides of plate for record 3rd time |
| 1956 | Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam |
| 1955 | 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record) |
| 1955 | Atkinson and Depeiaza take WI from 6-187 to 6-494 in day vs. Australia |
| 1955 | Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam |
| 1954 | European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect |
| 1953 | Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier |
| 1952 | Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC |
| 1951 | U.N. moves headquarters to New York City |
| 1951 | U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea |
| 1950 | "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1950 | Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders |
| 1949 | Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc of America incorporates |
| 1948 | "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 62 performances |
| 1948 | Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus |
| 1948 | Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel |
| 1947 | A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error |
| 1945 | Tigers and A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain |
| 1944 | Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy |
| 1944 | Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans |
| 1943 | Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea |
| 1942 | New York City ends night baseball games for rest of WW II |
| 1941 | Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia |
| 1941 | Jewish veterans honor their dead |
| 1940 | German troops conquer Brussels |
| 1935 | Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset |
| 1934 | Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky) |
| 1934 | Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense |
| 1934 | Jimmie Foxx hits 1st home run in Comiskey Park center field bleachers |
| 1934 | TWA began commercial service |
| 1933 | Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams |
| 1933 | 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair |
| 1929 | 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8 |
| 1929 | Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 and lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs) |
| 1927 | "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses |
| 1927 | Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood California |
| 1927 | Ritz Hotel opens in Boston |
| 1926 | Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped |
| 1922 | Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hours) |
| 1920 | 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6 |
| 1918 | Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia |
| 1918 | TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania kills 200 |
| 1917 | Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade," premieres in Paris |
| 1917 | U.S. passes Selective Service act |
| 1916 | U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft |
| 1912 | A's beat Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension |
| 1912 | Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies |
| 1911 | President/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends |
| 1910 | Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic |
| 1904 | American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco |
| 1900 | Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga |
| 1899 | World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference |
| 1897 | Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin) |
| 1897 | New York Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game |
| 1897 | Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market," premieres |
| 1896 | U.S. Supreme Court affirms race separation (Plessy vs. Ferguson) |
| 1889 | Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde," premieres in Paris |
| 1887 | Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgre Luis," premieres in Paris |
| 1880 | 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37 |
| 1866 | French Government of De Putte resigns |
| 1864 | Battle of Yellow Bayou, Louisiana (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks) |
| 1863 | Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| 1861 | Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South |
| 1861 | Friedrich Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache," premieres in Weimar |
| 1860 | Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president |
| 1852 | Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school |
| 1851 | Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked |
| 1846 | U.S. troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros |
| 1843 | United Free Church of Scotland forms |
| 1830 | Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever |
| 1828 | Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay and Brazil |
| 1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France |
| 1803 | Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland |
| 1794 | 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria) |
| 1756 | England declares war on France |
| 1703 | Dutch and English troops occupy Cologne |
| 1652 | Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal |
| 1642 | Montreal Canada founded |
| 1631 | English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right |
| 1631 | John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts |
| 1619 | Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison |
| 1596 | Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya |
| 1385 | Peace of Doornik: Gent and Louis van Thoughts |
| 1302 | Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten) |
| 1291 | Sultan of Egypt and his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre |
| 1096 | Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm |
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