| 2012 | During the first three months of 2012, revised figures show that the U.K. economy shrunk by 0.3% |
| 2012 | According to the U.S. Hurricane Center, Hurricane Bud has formed off of the Pacific Ocean's coast of Mexico, and has reached category two strength |
| 2011 | The Tokyo Electric Power Company claims three Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors partially melted down during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami |
| 2011 | On his visit to the United Kingdom, U.S. President Barack Obama meets Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh |
| 2010 | After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters |
| 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 |
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