| 2012 | At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Haneke wins the Palm D'Or for 'Love' |
| 2012 | Following some controversial remarks, Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, is accused of 'insulting the Greek people' |
| 2011 | U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, confirms the United Kingdom is sending Apache attack helicopters to assist the 2011 Libyan uprising |
| 2011 | Crewmembers of the Endeavour space shuttle Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff take what is potentially the last spacewalk ever conducted by a space shuttle crew |
| 2006 | Java, Indonesia suffers a 6.3 magnitue earthquake, killing more than 6,000 |
| 1997 | 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole |
| 1997 | Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 500 |
| 1997 | Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract |
| 1997 | Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28M |
| 1997 | Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault |
| 1997 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO |
| 1994 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile |
| 1994 | Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show |
| 1994 | Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters |
| 1994 | Larry King ended his radio show |
| 1994 | Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35) |
| 1993 | Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 home runs |
| 1993 | Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6 |
| 1991 | Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die |
| 1990 | 74th Indianapolis 500 runs |
| 1990 | Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia |
| 1990 | Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game |
| 1990 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow |
| 1988 | Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles |
| 1987 | Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal |
| 1987 | Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
| 1987 | Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young and Sutton) |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1986 | Norway Showcase groundbreaking |
| 1986 | President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled |
| 1985 | Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
| 1985 | Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan |
| 1984 | Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day |
| 1983 | Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress |
| 1982 | "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances |
| 1982 | John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to New Jersey |
| 1981 | John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol |
| 1981 | Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no |
| 1981 | Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed |
| 1979 | Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop |
| 1977 | 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 |
| 1977 | New York City fines George Willig 1 cents for each of 110 stories he climbed |
| 1976 | "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| 1975 | Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars" |
| 1975 | Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2 |
| 1975 | Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 |
| 1974 | Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning |
| 1973 | Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6 |
| 1972 | "Applause" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 900 performances |
| 1971 | 23rd Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 13 - 11 |
| 1971 | UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
| 1970 | British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | Walt Disney World construction begins |
| 1968 | 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-3 |
| 1968 | NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises |
| 1968 | Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost |
| 1967 | "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| 1966 | 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes |
| 1966 | 6 French fighters crash above Spain |
| 1965 | Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan |
| 1964 | "From Russia With Love" premieres in U.S. |
| 1964 | Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
| 1963 | 3 New Jersey businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils) |
| 1963 | Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya |
| 1962 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1961 | 1st black light is sold |
| 1961 | Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence |
| 1961 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' " |
| 1960 | Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt |
| 1960 | Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey |
| 1958 | Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS |
| 1958 | Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| 1956 | French raid in Algiers |
| 1956 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| 1955 | Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 |
| 1955 | Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1953 | Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections |
| 1952 | European Defense Community forms |
| 1951 | Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing |
| 1951 | Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens |
| 1950 | "Arms and the Girl" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 134 performances |
| 1950 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens |
| 1949 | Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day" |
| 1949 | Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane |
| 1949 | Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin |
| 1948 | Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid |
| 1948 | Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians |
| 1944 | Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) |
| 1944 | Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China |
| 1944 | Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris |
| 1943 | French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris |
| 1943 | U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry |
| 1942 | Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered |
| 1942 | Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim |
| 1942 | Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague |
| 1941 | Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor |
| 1941 | German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force |
| 1940 | British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) |
| 1937 | Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936) |
| 1937 | Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated |
| 1936 | RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage |
| 1935 | Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional |
| 1933 | Austrian Communist Party banned |
| 1933 | Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago |
| 1933 | Federal Securities Act signed |
| 1933 | Trailing 11-3, Yankees score 12 runs in 8th and beat White Sox 15-11 |
| 1933 | Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released |
| 1931 | 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia |
| 1931 | Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon |
| 1930 | Richard Drew invents masking tape |
| 1929 | 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain - Ireland, 7 - 5 at Moortown, England |
| 1927 | Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war |
| 1927 | Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president |
| 1921 | After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty |
| 1920 | Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR |
| 1919 | 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days |
| 1919 | Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster |
| 1917 | Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed |
| 1916 | Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx |
| 1907 | Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco |
| 1906 | 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen |
| 1905 | 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8 |
| 1905 | Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima |
| 1904 | NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants) |
| 1903 | 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75 |
| 1903 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam |
| 1902 | 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8 |
| 1900 | Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa |
| 1898 | Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London |
| 1896 | Bay District Race Track closes |
| 1896 | Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless |
| 1895 | British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector |
| 1893 | Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland |
| 1883 | Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow |
| 1882 | 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44 |
| 1881 | 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40 |
| 1878 | 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75 |
| 1878 | Australians Cricket 41 and 12-1 defeat MCC 33 and 19 |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia |
| 1863 | CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die |
| 1863 | Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana |
| 1862 | Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station) |
| 1856 | Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning |
| 1854 | Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed |
| 1850 | Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado |
| 1844 | Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line |
| 1813 | Americans capture Ft. George, Canada |
| 1796 | James S. McLean patents his piano |
| 1738 | Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov |
| 1703 | St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great |
| 1689 | Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland |
| 1679 | Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK |
| 1660 | Denmark and Sweden sign ceasefire |
| 1529 | 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake |
| 1328 | French king Philip VI Valois crowned |
| 1281 | Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge |
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