| 2012 | In the eleventh 'American Idol' finale, Philip Phillips is named winner of 'American Idol,' with Jessica Sanchez as the runner-up |
| 2012 | Fifteen months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in Egypt by a revolution, voters go to the polls for a presidential election |
| 2011 | Tornado warnings are issued for Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri; the Joplin, Missouri death toll rises to 126 people with 1,150 injured by the May 22 tornado |
| 2011 | Walid al-Muallem, foreign minister of Syria, denounces the European Union for the travel bans and asset freezes it has imposed on Syria |
| 2010 | Film confirms Sarah, Duchess of York's involvement in a scandal showing she asked for a $40,000 handshake in cash and for 500,000 pounds to be paid in return for access to Prince Andrew |
| 2009 | Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide |
| 2003 | Stanley Cup Finals, New Jersey Devils beat Ottawa Senators 4 games to 3 |
| 1997 | "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV |
| 1996 | Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric |
| 1995 | 47th time opposing pitchers hit home runs, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks) |
| 1994 | 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia |
| 1994 | Roman Herzog elected president of Germany |
| 1994 | Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication |
| 1993 | Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1992 | New York Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game |
| 1992 | President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees |
| 1991 | Last Cubans troops leave Angola |
| 1991 | Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 |
| 1991 | San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship |
| 1991 | U.S. Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion |
| 1990 | A. C. Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna |
| 1990 | Cost of rescuing savings and loan failures is put at up to $130 billion |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26 |
| 1990 | New York Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0 |
| 1989 | 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone |
| 1989 | Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe |
| 1989 | Lincoln Square in Bronx named |
| 1989 | Cleveland loses and drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East) |
| 1988 | Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 |
| 1986 | U.S. and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa |
| 1984 | Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London |
| 1984 | Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game |
| 1983 | Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air |
| 1982 | BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina |
| 1982 | Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine |
| 1981 | Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage |
| 1981 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 1980 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton |
| 1979 | "Kids Are All Right" premieres |
| 1979 | 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly" |
| 1979 | Borussia Monchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf |
| 1979 | Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy |
| 1979 | West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president |
| 1978 | AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M |
| 1978 | General strike in Peru |
| 1977 | Benin adopts its constitution |
| 1977 | Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell |
| 1977 | Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 |
| 1976 | Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1974 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed |
| 1971 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale |
| 1971 | Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands |
| 1970 | Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S. |
| 1970 | San Diego Padres beat San Francisco Giants 17-16 in 15 innings |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) |
| 1969 | BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| 1969 | Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes |
| 1969 | Who release rock opera "Tommy" |
| 1968 | A. C. Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam |
| 1968 | Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London |
| 1967 | Government bans submarines near South Africa |
| 1966 | Beatles release "Paperback Writer" |
| 1965 | Franz Jonas elected president of Austria |
| 1965 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1965 | Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 |
| 1964 | Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) |
| 1963 | NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 |
| 1962 | Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio) |
| 1962 | OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life |
| 1962 | Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7 |
| 1960 | "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1960 | "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24 |
| 1960 | Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina |
| 1960 | WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, Puerto Rico 1st broadcast |
| 1960 | WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (New York City) |
| 1959 | "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 44 performances |
| 1959 | Presbyterian church accepts women preachers |
| 1958 | Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China |
| 1956 | World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco |
| 1955 | Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers |
| 1953 | 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8 |
| 1953 | Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes |
| 1953 | WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London |
| 1949 | Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) |
| 1948 | Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive home runs |
| 1948 | Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel |
| 1947 | PC Hooft prize forms for literature |
| 1945 | British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz |
| 1945 | German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British |
| 1945 | Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary |
| 1945 | Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister |
| 1944 | British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy |
| 1944 | Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front |
| 1944 | Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead |
| 1944 | Polo Grounds host 1st New York City night game since 1941 |
| 1943 | 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund |
| 1943 | In Dr. Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkuhn |
| 1943 | Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus |
| 1941 | Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1941 | Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) |
| 1940 | 1st great dogfight between Spitfires |
| 1939 | British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented |
| 1939 | British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 |
| 1939 | Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad |
| 1939 | Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland |
| 1939 | Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26 die |
| 1935 | 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) |
| 1934 | Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66) |
| 1931 | Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England |
| 1928 | Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die |
| 1926 | Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard |
| 1926 | Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate |
| 1923 | 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain |
| 1922 | "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances |
| 1922 | Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat |
| 1922 | Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films |
| 1921 | "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in New York City |
| 1920 | Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei |
| 1918 | King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens |
| 1917 | Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft |
| 1916 | Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun |
| 1915 | Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I |
| 1911 | New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft |
| 1908 | Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die |
| 1908 | Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington |
| 1903 | 1st automobile trip across U.S. from San Francisco to New York, ended April 1 |
| 1903 | 1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin |
| 1901 | 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21 |
| 1901 | Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 |
| 1901 | Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent |
| 1901 | U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo |
| 1900 | Associated Press News Service forms in New York |
| 1898 | 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco |
| 1894 | William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal |
| 1887 | 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC |
| 1884 | 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39 |
| 1883 | 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43 |
| 1883 | Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players |
| 1882 | 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa |
| 1878 | Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia |
| 1876 | 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) |
| 1873 | 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 |
| 1873 | Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms |
| 1873 | Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time |
| 1867 | Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) |
| 1865 | Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot |
| 1865 | Grand Review begins in Washington D.C. |
| 1864 | Battle of Dallas, Georgia |
| 1864 | Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting |
| 1862 | Battle at Front Royal, Virginia |
| 1862 | Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft. Royal, Virginia |
| 1861 | 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia |
| 1861 | Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession |
| 1853 | Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) |
| 1844 | Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) |
| 1788 | South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify U.S. constitution |
| 1785 | Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals |
| 1774 | Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River) |
| 1750 | Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua |
| 1706 | Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed |
| 1667 | King Afonso VI of Portugal flees |
| 1660 | King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England |
| 1647 | Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland |
| 1644 | Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists |
| 1618 | 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War |
| 1618 | Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle |
| 1611 | Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia |
| 1576 | Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory |
| 1568 | Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed |
| 1555 | Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV |
| 1544 | German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark |
| 1536 | Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition |
| 1533 | King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void |
| 1493 | King Charles VIII and Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis |
| 1430 | Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British |
| 1421 | Jews of Austria imprisoned and expelled |
| 1420 | Jews of Syria and Austria expelled |
| 1275 | King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews |
| 1059 | Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France |
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