|
- 0585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
- 1156 Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet
- 1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia
- 1358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
- 1503 James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull.
- 1503 The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed, which would actually last 10 years.
- 1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V
- 1533 The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid
- 1533 The Archbishop of England declares the mariage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn to be valid
- 1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
- 1588 The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
- 1608 Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna" premieres in Mantua
- 1635 Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V" premieres in Madrid
- 1644 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
- 1664 The first Baptist Church is organized (Boston)
- 1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
- 1741 Spain & Bavaria sign treaty
- 1742 The first indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
- 1754 George Washington defeats French & Indians at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
- 1818 The first steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
- 1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
- 1845 Fire in Québec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
- 1849 Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate
- 1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention
- 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play" premieres in London
- 1863 The first black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
- 1871 Paris communards revolt put down
- 1892 Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature
- 1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
- 1900 Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand
- 1900 Solar eclipse occurs
- 1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
- 1902 Boers surrender
- 1907 The first Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy
- 1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs South Africa
- 1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll when does Raggedy Andy show up?
- 1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
- 1919 Armenia declares it's Independence
- 1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
- 1923 US unemployment has nearly ended
- 1926 Ditadura Nacional established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. (28th May 1926 coup d'tat.)
- 1926 US Customs Court created by congress
- 1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days
- 1928 Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
- 1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand
- 1930 The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
- 1934 Bradman gets 160 Australia vs Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5
- 1934 Hobbs scores his 197th & last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days
- 1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
- 1934 The Dionne quintuplets (Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie, and Yvonne) are born at the family farm in Ontario, Canada
- 1934 The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
- 1936 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
- 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens to vehicular traffic
- 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
- 1937 San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens to vehicular traffic
- 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
- 1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
- 1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
- 1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway only to give it up later
- 1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
- 1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. First allied infantry victory in World War II.
- 1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta
- 1942 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
- 1942 World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
- 1943 British militia reaches Tito
- 1945 Visitor posting - George Webster born in Philadelphia, PA also John Fogerty born in Berkeley, CA - USA
- 1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
- 1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's assistant of Utrecht
- 1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
- 1952 Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
- 1952 The women of Greece gain the suffrage.
- 1953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
- 1955 Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
- 1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
- 1958 French Government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
- 1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
- 1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became first animals retrieved from a space mission
- 1960 Visitor posting - Paul and Ellen married
- 1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
- 1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
- 1961 Visitor posting - Penny's birthday
- 1961 Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
- 1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
- 1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
- 1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
- 1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die & 1 million houses destroyed
- 1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes first PM of Kenya
- 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cilla Black - You're My World
- 1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem
- 1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
- 1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
- 1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
- 1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
- 1966 Visitor posting - Pixel-Diva.UK was born!! - United Kingdom
- 1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
- 1968 Award of United States Presidential Unit Citation to D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, for the Battle of Long Tan
- 1968 Second assault on Fire Support Base Balmoral, Vietnam
- 1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon
- 1969 AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
- 1970 The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Universit Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
- 1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, first spacecraft to soft land on Mars
- 1972 Edward VIII, former King of the United Kingdon, dies
- 1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate
- 1974 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
- 1974 Emmy first Daytime Award presentation
- 1974 Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
- 1974 Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
- 1974 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
- 1975 Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
- 1975 Soyuz 18 launches
- 1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
- 1977 In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
- 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.363 mph), 3 times
- 1978 Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. Elections won by incumbent Sangoul Lamizana.
- 1979 European Market accepts Greece as member
- 1980 Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
- 1982 Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
- 1982 Leonard Maltin's first appearance on Entertainment Tonight
- 1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Great Britain
- 1983 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63
- 1983 Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens
- 1983 Number one hit on UK music charts - New Edition - Candy Girl
- 1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
- 1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
- 1987 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
- 1987 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
- 1987 A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1987 Mathias Rust, 19, West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
- 1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
- 1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
- 1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)
- 1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
- 1990 Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV
- 1990 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
- 1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)
- 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
- 1991 The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
- 1992 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum
- 1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
- 1993 Polish Government of Suchocka falls
- 1994 "Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1995 An earthquake hits the Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
- 1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
- 1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
- 1995 Visitor posting - Keynashua Carter was born. - USA
- 1995 The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, of total population.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Hannah Fairhurst is born. My pet is named cedric - USA
- 1997 Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis
- 1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
- 1997 Tornado in Jarrell TX kills at least 28
- 1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time
- 1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
- 1998 Phil Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife at 49
- 1998 Visitor posting - Sami was born!!!!!!!!!! <3 - USA
- 1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
- 1999 Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Cambria Packard was born in Mercy Hospital in Baltimore! - USA
- 2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- 2002 Visitor posting - Charlie Hurrell born - United Kingdom
- 2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
- 2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
- 2006 German-born Pope Benedict XVI visits Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland.
- 2010 Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, is planning to raise wages for its Chinese workers by about 20 percent after a spate of suicides at its main plant in southern China
- 2010 At least 73 killed in India train crash. Sabotage blamed
- 2010 Gary Coleman dead at 42. The child star of 'Diff'rent Strokes' passes away after a brain hemorrhage in Utah.
More historical events added daily - keep checking back