| 2012 | Ireland is struck by another earthquake off of the County Mayo coast |
| 2012 | A solar plane, called The Solar Impulse, lands in Morocco after completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun |
| 2012 | In east London, archeologists find remains of the Curtain Theatre, which opened in 1577 and was where some of Shakespeare's plays were performed |
| 2011 | According to Bloomberg, Italian company Prada SpA is planning an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange |
| 2011 | Testing is conducted to confirm whether the E. coli outbreak came from vegetable sprouts in the Uelzen, Germany |
| 2010 | Fighting over the past three days in Darfur, Sudan's western region, has killed 41 people |
| 2006 | Union of Islamic Courts takes over Mogadishu, Somalia |
| 2005 | Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006 |
| 2004 | Tony Awards, Avenue Q, I Am My Own Wife, Henry IV revival and Assassins revival won major awards |
| 1998 | 68th French Womens Tennis: |
| 1998 | Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards |
| 1995 | 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards |
| 1994 | 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Ray Stevens |
| 1994 | 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed |
| 1994 | Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham |
| 1994 | CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade |
| 1994 | Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day |
| 1994 | Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed |
| 1994 | Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham |
| 1993 | 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman win |
| 1993 | 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63) |
| 1993 | 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 1993 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia |
| 1993 | Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala |
| 1992 | 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26 |
| 1992 | 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8) |
| 1992 | Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car |
| 1992 | New York Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter |
| 1992 | WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17, Montreal |
| 1991 | Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball |
| 1991 | Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store |
| 1991 | NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992 |
| 1991 | Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, vs. West Indies at Headingley |
| 1990 | 2nd International Rock Awards |
| 1990 | For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game |
| 1990 | Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as New York Yankee manager |
| 1989 | Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4 |
| 1988 | 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers |
| 1988 | 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant |
| 1987 | 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2 |
| 1987 | 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86) |
| 1987 | New York Yankees play their 13,000th game |
| 1986 | Jurgen Schull sets world discus record, 74.07 m |
| 1986 | Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself |
| 1985 | 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75) |
| 1985 | 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu |
| 1985 | Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed |
| 1985 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba |
| 1985 | Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
| 1984 | 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India |
| 1983 | 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff |
| 1983 | Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland |
| 1983 | Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time |
| 1983 | Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR |
| 1983 | Nicaragua expels 3 U.S. diplomats |
| 1983 | Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1 |
| 1982 | 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO |
| 1982 | 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win |
| 1982 | 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64) |
| 1982 | Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY |
| 1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic |
| 1981 | 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29 |
| 1981 | 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64) |
| 1981 | Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial |
| 1980 | Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title |
| 1979 | 200th running of horse's Derby in England |
| 1979 | Royal Air force receives 1st F-16 |
| 1979 | Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 home runs in the majors |
| 1978 | Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent |
| 1977 | Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb |
| 1977 | Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic and Concert for United Way |
| 1977 | Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss) |
| 1977 | Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws |
| 1976 | 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 |
| 1976 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
| 1975 | British voters decide to remain in Common Market |
| 1975 | Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning |
| 1975 | Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established |
| 1974 | 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte |
| 1972 | David Bowie releases 'Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust' |
| 1972 | Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia) |
| 1972 | Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London |
| 1972 | U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed |
| 1971 | "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV |
| 1971 | Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die |
| 1971 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in New York City |
| 1971 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1971 | Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station |
| 1971 | WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | Willie Mays hits record 22nd and last extra inning home run |
| 1970 | 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34 |
| 1969 | Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar |
| 1968 | WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Israeli troops occupy Gaza |
| 1966 | Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi |
| 1966 | Claus Von Bulow and Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed |
| 1966 | Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" |
| 1966 | NFL and AFL announce their merger |
| 1966 | Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive home runs beating White Sox 12-0 |
| 1964 | 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6 |
| 1964 | Beatles arrive in netherlands |
| 1962 | Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums |
| 1960 | Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" |
| 1960 | South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
| 1960 | Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1958 | Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger |
| 1958 | Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French |
| 1955 | Bill Haley and Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1 |
| 1954 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 1950 | East Germany and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border |
| 1949 | "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on CBS-TV |
| 1949 | WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1947 | Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute |
| 1946 | 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season |
| 1946 | Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV |
| 1946 | Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip |
| 1945 | "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1944 | Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion |
| 1944 | D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France |
| 1944 | Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad |
| 1944 | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor |
| 1944 | U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje |
| 1942 | 1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray |
| 1942 | 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2 |
| 1942 | Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway |
| 1942 | Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians |
| 1941 | 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched |
| 1941 | Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time |
| 1939 | New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 home runs in 4th inning |
| 1939 | New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead |
| 1937 | Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game |
| 1936 | 40th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey |
| 1936 | 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30 |
| 1936 | Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey |
| 1934 | Securities and Exchange Commission established |
| 1934 | Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game |
| 1933 | 1st drive-in theater opens, Camden, New Jersey |
| 1933 | U.S. Employment Service created |
| 1932 | Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile |
| 1932 | Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg |
| 1932 | U.S. Federal gas tax enacted |
| 1931 | "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1 |
| 1931 | Yankees turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians |
| 1926 | Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms |
| 1925 | Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old |
| 1924 | 28th U.S. Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Michigan |
| 1920 | General Wrangel opens offensive against red Army |
| 1919 | Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910 |
| 1919 | Finland declares war on bolsheviks |
| 1918 | Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st U.S. victory of WW I |
| 1916 | Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage |
| 1914 | 1st air flight out of sight of land, Scotland to Norway |
| 1913 | Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times |
| 1911 | Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S., not ratified |
| 1905 | French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request |
| 1904 | National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| 1896 | 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51 |
| 1896 | George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic |
| 1890 | United States Polo Association forms, New York City |
| 1889 | Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks |
| 1885 | 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43 |
| 1885 | Opera "Lakme" is produced, Paris |
| 1882 | Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000 |
| 1882 | Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City |
| 1875 | Netherlands goes on the gold standard |
| 1872 | Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote |
| 1864 | Battle of Lake Chicot, AR, Dutch Bayou |
| 1863 | Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA and Williamsport, MD |
| 1862 | Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered |
| 1862 | Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, Port Royal Ferry |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania |
| 1861 | Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers |
| 1850 | Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans |
| 1844 | Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA, forms in London |
| 1831 | 2nd national black convention, Philadelphia |
| 1816 | 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer", from the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia |
| 1813 | U.S. invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek |
| 1809 | Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established |
| 1801 | Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal |
| 1797 | Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic |
| 1795 | Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured |
| 1772 | Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago |
| 1752 | 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed |
| 1744 | France and Prussia sign peace treaty |
| 1716 | 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana |
| 1673 | France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty |
| 1665 | Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain |
| 1664 | New Amsterdam renamed New York City |
| 1660 | Denmark and Sweden signs peace treaty |
| 1654 | Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism |
| 1639 | Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill |
| 1536 | Mexico begins it's inquisition |
| 1523 | Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day) |
| 1520 | France and England sign treaty of Scotland |
| 1513 | Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois |
| 1391 | Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews |
| 1242 | 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris |
| 1002 | German king Henry II the Saint crowned |
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