| 2013 | Wal-Mart revenue exceeds that of Exxon Mobil, becoming the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list |
| 2013 | In Rome, Italy, Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy, dies at age 94 |
| 2012 | More than 1,000 birds, mostly pelicans and hundreds of dolphins die off the coast in the north of Paru, under unexplained circumstances |
| 2012 | In the second round of the French presidential election Francois Hollande is elected President of France |
| 2011 | The U.S. Coast Guard responds to heavy flooding by closing a section of the Mississippi River near Caruthersville, Missouri |
| 2011 | Militant Islamic group Al-Quaeda confirms Osama bin Laden's death and threatens revenge |
| 2010 | Ash from the Iceland volcano causes new flight restrictions at airports including Shannon Airport and Ireland West Airport Knock |
| 2007 | Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential election |
| 1997 | Michael Jackson and Bee Gees inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 1997 | NHL Hartford Whalers become Carolina Hurricanes |
| 1997 | Rick Pitino becomes coach of Boston Celtics |
| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford, Connecticut on WCCC 106.9 FM |
| 1996 | Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war |
| 1995 | 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2 |
| 1995 | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby |
| 1995 | Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV |
| 1994 | Chunnel linking England and France officially opens |
| 1994 | Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show |
| 1994 | House passes the assault weapons ban |
| 1994 | Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela and his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa |
| 1993 | STS-55 (Columbia) lands |
| 1992 | New York Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games |
| 1992 | Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II |
| 1991 | Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees |
| 1991 | Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9" |
| 1991 | Space Shuttle STS-39 (Discovery 12) lands |
| 1990 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party |
| 1989 | 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05 |
| 1988 | Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs vs. Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes |
| 1988 | Doughnutgate incident: New Jersey Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended |
| 1987 | Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice |
| 1987 | Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH |
| 1987 | Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes |
| 1987 | PTL's Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup |
| 1986 | Donald E. Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1985 | 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1984 | Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken, Jr. hits for cycle |
| 1984 | Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election |
| 1982 | Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games |
| 1981 | "Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1981 | Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired and replaced by Rene Lachemann |
| 1981 | U.S. expels Libyan diplomats |
| 1979 | Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m |
| 1979 | Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout," premieres in New York City |
| 1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | 104th Kentucky Derby: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:01.2 |
| 1978 | South Africa military goes into Angola |
| 1977 | "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl," released in U.K. |
| 1975 | 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1974 | A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Baltimore ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games |
| 1974 | Smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium (4,149) |
| 1974 | Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London |
| 1974 | West German chancellor W. Brandt resigns |
| 1973 | 1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1 |
| 1973 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic |
| 1972 | 98th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:01.8 |
| 1970 | Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mount Everest |
| 1968 | Battle between students and troops in Paris, 1000 injured |
| 1968 | Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets NL record of 225th consecutive errorless game (108 chances consecutively since June 16, 1964) |
| 1968 | Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards |
| 1967 | 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College |
| 1967 | 93rd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Ussery on Proud Clarion wins in 2:00.6 |
| 1967 | Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22) |
| 1967 | Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India |
| 1966 | Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin |
| 1966 | Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7 |
| 1965 | Lawry and Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies |
| 1964 | Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloan," premieres in London |
| 1963 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) |
| 1962 | 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine |
| 1962 | Antonio Segni elected president of Italy |
| 1962 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| 1961 | 87th Kentucky Derby: John Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 2:04 |
| 1961 | Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party |
| 1960 | English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) |
| 1960 | President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 |
| 1960 | Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta |
| 1960 | Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico |
| 1957 | Italian government of Segni resigns |
| 1957 | Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV |
| 1957 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) |
| 1956 | Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header |
| 1956 | WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | West Germany joins NATO |
| 1954 | Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4) |
| 1953 | Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0 |
| 1951 | Pittsburgh Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0 |
| 1950 | "Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 52 performances |
| 1950 | 76th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6 |
| 1950 | Liz Taylor's 1st marriage to Conrad Hilton, Jr. |
| 1948 | "Sally" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| 1946 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) |
| 1945 | General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands |
| 1944 | 70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2 |
| 1944 | KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO |
| 1943 | British 1st army opens assault on Tunis |
| 1942 | Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies |
| 1941 | Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia |
| 1940 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) |
| 1939 | 1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's "Jeanne d'Arc Ouch B-cher" |
| 1939 | 65th Kentucky Derby: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:03.4 |
| 1938 | Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler) |
| 1937 | Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey (36 die) |
| 1935 | British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee |
| 1935 | KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC) |
| 1935 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) |
| 1934 | Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, and B Walters |
| 1933 | 59th Kentucky Derby: Don Meade aboard Brokers Tip wins in 2:06.8 |
| 1933 | Italy and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement |
| 1929 | AL announces it will discontinue MVP award |
| 1929 | New York to San Francisco footrace begins |
| 1925 | Ty Cobb hits his 5th home run in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884 |
| 1921 | American Soccer League forms |
| 1919 | Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa |
| 1917 | St. Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 |
| 1916 | Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa |
| 1915 | Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont |
| 1915 | German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland |
| 1915 | Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut and 1st home run, loses to Yankees 4-3 in 15 |
| 1914 | British House of Lords rejects women suffrage |
| 1913 | King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania |
| 1910 | King George V ascends to British throne |
| 1907 | 33rd Kentucky Derby: Andy Minder aboard Pink Star wins in 2:12.6 |
| 1906 | "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St. SF |
| 1904 | American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting |
| 1903 | Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers |
| 1902 | British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die |
| 1902 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" |
| 1902 | Zulu assault at Holkrantz South Africa |
| 1896 | 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75 |
| 1895 | 21st Kentucky Derby: Soup Perkins aboard Halma wins in 2:37 |
| 1891 | Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike |
| 1890 | Mormon Church renounces polygamy |
| 1889 | Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed |
| 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S. Congress ceases Chinese immigration |
| 1882 | Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria |
| 1864 | Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Wilderness, General Longstreet seriously injured |
| 1864 | General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia |
| 1861 | Arkansas and Tennessee becomes 9th and 10th state to secede from US |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between U.S. and Confederacy |
| 1860 | San Francisco Olympic Club, 1st U.S. athletic club forms |
| 1853 | 1st major U.S. rail disaster kills 46 in Norwalk, Connecticut |
| 1851 | Dr. John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine" |
| 1851 | Linus Yale patents Yale-lock |
| 1851 | San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts |
| 1848 | Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony |
| 1844 | Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote |
| 1835 | 1st edition of New York Herald (price 1 cents ) |
| 1833 | John Deere makes 1st steel plow |
| 1804 | Suriname sold to English, until February, 1816 |
| 1794 | Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France |
| 1787 | 1st Black Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston |
| 1757 | Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army |
| 1753 | French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle |
| 1733 | 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni |
| 1672 | Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands |
| 1648 | Battle at Zolty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir |
| 1644 | Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil |
| 1642 | Ville Marie (Montreal) forms |
| 1626 | Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets |
| 1598 | Arch duke Albrecht and Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands |
| 1536 | King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church |
| 1529 | Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals |
| 1527 | Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance |
| 1476 | Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg and duke Charles the Stout arrange marriage of their children |
| 1312 | Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna |
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