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- 0523 Death - Thrasamunde king of Vandalen
- 0973 Birth - Henry II Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24)
- 0988 Death - Dirk II West Frisian count of Holland
- 1085 Death - King Alfonso VI of Len conquered Toledo, dies
- 1124 Death - Balak Emir of Aleppo, murdered
- 1475 Death - Dieric Bouts Dutch painter, dies at about 64
- 1476 Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg & duke Charles the Stout arrange marriage of their children
- 1501 Birth - Marcellus II [Marcello Cervini] Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)
- 1527 Death - Karel van Bourbon military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
- 1527 Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending the Renaissance
- 1527 Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, died fighting the forces of Charles V during the Sack of Rome in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
- 1529 Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans & Bengals
- 1536 King Henry VIII orders translated Bibles be placed in every church.
- 1536 King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
- 1540 Death - Jean Luis Vives Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48
- 1542 Francis Xavier reached Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
- 1581 Birth - Frans Francken the Younger, painter
- 1598 Arch duke Albrecht & Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands
- 1604 Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina
- 1606 Birth - Lorenzo Lippi [Perlone Zipoli] poet/painter
- 1626 Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets
- 1638 Death - Cornelius Jansen theologian (Jansenism), dies
- 1642 Death - Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
- 1644 Johan Mauritius resigns as Governor of Brazil
- 1648 Battle at Zólty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir
- 1666 Death - Paul Siefert composer, dies at 79
- 1667 Death - Johann Jacob Froberger German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50
- 1672 Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
- 1678 Death - Joseph de La Barre composer, dies at 44
- 1682 Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
- 1727 Death - Catharina I Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42
- 1739 Death - Bernardus Smijtegelt vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63
- 1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
- 1757 Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army
- 1757 Battle of Prague - A Prussian army fought an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
- 1758 Birth - Maximilien Robespierre Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
- 1759 Birth - Franois Andrieux French writer/politician
- 1769 Birth - Ferdinand III archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane
- 1776 Death - James Kent composer, dies at 76
- 1785 Birth - Arvir A Afzelius Swedish story teller
- 1786 Birth - Ludwig Brne writer
- 1790 Birth - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer
- 1794 Death - Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier composer, dies at 59
- 1794 Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
- 1800 Birth - Ferdinand Marcucci composer
- 1801 Birth - George Sears Greene Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
- 1802 Birth - Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer artist
- 1804 Suriname sold to English (until February 1816)
- 1806 Birth - Chapin Aaron Harris US, founded America Society of Dental Surgeons
- 1806 London announces a blockade of the European coast from Brest to the Elbe May 6 but permits ships from neutral nations to pass if they are not carrying goods to or from enemy ports
- 1809 Birth - William Walker composer
- 1812 Birth - Martin Robinson Delaney Charlestown VA, 1st black major in US Medical Corps
- 1813 Birth - Joseph Tarr Copeland Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
- 1814 Birth - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst composer
- 1814 Death - George Joseph Vogler composer, dies at 64
- 1816 The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
- 1825 Birth - Joseph Bailey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
- 1829 Birth - Phoebe Ann Coffin 1st female ordained minister in New England
- 1830 Birth - Guido Gezelle Flemish priest/poet
- 1833 John Deere makes first steel plow
- 1835 James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
- 1835 The first edition of New York Herald (price 1¢)
- 1836 Death - Christian Ignatius Latrobe composer, dies at 78
- 1838 Birth - Alfred Humphreys Pease composer
- 1840 The Penny Black postage stamp is valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1840 The first postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain) (try and buy it now!)
- 1841 Death - John Thomson composer, dies at 35
- 1843 Birth - Grove Karl Gilbert geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville UT
- 1844 Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote
- 1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
- 1849 Birth - Wyatt Eaton artist
- 1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
- 1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
- 1851 New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
- 1851 San Fransisco Chamber of Commerce starts
- 1852 Death - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer, dies at 75
- 1853 The first major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk CT)
- 1856 Birth - Robert Edwin Peary US, arctic explorer (North Pole-April 6 1909)
- 1856 Birth - Sigmund Freud Freiberg Moravia, cigar smoker, father of psycho-analysis
- 1856 Death - William Hamilton metaphysicist, dies
- 1857 The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose Sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of India's Independence.
- 1858 Birth - Georges Adolphe Hue composer
- 1859 Birth - Luis Mara Drago Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
- 1859 Birth - Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice)
- 1859 Death - Friedrich Heinrich Alexander explorer/scientist, dies
- 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille set sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1861 American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
- 1861 Arkansas & Tennessee become 9th & 10th states to secede from US
- 1861 Birth - Radindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
- 1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
- 1862 Death - Henry David Thoreau US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
- 1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA
- 1864 Death - Henry Livermore Abbott US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle
- 1864 Death - Micah Jenkins Confederate Brigadier-General (friendly fire), dies at 28
- 1868 Birth - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
- 1869 Birth - Jan R Slotemaker de Brune Dutch clergyman/politician (CHU)
- 1869 Birth - Joseph Cuvelier Belgian historian/archivist
- 1870 Birth - Amedos Peter Giannini San Jose CA, founded Bank of America
- 1870 Birth - John McClutcheon cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
- 1871 Birth - August Reusner composer
- 1871 Birth - Ch Morgenstern writer
- 1875 Birth - William Daniel Leahy Iowa, 5 star Admiral/chief of staff (1949)
- 1877 Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- 1879 Birth - Johan H T Norlind Swedish musicologist
- 1880 Birth - Baron W Edmund Archangel & Ironside, British fieldmarshal
- 1880 Birth - Ernst L Kirchner German painter (Die Brcke)
- 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
- 1882 Death - Lord Frederick Cavendish assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
- 1882 Death - Thomas Henry Burke assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
- 1882 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
- 1882 The Congress of the U.S.A. pass the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1883 Birth - Jos Ortega y Gasset Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9]
- 1888 Birth - Emmanuel Celler (Representative-D-NY, 1923-73)
- 1889 Birth - Arthur Morison typographer
- 1889 The Eiffel Tower designed by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, 57, is completed at Paris for the Universal Exhibition that opens
- 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
- 1890 Birth - Claire Whitney New York NY, silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine)
- 1890 Death - Hubert Leonard composer, dies at 71
- 1890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
- 1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
- 1892 Death - Ernest Guiraud composer, dies at 54
- 1894 Birth - Filip Lazar composer
- 1895 Birth - Rudolph Valentino Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
- 1897 Birth - Paul Alverdes German writer (Pfeiferstube)
- 1898 Birth - Daniel Gerber Freemont MI, beloved by babies at mealtime
- 1902 Birth - Harry Golden Jewish humorist/writer (2 Plain, Only in America)
- 1902 Birth - Max Ophls Saarland, director/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman)
- 1902 Birth - Walter Dawson British Air Chief marshall
- 1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
- 1902 Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa
- 1904 American Lung Association holds its first meeting
- 1904 Birth - Catherine Lacey London England, actress (Sorcerors)
- 1904 Birth - Harry Martinson Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
- 1904 Death - Franz von Lenbach German painter, dies at 67
- 1905 Birth - Norman De Tar composer
- 1905 Birth - [Bernard] Toots Shor raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
- 1906 Birth - Andr Weil [Bourbaki] French/US mathematician
- 1907 Birth - Weeb Ewbank NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets)
- 1908 Birth - Necil Kazim Akses composer
- 1908 Death - Jean Rville French vicar (Le Prophtisme Hbreu), dies at 53
- 1909 Great White Fleet anchors in San Francisco
- 1910 Birth - Antoon Breyne Belgian journalist
- 1910 Death - Edward VII King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
- 1910 George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- 1910 King George V ascends to British throne
- 1912 Birth - Barend Roest Crollius painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth)
- 1912 Birth - Bill Quinn New York NY, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family)
- 1912 Birth - Hugh Martell British Vice Admiral
- 1913 Birth - Carmen Cavallaro New York NY, actor (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe)
- 1913 Birth - Gyula David composer
- 1913 Birth - Jack [John T] Aitken British anatomist
- 1913 Birth - Kenneth Horne English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire
- 1913 Birth - Ronald Harris British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
- 1913 Birth - Stewart Granger [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
- 1913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
- 1914 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
- 1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
- 1915 Birth - George Perle Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
- 1915 Birth - John Arnold British high court judge
- 1915 Birth - May Henriquez-Alvarez Curaao, sculptor
- 1915 Birth - Orson Welles Kenosha WI, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds)
- 1915 Birth - Theodore H White historian/writer (Making of the President)
- 1915 Birth - Theodore H White historian/writer (Making of the President)
- 1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
- 1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
- 1916 Birth - Adriana Caselotti animation voice (Show White)
- 1916 Death - Dirk Bos Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
- 1916 Death - Earl Ross Drake composer, dies at 50
- 1916 First ship-to-shore radio telephone voice conversation from USS New Hampshire off Virginia Capes to SECNAV Josephus Daniels in Washington, DC
- 1918 Birth - Godfrey Ridout composer
- 1918 Birth - Sydney Chatton England
- 1919 Birth - Frank Ereaut Balliff of Jersey
- 1919 Death - Frank Lyman Baum author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
- 1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German Southwest Africa to South Africa
- 1920 Birth - John Henderson Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
- 1921 Birth - Erich Freid writer
- 1921 Birth - Freddy Randall jazz trumpeteer
- 1921 Birth - Robert Fell CEO (British Stock Exchange)
- 1922 Birth - Alan Ross editor (London Magazine)
- 1922 Birth - Carlos J Moorhead (Representative-R-CA, 1973- )
- 1922 Birth - John Ernest constructionist artist
- 1922 Birth - Pat Harder Milwaukee WI, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
- 1923 Birth - Elizabeth Sellars Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
- 1923 Birth - Guiseppe Martelli physicist
- 1924 Birth - Mimi Benzell Bridgeport CT, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
- 1924 Death - Carel S Adama van Scheltema poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
- 1925 Birth - Patrick Meany CEO (Rank Organization)
- 1926 Birth - John Hamilton-Jones CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Major-General
- 1926 Birth - Marguerite Piazza New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway)
- 1926 Birth - [Martin] Ross Hunter Cleveland OH, actor (Ever Since Paris)
- 1927 Birth - Ettore Manni Rome Italy, actor (Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell)
- 1927 Birth - Michael Frederick cricketer (one Test West Indies vs England 1954, scored 0 & 30)
- 1929 Birth - John Polk Allen Carnegie OK, CEO (Biosphere 2)
- 1929 Birth - John Taylor bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
- 1929 Birth - Rosemary Camp president (Council for British Archaeology)
- 1931 Birth - Marvin Leath (Representative-D-TX, 1979- )
- 1931 Birth - Willie Mays Westfield AL, Hall of Fame baseball centerfielder, "Say Hey Kid" (New York Giants, New York Mets, 660 homeruns, National League MVP 1954)
- 1932 Birth - Gunther Hauk composer
- 1932 Birth - John Bond cricket umpire
- 1932 Birth - Viscount Coke English large landowner/art collector
- 1933 Birth - Lord Pender
- 1933 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
- 1934 Birth - Richard C Shelby (Representative-D-AL (1979-86)/Senator-D-AL, 1987- )
- 1935 British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee
- 1935 New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- 1936 Birth - Joanna Dunham actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood)
- 1936 Birth - Sylvia Robinson rocker (Mickey & Sylvia-Love is Strange)
- 1936 Death - Hans Jelmoli composer, dies at 59
- 1937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst NJ (36 die, captured on film and radio live)
- 1937 Hindenberg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenberg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
- 1938 Birth - Eleanor Platt QC
- 1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)
- 1939 Birth - Anthony Blacker master-general of Ordnance
- 1939 Birth - Herbie Cox rocker (Cleftones)
- 1939 Birth - Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina Russian cosmonaut
- 1940 Birth - Henry Habibe Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi)
- 1940 Birth - Murray Sidlin Baltimore MD, conductor (National Symphony 1973-77)
- 1940 John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
- 1941 At California's March Field Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
- 1941 Birth - Fred J Eckert (Representative-D-NY, 1985-87)
- 1941 Birth - Ghena Dimitrova actress (Nabucco)
- 1941 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
- 1942 Birth - Colin Earl rocker
- 1942 CAPT Milton Miles arrives in Chungking, China, to begin building an intelligence and guerilla training organization, Naval Group China
- 1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
- 1942 World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
- 1943 British first army opens assault on Tunis
- 1945 Birth - Bob Seger Dearborn MI, rocker (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
- 1945 Birth - Richard Eyers Los Angeles CA, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)
- 1945 Birth - Victoria Bond composer
- 1945 General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
- 1945 German troops north of Italy surrender to General Devers of the U.S. 7th Army division.
- 1945 Naval landing force evacuates 500 Marshallese from Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands
- 1945 Tarakan town and airstrip captured
- 1945 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
- 1945 World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
- 1946 Birth - Jim Ramstad (Representative-R-MN)
- 1946 Birth - Sydne Rome Akron OH, actress (What?, Candy)
- 1947 Birth - Andy Roberts cricketer (New Zealand batsman 1976)
- 1947 Birth - Ben Masters Corvalis OR, actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr Right)
- 1947 Birth - Dennis Cowan London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
- 1947 Birth - Richard "Dick" Fosbury Portland OR, high jumper (Olympics-gold-68)
- 1947 Birth - Sandra Fisher painter
- 1948 Birth - Lolita [Abrzame] Spanish singer (Esprame)
- 1948 Birth - Richard Cox New York NY, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
- 1948 Death - 43 communist rebels executed in Athens
- 1949 Birth - David Cornell Leestma Muskegon MI, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)
- 1949 Death - A L Ochse cricketer (10 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa 1927-29), dies
- 1949 Death - P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86
- 1950 Birth - Robbie McIntosh drummer (Average White Band-Show your Hand)
- 1950 Death - Agnes Smedley writer, dies
- 1950 Liz Taylor's first marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
- 1952 Birth - Chiaki Naito-Mukai Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut (STS 65, 95)
- 1952 Death - Alberto Savinio Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
- 1952 Death - Maria Montessori Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
- 1953 Birth - Lynn Whitfield Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
- 1953 Birth - Tony Blair British PM (Labour, 1997- )
- 1954 Birth - Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky Russia, cosmonaut
- 1954 Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1954 Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
- 1955 Birth - Donald A Thomas Cleveland OH, PhD/Astronaut (STS 65, 70, 83, 94)
- 1955 Birth - John Hutton MP
- 1955 West Germany joins NATO
- 1957 Italian Government of Segni resigns
- 1957 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
- 1958 Visitor posting - a baby boy named Rex Faulkner entered the world - Australia
- 1959 Birth - Aidan Quinn actor (Avalon, Crusoe, Desperately Seeking Susan)
- 1959 Birth - Charles Hendry MP
- 1959 Birth - Eric D Fingerhut (Representative-D-OH)
- 1959 Birth - Kate Collins Boston MA, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
- 1959 Birth - Scott Hood Seattle WA, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Montana Open-2nd)
- 1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
- 1960 Birth - Bart de Boer Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green)
- 1960 Birth - Julianne Phillips Lake Oswego OR, actress (Frankie Reed-Sisters)
- 1960 Birth - Larry Steinbacheck keyboardist (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
- 1960 Birth - Larry Steinbachek rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
- 1960 Death - Paul Abraham Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
- 1960 England's Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
- 1960 More than 20 million viewers watch the first ever televised royal wedding service when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
- 1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
- 1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), freed in México
- 1961 Birth - Clay O'Brien Ray AZ, actor (Weedy-The Cowboys)
- 1961 Birth - George Clooney Lexington KY, actor (Dr Douglas Ross-ER, Batman)
- 1961 Birth - Roma Downey Derry Ire, actress (1 Life to Live, Touched by an Angel)
- 1961 Death - Lucian Blaga philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
- 1962 Antonio Segni elected President of Italy
- 1962 Birth - Neil Foster cricketer (England right-fast medium)
- 1962 First nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
- 1962 Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos
- 1962 St. Martn de Porres becomes canonized by Pope John XXIII.
- 1963 Birth - Alessandra Ferri British ballerina (American Ballet Theater)
- 1963 Death - Monty Wooley actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
- 1964 Birth - Dana Hill Van Nuys CA, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
- 1964 Birth - Dana Hill [Goetz] Van Nuys CA, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
- 1964 Birth - Kim Oden Irvine CA, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-80s)
- 1964 Birth - Mike Grob Billings MT, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Manitoba-3rd)
- 1964 Birth - Mike McGruder NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
- 1964 Birth - Roma Downey Derry Ireland, actress (JoAnna-One Life to Live)
- 1964 Death - Harold Morris composer, dies at 74
- 1965 Birth - Bob Bassen Calgary, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
- 1965 Birth - Ken Harvey NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
- 1965 Birth - Norman Whiteside British soccer player
- 1965 Birth - Paul Frase NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
- 1965 Birth - Tim Simpson Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1985 Southern Open)
- 1965 Birth - Zahid Sadiq cricketer
- 1966 Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
- 1966 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
- 1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
- 1967 Birth - Patrick F Manning Jr Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympics-92)
- 1967 Zakir Hussain elected first Moslem President of India
- 1968 Battle between students & troops in Paris France, 1000 injured
- 1968 Birth - Andy Kelly WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
- 1968 Birth - Linnea Marie Fayard Shreveport LA, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
- 1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
- 1969 Birth - Mark Thomas NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears)
- 1969 Birth - Pascall Davis WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
- 1970 Birth - Emerson Martin NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, Packers)
- 1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mount Everest
- 1971 Birth - Rob Holmberg NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
- 1971 Death - Helene Weigel Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
- 1972 Birth - Dean Larsson British Columbia Canada, Nike golfer (1994 Monterey Open-46th)
- 1972 Birth - Martin Brodeur Montral, NHL goalie (New Jersey Devils, Team Canada)
- 1972 In the second most active dog-fight day of the war, Navy flyers shot down two iG-17s and two MiG-21s.
- 1973 Birth - Clay Williams OL (Indianapolis Colts)
- 1973 Birth - Joe Spiteri Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
- 1973 Birth - Wendy Ward San Antonio TX, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Classic-15th)
- 1973 Death - Ernest MacMillan composer, dies at 79
- 1974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis OR
- 1974 Visitor posting - Anil Elachappilly Birth (youngest indian poet)
- 1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
- 1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello ID
- 1975 Death - Jzsef Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83
- 1975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha NE
- 1976 Birth - Lindsay Page Madison WI, figure skater (1997 E Great Lakes Senior-3rd)
- 1976 Death - Karel Cruysberghs Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
- 1977 "Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl" released in UK
- 1977 Birth - Gabriela Aguilar Miss Costa Rica Universe (1997)
- 1977 Birth - Shannon Shakespeare Mission British Columbia, 100 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
- 1977 Birth - Trent Steed Sydney New South Wales Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
- 1978 Death - Ethelda Bleibtrey US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 76
- 1978 Death - Ko van Dijk Jr Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
- 1978 South Africa military goes into Angola
- 1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph over 200 meters
- 1980 Birth - Brooke Bennett 800 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
- 1980 Birth - Kasumi Takahashi Tokyo Japan, Australian rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
- 1981 A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
- 1981 US expels Libyan diplomats
- 1982 Death - Sam Baker dies
- 1982 Visitor posting - Joshua Paul Smith born in Portland, OR - later to become amazing father of Maggie Christine Smith and loving husband of Sarah Christine Smith - USA
- 1983 The Hitler diaries were revealed as a hoax when experts examined the books and concluded that they were fake.
- 1984 José Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
- 1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards Air Force Base
- 1986 Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup
- 1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes first native American bishop
- 1987 Death - William J Casey director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
- 1987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
- 1987 Mario Andretti sets the one-lap speed record at Indianapolis 500 at 218.204 MPH
- 1987 PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God
- 1988 An airplane going from Namsos to Brnnysund in Norway crashes into the side of the Torghatten mountain, killing all 36 passengers and crew.
- 1989 Death - Guy Williams actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies at 65
- 1990 Death - Charles Farrell actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
- 1990 Former President PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
- 1990 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in South Carolina
- 1991 Death - Anthony van Kampen writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
- 1991 Death - Chucky Mullins US soccer player, dies
- 1991 Death - Thomas A Carlin dies at 62
- 1991 Death - Wilfrid Hyde-White British actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
- 1991 Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees
- 1992 Death - Jilly Rizzo restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75
- 1992 Death - Marlene Dietrich [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90
- 1992 Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II
- 1993 Death - Ann Todd actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84
- 1993 Death - Minnie Gentry actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at 77
- 1993 STS-55 (Columbia) lands
- 1994 Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
- 1994 Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show
- 1994 Death - Fred Sadoff actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
- 1994 Death - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
- 1994 Death - Helen Lessore artist, dies at 86
- 1994 Death - Montague Modlyn broadcaster, dies at 72
- 1994 Death - Moses Rosen Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
- 1994 Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991.
- 1994 House passes the assault weapons ban
- 1994 Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1994 Visitor posting - Stephanie was born on this day! :)
- 1994 Visitor posting - Oliver Seargent's birthday - USA
- 1994 Nelson Mandela & his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa
- 1995 Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
- 1995 Death - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
- 1995 Death - Leanoard "Red" Truss R&B singer, dies at 47
- 1995 Death - Nicholas Palmer TV writer/producer, dies at 57
- 1996 Death - Frank Hercules writer, dies at 85
- 1996 Death - Geoffrey Dawes physiologist, dies at 78
- 1996 Death - Geoffrey Hodges bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
- 1996 Death - Joseph Stone lawyer, dies at 79
- 1996 Death - Leon Joseph Suenens cardinal, dies at 91
- 1996 Death - Michael Gerzon mathematician, dies at 50
- 1996 Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of President
- 1996 The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
- 1997 Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape
- 1997 Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- 1999 Visitor posting - jeremy vanvooren was born - USA
- 2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
- 2002 Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist.
- 2006 Visitor posting - May 6, 2006 David M. VeVerka was killed in Iraq
- 2008 Visitor posting - Maho was here.
- 2009 Visitor posting - May 6, 2009 Adam Thomas Bishop was born to Ashley and Randy Bishop
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