| 2012 | Strong manufacturing figures and company earnings cause the Dow Jones Industrial Average to reach a four-year high |
| 2012 | Japan's car sales soar significantly after last year's earthquake and tsunami, coming in at a 92% rise year-over-year |
| 2011 | U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives |
| 2011 | The U.S. Department of State issues a global travel alert to all U.S. citizens, warning of enhanced potential for anti-American violence |
| 2010 | A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square |
| 2003 | President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over |
| 1999 | 125th Kentucky Derby |
| 1997 | Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K. |
| 1996 | "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 308 performances |
| 1996 | Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game |
| 1995 | "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1995 | Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs. WI at Sabina Park |
| 1994 | "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 165 performances |
| 1994 | "Rise and Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon New York City for 9 performances |
| 1994 | Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed |
| 1994 | Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman |
| 1994 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament |
| 1994 | Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship |
| 1993 | 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4 |
| 1993 | Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) |
| 1992 | Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior |
| 1992 | Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King |
| 1992 | New York Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils) |
| 1992 | Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base |
| 1991 | "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 983 performances |
| 1991 | A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yankees |
| 1991 | Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy |
| 1991 | Angola's civil war ends |
| 1991 | Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge |
| 1991 | Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings |
| 1991 | Nolan Ryan pitches his 7th no-hitter, beating Toronto |
| 1991 | Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal |
| 1991 | Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0) |
| 1990 | "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City |
| 1989 | Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public |
| 1989 | Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days |
| 1989 | U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting |
| 1988 | "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 297 performances |
| 1988 | IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3 |
| 1988 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1987 | 46 home runs hit in 13 baseball games |
| 1987 | Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun |
| 1986 | Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph |
| 1986 | Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap |
| 1986 | Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole |
| 1985 | "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels |
| 1985 | U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua |
| 1985 | William Hoffman's "As Is," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy |
| 1983 | "My One and Only" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 767 performances |
| 1983 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament |
| 1983 | Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508) |
| 1982 | 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4 |
| 1982 | 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens |
| 1982 | Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
| 1981 | Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett |
| 1981 | Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, convicted on FBI Abscam charges |
| 1981 | Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 |
| 1981 | Harrison A. Williams, Senator-D-New Jersey, convicted on FBI Abscam charges |
| 1980 | "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden New York City for 588 perf |
| 1980 | 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins |
| 1980 | Sabres and Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff |
| 1980 | Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff) |
| 1979 | Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel |
| 1979 | Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) |
| 1979 | Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing |
| 1978 | 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated |
| 1978 | MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht |
| 1978 | Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone |
| 1977 | Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) |
| 1977 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Empress Lilly dedicated |
| 1976 | 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6 |
| 1976 | Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2) |
| 1975 | Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead |
| 1973 | San Francisco Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7 |
| 1972 | "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| 1972 | North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee |
| 1972 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) |
| 1972 | Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres |
| 1971 | 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2 |
| 1971 | Amtrak Railroad begins operation |
| 1971 | Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" |
| 1969 | 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| 1969 | Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 4-0 |
| 1969 | Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000 |
| 1968 | "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 215 performances |
| 1968 | Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup |
| 1967 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua |
| 1967 | Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed |
| 1967 | Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank |
| 1967 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) |
| 1966 | Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) |
| 1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting |
| 1966 | U.S. troops shooting targets in Cambodia |
| 1965 | 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2 |
| 1965 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon |
| 1964 | 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) |
| 1963 | 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest |
| 1963 | Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands |
| 1962 | 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria |
| 1962 | Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act |
| 1961 | 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba |
| 1961 | Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba |
| 1961 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 1961 | Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain |
| 1960 | India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states |
| 1960 | Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis |
| 1960 | Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane |
| 1959 | Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1959 | West Germany introduces 5 day work week |
| 1959 | White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own home run |
| 1958 | Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai |
| 1958 | Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina |
| 1957 | Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord |
| 1957 | Larry King's 1st radio broadcast |
| 1957 | U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million |
| 1957 | Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km |
| 1955 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament |
| 1955 | Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters) |
| 1954 | 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03 |
| 1954 | Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden) |
| 1954 | HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies) |
| 1954 | WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada |
| 1952 | Mr. Potato Head, introduced |
| 1952 | TWA introduces tourist class |
| 1951 | 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany |
| 1951 | Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir |
| 1951 | Mickey Mantle's 1st home run |
| 1951 | Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox |
| 1950 | Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry |
| 1950 | Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade |
| 1950 | New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China |
| 1950 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific) |
| 1950 | WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | A's Elmer Valo is 1st AL'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game |
| 1949 | Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune) |
| 1948 | 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4 |
| 1948 | North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea |
| 1948 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam |
| 1947 | Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad |
| 1947 | Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA |
| 1947 | Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated |
| 1947 | Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA |
| 1946 | Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander |
| 1946 | Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year" |
| 1945 | 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide |
| 1945 | Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government |
| 1945 | Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan |
| 1945 | General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms |
| 1945 | Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II |
| 1945 | Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg |
| 1945 | Soviet army reach Rostock |
| 1944 | Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight |
| 1944 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) |
| 1944 | Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails |
| 1943 | 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam |
| 1943 | 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04 |
| 1943 | Food rationing begins in U.S. |
| 1943 | German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes |
| 1943 | German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta |
| 1943 | Rauter signs unofficial death sentence |
| 1942 | Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" |
| 1941 | "Citizen Kane," directed and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York |
| 1941 | General Mills introduces Cheerios |
| 1941 | German assault on Tobruk |
| 1940 | The 1940 Olympics are cancelled |
| 1939 | Batman comics hit street |
| 1939 | Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) |
| 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality |
| 1936 | Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades |
| 1936 | FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis |
| 1935 | Boulder Dam completed |
| 1935 | Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated |
| 1934 | Austria signs pact with Vatican |
| 1934 | Philippine legislature accepts U.S. proposal for independence |
| 1934 | Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert |
| 1932 | 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo |
| 1931 | Empire State Building opens in New York City |
| 1931 | Norway claims Peter I Island |
| 1931 | Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 236 Australia vs. Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng |
| 1929 | Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds |
| 1929 | Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen |
| 1929 | Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin |
| 1928 | 6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania |
| 1928 | Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter |
| 1928 | Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) |
| 1928 | Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service |
| 1928 | Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms |
| 1927 | 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) |
| 1927 | Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam |
| 1927 | Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen |
| 1926 | British coal-miners go on strike |
| 1926 | Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings |
| 1925 | A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single |
| 1925 | Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony |
| 1924 | Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece |
| 1922 | Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game |
| 1921 | Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda |
| 1920 | Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee home run and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds |
| 1920 | Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens |
| 1920 | Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings |
| 1919 | Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages |
| 1915 | British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool |
| 1915 | German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight |
| 1914 | China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification |
| 1913 | Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St. New York City |
| 1912 | Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms |
| 1912 | Beverly Hills Hotel opens |
| 1909 | Netherlands begins unity with Belgium |
| 1908 | World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama |
| 1907 | Belgium government of De Trooz forms |
| 1907 | Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies) |
| 1906 | Phillie's John Lush no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0 |
| 1901 | Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox |
| 1901 | Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League |
| 1901 | Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo |
| 1900 | Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah |
| 1900 | Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond |
| 1893 | World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago |
| 1892 | U.S. Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay |
| 1891 | Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 |
| 1889 | 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International |
| 1889 | Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) |
| 1886 | U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins |
| 1885 | Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands |
| 1884 | Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) |
| 1884 | Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league |
| 1883 | "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show |
| 1883 | Amsterdam World's Fair opens |
| 1883 | Baseball returns to Philadelphia, 1st NL game since 1876 |
| 1883 | New York Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer |
| 1875 | 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-U.S. activities |
| 1873 | 1st U.S. postal card issued |
| 1873 | Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna |
| 1873 | International Exhibition opens in Vienna |
| 1869 | Folies Bergere opens in Paris |
| 1867 | Howard University chartered |
| 1867 | Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration |
| 1866 | American Equal Rights Association forms |
| 1864 | Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign) |
| 1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (29,000 injured or died) |
| 1863 | Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi |
| 1863 | Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars and Bars" |
| 1863 | Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers |
| 1862 | Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans |
| 1861 | Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry |
| 1857 | William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy |
| 1854 | Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes |
| 1853 | Argentina adopts it's constitution |
| 1851 | Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London |
| 1850 | John Geary becomes 1st San Francisco mayor |
| 1846 | Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world |
| 1844 | Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message |
| 1844 | Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate |
| 1841 | 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California |
| 1840 | 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued |
| 1834 | Belgian parliament accept railway laws |
| 1822 | John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston |
| 1786 | Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) |
| 1781 | Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population |
| 1777 | RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London |
| 1776 | Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati |
| 1759 | British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France |
| 1757 | Austria and France divide Prussia |
| 1756 | France and Austria sign alliance |
| 1751 | 1st American cricket match is played |
| 1725 | Spain and Austria sign trade treaty |
| 1715 | Prussia declares war on Sweden |
| 1711 | Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar |
| 1707 | England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain |
| 1704 | Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad |
| 1703 | Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians |
| 1682 | Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory |
| 1625 | Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia) |
| 1625 | Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland |
| 1598 | Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java |
| 1551 | Council of Trente resumes |
| 1544 | Turkish troops occupy Hungary |
| 1528 | Panfilo the Narvaez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida |
| 1523 | Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere |
| 1394 | Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple and it's surroundings from an old badger |
| 1048 | Bishop Bernold flees St. Pieterskerk for Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 1006 | Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus |
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