| 2013 | Russia enacts a law that bans smoking in schools and on subways |
| 2013 | Scientists in Spain publish a study in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' that claims a Mediterranean diets, high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits, reduce the risk of heart disease |
| 2012 | Treasure from Spain's Navy frigate Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes is returned to Spain after it was recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007 |
| 2012 | The film 'The Artist', wins four awards at the Spirit Awards which honors independent films |
| 2011 | Researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska, discover remains of a 3-year old child from the Ice Age and named it Xaasaa Cheege Ts'eniin, 'Upper Sun River Mouth Child' |
| 2011 | In China, Jia Qinglin, senior leader of the People's Republic of China, calls for controls over Tibetan Buddhism and a renewed struggle against the Dalai Lama |
| 2010 | After being delayed by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th President of Ukraine |
| 2007 | 79th Academy Awards hosted by Ellen DeGeneres in Hollywood |
| 2007 | 'The Departed' wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards |
| 2005 | Radio Canada International celebrates its 60th anniversary |
| 1998 | Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges |
| 1998 | Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich |
| 1998 | 40th Grammy Awards, Shawn Colvin, Bob Dylan, Sarah McLachlan, and Elton John win major awards |
| 1996 | "Father" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 52 performances |
| 1996 | Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad vs Leeward Is |
| 1995 | Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) |
| 1995 | British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital |
| 1995 | Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead |
| 1995 | PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander |
| 1994 | Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron |
| 1994 | Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 |
| 1994 | Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1993 | "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 207 performances |
| 1993 | Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy" |
| 1993 | Pakistan all out 43 vs. West Indies, world one-day int record low |
| 1992 | 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins |
| 1991 | Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. Sri Lanka (122 and 100*) |
| 1991 | Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts |
| 1991 | U.S., barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28 |
| 1990 | Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup |
| 1990 | Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas |
| 1990 | On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long |
| 1989 | 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms |
| 1989 | Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry |
| 1989 | Javed Miandad scores 271 vs. New Zealand at Eden Park |
| 1989 | Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt) |
| 1989 | Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1988 | Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass |
| 1988 | South Korea adopts constitution |
| 1987 | LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse |
| 1987 | Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bulls record 58 points in a game |
| 1987 | U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action, 5-4 |
| 1986 | 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins |
| 1986 | Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees |
| 1986 | Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao |
| 1986 | Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel |
| 1984 | Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500 |
| 1982 | Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs |
| 1982 | Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph) |
| 1981 | 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins |
| 1981 | Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders |
| 1981 | L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain |
| 1981 | NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 minutes) |
| 1981 | New York Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames |
| 1981 | Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1981 | Executive Board of Baseball Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved |
| 1980 | Coup ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron of Suriname |
| 1979 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched |
| 1978 | Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 vs. New Zealand Christchurch |
| 1977 | New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts |
| 1977 | Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons |
| 1977 | Soyuz 24 returns to Earth |
| 1975 | Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever and seriously injured |
| 1974 | Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 |
| 1973 | "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 601 performances |
| 1973 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders |
| 1973 | Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in New York City |
| 1972 | Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise |
| 1972 | Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single |
| 1971 | "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 1,316 performances |
| 1971 | P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album |
| 1969 | Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars |
| 1969 | Pension plan for baseball is agreed to |
| 1968 | 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea |
| 1968 | Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus |
| 1966 | Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad |
| 1964 | Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns |
| 1964 | Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1963 | Beatles release their 1st single in U.S. "Please Please Me" |
| 1962 | India Congress Party wins elections |
| 1962 | Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon |
| 1962 | Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands |
| 1961 | Niagara ends St. Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak |
| 1961 | Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10 |
| 1960 | John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres |
| 1960 | Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in New York City |
| 1957 | Buddy Holly and Crickets record "That'll Be the Day" |
| 1957 | Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport |
| 1956 | Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference |
| 1954 | Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier |
| 1953 | "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 559 performances |
| 1952 | 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway |
| 1951 | "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 278 perf |
| 1951 | 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina) |
| 1951 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament |
| 1950 | "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen |
| 1949 | WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) |
| 1948 | Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier |
| 1945 | U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo |
| 1944 | U.S. 1st Army completes invasion plan |
| 1943 | Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front |
| 1941 | Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8) |
| 1941 | February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam |
| 1940 | 1st televised (W2XBS, New York City) hockey game (Rangers vs. Canadians) |
| 1939 | 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden |
| 1938 | British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister |
| 1933 | 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger |
| 1933 | Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yards in, posts on goal line) |
| 1933 | Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox |
| 1932 | Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship |
| 1930 | Check photographing device patented |
| 1930 | George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs. England (114 and 112) |
| 1927 | Gdanks and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor |
| 1926 | Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain |
| 1926 | Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords |
| 1925 | Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska |
| 1925 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran |
| 1925 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
| 1924 | Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3) |
| 1923 | Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark |
| 1921 | Georgian SSR proclaimed |
| 1919 | League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty |
| 1919 | Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon) |
| 1916 | German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun |
| 1913 | 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax |
| 1911 | Opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia |
| 1910 | Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies |
| 1908 | 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens |
| 1907 | George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres in London |
| 1907 | U.S. proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic |
| 1905 | Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms |
| 1904 | J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society |
| 1904 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games |
| 1901 | George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in New York City |
| 1901 | U.S. Steel Corp organized under J. P. Morgan |
| 1896 | Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea |
| 1892 | James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London |
| 1885 | U.S. Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds |
| 1879 | Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act |
| 1875 | Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft. Sill |
| 1870 | Hiram Rhodes Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress, Senator-R-Mississippi 1870 - 1871 |
| 1863 | Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency |
| 1862 | Congress forms U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| 1862 | Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln |
| 1859 | 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence |
| 1847 | State University of Iowa is approved |
| 1839 | Seminoles and black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West |
| 1838 | London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours |
| 1837 | 1st U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport |
| 1836 | Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm |
| 1830 | Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris |
| 1828 | John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House |
| 1804 | Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus |
| 1803 | 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states |
| 1799 | 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land |
| 1799 | Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation |
| 1793 | 1st cabinet meeting at George Washington's home |
| 1791 | 1st Bank of U.S. chartered |
| 1751 | 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, New York City (admission 1cent) |
| 1746 | Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen |
| 1667 | Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River |
| 1643 | Dutch U.S. colonists kill Algonquin-indians |
| 1634 | Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein |
| 1623 | Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts |
| 1605 | Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen |
| 1570 | Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance |
| 1540 | Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola Mexico |
| 1502 | Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine |
| 1497 | Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France |
| 1358 | Dalmatie flees Venice |
| 1095 | Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus |
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