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- 1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
- 1525 Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
- 1527 Pánfilo de Narvaéz departs to explore Florida
- 1536 Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed
- 1544 Scottish Earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
- 1579 Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
- 1590 Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
- 1620 The first merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
- 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, first to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
- 1631 Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
- 1642 Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (16121676) founds the Ville Marie de Montral.
- 1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
- 1672 Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)
- 1673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
- 1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
- 1678 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
- 1712 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
- 1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
- 1733 England passes the Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported by the colonies from countries that were not British possessions.
- 1742 Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
- 1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands
- 1750 Tax revolt in Gorinchem
- 1757 War speculators raise the prices of bread and meat by 1000%; 4 oz. of bread the daily ration in Quebec.
- 1775 In Philadelphia Pennsylvania, US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. (I wonder what we did?)
- 1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
- 1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
- 1793 In Alberta, Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies.
- 1794 Hard frost in southern New England
- 1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
- 1804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
- 1809 Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
- 1809 Papal States annexed by France
- 1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)
- 1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constituent assembly at Eidsvoll
- 1814 Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
- 1814 The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
- 1845 Rubber band patents
- 1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
- 1848 Premier Earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
- 1849 A fire threatens to burn St. Louis, Missouri, to the ground.
- 1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis MO
- 1851 Saint John New Brunswick, the launch of the sailing ship Marco Polo; reputed to be the fastest ship in the world.
- 1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
- 1860 German football club TSV 1860 Mnchen is founded
- 1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
- 1863 Rosala de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
- 1864 Battle of Adairsville GA, Union forces Confederates to retreat
- 1865 The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.
- 1871 Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
- 1872 Bohemian Club incorporated
- 1875 Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
- 1875 In the first running of the Kentucky Derby today, Aristides wins in 2:37 75
- 1876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Fort Lincoln
- 1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC
- 1881 Revised version of New Testament
- 1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's first wild west show premieres in Omaha
- 1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
- 1890 Comic Cuts, first weekly comic paper, published in London
- 1895 The first Omonoia station of the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.
- 1899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
- 1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
- 1900 Mafeking in South Africa relieved
- 1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
- 1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
- 1910 Canada sets the designs for its 1 cent to fifty cent coins.
- 1915 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls
- 1915 National Baptist Convention chartered
- 1915 The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
- 1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), first introduced
- 1918 Almost the entire leadership of Sinn Fin are arrested.
- 1919 Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1919 War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
- 1920 The first De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
- 1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
- 1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show
- 1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
- 1926 German Government of Marx takes power
- 1927 U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, died in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
- 1928 9th modern Olympic games open in Amsterdam
- 1932 Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
- 1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling the national-socialist party of Norway.
- 1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
- 1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
- 1939 British issue the Palestine "White Paper" fixing the upper limit to 75,000 Jews to be admitted into Palestine over the next five years.
- 1939 King George VI 1895-1952 and Queen Elizabeth disembark at Wolfe's Cove from the CP ship Empress of Australia to start a month-long royal visit to Canada
- 1939 Royal Tour of Canada commences with the arrival of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Wolfe's Cove, Quebec on the Empress of Canada. The 12 car train, (five from CP, five from CN and the two vice-regal cars), in royal blue and aluminum, left Quebec City on May 18. A pilot train, carrying officials and the press, preceeded the royal train by one hour and no other trains were permitted to travel within this period. The travel arrangements were shared by the two railways with CP being responsible for the westward journey to Victoria. CP used 4-6-4 locomotives 2850 and 2851 for the royal and pilot trains respectively, except for the Ottawa to Brighton, Ont, section, which was over CN track. 2850 hauled the royal train without change right through to Vancouver, a total distance of 3224 miles. Royal crowns were affixed to the running boards of both locomotives and these were eventually fitted to the entire class (2820-2864) which, following approval from their majesties, came to be known as Royal Hudsons.
- 1940 Germany begins the invasion of France
- 1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium
- 1940 World War II: The old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
- 1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
- 1943 Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin;
- 1943 World War II: The Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
- 1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
- 1944 Chinese/US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
- 1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
- 1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea
- 1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
- 1946 KVP Labor/Communists win first post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
- 1946 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
- 1948 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
- 1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel
- 1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
- 1955 Dutch Government of Drees resigns
- 1957 Canadian National opens a 40 mile diversion of its Montréal to Toronto main line required in the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
- 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (District of Columbia)
- 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
- 1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
- 1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - B.Bumble & The Stingers - Nut Rocker
- 1963 Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in Madison Square Garden for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in pro wrestling history.
- 1967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as the film "Don't Look Back"
- 1967 Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
- 1968 European Space Research Organization launches first satellite
- 1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
- 1969 Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
- 1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
- 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra
- 1970 Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination
- 1972 Netherlands & China People's Republic exchange ambassadors
- 1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
- 1973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Life"
- 1973 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle CO
- 1973 Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
- 1974 Bayern München wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
- 1974 Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
- 1974 Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
- 1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
- 1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
- 1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
- 1975 NBC paid $5 million for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
- 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man
- 1976 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & Michael Learned win
- 1976 Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
- 1976 In Uzbek SSR a 7.1 quake killed 6 and 10,000 homeless in Gazli area. Damage reported in parts of Uzbek, Tadzhik, and Turkham SSR
- 1977 Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
- 1979 -12ºF (-11ºC), on top of Mauna Kea HI (state record)
- 1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
- 1980 General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
- 1980 Major race riot in Miami FL - 16 killed, 300 injured
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Johnny Logan - What's Another Year
- 1980 Peru: Terrorist group Shining Path attacked a voting poll in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
- 1983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
- 1983 Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1984 Mai Shanley, 21, (New Mexico), crowned 33rd Miss USA
- 1984 Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
- 1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
- 1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
- 1986 Number one hit on UK music charts - Spitting Image - The Chicken Song
- 1987 "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
- 1987 An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
- 1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
- 1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
- 1989 Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
- 1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA degree from University of South Africa
- 1989 Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825 million
- 1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
- 1990 European court rules pension rights for both men & women
- 1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of México, crowned 40th Miss Universe
- 1992 Bandleader Laurence Welk dies at age 89
- 1992 In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops open fire.
- 1993 Intel unveils their new Pentium processor
- 1993 Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
- 1994 Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
- 1994 Visitor posting - Julianna Fischer was born - USA
- 1994 Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
- 1995 After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Gabby Genetti's birthday
- 1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
- 1997 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
- 1997 Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.
- 1998 David Wells of the New York Yankees pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history against the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium.
- 1999 Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel.
- 2000 Philippines. Explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
- 2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
- 2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
- 2007 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the growing number of mortgage defaults will not seriously harm the U.S. Economy
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