| 2012 | Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that Israel's identity is threatened by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa |
| 2012 | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran's government to co-operate with the IAEA |
| 2011 | Burial services for Claude Choules, aged 110, the last living veteran of World War I, take place in West Australia's port of Fremantle |
| 2011 | In a meeting with President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not fully withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested |
| 2010 | Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world's first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell |
| 1997 | Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed |
| 1997 | Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful |
| 1997 | White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time |
| 1995 | 121st Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4 |
| 1995 | CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung |
| 1995 | Twins Marty Cordova ties rookie record of home runs in 5 consecutive games |
| 1994 | Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show |
| 1994 | Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe |
| 1994 | Sony Theaters and Cineplex (New York City) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00 |
| 1993 | 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA) |
| 1993 | 274th and final "Cheers" on NBC |
| 1993 | Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns |
| 1992 | FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London |
| 1992 | India launches its 1st satellite independently |
| 1992 | Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds |
| 1991 | Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP |
| 1991 | Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save |
| 1991 | Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad |
| 1990 | "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 33 performances |
| 1990 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Golf International |
| 1990 | Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space |
| 1989 | 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8 |
| 1989 | China declares martial law in Beijing |
| 1989 | Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live |
| 1989 | Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top |
| 1988 | Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's and John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade |
| 1988 | Mike Schmidt hits his 535th home run, moving into 8th place |
| 1987 | Gotenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee |
| 1987 | Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF and Harley Race for trademark name "king" |
| 1986 | Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA |
| 1986 | Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv |
| 1985 | 1150 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis |
| 1985 | Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time |
| 1985 | FBI arrests John A Walker, Jr., convicted of spying for U.S.S.R. |
| 1985 | Indians-Brewers game at Cleveland Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out |
| 1985 | Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1985 | U.S. began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti |
| 1984 | "On Your Toes" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 505 performances |
| 1984 | Barb Bunkowsky wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory |
| 1983 | Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1983 | Michael Dokes and Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title |
| 1983 | Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs |
| 1981 | Ipswich Town wins 10th UEFA Cup at Amsterdam |
| 1980 | 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls New York) are evacuated |
| 1980 | Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss |
| 1980 | Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157 |
| 1980 | In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism |
| 1979 | "I Love My Wife" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 864 performances |
| 1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| 1978 | 104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4 |
| 1978 | 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris |
| 1978 | U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | Soyuz 14 returns to Earth |
| 1973 | "2 Gentlemen of Verona" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 613 performances |
| 1973 | 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore |
| 1973 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| 1972 | "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| 1972 | "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| 1972 | 5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat New York Nets, 4 games to 2 |
| 1972 | 98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6 |
| 1972 | Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified |
| 1971 | Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia |
| 1970 | 100,000 march in New York supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam |
| 1970 | 2 die in a New York City subway accident |
| 1970 | Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK |
| 1969 | U.S. troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam |
| 1967 | 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
| 1967 | 93rd Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2 |
| 1967 | BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references) |
| 1965 | Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121 |
| 1965 | Yorkshire all out for 23 vs. Hampshire at Middlesbrough |
| 1964 | Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for U.S. Olympic team |
| 1963 | Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia |
| 1962 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
| 1961 | 87th Preakness: Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6 |
| 1961 | Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen |
| 1961 | Mauritania adopts constitution |
| 1961 | White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama |
| 1960 | Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog |
| 1959 | Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon" |
| 1959 | Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship |
| 1959 | Shah of Persia visits Netherlands |
| 1959 | Yankees sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940 |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| 1956 | Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll |
| 1956 | Jordan government of Samir resigns |
| 1955 | Argentine parliament accepts separation of church and state |
| 1954 | Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China |
| 1950 | 76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2 |
| 1948 | 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army |
| 1948 | Cleveland Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4) |
| 1946 | Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances |
| 1945 | Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
| 1944 | U.S. Communist Party dissolves |
| 1943 | French, British and U.S. victory parade in Tunis Tunisia |
| 1942 | U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve |
| 1941 | Archer's "Christian Calendar and Gregorian Reform" published |
| 1941 | Former Dutch Prime Minister Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence |
| 1941 | Germany invades Crete |
| 1941 | White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games |
| 1940 | General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) |
| 1940 | Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention |
| 1940 | Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen |
| 1940 | Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7 |
| 1939 | "3 Little Fishies," by Kay Kyser hits #1 |
| 1939 | Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service |
| 1939 | 1st regular transatlantic airmail (New York to Marsseille France) |
| 1932 | Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic |
| 1932 | Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria |
| 1930 | 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot |
| 1930 | University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention and cure of athlete's foot |
| 1927 | At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris |
| 1927 | Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda) |
| 1926 | Belgian government of Jaspar takes power |
| 1926 | Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots and planes |
| 1926 | Railway Labor Act became law |
| 1926 | Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies |
| 1923 | Stanley Baldwin, becomes Prime Minister of UK |
| 1922 | "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90 |
| 1922 | Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless |
| 1920 | Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers and arrest 24 fans for gambling |
| 1919 | Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550 |
| 1918 | 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico) |
| 1917 | Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv and Jaffa |
| 1916 | Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 and 1918) |
| 1916 | Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting |
| 1915 | Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo |
| 1913 | 38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4 |
| 1911 | Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 minutes Notts vs. Sussex |
| 1910 | Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII |
| 1902 | Cuba gains independence from Spain |
| 1902 | U.S. military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends |
| 1900 | 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months) |
| 1895 | 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, New York City) |
| 1892 | George Sampson patents clothes dryer |
| 1892 | Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms |
| 1882 | Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance |
| 1882 | Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago |
| 1882 | St. Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens |
| 1879 | 5th Kentucky Derby: Charlie Shauer aboard Lord Murphy wins in 2:37 |
| 1875 | International Bureau of Weights and Measures forms by treaty |
| 1874 | Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz |
| 1870 | Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment |
| 1868 | Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant |
| 1867 | British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage |
| 1867 | Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria |
| 1864 | Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured |
| 1864 | Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person |
| 1861 | Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle |
| 1861 | Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War |
| 1861 | U.S. marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist evidence |
| 1845 | 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii |
| 1830 | 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American) |
| 1830 | D. Hyde patents fountain pen |
| 1825 | Charles X becomes King of France |
| 1784 | England and Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris) |
| 1775 | Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain |
| 1774 | Britain gives Quebec, Labrador and territory north of Ohio |
| 1734 | 1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina |
| 1704 | Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York |
| 1690 | England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II |
| 1639 | Dorchester Massachusetts, forms 1st school funded by local taxes |
| 1631 | German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg |
| 1591 | Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius |
| 1571 | Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League |
| 1570 | Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" |
| 1524 | Duke of Albany leaves Scotland |
| 1521 | Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball |
| 1501 | Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands |
| 1498 | Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India |
| 1495 | French King Charles VIII leaves Naples |
| 1347 | Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal |
| 1310 | Shoes were made for both right and left feet |
| 1303 | Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War |
| 1293 | Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed |
| 526 | Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria |
| 325 | 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor |
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