| 1998 | Earthquake kills about 5,000 in northern Afghanistan |
| 1997 | Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson |
| 1997 | Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs |
| 1996 | 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture |
| 1996 | John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight" |
| 1996 | Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play and nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension |
| 1993 | Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament |
| 1993 | Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Minnesota Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager and 40 year old |
| 1992 | New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48) |
| 1992 | New York Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams |
| 1992 | Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell |
| 1992 | U.N. votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting |
| 1991 | 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic |
| 1991 | Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km) |
| 1991 | Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable |
| 1990 | 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru |
| 1990 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56 |
| 1990 | Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135 |
| 1989 | Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house |
| 1987 | Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1987 | North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video |
| 1987 | Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1987 | West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square |
| 1986 | Ariane-2 (ESA) launched |
| 1986 | Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500 |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1985 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 1 |
| 1984 | Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua |
| 1984 | Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome |
| 1984 | NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th |
| 1983 | Surrey all out for 14 vs. Essex, their lowest score ever |
| 1983 | AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires |
| 1982 | "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin New York City after 5 perf |
| 1982 | Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds |
| 1982 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Spain becomes 16th member of NATO |
| 1981 | "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday) |
| 1981 | Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers |
| 1981 | Los Angeles Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games) |
| 1980 | 1st papal visit to France since 1814 |
| 1980 | Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires |
| 1980 | Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million |
| 1980 | Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games |
| 1979 | Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich |
| 1979 | Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom |
| 1979 | Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
| 1979 | Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City |
| 1977 | Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0 |
| 1976 | 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt |
| 1976 | Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds) |
| 1975 | European Space Agency, ESA, forms |
| 1975 | Wings release "Venus and Mars" album |
| 1974 | 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4 |
| 1973 | Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup |
| 1972 | 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International airport |
| 1971 | 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice |
| 1971 | Train crash at Duivendrecht, Netherlands, 5 die |
| 1971 | U.S. Mariner 9, 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched |
| 1971 | Willie Mays hits his 638th home run, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored |
| 1970 | "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 80 performances |
| 1970 | Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans |
| 1969 | Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp |
| 1969 | Gibraltar adopts constitution |
| 1969 | People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao |
| 1968 | Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles" |
| 1968 | President De Gaulle disbands French parliament |
| 1968 | University church in Leipzig, East Germany, blown up |
| 1968 | West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law |
| 1967 | Biafra declares independence from Nigeria |
| 1967 | King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo |
| 1967 | Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles |
| 1967 | Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball |
| 1966 | 300 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
| 1966 | Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph) |
| 1966 | U.S. launches Surveyor 1 to Moon |
| 1965 | France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground) |
| 1965 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1965 | Viet Cong offensive against U.S. base Da Nang, begins |
| 1965 | Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama |
| 1964 | "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 673 performances |
| 1964 | Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia |
| 1964 | Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1 |
| 1964 | Giants sweep Mets 5-3 and 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game and New York's 22 K's in 2nd games |
| 1962 | 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India) |
| 1962 | Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres |
| 1961 | Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die |
| 1961 | Maris hits his 10th and 11th of 61 home runs |
| 1959 | "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 84 performances |
| 1959 | "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| 1959 | Iraq terminates military assistance pact with U.S. due to neutrality |
| 1959 | President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua |
| 1959 | President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament |
| 1959 | World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| 1958 | Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington |
| 1957 | Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
| 1957 | Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs. England at Edgbaston |
| 1956 | Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee, Florida |
| 1956 | Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st home run out of Yankee Stadium |
| 1956 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| 1955 | KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, Idaho (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government |
| 1955 | Tunisia begins domestic self governing |
| 1954 | Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs |
| 1954 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2) |
| 1954 | Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres |
| 1953 | 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 |
| 1953 | 23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62) |
| 1953 | 23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64) |
| 1952 | Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves |
| 1952 | Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres |
| 1951 | Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1950 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| 1949 | East Germans constitution approved |
| 1949 | NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname |
| 1949 | WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game |
| 1946 | Braves Bama Rowell double shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field |
| 1946 | United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die |
| 1944 | Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1943 | French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
| 1943 | U.S. troops reconquer Attu Aleutians |
| 1942 | 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II |
| 1942 | Reichsfuhrer Himmler arrives in Prague |
| 1942 | Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1 |
| 1942 | U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor |
| 1941 | 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia |
| 1941 | English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government |
| 1941 | German capture Kreta |
| 1938 | Yankees sweep Red Sox 10-0 and 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium |
| 1937 | 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA |
| 1937 | Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die |
| 1937 | Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory |
| 1937 | Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago |
| 1937 | 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24 |
| 1935 | Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies |
| 1933 | Patent on invisible glass installation |
| 1932 | Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins |
| 1931 | Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH |
| 1930 | Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph) |
| 1927 | Walter Johnson records 113th and last shutout of his career |
| 1925 | British mariners shoot on demonstrators |
| 1925 | Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy |
| 1925 | Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals |
| 1924 | Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists |
| 1923 | Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres |
| 1922 | Latvia and Vatican sign accord |
| 1922 | Lincoln Memorial dedicated |
| 1922 | Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day |
| 1921 | Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London |
| 1921 | Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds |
| 1921 | Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany |
| 1913 | 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London |
| 1913 | New country of Albania, forms |
| 1912 | U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua |
| 1911 | 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH) |
| 1910 | 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22 |
| 1909 | Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv |
| 1908 | 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved |
| 1908 | 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win |
| 1908 | Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System |
| 1908 | Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane |
| 1908 | U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized |
| 1907 | 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins |
| 1906 | 40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20 |
| 1904 | Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader |
| 1903 | 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8 |
| 1901 | Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated |
| 1901 | Memorial Day 1st observed in U.S. |
| 1899 | 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47 |
| 1896 | 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (New York City) |
| 1895 | W. G. Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days |
| 1894 | Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 home runs in 1 baseball game |
| 1890 | 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz) |
| 1889 | Brassier invented |
| 1883 | Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12 |
| 1879 | 92 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May |
| 1879 | Gilmore Garden (New York City) renamed Madison Square Garden |
| 1872 | Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy |
| 1868 | Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves |
| 1866 | Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague) |
| 1864 | Battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia |
| 1864 | Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia |
| 1862 | Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth |
| 1862 | Battle of Front Royal, Virginia |
| 1858 | Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked |
| 1854 | Territories of Kansas and Nebraska created |
| 1848 | 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians |
| 1848 | William G. Young patents ice cream freezer |
| 1848 | Mexico ratifies treaty giving U.S.; New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million |
| 1842 | John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria |
| 1832 | Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31) |
| 1822 | House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged) |
| 1821 | James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose |
| 1814 | 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication |
| 1808 | Napoleon annexes Tuscany and gave it seats in French Senate |
| 1793 | Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public |
| 1783 | Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in U.S. |
| 1646 | Spain and Netherlands signs temporary cease fire |
| 1635 | Emperor Ferdinand II and Saksen sign Peace of Prague |
| 1631 | France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau |
| 1588 | Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England |
| 1584 | Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland |
| 1574 | Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France |
| 1574 | Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot) |
| 1539 | Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida |
| 1536 | English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour |
| 1527 | University of Marburg (Germany) founded |
| 1522 | French troops driven out of Genoa |
| 1498 | Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America |
| 1434 | Battle at Lipany |
| 1416 | Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church |
| 1381 | English boer uprising begins in Essex |
| 1100 | Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht |
| 1087 | German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad |
| 1035 | Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders |
