| 1998 | Indianapolis 500 race |
| 1997 | STS-84 (Atlantis 19), lands |
| 1997 | Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful |
| 1996 | "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released |
| 1994 | Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash |
| 1993 | Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war |
| 1993 | Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement |
| 1993 | Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey |
| 1992 | Al Unser, Jr. wins Indy 500 |
| 1992 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament |
| 1992 | Despite trailing 7-1, New York Yankees tie Milwaukee Brewers and then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game |
| 1990 | Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game |
| 1990 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
| 1989 | "Indiana Jones and Last Crusade" premieres |
| 1989 | A. C. Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona |
| 1989 | French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice |
| 1989 | NHL's New York Rangers fire General Manager and coach Phil Esposito |
| 1989 | Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack |
| 1989 | New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season |
| 1988 | John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute |
| 1988 | Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe |
| 1988 | Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals |
| 1987 | 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes |
| 1987 | Al Unser, Sr., 47, wins his 4th Indy 500 |
| 1986 | Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy |
| 1986 | Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel |
| 1986 | Reginald Huffstetler trode water for 985 hours |
| 1986 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1 |
| 1985 | "View to a Kill" premieres in US |
| 1984 | "Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| 1984 | Detroit Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game |
| 1983 | Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria |
| 1983 | Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students |
| 1981 | Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain |
| 1981 | Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1980 | "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56 |
| 1980 | Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages |
| 1980 | Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 2 |
| 1979 | Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns |
| 1976 | 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.) |
| 1976 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1975 | Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16 |
| 1974 | Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1972 | Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1971 | A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard |
| 1970 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| 1970 | Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult |
| 1969 | Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks |
| 1968 | Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days |
| 1968 | Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession |
| 1968 | President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse |
| 1967 | AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1966 | "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 1508 performances |
| 1965 | Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional |
| 1964 | 18th Tony Awards: Luther and Hello Dolly win |
| 1964 | Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan |
| 1964 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
| 1964 | Longest home run (471') in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minnesota) |
| 1964 | Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 |
| 1963 | 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely |
| 1962 | M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1961 | 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi |
| 1961 | Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit |
| 1960 | 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed |
| 1959 | 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania |
| 1959 | Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England |
| 1958 | "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 432 performances |
| 1958 | President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion |
| 1958 | UP and International News Service merge into United Press International |
| 1957 | Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1957 | Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia |
| 1954 | 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM |
| 1954 | Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit |
| 1954 | German airline Lufthansa forms |
| 1954 | IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour |
| 1953 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus |
| 1951 | Racial segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants ruled illegal |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| 1951 | Willie Mays begins playing for New York Giants |
| 1948 | Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge |
| 1946 | Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager |
| 1944 | Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists |
| 1944 | Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark |
| 1943 | Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean |
| 1943 | U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje |
| 1941 | Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive |
| 1940 | 1st night game at New York's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1) |
| 1940 | 1st night game at St. Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2) |
| 1940 | Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio |
| 1940 | Dutch army demobilizes |
| 1940 | German tanks reach Atrecht France |
| 1940 | Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel" |
| 1940 | New York Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds |
| 1936 | Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party |
| 1936 | Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yankees beat A's 25-2 |
| 1935 | 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1) |
| 1935 | Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX) |
| 1934 | Colombia and Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia |
| 1933 | Dmitri Shostakovich's Preludes, premieres in Moscow |
| 1931 | 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad |
| 1930 | 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson) |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 252* Australia vs. Surrey, 290 minutes, 29 fours |
| 1930 | Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week |
| 1929 | Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings |
| 1928 | Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7 |
| 1928 | Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again |
| 1926 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) |
| 1922 | Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6 degrees C) |
| 1922 | Russian-Italian trade agreement signed |
| 1921 | 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected |
| 1921 | British Legion forms |
| 1918 | Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning |
| 1916 | Conscription begins in Britain |
| 1916 | French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured |
| 1916 | Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname |
| 1916 | U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker |
| 1915 | Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary |
| 1915 | Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations |
| 1909 | Bristol University granted Royal Charter |
| 1908 | Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election |
| 1908 | John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London |
| 1905 | 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08 |
| 1902 | Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain |
| 1902 | Cleveland's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a home run run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918 |
| 1900 | 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21 |
| 1900 | Britain annexes Orange Free State |
| 1899 | 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) |
| 1895 | Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight |
| 1890 | Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany |
| 1890 | Geo Train and Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma |
| 1890 | Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London |
| 1887 | Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors |
| 1884 | Anti-Monopoly party and Greenback Party forms People's Party in US |
| 1883 | Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and Governor Cleveland |
| 1881 | Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die |
| 1879 | 7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40 |
| 1878 | CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston |
| 1877 | 5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45 |
| 1873 | Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris |
| 1870 | Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US |
| 1866 | Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) |
| 1862 | Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time |
| 1862 | Westminster Bridge across Thames opens |
| 1861 | Alexandria, Virginia occupied by Federal troops |
| 1861 | Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war" |
| 1856 | Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas |
| 1854 | Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston |
| 1854 | Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts |
| 1846 | General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War |
| 1844 | Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg) |
| 1830 | "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is written |
| 1830 | 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland) |
| 1829 | Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate |
| 1824 | Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee |
| 1822 | Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secures independence of Quito from Spain |
| 1818 | General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida |
| 1815 | George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia |
| 1809 | Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war |
| 1738 | Methodist Church forms |
| 1726 | People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax |
| 1697 | English king Willem III travels through northern Europe |
| 1689 | English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants |
| 1667 | French troops attack into Southern Netherlands |
| 1660 | English king Charles II visits Netherlands |
| 1658 | Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought |
| 1653 | German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria |
| 1626 | Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24 |
| 1487 | Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin |
| 1370 | Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV |
| 1300 | King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured |
| 1153 | Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland |
| 1086 | Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III |
