| 2009 | Peace talks witht he Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger are held by the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou |
| 1997 | Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open |
| 1997 | Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship |
| 1997 | Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship |
| 1996 | 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01 |
| 1996 | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel |
| 1996 | Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917 |
| 1994 | Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II |
| 1994 | Courtney Love cleared of drug charges |
| 1993 | "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 performances |
| 1991 | 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03 |
| 1991 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent |
| 1991 | Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed |
| 1991 | Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9) |
| 1991 | Mo Udall, Representative-D-Arizona, resigns due to Parkinson disease |
| 1991 | New York Mets M Sasser and Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| 1991 | President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat |
| 1990 | Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence |
| 1990 | Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns |
| 1990 | Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah |
| 1989 | Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit home run on 1st at bat |
| 1989 | U.S. launches Magellan to Venus |
| 1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-30 launched |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan |
| 1985 | 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2 |
| 1984 | Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) |
| 1983 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1982 | British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket |
| 1982 | Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0 |
| 1982 | Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans |
| 1981 | Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles |
| 1981 | Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) |
| 1981 | Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2 |
| 1980 | Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning |
| 1980 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament |
| 1980 | White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958 |
| 1979 | Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st |
| 1979 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 |
| 1978 | Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany |
| 1976 | "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 7 performances |
| 1976 | Kiss performs their 1st concert |
| 1975 | Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane," premieres in New York City |
| 1975 | Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots |
| 1975 | Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time |
| 1975 | Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| 1974 | 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04 |
| 1973 | 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine |
| 1973 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella |
| 1973 | Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 |
| 1973 | Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope |
| 1973 | Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings |
| 1973 | Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK |
| 1972 | Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam |
| 1970 | National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio |
| 1970 | Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt |
| 1970 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) |
| 1969 | Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| 1969 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games |
| 1968 | 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1968 | 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins |
| 1968 | Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02 |
| 1967 | Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7 |
| 1966 | Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | Willie Mays 512th home run breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record |
| 1964 | "Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV |
| 1964 | 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva |
| 1964 | KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) |
| 1963 | 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8 |
| 1963 | Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1961 | 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South |
| 1961 | 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given. |
| 1961 | CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, D.C. |
| 1961 | Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon |
| 1961 | South Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested |
| 1960 | 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland |
| 1959 | 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win |
| 1959 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish |
| 1958 | Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia |
| 1957 | 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2 |
| 1957 | Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show |
| 1957 | Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam |
| 1956 | Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam |
| 1956 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1954 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1953 | Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) |
| 1952 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open |
| 1949 | Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives) |
| 1948 | The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death |
| 1946 | 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay |
| 1946 | 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6 |
| 1946 | Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped |
| 1945 | German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender |
| 1943 | NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier |
| 1942 | Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) |
| 1942 | Food 1st rationed in U.S. |
| 1942 | German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages |
| 1942 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) |
| 1940 | 21 "not neutral" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands |
| 1940 | 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05 |
| 1938 | Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire |
| 1936 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) |
| 1935 | 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05 |
| 1933 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) |
| 1932 | Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary |
| 1931 | Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president |
| 1929 | Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive home runs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9 |
| 1927 | 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) |
| 1927 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms |
| 1927 | Nicaragua agrees to a U.S. supervised presidential election in 1928 |
| 1926 | General strike hits Britain |
| 1925 | League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage |
| 1924 | 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France |
| 1924 | German Republic election fascists and communists win |
| 1923 | Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna |
| 1923 | New York state revokes Prohibition law |
| 1922 | KNX-AM in Los Angeles, California begins radio transmissions |
| 1919 | 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) |
| 1919 | FVC soccer team forms |
| 1919 | Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3 |
| 1918 | Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 |
| 1917 | Arabs sack Tel Aviv |
| 1916 | At request of U.S., Germany curtails its submarine warfare |
| 1915 | Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany |
| 1912 | Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes |
| 1910 | Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent |
| 1910 | Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy |
| 1910 | Tel Aviv founded |
| 1899 | 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12 |
| 1898 | 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09 |
| 1897 | 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12 |
| 1897 | Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200 |
| 1896 | 1st edition of London Daily Mail ( penny) |
| 1896 | Grease fire ignites ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado |
| 1893 | Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging |
| 1888 | Italy and Spain sign military covenant |
| 1886 | Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen |
| 1883 | John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss) |
| 1878 | Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House |
| 1871 | 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double |
| 1866 | Woodward's Gardens opens to public |
| 1865 | Battle of Citronville, Alabama; Richard Taylor surrenders |
| 1865 | Battle of Mobile, Alabama |
| 1864 | General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock |
| 1864 | Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E. Lee |
| 1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville - action at Salem Church |
| 1863 | End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws |
| 1862 | Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia |
| 1862 | Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains |
| 1861 | At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel Navy is cast |
| 1858 | War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz |
| 1851 | 1st major San Francisco fire |
| 1847 | New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration |
| 1846 | U.S. state Michigan ends death penalty |
| 1843 | Great Britain annexes Natal |
| 1839 | The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean |
| 1818 | Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling |
| 1814 | Bourbon reign restored in France |
| 1805 | Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx |
| 1783 | Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus |
| 1780 | American Academy of Arts and Science founded |
| 1780 | Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby |
| 1776 | Rhode Island declares independence from England |
| 1747 | Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel |
| 1728 | Georg F Handels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premieres in London |
| 1715 | French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) |
| 1652 | Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels |
| 1634 | Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies |
| 1626 | Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons |
| 1626 | Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands |
| 1572 | Veere sides with Geuzen |
| 1540 | Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople |
| 1494 | Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica |
| 1493 | Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal |
| 1471 | Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha |
| 1303 | Flemings conquers Middelburg |
