| 2012 | Richard Dawkins, an atheist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist, approves of British education secretary Michael Gove's plan of sending free King James Bibles to every state school |
| 2012 | Robert Spitzer, a retired American psychiatrist, claims his 2001 study was 'fatally flawed'; the study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be 'cured' |
| 2011 | Japan's economy officially enters a recession, partially due to financial strain caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami |
| 2011 | Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye is placed under house arrest, after vowing to continue protests against the rising cost of living |
| 2010 | Buildings across Bangkok are set on fire by red shirt protesters after the military stormed a protest camp in the center of the city |
| 2005 | Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars III) is released |
| 1996 | STS-77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit |
| 1995 | Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time |
| 1995 | World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai |
| 1994 | Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run |
| 1994 | Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack |
| 1994 | Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center |
| 1993 | Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132 |
| 1993 | Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03) |
| 1993 | Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino |
| 1992 | 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary |
| 1992 | Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI |
| 1992 | Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches |
| 1992 | Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title |
| 1992 | Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values |
| 1991 | "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert New York City after 225 performances |
| 1991 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge |
| 1991 | Willy T. Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500 |
| 1990 | 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6 |
| 1990 | General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC |
| 1989 | Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1 |
| 1989 | Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas |
| 1988 | Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1 |
| 1988 | Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US |
| 1987 | 1st American Comedy Award |
| 1986 | Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa |
| 1985 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| 1984 | "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62 |
| 1984 | 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6 |
| 1984 | STS-41-D vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1984 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1 |
| 1984 | Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game |
| 1983 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 1983 | Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C. |
| 1982 | IFK Goteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Goteborg |
| 1982 | Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion |
| 1981 | Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters |
| 1980 | "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 104 performances |
| 1980 | Ringo and Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash |
| 1979 | "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 |
| 1979 | 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2 |
| 1979 | Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd |
| 1977 | "Smokey and the Bandit," premieres |
| 1976 | Gold ownership legalized in Australia |
| 1976 | Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge |
| 1976 | Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh |
| 1975 | Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India |
| 1975 | Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest |
| 1974 | Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass |
| 1974 | Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
| 1974 | Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election |
| 1973 | "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14 |
| 1973 | "Smith" opens at Eden Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| 1973 | 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4 |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1972 | WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
| 1968 | 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain |
| 1968 | Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games |
| 1967 | U.S. bombs Hanoi |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. ratifies treaty with England and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space |
| 1965 | Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg) |
| 1965 | West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II |
| 1964 | U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
| 1962 | "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 76 performances |
| 1962 | "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99 |
| 1962 | 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2 |
| 1962 | Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea |
| 1962 | Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431 |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
| 1961 | New pier opens in Scheveningen |
| 1960 | Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola |
| 1960 | Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed |
| 1960 | USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m |
| 1959 | Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands |
| 1958 | Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London |
| 1958 | South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks |
| 1958 | U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) |
| 1957 | Adone Zoli forms Italian government |
| 1956 | 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4 |
| 1956 | Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning home run, 1st home run in 8 straight games |
| 1955 | Atkinson and Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI vs. Australia |
| 1954 | Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project |
| 1953 | Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St. George, Utah) |
| 1951 | 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4 |
| 1951 | U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea |
| 1950 | New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain |
| 1946 | Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam |
| 1945 | Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England and Australia Services |
| 1944 | 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands |
| 1944 | German defense line in Italy collapsed |
| 1943 | Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews) |
| 1943 | Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan |
| 1942 | Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson and Wagner) |
| 1941 | Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis |
| 1941 | New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland |
| 1940 | Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time) |
| 1940 | French counter attack at Peronne under General De Gaulle |
| 1939 | Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact |
| 1937 | John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in New York City |
| 1935 | NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936 |
| 1934 | Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria |
| 1934 | Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars |
| 1931 | Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel |
| 1930 | White woman win voting rights in South Africa |
| 1929 | Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death |
| 1929 | General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government |
| 1928 | "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners |
| 1928 | 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) |
| 1928 | Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die |
| 1926 | French air force bombs Damascus, Syria |
| 1923 | 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4 |
| 1923 | KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies |
| 1921 | Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system |
| 1918 | Washington 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings |
| 1916 | Escadrille Americaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun |
| 1913 | Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japanese from owning land |
| 1912 | AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball |
| 1911 | Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris |
| 1911 | Philadelphia Athletics are 12 games back in AL, and will win World Series |
| 1909 | Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title |
| 1906 | Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes |
| 1906 | Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel |
| 1906 | Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier |
| 1905 | Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ |
| 1902 | Great Britain and Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria |
| 1900 | Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago |
| 1900 | World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens |
| 1898 | Post Office authorizes use of postcards |
| 1896 | 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands |
| 1893 | Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway) |
| 1892 | Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer |
| 1892 | National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded |
| 1891 | Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered |
| 1886 | Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres |
| 1885 | 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts) |
| 1885 | German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland |
| 1885 | Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes |
| 1884 | Ringling Brothers circus premieres |
| 1878 | Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield |
| 1865 | President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia |
| 1864 | Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia (Bermuda Hundred) |
| 1864 | Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Cassville Georgia |
| 1863 | Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete |
| 1862 | Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West |
| 1857 | William Francis Channing and Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm |
| 1856 | Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery |
| 1853 | Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar |
| 1848 | 1st department store opens |
| 1848 | Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war |
| 1802 | French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms |
| 1796 | Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds |
| 1793 | Netherlands captures French island of St. Maarten (held until 1795) |
| 1792 | Russian army enters Poland |
| 1780 | About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is still unexplained |
| 1749 | George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley |
| 1662 | Uniformity Act of England goes into effect |
| 1652 | Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen |
| 1643 | Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army |
| 1643 | Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form United Colonies of New England |
| 1635 | France declares war on Spain |
| 1608 | Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England |
| 1585 | Spain confisquates English ships |
| 1571 | Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines |
| 1568 | English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary |
| 1547 | Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel |
| 1517 | Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht |
| 1515 | George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles |
| 1506 | Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir |
| 715 | St. Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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