| 2009 | A large column of advancing rebels are defeated by Chadian forces |
| 2001 | Police tear gas unruly soccer fans, ensuing panic kills over 100 in Ghana |
| 1999 | During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China |
| 1998 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by |
| 1997 | 1st U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam |
| 1997 | San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones |
| 1995 | Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0 |
| 1995 | Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus |
| 1994 | "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 280 performances |
| 1994 | Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York |
| 1993 | "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 25 performances |
| 1993 | "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 53 performances |
| 1993 | Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300 |
| 1993 | Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in New York City |
| 1993 | Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years |
| 1992 | America Cup finals begin in San Diego |
| 1992 | Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV |
| 1992 | Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe |
| 1991 | Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession |
| 1991 | Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer |
| 1990 | New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur |
| 1990 | Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II |
| 1989 | "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 597 performances |
| 1989 | Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press |
| 1989 | New York Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop |
| 1989 | New York Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher |
| 1988 | Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth |
| 1988 | Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms |
| 1987 | 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw |
| 1987 | Actor Tom Cruise (27) and actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry |
| 1987 | Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit home runs in 2 consecutive games |
| 1984 | Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000 |
| 1984 | White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game, 25 innings |
| 1983 | 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson |
| 1982 | "9" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 739 performances |
| 1982 | Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1981 | Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian |
| 1980 | 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge |
| 1979 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons |
| 1978 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 1604 performances |
| 1978 | Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found |
| 1978 | Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage |
| 1978 | Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in New York City |
| 1978 | PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 1977 | Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed |
| 1977 | Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon |
| 1977 | Patty Hearst let out of jail |
| 1976 | "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1976 | Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament |
| 1975 | Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) |
| 1975 | Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead |
| 1974 | House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment |
| 1973 | For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 home runs in a game |
| 1971 | 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton |
| 1971 | Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) |
| 1971 | Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes |
| 1971 | Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history |
| 1971 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open |
| 1970 | 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War |
| 1969 | BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick |
| 1967 | 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship |
| 1967 | Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam |
| 1966 | 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) |
| 1966 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1965 | Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert |
| 1965 | Luna 5 launched (U.S.S.R.) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails) |
| 1964 | Khrushchev visits Egypt |
| 1964 | Peter and Gordon release "World Without Love" |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone |
| 1962 | Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1961 | Baltimore Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minnesota Twins |
| 1961 | FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland" |
| 1961 | Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings |
| 1960 | Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth |
| 1960 | U.S. is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally |
| 1960 | U.S. send U-2 over U.S.S.R. |
| 1959 | Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox |
| 1958 | Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship |
| 1955 | German Federal Republic joins NATO |
| 1951 | Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River |
| 1950 | French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS |
| 1950 | Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville |
| 1949 | Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway, London |
| 1949 | Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco |
| 1946 | 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres |
| 1946 | 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres |
| 1946 | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto |
| 1945 | Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
| 1945 | Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested |
| 1945 | New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier |
| 1945 | Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested |
| 1945 | Victory celebration at Red Square |
| 1944 | Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana |
| 1944 | Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested |
| 1944 | Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness |
| 1944 | Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol |
| 1943 | 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia |
| 1943 | Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens |
| 1942 | 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57 |
| 1941 | English Army breaks German spy codes |
| 1939 | Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha |
| 1937 | Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6) |
| 1936 | 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire |
| 1936 | Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia) |
| 1934 | Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University! |
| 1933 | Spanish anarchists call for general strike |
| 1932 | 58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8 |
| 1932 | Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity |
| 1932 | WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC |
| 1931 | 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59 |
| 1930 | 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6 |
| 1929 | New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1929 | WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions |
| 1927 | 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6 |
| 1927 | Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia |
| 1926 | Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole |
| 1925 | Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid |
| 1916 | British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey |
| 1915 | German and French fight Battle of Artois |
| 1914 | 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4 |
| 1914 | President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day |
| 1913 | 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote |
| 1911 | Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland |
| 1908 | Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname |
| 1901 | Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne |
| 1901 | Cleveland's Earl Moore no-hits Chicago White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2 |
| 1899 | Lawn mower patented |
| 1896 | 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) |
| 1889 | 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34 |
| 1882 | Telegraph Hill RR Co organized |
| 1874 | Victoria Embankment, in London opens |
| 1868 | Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Cloyd's Mt, and Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery's Bluff, Ft. Darling) |
| 1864 | Battle of Dalton, Geogia |
| 1864 | Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark |
| 1862 | Battle of Farmington, Mississippi |
| 1862 | U.S. Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island |
| 1846 | Battle of Resaca de la Palma-U.S. sends Mexico back to Rio Grande |
| 1837 | "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius |
| 1788 | English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade |
| 1785 | British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle |
| 1766 | John Byron back in England after trip around the world |
| 1754 | 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die" |
| 1753 | King Louis XV disbands French parliament |
| 1738 | England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea and West-Indies |
| 1689 | English King Willem III declares war on France |
| 1671 | Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels |
| 1588 | Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris |
| 1573 | Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king |
| 1519 | Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government |
| 1502 | Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to New World |
| 1460 | Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings |
| 1386 | Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England |
| 1336 | Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux |
| 1092 | Lincoln Cathedral consecrated |
