| 1998 | wins Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1997 | 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3 |
| 1997 | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen |
| 1997 | Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue |
| 1996 | Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks vs. Glam |
| 1995 | "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1995 | Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy |
| 1995 | David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus and Buddy) |
| 1994 | 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins |
| 1994 | D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election |
| 1994 | U.S. space probe Clementine launched |
| 1993 | "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 906 performances |
| 1992 | Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves |
| 1992 | Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs |
| 1992 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| 1992 | New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 home runs |
| 1992 | Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17 |
| 1992 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge |
| 1991 | Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass |
| 1991 | 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke |
| 1988 | 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida |
| 1988 | Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000 |
| 1987 | "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| 1987 | Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart |
| 1986 | 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8 |
| 1986 | Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 |
| 1986 | Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st home run |
| 1986 | NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit |
| 1986 | New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game |
| 1983 | Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead |
| 1983 | Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe |
| 1983 | U.S. bishops condemn nuclear weapons |
| 1982 | ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) |
| 1982 | New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget |
| 1982 | President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts |
| 1981 | "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1981 | "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens and closes at Morosco Theater New York City |
| 1981 | Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International |
| 1980 | 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02 |
| 1980 | Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final home run |
| 1980 | Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL and NL |
| 1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain |
| 1979 | Bobby Bonds hits his 300th home run (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases) |
| 1979 | Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London |
| 1978 | "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US |
| 1978 | Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II |
| 1978 | Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston |
| 1978 | WI all set to lose cricket test vs. Australia at Kingston till riots end game |
| 1976 | Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) |
| 1976 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) |
| 1975 | 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02 |
| 1975 | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) |
| 1973 | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished |
| 1973 | Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit |
| 1971 | All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations |
| 1971 | Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
| 1971 | Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days |
| 1971 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) |
| 1970 | 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1970 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational |
| 1969 | "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 7 performances |
| 1969 | 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8 |
| 1967 | Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University |
| 1966 | WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite |
| 1965 | 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 2-1 in 10 |
| 1965 | Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S. |
| 1965 | KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1965 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational |
| 1963 | Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat |
| 1962 | Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) |
| 1961 | Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter |
| 1960 | Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in New York City |
| 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament |
| 1959 | Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive home runs in a doubleheader |
| 1958 | 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05 |
| 1958 | WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits |
| 1956 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 678 performances |
| 1956 | A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') |
| 1956 | Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in New York City |
| 1954 | KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick |
| 1954 | WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 644 performances |
| 1952 | 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole |
| 1952 | 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6 |
| 1951 | Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning |
| 1951 | New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) |
| 1949 | 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km |
| 1948 | Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams |
| 1947 | 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 |
| 1947 | Japan forms a constitutional democracy |
| 1946 | International military tribunal in Tokyo begins |
| 1945 | 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen |
| 1945 | Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg |
| 1945 | British troop join in Rangoon |
| 1945 | German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed |
| 1944 | "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway |
| 1944 | Meat rationing ends in U.S. |
| 1943 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) |
| 1943 | Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed |
| 1943 | U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia |
| 1942 | Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands |
| 1942 | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
| 1942 | Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands |
| 1942 | Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star |
| 1941 | German air raid on Liverpool |
| 1941 | 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4 |
| 1938 | Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use |
| 1938 | Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941 |
| 1938 | Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain |
| 1937 | Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" |
| 1936 | French People's Front wins elections |
| 1936 | New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 206 Australia vs. Worcestershire, 210 minutes, 27 fours |
| 1933 | 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office |
| 1929 | Prussia bans anti-fascists |
| 1926 | British general strike-3 million workers support miners |
| 1926 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) |
| 1926 | U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 |
| 1923 | 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed |
| 1922 | Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium |
| 1922 | Salt layer find at Winterswijk |
| 1921 | West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax |
| 1919 | Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain |
| 1919 | America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City) |
| 1917 | 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" |
| 1909 | 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2 |
| 1906 | British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey |
| 1903 | AVC Heracles (South Carolina Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo |
| 1902 | 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75 |
| 1901 | Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida |
| 1900 | 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06 |
| 1898 | Camp Merriman forms at Presidio |
| 1886 | M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC |
| 1864 | 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault |
| 1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws |
| 1863 | Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights) |
| 1863 | Battle of Salem Church, Virginia |
| 1861 | General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan |
| 1861 | Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen |
| 1855 | Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens |
| 1851 | Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die |
| 1846 | Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas |
| 1845 | 1st black lawyer (Macon B. Allen) admitted to bar |
| 1845 | Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China |
| 1830 | 1st regular steam train passenger service starts |
| 1822 | Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) |
| 1815 | Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples |
| 1810 | Lord Byron swims Hellespont |
| 1808 | Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May" |
| 1802 | Washington D.C. incorporates as a city |
| 1765 | 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia |
| 1747 | Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht |
| 1722 | Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris |
| 1715 | Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" |
| 1678 | French conquering fleet at Curaeao, 1200 die |
| 1662 | Royal charter granted Connecticut |
| 1661 | Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen |
| 1660 | Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva |
| 1654 | Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals |
| 1640 | English Upper house accept Act of Attainder |
| 1629 | French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain |
| 1624 | Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama |
| 1621 | Francis Bacon accused of bribery |
| 1616 | Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war |
| 1515 | Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz |
| 1512 | 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
| 1512 | Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen |
| 1494 | Columbus discovers Jamaica |
| 1494 | Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago" |
| 1455 | Jews flee Spain |
| 1382 | Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge |
| 1342 | Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein) |
| 1294 | John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg |
