| 2012 | A South African newspaper removes the controversial painting titled 'The Spear' by Brett Murray from its website |
| 2012 | 'Time' magazine includes 'Awaara' on its list of All-Time 100 Greatest Films |
| 2011 | After days of protests, martial law is declared in Xilinhot, a city located in Inner Mongolia |
| 2011 | In Germany, at least 10 people die from cucumbers infected with the deadly bacteria E. coli |
| 1998 | Pakistan tests underground nuclear weapons, sparking fears of a nuclear conflict with India |
| 1997 | Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis |
| 1997 | Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight |
| 1997 | Tornado in Jarrell Texas kills at least 28 |
| 1997 | Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time |
| 1995 | "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 454 performances |
| 1995 | Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Dottie Mochrie wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game |
| 1995 | Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people |
| 1995 | Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941 |
| 1995 | White Sox (5) and Tigers (7) combine for record 12 home runs at Tiger Stadium |
| 1994 | "Cafe American," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1994 | Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054) |
| 1993 | 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror |
| 1993 | Polish government of Suchocka falls |
| 1992 | 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum |
| 1991 | Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa |
| 1990 | Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia |
| 1990 | Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV |
| 1990 | Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica |
| 1990 | Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands) |
| 1989 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) |
| 1989 | Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500 |
| 1988 | Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG) |
| 1987 | 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci |
| 1987 | Mathias Rust, 19, W. German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot |
| 1987 | Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta |
| 1987 | Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn |
| 1987 | Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed |
| 1986 | Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados |
| 1986 | White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces |
| 1985 | David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon |
| 1985 | Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-G |
| 1983 | "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63 |
| 1983 | Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens |
| 1982 | Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain |
| 1980 | 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning |
| 1980 | Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5" |
| 1980 | Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
| 1979 | European Market accepts Greece as member |
| 1978 | Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times |
| 1977 | 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky |
| 1975 | Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris |
| 1975 | Soyuz 18 launches |
| 1974 | "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 1859 performances |
| 1974 | 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore win |
| 1974 | Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation |
| 1974 | Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed |
| 1974 | Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26) |
| 1971 | Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars |
| 1969 | A. C. Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
| 1968 | AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions |
| 1968 | NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise |
| 1968 | Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon |
| 1967 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Violin concert |
| 1967 | Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34 |
| 1966 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad |
| 1965 | Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400 |
| 1964 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet |
| 1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli |
| 1964 | Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem |
| 1964 | Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit |
| 1963 | Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed |
| 1963 | Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India) |
| 1963 | Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya |
| 1962 | Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, New York |
| 1962 | U.S. stock market drops $20.8 billion in 1 day |
| 1962 | Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio |
| 1961 | Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) |
| 1961 | Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years) |
| 1961 | Record 27 home runs hit in 7 AL games |
| 1960 | "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 95 performances |
| 1959 | Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts |
| 1959 | Johnson and Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London |
| 1959 | Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission |
| 1958 | French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle |
| 1958 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open |
| 1957 | NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' and New York Giants' move to west coast |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Dale Long becomes 1st to hit home runs in 8 straight games |
| 1956 | Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus |
| 1955 | 81st Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6 |
| 1955 | Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500 |
| 1955 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| 1953 | Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody" |
| 1951 | After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st home run |
| 1951 | Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht |
| 1951 | Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV |
| 1951 | Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run |
| 1948 | Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement |
| 1946 | 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yankees 1) |
| 1943 | British militia reaches Tito |
| 1942 | 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich |
| 1941 | 1st night game at Washington D.C., Griffith stadium (Yankees 6, Senators 5) |
| 1941 | British army begins evacuation of Kreta |
| 1941 | New York Yankees nip Washington Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium |
| 1940 | Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up |
| 1940 | British-French troops capture Narvik Norway |
| 1940 | Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid |
| 1938 | Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich |
| 1937 | Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic |
| 1937 | Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England |
| 1934 | Bradman gets 160 Australia vs. Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5 |
| 1934 | Hobbs scores his 197th and last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days |
| 1932 | Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) |
| 1930 | Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand |
| 1929 | 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (New York City) |
| 1928 | Dodge Brothers Inc. and Chrysler Corp. merged |
| 1927 | Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days |
| 1926 | Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal |
| 1926 | U.S. Customs Court created by congress |
| 1923 | Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere |
| 1923 | U.S. unemployment has nearly ended |
| 1919 | Armenia declares it's Independence |
| 1918 | Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent |
| 1915 | John B. Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll |
| 1912 | Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs. South Africa |
| 1907 | Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held |
| 1906 | Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor," premieres in New York City |
| 1904 | 29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2 |
| 1901 | 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2 |
| 1901 | Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous) |
| 1900 | Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) |
| 1900 | Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand |
| 1900 | Solar eclipse occurs |
| 1894 | Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern |
| 1892 | Sierra Club forms by John Muir for conservation of nature |
| 1880 | 8th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:40 |
| 1875 | 3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43 |
| 1871 | Paris communards revolt put down |
| 1866 | Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms |
| 1863 | 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War |
| 1858 | Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play," premieres in London |
| 1851 | Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention |
| 1849 | Princess WFLC Marianne and Albrecht of Prussia separate |
| 1845 | Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed |
| 1830 | Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie |
| 1818 | 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched |
| 1774 | 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia) |
| 1754 | George Washington defeats French and indians at Ft. Duquesne near Pittsburgh |
| 1742 | 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) |
| 1741 | Spain and Bavaria sign treaty |
| 1731 | All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated |
| 1674 | German Parliament declares war on France |
| 1664 | 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston) |
| 1635 | Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V," premieres in Madrid |
| 1608 | Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna," premieres in Mantua |
| 1539 | Hernando de Soto lands in Florida |
| 1533 | England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage |
| 1521 | Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V |
| 1358 | Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising |
| 1349 | 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia |
| 1156 | Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet |
| 1037 | German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis" |
| 640 | Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638) |
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