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2012 Leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, is sworn in as a member of Pyithu Hluttaw, Burma's lower house of the parliament
2012 2012 U.S. presidential candiate, Newt Gingrich suspends his campaign for the Republican nomination
2011 The news of Osama bin Laden's death is received positively by international leaders, including Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari
2011 Nabil al-Araby, Foreign Minister of Egypt, calls for the U.S. to support and independent Palestine
2010 The European Union and International Monetary Fund present Greece with 120 billion Euro bailout package to help rid them of their sovereign debt
1998 124th Kentucky Derby
1997 Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating
1997 Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
1997 Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
1995 "Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 121 performances
1995 Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
1995 Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
1994 Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1994 Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
1993 "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 445 performances
1993 "Candida" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances
1993 "Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 40 performances
1993 "Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 5 performances
1993 Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic
1993 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1992 "High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes New York City 14 performances
1992 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03
1992 Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
1991 Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
1990 "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 62 performances
1990 South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1988 Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park
1988 David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," premieres in New York City
1988 Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
1988 Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump
1987 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4
1986 Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II
1986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver
1985 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth New York City for 604 performances
1984 Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn)
1984 Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
1984 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1981 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02
1981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
1980 Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1980 Pope John Paul II begins African tour
1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 "Quadrophenia" premieres in London
1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell
1978 NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games
1977 "King and I" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 719 performances
1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1975 Apple records closes down
1974 Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred
1972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
1972 Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
1970 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
1970 KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, Arizona (NBC) 1st broadcast
1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York
1968 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony
1968 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2
1968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
1968 Israeli television begins transmitting
1967 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days)
1965 "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 52 performances
1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1965 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1964 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00
1964 Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 and stays #1 for for 5 weeks
1964 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1962 Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I
1962 OAS strikes in Algeria
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, New York (PBS) 1st broadcast
1960 Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent)
1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
1959 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
1958 Yankees threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City
1956 U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1956 U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation
1955 India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1955 WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Stan Musial hits 5 home runs in a doubleheader
1953 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02
1953 Feisal II installed as king of Iraq
1953 Hussein I installed as king of Jordan
1952 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"
1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1950 Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan
1950 Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
1950 Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South Africa but not China PR
1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1949 Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
1949 Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0
1947 Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," premieres in New York City
1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
1945 Allies occupy Wismar
1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
1945 German Army in Italy surrenders
1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in New York City (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
1942 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4
1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
1941 FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1
1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
1941 Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400
1939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yankees beat Tigers 22-2
1938 Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1936 "Peter and Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1936 62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie and family flee Abyssinia
1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth)
1930 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights
1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
1927 International Economic Conference (52 countries including U.S.S.R.) opens
1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1926 U.S. military intervenes in Nicaragua
1925 Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens
1924 Netherlands refuses to recognize U.S.S.R.
1923 Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yankees 3-0
1922 WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Ft. Worth Texas
1921 Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
1919 1st U.S. air passenger service starts
1917 Cincinnati Fred Tooney and Chicagos's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits and a run in 10th, so Cincinnati wins 1-0
1916 U.S. president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
1916 2nd Ave and Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe and Selwyn Avenue named
1915 Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
1911 French troops occupy Fes El Bali Morocco
1909 Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs
1907 Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government
1906 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8
1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
1904 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08
1903 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09
1902 1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon
1900 George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell," premieres in London
1890 Territory of Oklahoma created
1889 Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale
1887 G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
1887 Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1885 Congo Free State forms by King Leopold II of Belgium
1878 U.S. stops minting 20 cent coin
1876 Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
1863 Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
1853 Franconi's Hippodrome opens (New York City)
1845 Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilizacion y Barbarie"
1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1824 Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
1808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
1776 France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1750 Carlo Goldoni's "La Botega di Caffe," premieres in Mantua
1749 Empress Maria Theresa signs "Haugwitzschen State reform"
1703 Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
1670 King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company
1668 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands
1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution
1652 Frederik Hendriks daughter Albertine Agnes marries Willem Frederik
1598 France and Spain signs Peace of Vervins
1595 King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Netherlands
1536 King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest
1526 German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League
1497 John Cabot departs to North-America
1345 "Quaden Maendach" in Gent: Battles between volders and weavers











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