| 2012 | Rick Majerus, the head basketball coach at Saint Louis University, announces his retirement due to health issues |
| 2012 | Egypt's minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns after a school bus carrying 60 schoolchildren is hit by a train near Manfalut, 230 miles south of Cairo |
| 2011 | In Sweden, divers find the wreckage of the Svardet, a warship sunk in 1676 during the Battle of Oland |
| 2011 | Northern Rock bank, nationalized in 2008 by the British Government, is sold to Virgin Money for 747 million pounds |
| 2010 | A construction site in London reveals a Roman settlement filled with ancient artifacts and human remains |
| 2010 | Alaska's State Senator Lisa Murkowski becomes the first write-in candidate to successfully win an election since 1954 |
| 1997 | Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame |
| 1997 | Islamist terrorists murder 60 tourists at Luxor in Egypt |
| 1996 | "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational |
| 1994 | "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 977 performances |
| 1994 | 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms |
| 1994 | Irish government of Reynolds resigns |
| 1993 | "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 52 performances |
| 1993 | Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed |
| 1993 | U.S. House of Representatives approve Nafta |
| 1992 | "Gypsy Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 55 performances |
| 1992 | Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft |
| 1992 | Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test |
| 1992 | Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole |
| 1991 | "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1991 | 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV) |
| 1991 | Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs Los Angeles Rams |
| 1989 | Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal contract |
| 1988 | Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World |
| 1988 | Neil Simon's "Rumors," premieres in New York City |
| 1987 | George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP |
| 1986 | "Oh Coward!" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1985 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM in New York |
| 1985 | New York Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28 |
| 1984 | Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to New Jersey Nets 124-110 |
| 1984 | Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers |
| 1983 | "La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 187 performances |
| 1983 | Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship |
| 1983 | Philadelphia Flyers win 13th straight NHL game |
| 1982 | Dale Murphy wins NL MVP |
| 1981 | "1st" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| 1981 | NBA New York Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws |
| 1980 | John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in the United Kingdom |
| 1979 | Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball |
| 1979 | Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages |
| 1979 | New York Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in New York City |
| 1979 | On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first |
| 1978 | Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin |
| 1977 | Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man," premieres in London |
| 1977 | Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel |
| 1977 | Miss World Contest - Miss U.K. wears $9,500 platinum bikini |
| 1976 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1974 | Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1974 | Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms |
| 1973 | Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed |
| 1973 | Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on "The Nurse" |
| 1973 | President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" |
| 1972 | Juan Peron returns to Argentina |
| 1970 | British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn) |
| 1970 | Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon |
| 1969 | SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland |
| 1968 | "Zorba" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 305 performances |
| 1968 | John Kander/Fred Ebbs musical "Zorba," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational |
| 1968 | NBC cuts to show "Heidi," misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32 |
| 1967 | Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names |
| 1967 | French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia |
| 1967 | Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon |
| 1966 | Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour) |
| 1965 | General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR |
| 1965 | William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball |
| 1964 | British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational |
| 1962 | "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 257 performances |
| 1962 | "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 9 performances |
| 1962 | President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington D.C. |
| 1962 | Simon/Coleman/Leigh's musical "Little Me," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada |
| 1959 | De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond |
| 1959 | Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1959 | William Shea shows proposed New York City stadium with transparent roof |
| 1958 | KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate) |
| 1956 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1953 | St. Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc |
| 1948 | Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry |
| 1945 | "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1945 | New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF |
| 1941 | Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
| 1940 | Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane |
| 1939 | German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship |
| 1939 | Jerome Kern/Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws |
| 1937 | Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement |
| 1936 | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio |
| 1934 | Lyndon B. Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor |
| 1933 | U.S. recognizes U.S.S.R., opens trade |
| 1932 | German government of von Papen, resigns |
| 1931 | Bradman scores 135 NSW vs. South Africa, 128 minutes, 15 fours |
| 1930 | Musical "Sweet and Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico |
| 1929 | Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo |
| 1928 | Boston Garden officially opens |
| 1928 | Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years |
| 1927 | Tornado hits Washington D.C. |
| 1926 | NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St. Pats 4-1 |
| 1922 | Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship |
| 1918 | Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH |
| 1917 | Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press |
| 1914 | U.S. declares Panama Canal Zone neutral |
| 1913 | 1st U.S. dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct |
| 1913 | Panama Canal opens |
| 1904 | George Cohans musical "Little Johnny Jones," premieres in New York City |
| 1894 | Daily Racing Form founded |
| 1889 | Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF |
| 1888 | St. Tsjaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in Petersburg |
| 1884 | Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel" |
| 1877 | Gilbert/Sullivans operette "Sorcerer," premieres in London |
| 1875 | Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky and Col Olcott |
| 1874 | Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire and sinks off Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1869 | Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen) |
| 1869 | Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas |
| 1866 | Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris) |
| 1863 | Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address |
| 1862 | Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns |
| 1858 | Origin of Modified Julian Period |
| 1853 | Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections |
| 1842 | Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston |
| 1842 | Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London) |
| 1839 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di," premieres in Milan |
| 1820 | Antarctica discovered by Nathaniel B. Palmer on the 'Hero', a 47 foot sloop |
| 1800 | Congress held 1st session in Washington D.C. in incompleted Capitol building |
| 1800 | John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House |
| 1796 | Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy |
| 1785 | Church of England organizes in New England |
| 1734 | John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted |
| 1558 | Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary |
| 1555 | William of Orange becomes member of Council of State |
| 1511 | England and Spain sign anti-French covenant |
| 1278 | 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins |
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