| 2003 | Earthquake kills at least 2,266 in northern Algeria |
| 1997 | Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time |
| 1996 | Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York |
| 1996 | Ken Griffey, Jr., 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs |
| 1996 | Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win |
| 1995 | Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1994 | "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 16 performances |
| 1994 | 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4 |
| 1994 | Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26) |
| 1994 | Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32) |
| 1994 | Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning |
| 1994 | South Yemen secedes from Yemen |
| 1994 | Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe |
| 1993 | Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe |
| 1993 | Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life |
| 1993 | Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss vs. Australia |
| 1993 | Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired |
| 1992 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1992 | New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6% |
| 1991 | Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68 |
| 1990 | Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV |
| 1989 | 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
| 1988 | "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35 |
| 1988 | "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99 |
| 1988 | 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2 |
| 1988 | Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore |
| 1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka |
| 1987 | Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama |
| 1986 | Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game |
| 1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1983 | "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63 |
| 1983 | 109th Preakness: Donald Miller, Jr. on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4 |
| 1983 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission |
| 1983 | David Bowie's 'Let's "Dance' single goes #1 |
| 1982 | British troops lands on Falkland Islands |
| 1981 | Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France |
| 1981 | Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA |
| 1981 | Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1 |
| 1980 | "Empire Strikes Back" premieres |
| 1980 | Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt |
| 1980 | Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad |
| 1979 | Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone |
| 1979 | Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | National Volksraad installed in Namibia |
| 1979 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1 |
| 1978 | 118 Unification church couples wed in England |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect |
| 1977 | "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances |
| 1977 | 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4 |
| 1977 | Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19 |
| 1977 | San Diego Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings |
| 1975 | Borussia Monchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede |
| 1975 | Lowell W. Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm |
| 1975 | Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart |
| 1972 | "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 1 performance |
| 1972 | "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 39 performances |
| 1972 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| 1971 | Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens |
| 1971 | National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| 1970 | National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death |
| 1969 | Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel |
| 1969 | After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over New York Mets |
| 1968 | Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game |
| 1968 | Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) |
| 1968 | WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores |
| 1967 | "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 14 performances |
| 1967 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1966 | "Downtown" by Mrs. Miller hits #82 |
| 1966 | "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| 1966 | 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4 |
| 1966 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London |
| 1966 | Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart and hits #97 |
| 1966 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1964 | 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay) |
| 1964 | Fire in Wegimond Belgium resort, kills 19 |
| 1964 | U.S. begin intelligence flights above Laos |
| 1962 | 3 more Cleveland home run set AL record for most home runs (26) over 8 games |
| 1961 | Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery |
| 1960 | 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6 |
| 1959 | "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 702 performances |
| 1959 | Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens |
| 1958 | Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) |
| 1957 | French government of Mollet resigns |
| 1956 | Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms |
| 1956 | U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll |
| 1956 | WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 165 performances |
| 1955 | 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset |
| 1955 | WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated |
| 1953 | French government of Mayer resigns |
| 1952 | Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning and beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1 |
| 1952 | Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal |
| 1950 | Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia |
| 1948 | New York Yankees Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, home run) |
| 1945 | Australia Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets |
| 1945 | German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured |
| 1945 | Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed |
| 1944 | Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. "terror pilots" |
| 1943 | Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 minutes), White Sox beat Senators |
| 1942 | Great Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia |
| 1941 | 1st U.S. ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore) |
| 1941 | German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta |
| 1941 | Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp |
| 1940 | AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees |
| 1940 | Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France |
| 1940 | Reynaud forms French government |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 143 Australia vs. Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours |
| 1934 | Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st U.S. city to fingerprint its citizens |
| 1933 | Mount Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph |
| 1932 | 1st Curtis Cup: U.S., 5 -3 |
| 1932 | 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands |
| 1931 | Belgian government of Jaspar falls |
| 1930 | Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader |
| 1930 | New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers |
| 1929 | Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City |
| 1929 | Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris |
| 1927 | Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic |
| 1926 | White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double |
| 1925 | Canadians allow to sell beer |
| 1925 | George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt |
| 1925 | Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole |
| 1924 | Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun |
| 1922 | "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize |
| 1922 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) |
| 1921 | Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co |
| 1918 | House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote |
| 1917 | Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I |
| 1916 | Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time) |
| 1914 | 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8 |
| 1914 | Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota |
| 1908 | 1st horror movie (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago |
| 1908 | Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| 1907 | 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4 |
| 1906 | Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars |
| 1904 | Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris |
| 1898 | U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized |
| 1897 | Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time |
| 1892 | Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan |
| 1891 | Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds |
| 1886 | 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45 |
| 1881 | American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton |
| 1881 | U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms |
| 1879 | Battle of Iquiquw |
| 1878 | 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37 |
| 1866 | 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days |
| 1864 | General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia |
| 1863 | Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins |
| 1861 | Richmond, Virginia is designated Confederate Capital |
| 1856 | Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces |
| 1846 | 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii |
| 1840 | New Zealand became a British colony |
| 1832 | 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore) |
| 1825 | Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia |
| 1819 | 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in New York City |
| 1809 | Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon |
| 1804 | Lewis and Clark Expedition begins |
| 1793 | Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange |
| 1683 | West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname |
| 1674 | General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland |
| 1602 | Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) |
| 1553 | English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley |
| 1502 | Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St. Helena |
| 1471 | King Edwards IV enters London |
| 1420 | Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English |
| 1216 | French crown prince Louis enters England |
| 1040 | King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency |
| 996 | Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor |
| 685 | Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians |
| 143 | Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed |
