| 2013 | The oldest water ever found is discovered in a Canadian mine; the water dates back 2.6 billion years |
| 2013 | Pope Francis calls for worldwide 'financial reform along ethical lines' which would curb the 'tyranny' of 'markets and financial speculation' |
| 2012 | The black box is recovered from the Russian passenger jet that carried 44 passengers and crashed in the Indonesian province of West Java, leaving no survivors |
| 2012 | The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing |
| 2011 | After 23 years running and 1151 fugitives caught, the FOX network cancels America's Most Wanted |
| 2011 | The European Union approves a $110.8 billion (78 billion euro) bailout package for Portugal |
| 2010 | A 5.8 magnitude earthquake is felt on Puerto Rico |
| 2005 | Sony's PlayStation 3 makes it's debut at the E3 trade show |
| 1999 | 125th Preakness |
| 1998 | 124th Preakness |
| 1997 | Atlanta Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings |
| 1997 | Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA |
| 1997 | Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of U.S. crowned 46th Miss Universe |
| 1997 | Expos trailing San Francisco Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13 |
| 1997 | St. Louis Cardinals Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits |
| 1996 | Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning |
| 1995 | Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier |
| 1994 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando, Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM |
| 1994 | Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment |
| 1994 | Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic |
| 1994 | Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana |
| 1993 | "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 40 performances |
| 1993 | "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq New York City after 30 performances |
| 1993 | Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull |
| 1993 | Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head |
| 1993 | Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 1993 | Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey |
| 1992 | "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35 |
| 1992 | 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6 |
| 1992 | Polls show Perot, Bush and Clinton could be in a deadlock |
| 1992 | U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour) |
| 1991 | Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character) |
| 1991 | Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address U.S. congress |
| 1990 | Dominican Republic President Joaquin Ricardo Balaguer re-elected |
| 1990 | Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino |
| 1989 | Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing |
| 1988 | Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin |
| 1988 | U.S. Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant |
| 1987 | "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial New York City after 608 performances |
| 1987 | 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8 |
| 1987 | Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles |
| 1987 | Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show |
| 1987 | "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site |
| 1986 | "Top Gun," premieres |
| 1986 | Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas |
| 1986 | Joaquin Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election |
| 1986 | South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela |
| 1985 | Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year |
| 1985 | Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium |
| 1984 | Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution |
| 1984 | Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel |
| 1984 | Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer |
| 1984 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game |
| 1983 | Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel |
| 1982 | "Barnum" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 854 performances |
| 1982 | "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances |
| 1982 | Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4 |
| 1982 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
| 1982 | Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep |
| 1982 | Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games |
| 1981 | "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks |
| 1981 | 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6 |
| 1981 | Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1 |
| 1981 | Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson |
| 1980 | 34th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2 |
| 1980 | Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis |
| 1980 | Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album |
| 1980 | Former Buggles members Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman in Yes |
| 1979 | FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel |
| 1979 | NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M |
| 1977 | 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City |
| 1977 | Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1976 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Philadelphia Flyers in 4 games |
| 1976 | Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
| 1975 | India annexes Principality of Sikkim |
| 1975 | Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit |
| 1975 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1975 | Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK |
| 1974 | Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar |
| 1973 | AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki |
| 1972 | "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 164 performances |
| 1972 | Greg Luzinski's 500' home run hits Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia Vet |
| 1972 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale |
| 1971 | 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents) |
| 1971 | Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych |
| 1971 | Bulgaria adopts it's constitution |
| 1970 | 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2 |
| 1970 | Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70 |
| 1969 | Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute |
| 1969 | Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam |
| 1969 | U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere |
| 1969 | Who's Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey charged with assault |
| 1968 | Earthquake kills 47 in Japan |
| 1967 | Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium |
| 1966 | Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released |
| 1966 | National Welfare Rights Organization organizes |
| 1966 | Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating |
| 1965 | "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 232 performances |
| 1965 | Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 and homers |
| 1965 | Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam |
| 1965 | Spaghetti-O's 1st sold |
| 1965 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
| 1965 | WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, New York (TEL) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8 |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1964 | Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| 1963 | "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1963 | Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury |
| 1961 | 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr and Barbara Stanwyck |
| 1960 | Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US |
| 1959 | 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57 |
| 1959 | WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, Michigan (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico |
| 1958 | Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter |
| 1957 | Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH |
| 1957 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae |
| 1957 | U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut |
| 1957 | Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade |
| 1956 | Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China |
| 1956 | Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
| 1956 | Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage" |
| 1956 | Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey vs. Australians at the Oval |
| 1955 | Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in San Francisco |
| 1955 | King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo |
| 1955 | Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown |
| 1955 | Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1954 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open |
| 1954 | Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone |
| 1954 | WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row |
| 1952 | "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 365 performances |
| 1948 | Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion |
| 1948 | CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece |
| 1948 | Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel |
| 1948 | Egyptians enter the Gaza |
| 1948 | George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found |
| 1948 | Israel issues its 1st postage stamps |
| 1946 | Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa |
| 1944 | 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr) |
| 1943 | German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw |
| 1943 | Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting |
| 1942 | 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma |
| 1941 | 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" |
| 1941 | Germans made their last major air attack on Britain |
| 1941 | Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia |
| 1941 | Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) |
| 1941 | Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT) |
| 1940 | Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers |
| 1940 | Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris |
| 1939 | 1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10) |
| 1939 | Food stamps are 1st issued |
| 1938 | 1st animal breeding society forms in New Jersey |
| 1938 | 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire in Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1938 | In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs. MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six |
| 1936 | 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France |
| 1936 | 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59 |
| 1933 | Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game |
| 1932 | Yankees 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland and Boston |
| 1931 | 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8 |
| 1930 | 6th Walker Cup: U.S., 10-2 |
| 1929 | 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins |
| 1927 | New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd and home |
| 1927 | Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax |
| 1925 | 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6 |
| 1924 | 108 degrees F (42 degrees C) in Blitzen Oregon |
| 1922 | White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage |
| 1921 | 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2 |
| 1920 | Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint |
| 1920 | Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull |
| 1916 | 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8 |
| 1914 | American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City |
| 1914 | Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens |
| 1911 | Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK |
| 1911 | Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf |
| 1910 | U.S. Bureau of Mines forms |
| 1903 | 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Francisco (George Wymann) |
| 1903 | George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US |
| 1902 | 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3 |
| 1901 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" |
| 1894 | Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium and 170 other buildings |
| 1891 | George A Hormel and Co introduce Spam |
| 1888 | CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
| 1884 | 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40 |
| 1882 | 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40 |
| 1881 | World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) |
| 1879 | Antonin Dvorak's "Slavic Dancing," premieres |
| 1879 | Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia and English |
| 1875 | Quake in Venezuela and Colombia kills 16,000 |
| 1874 | 1st recorded dam disaster in U.S. (Williamsburg Mass) |
| 1872 | Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time |
| 1869 | Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7 |
| 1868 | Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague |
| 1868 | By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson |
| 1866 | Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer |
| 1866 | Congress authorizes nickel 5 cents piece (replaces silver half-dime) |
| 1866 | U.S. Treasury Department authorizes nickel |
| 1864 | Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13) |
| 1864 | Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA |
| 1864 | Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties) |
| 1863 | Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign |
| 1862 | Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile |
| 1861 | Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium |
| 1861 | Kentucky proclaims its neutrality |
| 1817 | Mississippi River steamboat service begins |
| 1811 | Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera |
| 1804 | Senate and Tribune declare Napolean leader of France |
| 1803 | Peace of Amiens ends |
| 1796 | Lombardije Republic forms |
| 1795 | Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state |
| 1792 | Denmark abolishes slave trade |
| 1770 | Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France |
| 1763 | James Boswell's 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson |
| 1763 | Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London |
| 1747 | Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Netherlands |
| 1648 | Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir |
| 1606 | 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia |
| 1605 | Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V |
| 1584 | 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal |
| 1571 | Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM |
| 1568 | Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England |
| 1547 | Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg |
| 1532 | Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor |
| 1527 | Florence becomes a republic |
| 1165 | Ramjbam and his family reach Acre Palestine |
| 955 | Alberich II, son of Octavianus elected pope |
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