| 1999 | 125th Preakness |
| 1997 | ABC News and Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com |
| 1997 | STS-84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission |
| 1995 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1994 | 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies |
| 1993 | 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6 |
| 1993 | Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas opens |
| 1993 | Jane Seymour and James Kesch, Marriage |
| 1993 | Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub |
| 1992 | Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy |
| 1992 | New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores |
| 1992 | Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue |
| 1991 | Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama" |
| 1991 | Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier |
| 1991 | Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
| 1991 | Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns |
| 1991 | President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game |
| 1991 | Red Sox and White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11) |
| 1990 | "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1990 | "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45 |
| 1990 | Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period |
| 1990 | Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe |
| 1989 | "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 44 performances |
| 1989 | Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams and replace him with Cito Gaston |
| 1989 | Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs |
| 1989 | U.S. Basketball League cancels its summer schedule |
| 1989 | Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers |
| 1988 | "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1988 | "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| 1988 | 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams and Tracey Ullman |
| 1988 | Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan |
| 1988 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| 1987 | 1st Energiya Launch (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1987 | Record archery score for a pair over 24 hours, is set |
| 1986 | Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years |
| 1985 | Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
| 1983 | Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion |
| 1982 | 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4 |
| 1981 | "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs |
| 1981 | 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC) |
| 1981 | George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in the United Kingdom |
| 1981 | Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto |
| 1981 | SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC |
| 1981 | Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6 |
| 1980 | 1st trans-U.S. balloon crossing |
| 1980 | Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs |
| 1980 | Shawn Weatherly, (South Carolina (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA |
| 1977 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
| 1976 | 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55 |
| 1976 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 1976 | Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91 |
| 1976 | Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85 |
| 1975 | 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4 |
| 1975 | Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1974 | Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed |
| 1974 | Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president |
| 1973 | California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats Kansas City Royals, 3-0 |
| 1972 | Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama |
| 1972 | "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances |
| 1972 | Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt) |
| 1972 | George Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland |
| 1972 | Ryukyu Is and Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 years of U.S. control |
| 1971 | "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 35 performances |
| 1971 | 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54 |
| 1971 | Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed |
| 1970 | Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US |
| 1970 | Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals |
| 1970 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1970 | Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College |
| 1970 | South Africa excluded from Olympic play |
| 1969 | Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court |
| 1968 | "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival |
| 1968 | 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago |
| 1968 | A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36 |
| 1968 | Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host |
| 1967 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 1967 | Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman |
| 1966 | 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset |
| 1966 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die |
| 1965 | 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2 |
| 1965 | Canadian Football Players Association organizes |
| 1965 | Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| 1964 | Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp |
| 1964 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1963 | Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched |
| 1963 | Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer) |
| 1963 | Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
| 1962 | U.S. Marines arrive in Laos |
| 1961 | "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19 |
| 1961 | 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
| 1961 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra |
| 1960 | Chicago Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 |
| 1960 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad |
| 1960 | KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed |
| 1959 | 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams Teams reenact the original contest |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik III |
| 1957 | 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade |
| 1957 | 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) |
| 1955 | Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again |
| 1955 | Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins |
| 1955 | KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1955 | Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R. restores Austria's independence |
| 1954 | KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago |
| 1953 | Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam |
| 1953 | Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 1 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1952 | Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0 |
| 1952 | Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
| 1948 | 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends |
| 1948 | 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4 |
| 1948 | Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs. Essex, world record |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 187 Australia vs. Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five |
| 1948 | Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabian troops attack Israel |
| 1944 | 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz |
| 1944 | Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0 |
| 1944 | Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI discuss D-Day plan |
| 1944 | Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne |
| 1943 | Halifax bombers sinks U-463 |
| 1943 | Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction |
| 1942 | Gasoline 1st rationed in U.S. (17 Eastern States) |
| 1942 | Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers |
| 1941 | 1st British turbojet flies |
| 1941 | British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya |
| 1941 | Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yankees lose 13-1 |
| 1941 | Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music |
| 1940 | 1st nylon stockings sold in U.S. |
| 1940 | 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 |
| 1940 | German armour division moves into Northern France |
| 1940 | German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders |
| 1940 | Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP) |
| 1940 | Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris |
| 1938 | Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium |
| 1937 | 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4 |
| 1936 | Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from South Africa in record 4d16h |
| 1935 | Pirates beat Phillies 20-5 |
| 1934 | Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive |
| 1934 | Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia |
| 1933 | 1st voice amplification system to be used in U.S. Senate |
| 1931 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno |
| 1930 | Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Francisco to Cheyenne) |
| 1929 | Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| 1928 | Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance |
| 1926 | 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8 |
| 1926 | British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike |
| 1923 | Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms |
| 1920 | Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk |
| 1919 | Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0 |
| 1918 | 1st airmail postal service (New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.) |
| 1918 | 1st regular airmail service (between New York and Washington) inaugurated |
| 1918 | 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6 |
| 1918 | 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare, Jr. wins in 1:53.4 |
| 1918 | Greeks troops lands at Smyrna |
| 1918 | Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game |
| 1916 | Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front |
| 1914 | Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris |
| 1912 | 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6 |
| 1912 | Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game and is suspended |
| 1911 | British house of commons accept Parliament Bill |
| 1911 | Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates |
| 1911 | Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 1906 | New York Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning |
| 1905 | Las Vegas, Nevada founded |
| 1905 | Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville |
| 1902 | Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft |
| 1902 | Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola |
| 1896 | Tornado kills 78 in Texas |
| 1894 | 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41 |
| 1891 | British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms |
| 1891 | Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris |
| 1891 | Operations begin at Philips and Co in Holland |
| 1891 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum |
| 1885 | Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan |
| 1883 | Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany |
| 1882 | May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania |
| 1876 | 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38 |
| 1869 | National Woman Suffrage Association forms |
| 1868 | Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls |
| 1864 | Battle of New Market, Virginia |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign) |
| 1862 | Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft. Darling), Virginia |
| 1862 | Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London |
| 1862 | Department of Agriculture created |
| 1862 | General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores |
| 1862 | Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens |
| 1858 | Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London |
| 1856 | 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized |
| 1851 | Rama IV, Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua, king of Thailand 1851 - 1868, crowned |
| 1849 | Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded |
| 1836 | Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse |
| 1829 | Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith |
| 1817 | Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia |
| 1800 | King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt |
| 1800 | Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles |
| 1796 | France and Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris |
| 1796 | French troops occupy Milan |
| 1730 | Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min) |
| 1718 | James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun |
| 1702 | War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England and France |
| 1672 | 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts |
| 1665 | Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme |
| 1648 | Treaty of Munster: Spain and Netherlands ratified |
| 1625 | 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria |
| 1618 | Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law |
| 1610 | Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king |
| 1602 | Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold |
| 1572 | Louis van Nassau and huguenots occupy Valenciennes |
| 1567 | Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell |
| 1536 | Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest |
| 1525 | German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war |
| 1492 | Cheese and Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse |
| 1248 | Archbishop Konrad vs. Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral |
| 1213 | English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1004 | Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy |
| 884 | Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 756 | Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain |
