| 1998 | Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario |
| 1998 | Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid |
| 1997 | "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City |
| 1997 | "Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater New York City |
| 1997 | "Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement |
| 1996 | Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs. WI at the Gabba |
| 1995 | AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl |
| 1995 | Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed |
| 1994 | Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) |
| 1994 | Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71) |
| 1994 | Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71) |
| 1993 | Brian Lara completes 277 vs. Australia at cricket SCG |
| 1993 | Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident |
| 1993 | Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1992 | "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 496 perf |
| 1992 | "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 32 performances |
| 1992 | "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 99 performances |
| 1992 | "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1992 | Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt |
| 1991 | "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| 1991 | Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title |
| 1991 | Kevin Bradshaw of U.S. International scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts |
| 1990 | J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL |
| 1989 | 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test |
| 1989 | Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990 |
| 1987 | Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ |
| 1985 | Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot |
| 1985 | Discovery moves to launch pad for STS-51-C mission |
| 1984 | Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws |
| 1984 | Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings |
| 1982 | Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation |
| 1981 | "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes |
| 1981 | British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women |
| 1977 | Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament |
| 1976 | MacNeil-Lehrer Report premieres on PBS |
| 1976 | Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea" |
| 1976 | Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies |
| 1975 | "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1672 performances |
| 1975 | Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in New York City |
| 1975 | Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days |
| 1975 | 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks |
| 1974 | Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother" |
| 1973 | Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 1973 | Netherlands recognizes East Germany |
| 1972 | Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178) |
| 1972 | NASA announces development of space shuttle |
| 1972 | New York City transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents |
| 1972 | President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle |
| 1972 | West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed |
| 1971 | 1st one-day international, Australia vs. England at the MCG |
| 1971 | Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak |
| 1971 | U.S. heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found |
| 1970 | 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike |
| 1970 | KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC |
| 1969 | "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 82 performances |
| 1969 | Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro |
| 1969 | Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) |
| 1968 | Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law |
| 1968 | Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia |
| 1967 | KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, California (IND) begins |
| 1964 | Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel |
| 1964 | San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship |
| 1963 | "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 873 performances |
| 1963 | "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 719 performances |
| 1963 | San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game |
| 1962 | Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce "My Bonnie" and "The Saints" |
| 1961 | U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
| 1960 | Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating |
| 1959 | "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV |
| 1959 | Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" |
| 1957 | Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants |
| 1957 | Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 1955 | KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea |
| 1953 | Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris |
| 1952 | Flying Enterprise sinks |
| 1951 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open |
| 1950 | Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra |
| 1949 | President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" |
| 1946 | "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 417 performances |
| 1945 | Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" |
| 1945 | Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam |
| 1943 | Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II |
| 1943 | William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces |
| 1942 | 55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
| 1941 | British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia |
| 1940 | FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal |
| 1940 | Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia |
| 1937 | Fingleton and Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt |
| 1937 | Only unicameral state legislature in U.S. opens 1st session (Nebr) |
| 1934 | Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also) |
| 1934 | National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball |
| 1933 | Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side |
| 1931 | 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League |
| 1930 | Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" |
| 1929 | Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia |
| 1927 | Fox Studios exhibits Movietone |
| 1927 | Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox |
| 1926 | James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hour day and $5 daily minimum wage |
| 1925 | James Gleason and Richard Tabers "Is zat so?," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA |
| 1925 | Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office |
| 1925 | French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings |
| 1920 | Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees |
| 1920 | New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth |
| 1919 | National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party |
| 1919 | Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege |
| 1918 | British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace |
| 1916 | Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro |
| 1914 | Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day |
| 1912 | 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria) |
| 1911 | Portuguese expel Jesuits |
| 1911 | SF has it's 1st air meet |
| 1909 | Colombia recognizes Panama's independence |
| 1905 | Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara |
| 1905 | National Association of Audubon Society incorporates |
| 1904 | -34 degrees F (-36.7 degrees C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record) |
| 1904 | -42 degrees F (-41.1 degrees C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record) |
| 1904 | England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 and 8-68 |
| 1903 | San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use |
| 1899 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton |
| 1896 | German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays |
| 1896 | Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona |
| 1895 | Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London |
| 1895 | Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 years 64 days |
| 1895 | French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent |
| 1892 | 1st successful auroral photograph made |
| 1888 | Dutch Heidemaatschappij established |
| 1887 | 1st U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University |
| 1875 | Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris |
| 1875 | President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| 1861 | 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft. Sumter |
| 1861 | Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay |
| 1859 | 1st steamboat sails, Red River |
| 1854 | Steamship San Francisco wrecked - 300 die |
| 1850 | California Exchange opens |
| 1841 | James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf |
| 1840 | Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date |
| 1836 | Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo |
| 1834 | Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell |
| 1828 | 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) |
| 1822 | Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire |
| 1809 | Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France |
| 1804 | Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement |
| 1800 | 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore |
| 1781 | British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va |
| 1776 | Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution |
| 1757 | Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens |
| 1719 | Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact |
| 1717 | Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles |
| 1709 | Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans |
| 1675 | Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg |
| 1649 | Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice |
| 1638 | Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues |
| 1593 | William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe |
| 1554 | Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 1531 | Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry |
| 1500 | Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan |
| 1477 | Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed |
| 1463 | French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris |
| 1438 | Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara |
| 1349 | Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand |
