| 2000 | Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon |
| 1998 | Federal court rules President Clinton does not have executive privilege in the Lewinsky case so he must testify |
| 1997 | "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV |
| 1997 | Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful |
| 1996 | "Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 performances |
| 1996 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1996 | Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe |
| 1995 | Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics) |
| 1994 | "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances |
| 1994 | Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections |
| 1994 | North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen |
| 1992 | Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection |
| 1991 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1990 | 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02 |
| 1990 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren |
| 1990 | Paul Hogan and Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia |
| 1989 | Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York |
| 1988 | Eugene Marino installed as 1st black U.S. archbishop |
| 1987 | Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings |
| 1987 | Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East |
| 1987 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1986 | Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland |
| 1985 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational |
| 1984 | 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4 |
| 1983 | Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
| 1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1981 | 16th and final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge |
| 1980 | Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building |
| 1979 | 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4 |
| 1979 | Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting |
| 1979 | Voyager 1 passes Jupiter |
| 1978 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits |
| 1976 | Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II |
| 1976 | Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24 |
| 1975 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) |
| 1975 | A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, and scored 33 runs) |
| 1974 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| 1973 | 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4 |
| 1972 | Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 |
| 1971 | "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1971 | Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City) |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site |
| 1969 | 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1969 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II |
| 1966 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2 |
| 1965 | 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam |
| 1964 | Separatists riot in Quebec |
| 1963 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| 1962 | 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4 |
| 1962 | Los Angeles Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Baltimore Orioles, 2-0 |
| 1962 | West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album |
| 1961 | Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) |
| 1958 | KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1957 | Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria |
| 1957 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| 1956 | 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4 |
| 1956 | Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude |
| 1956 | Jim Bailey (U.S.) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles California |
| 1956 | World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo |
| 1955 | "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1022 performances |
| 1955 | Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce |
| 1955 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site |
| 1955 | West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers |
| 1954 | Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay |
| 1952 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) |
| 1952 | Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base |
| 1951 | "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 157 performances |
| 1951 | 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6 |
| 1950 | Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand |
| 1949 | Council of Europe forms |
| 1949 | KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, California (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | Statue of Council of Europe drawn |
| 1949 | Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame |
| 1948 | 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier |
| 1948 | Belgian government of Spaak resigns |
| 1947 | Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850M in damage |
| 1947 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) |
| 1945 | Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated |
| 1945 | Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control |
| 1945 | Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague |
| 1945 | Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated |
| 1944 | Gandhi freed from prison |
| 1944 | Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim |
| 1943 | Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System |
| 1942 | British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar |
| 1942 | U.S. begins rationing sugar during WW II |
| 1941 | 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England |
| 1941 | Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa |
| 1941 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) |
| 1940 | Norwegian government in exile forms in London |
| 1939 | Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky |
| 1938 | Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning |
| 1936 | Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip |
| 1936 | Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa |
| 1935 | Jessie Owens of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 8" |
| 1934 | 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04 |
| 1932 | Japan and China sign a peace treaty |
| 1930 | 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson) |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 185* Australia vs. Leicestershire, 317 minutes, 16 fours |
| 1927 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin |
| 1926 | Geldrop soccer team forms |
| 1926 | Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" |
| 1925 | John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee |
| 1925 | Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases) |
| 1925 | Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak |
| 1924 | Unions terminate Twentse textile strike |
| 1922 | Construction begins on Yankee Stadium |
| 1921 | 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired |
| 1921 | Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) |
| 1920 | German-Latvian peace treaty signed |
| 1920 | Polish troops occupy Kiev |
| 1920 | U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal |
| 1917 | St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 |
| 1916 | U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 |
| 1915 | German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom |
| 1912 | 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1912 | Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) |
| 1908 | 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2 |
| 1908 | Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco |
| 1905 | Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender" |
| 1904 | Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0) |
| 1900 | "The Billboard" began weekly publication |
| 1893 | Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange |
| 1891 | Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor |
| 1881 | Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine |
| 1874 | Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law |
| 1865 | 1st U.S. train robbery (North Bend Ohio) |
| 1864 | Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge |
| 1864 | Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke |
| 1864 | Battle of Wilderness, Virginia (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern) |
| 1864 | Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga Georgia to Atlanta GA |
| 1863 | Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi |
| 1863 | Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for U.S. boxing title in 63rd round |
| 1862 | French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo |
| 1862 | Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia |
| 1855 | New York City regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration |
| 1854 | English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast |
| 1847 | American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) |
| 1842 | City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) |
| 1835 | King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz |
| 1816 | American Bible Society organized in New York |
| 1814 | British attack Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York |
| 1809 | Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland |
| 1809 | Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw) |
| 1797 | Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi |
| 1789 | French States-General for It first since 1614 together |
| 1780 | 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston) |
| 1764 | Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls |
| 1762 | Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty |
| 1726 | Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris |
| 1665 | Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow |
| 1646 | King Charles I surrenders at Scotland |
| 1640 | English Short Parliament unites |
| 1494 | On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica |
| 1430 | Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany |
| 1382 | Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army |
| 553 | 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens |
