| 2013 | The Reserve Bank of Australia reduces its benchmark interest rate to 2.75% from 3.00% |
| 2013 | A new study reports that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years; researchers believe it's likely that everyone in the world is related over the past few thousand years |
| 2012 | Romania's USL, or Social-Liberal Union Leader, Victor Ponta, becomes Prime Minister of Romania |
| 2012 | Russia swears in Vladimir Putin for his third, six-year term as President |
| 2011 | Thousands of homes are ordered evacuated as the Spring 2011 Mississippi River Floods continue |
| 2011 | In Singapore, two cabinet ministers, George Yeo and Li Hwee Hua, become the highest ranking ministers to be unseated in a general election since 1963 |
| 2010 | Abdul Tejan-Cole, head of Sierra Leone's anti-Corruption Commission, resigns |
| 2005 | The Huffington Post weblog makes it's debut |
| 2002 | China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112 |
| 1997 | Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants |
| 1997 | Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8) |
| 1995 | "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1995 | Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election |
| 1995 | Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours and 36 minutes |
| 1994 | 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6 |
| 1994 | Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle) |
| 1994 | Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen |
| 1994 | Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42) |
| 1994 | Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24) |
| 1993 | South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections |
| 1992 | 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine |
| 1992 | Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes |
| 1992 | Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races |
| 1992 | U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour) |
| 1991 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1991 | Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs |
| 1989 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet |
| 1989 | Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency |
| 1988 | 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2 |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | 105 degrees F in Sacramento, California |
| 1987 | Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers |
| 1986 | Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I |
| 1986 | Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires |
| 1984 | $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit |
| 1984 | Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic |
| 1983 | 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2 |
| 1983 | August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups |
| 1983 | Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles win series 4-2 |
| 1982 | "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances |
| 1982 | Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing |
| 1982 | IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 |
| 1982 | Oakland Raiders to move to Los Angeles |
| 1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried |
| 1980 | Samm-Art Williams' "Home," premieres in New York City |
| 1979 | 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila |
| 1979 | Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland) |
| 1977 | "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 75 performances |
| 1977 | 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2 |
| 1975 | Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead |
| 1975 | President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" |
| 1975 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays |
| 1974 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) |
| 1973 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) |
| 1972 | 26th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
| 1972 | Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1970 | "Long and Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release |
| 1969 | 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1 |
| 1969 | Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1967 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| 1966 | 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02 |
| 1966 | Mamas and Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1 |
| 1966 | Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene |
| 1965 | WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ |
| 1963 | SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km)) |
| 1962 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1961 | "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 27 performances |
| 1961 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| 1960 | "Christine" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1960 | "Flower Drum Song" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 602 performances |
| 1960 | "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| 1960 | 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4 |
| 1960 | Dodgers Larry and Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery |
| 1960 | Los Angeles Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th home run wins the game for brother Larry |
| 1960 | Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12 -8 for world chess championship |
| 1960 | U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy |
| 1958 | Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m |
| 1957 | Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald |
| 1957 | Major Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K) |
| 1956 | Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300 |
| 1956 | New York Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat |
| 1956 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett |
| 1955 | 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8 |
| 1955 | U.S.S.R. signs peace treaty with France and Great Britain |
| 1955 | West Europe Union established |
| 1954 | French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu |
| 1954 | U.S., Great Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO |
| 1953 | "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 892 performances |
| 1953 | Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile |
| 1951 | International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics |
| 1951 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) |
| 1949 | 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2 |
| 1948 | Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death |
| 1947 | "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC |
| 1947 | General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution |
| 1947 | Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt |
| 1946 | William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands |
| 1945 | British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 1945 | Formal undertaking of complete German surrender |
| 1945 | Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated |
| 1945 | Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender |
| 1945 | Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands |
| 1945 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) |
| 1945 | SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22 |
| 1944 | German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia |
| 1943 | British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia |
| 1943 | Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps |
| 1943 | Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched |
| 1943 | U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia |
| 1943 | U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia |
| 1942 | Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion |
| 1942 | Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed |
| 1941 | British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3) |
| 1941 | Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid |
| 1941 | Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain |
| 1939 | Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis |
| 1938 | 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8 |
| 1938 | Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers" |
| 1934 | Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal |
| 1934 | Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region |
| 1934 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) |
| 1934 | World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines |
| 1932 | 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2 |
| 1930 | Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex vs. Northants in 330 minutes |
| 1928 | England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21 |
| 1928 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) |
| 1927 | San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated |
| 1925 | Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row |
| 1925 | Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play |
| 1924 | Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana |
| 1923 | Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad |
| 1922 | Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2 |
| 1922 | New York Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0 |
| 1921 | 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2 |
| 1920 | U.S.S.R. recognizes Georgia's independence |
| 1917 | Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0 |
| 1915 | Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost |
| 1914 | U.S. Congress establishes mother's day |
| 1914 | Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House |
| 1913 | British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote |
| 1912 | Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer |
| 1910 | 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6 |
| 1909 | Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv) |
| 1907 | Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph) |
| 1904 | Flexible Flyer trademark registered |
| 1902 | Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent kills 2-5,000 |
| 1891 | Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed |
| 1888 | Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris |
| 1888 | George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera" |
| 1885 | John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti |
| 1875 | German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed |
| 1873 | U.S. Marines attack Panama |
| 1867 | Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans |
| 1866 | German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt |
| 1864 | Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500) |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff) |
| 1862 | Battle of West Point, Virginia (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville) |
| 1862 | Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire |
| 1861 | Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN |
| 1856 | Argentine and Brazilian sign a navigation pact |
| 1848 | Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia |
| 1847 | American Medical Association organizes in Philadelphia |
| 1840 | Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317 |
| 1832 | Greece becomes independent republic |
| 1832 | Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece |
| 1824 | Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna |
| 1800 | Indiana Territory organized |
| 1792 | Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington) |
| 1789 | 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in New York City) |
| 1775 | Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria |
| 1771 | Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada |
| 1765 | Adm Nelsons sailboat HMS Victory runs aground |
| 1748 | French troops conquer Maastricht |
| 1727 | Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia |
| 1700 | William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation |
| 1663 | Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens |
| 1660 | Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni |
| 1638 | Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited) |
| 1624 | Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru |
| 1579 | Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands |
| 1429 | English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc |
| 1416 | Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay |
| 1355 | 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara |
| 1274 | 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens |
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