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- 0535 Death - John [Mercurius] Italian Pope (533-35), dies
- 0589 Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo
- 0685 Death - Benedict II Italian Pope (683-85), dies
- 1319 Death - Haakon V King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
- 1360 Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French
- 1429 French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orléans
- 1429 Joan of Arc raises siege of Orleans.
- 1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
- 1492 Birth - Andreas Alciatus [Giovanni Andrea-Alciato], Italian lawyer
- 1521 Birth - Peter Canisius [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint
- 1521 Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther
- 1527 Birth - Johann Walter composer
- 1541 Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Ro de Espritu Santo.
- 1541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River in what will later be part of the southeastern United States
- 1577 Death - Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
- 1592 Birth - Francis Quarles English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems)
- 1624 Hung king Bethlen Gábor & emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
- 1629 Birth - Niels Juel Danish Admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjgebocht)
- 1639 William Coddington founds Newport RI
- 1641 Birth - Nicolaas Witsen etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
- 1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns
- 1668 Birth - Alain R Lesage French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
- 1673 Birth - Johann Valentin Eckelt composer
- 1684 Death - Henri Dumont composer, dies
- 1703 Birth - Gottlob Harrer composer
- 1721 Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
- 1725 Death - John Lovewell US Indian fighter, dies in battle
- 1737 Birth - Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire)
- 1742 Birth - Johann Baptist Krumpholtz composer
- 1745 Birth - Carl Philipp Stamitz composer
- 1750 Birth - Elias Mann composer
- 1753 Birth - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla father of Mexican independence
- 1763 Birth - John Goldberg Dutch patriot/statesman
- 1773 Death - Ali Bey Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
- 1778 Birth - Johann Gansbacher composer
- 1784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
- 1785 Death - Pietro Longhi painter, dies
- 1786 Birth - Thomas Hancock founded British rubber industry
- 1792 British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier WA
- 1792 US establishes military draft
- 1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Gnrale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.
- 1794 Death - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
- 1803 Birth - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova composer
- 1806 Birth - Jan Bedrich Kittl composer
- 1809 Death - Augustin Pajou French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78
- 1810 Birth - James Cooper Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
- 1814 Birth - Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin anarchist
- 1818 Death - Franz Ignaz Kaa composer, dies at 78
- 1823 "Home Sweet Home" first sung (London)
- 1824 Birth - William Walker filibuster/President of Nicaragua (1856-57)
- 1828 Birth - Jean Henri Dunant Switzerland, writer/founder (Red Cross (Nobel Peace Prize 1901))
- 1829 Birth - Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1st internationally recognized US pianist
- 1829 Death - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani composer, dies at 47
- 1833 Birth - Frank Wheaton Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
- 1834 Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
- 1836 Birth - Bryan Morel Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
- 1839 Birth - Francis W Warre-Cornish English vice-provost of Eton/writer
- 1840 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
- 1842 Birth - Emil C Hansen Danish physiologist
- 1842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
- 1844 Birth - Hermann Gradener composer
- 1844 Death - Charles XIV Johan [Jean B Bernadotte] King of Sweden/Norway, dies
- 1846 American General Zachary Taylor's forces win the first major battle of the Mexican War at Palo Alto, TX
- 1846 Birth - Oscar Hammerstein Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
- 1846 Death - Giacomo Cordella composer, dies at 59
- 1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
- 1853 Birth - Charles Lee Williams composer
- 1853 Death - Joannes P Roothaan 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel-General of Jesuits, dies at 67
- 1857 Birth - Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud Dutch actor/husband of Alida Klein
- 1858 Birth - John Meade Falkner novelist (Moonfleet)
- 1858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
- 1861 American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1861 Death - Lsel Teleki Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide
- 1861 Richmond VA, is named the capital of the Confederacy
- 1862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell VA
- 1863 Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
- 1864 Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway Bridge VA (Drewry's Bluff)
- 1864 Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton
- 1864 Battle of Antietam VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)
- 1864 Death - James Samuel Wadsworth General-Major (Union), dies in battle at 56
- 1866 Australian Rules Football is created and I still do not understand the game, sorry all you Aussie's
- 1871 Birth - [mile M] Louis Madelin French historian (French revolutionary)
- 1871 English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
- 1873 Birth - Henry Leveson-Gower cricketer (England captain 1909-10 later official)
- 1873 Death - John Stuart Mill great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
- 1876 Death - Truganini last originating Tasmanian, dies
- 1877 At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens (ends May 11).
- 1877 The first Westminster Dog Show held
- 1879 George Selden files for first patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
- 1880 Death - Gustave Flaubert French writer (Salammb), dies
- 1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
- 1882 Birth - Philips C Visser Dutch explorer/diplomat
- 1884 Birth - Harry S Truman Lamar MO, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953)
- 1884 Harry S Truman, later to become the 33rd president of the United States, is born near Lamar, MO
- 1885 Death - Pavel Krizkovsky composer, dies at 65
- 1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-meter jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, England
- 1886 Atlanta pharmacist (Jacob's Pharmacy) Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained cocaine)
- 1886 Birth - Jef van Hoof composer
- 1886 Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named "Coca-Cola".
- 1887 Death - Alexander Ulyanov brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
- 1891 Birth - Chet "Red" Hoff pitcher (New York Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+
- 1891 Death - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky Russian theosophist, dies
- 1892 Birth - Ezio Pinza Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
- 1893 Birth - Francis Quimet Massachusetts shop assistant who won golf's US Open (1913)
- 1894 Death - Klara Fey German orchestra leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
- 1895 Birth - Edmund Wilson American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
- 1895 Birth - Fulton J Sheen El Paso IL, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
- 1895 Birth - Jos Gmez [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
- 1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
- 1896 Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
- 1898 The first games of the Italian Football League are played.
- 1899 Birth - Friedrich August von Hayek Vienna Austria, author (The Road to Serfdom)/co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1974)
- 1899 Birth - Jan F van Hall Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
- 1899 The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
- 1900 250 grave robbers shot to death
- 1900 Galveston TX, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die
- 1902 Birth - Andre Michel Lwoff physiologist
- 1902 Birth - Milford "Curly" Page cricketer (New Zealand bat early 1930's, All Black half)
- 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pele erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
- 1902 Mount Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
- 1903 Birth - Fernandel [Fernand Joseph Desire Contandin] French actor (Paris Holiday)
- 1903 Death - Eugne-Henri-Paul Gauguin French painter (Tahiti), dies
- 1904 Birth - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge BBC news announcer/commentator
- 1904 Death - Eadweard Muybridge English photographer (horse trot), dies
- 1905 Birth - Inglis Gundry composer
- 1906 Birth - David Van Vactor Plymouth IN, composer (Chaconne)
- 1906 Birth - Roberto Rossellini Rome Italy, director (Open City)
- 1907 Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1908 Birth - Arturo De Cordova [Rodriguez], Merida Mxico, actor (Medal for Benny)
- 1909 Death - Friedrich von Holstein German diplomat, dies
- 1910 Birth - Mary Lou Williams US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
- 1910 Birth - Ronald Russell actor/manager (We are Angels, Little Dorrit)
- 1911 Birth - Robert Johnson blues singer (King of the Delta Blues Singer)
- 1911 Birth - Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman Dutch lawyer/foreign minister
- 1911 Navy ordered its first airplane, Curtiss A-1, Birthday of Naval Aviation
- 1912 Birth - George Woodcock author
- 1912 Birth - Gertrud Fussenegger [Dorn] Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende)
- 1913 Birth - Sidney James [Cohen] Johannesburg, actor (Carry On)
- 1914 Birth - Lord Murton of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman (Comm House of Lords)
- 1914 Paramount Pictures is formed.
- 1915 Australian 2nd Brigade and New Zealand Brigade in Battle of Krithia
- 1915 Birth - John Archer Osceola NE, actor (Destination Moon)
- 1915 Death - Henry McNeal Turner 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
- 1915 Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's account of the Gallipoli landing published in Australia
- 1916 Birth - Gordon Scarrott engineer
- 1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
- 1919 Appingedam soccer team forms
- 1919 Birth - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov composer
- 1919 Edward George Honey first proposed the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later resulted in the creation of Remembrance Day.
- 1920 Birth - Maurice Cranston political scientist
- 1920 Birth - Sloan Wilson Norwalk CT, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannel Suit)
- 1921 Birth - Graham Leonard bishop of London
- 1921 Birth - Saul Bass designer
- 1921 Sweden abolished capital punishment
- 1922 Birth - Brian Kellett CEO (Port of London Authority)
- 1922 Birth - Friedrich Dppe writer
- 1923 Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116 vs Somerset at Bath
- 1924 Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231" premieres
- 1924 Birth - Tristan Jones sailor
- 1924 Death - Lev N Lunts Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
- 1924 Memel territories given to Lithuania
- 1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
- 1925 Birth - Ali Hassan Mwinyi President of Tanzania (1985- )
- 1925 Birth - Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle lord of appeal in ordinary
- 1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
- 1926 Birth - Don Rickles Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
- 1926 Birth - Erico Menczer Fiume Italy, cinematographer (Chosen, Miranda)
- 1926 Birth - Ronald Waterhouse high court judge
- 1926 Birth - Sir David [Frederick] Attenborough London England, environmentalist/zoologist/TV host (BBC)
- 1926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
- 1926 The first flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
- 1927 Birth - Ian Denholm CEO (Murray Investment Trust)
- 1927 Birth - Philip Wilkinson deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank)
- 1928 Birth - Theodore Sorensen presidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
- 1928 Birth - William Jay Sydeman composer
- 1929 Birth - V N M Korte-van Hemel Dutch Secretary of Justice (CDA)
- 1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
- 1930 Birth - Doug Atkins Humbolt TN, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
- 1930 Birth - Gary Snyder [Japhy Ryder] beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
- 1930 Birth - Heather Harper soprano
- 1930 Death - Lvar Henning Mankell composer, dies at 61
- 1931 Birth - Charles M Wilson composer
- 1932 Death - Albert Thomas French socialist politician
- 1933 Birth - Alistair Service writer/publisher
- 1933 Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest of British oppression in India.
- 1934 Birth - Leonard Hoffmann high court judge
- 1934 Birth - Roger Kendrick governor (Dartmoor Prison)
- 1934 Birth - Sonny Liston US heavyweight boxing chmap (1962-64)
- 1935 Birth - Jack Charlton soccer manager (Republic of Ireland)
- 1935 Birth - Salome Jens Milwaukee WI, actress (From Here to Eternity)
- 1935 Birth - Viscount Falkland British peer (Liberal-Democrat)
- 1936 Birth - James Darren actor (Time Tunnel)
- 1936 Birth - Neville Purvis British Vice Admiral (Chief of Fleet Support)
- 1936 Death - Oswald Spengler German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
- 1937 Birth - Danil Robberechts Belgian writer (Labia Majora)
- 1937 Birth - Dennis DeConcini (Senator-D-AZ, 1977- )
- 1937 Birth - Michael Simmons Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense)
- 1937 Birth - Thomas Pynchon novelist (V)
- 1938 Birth - Javed Burki cricketer (Pakistan batsman in 25 Tests 1960-69)
- 1938 Birth - Pierre Lucien Claverie bishop of Oran
- 1939 Birth - Otis Paul Drayton Glen Cove NY, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1964)
- 1940 Birth - James Blyth CEO (Boots)
- 1940 Birth - Peter Benchley New York NY, novelist (Jaws, The Deep)
- 1940 Birth - Rick [Eric Hilliard] Nelson Teaneck NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
- 1941 Birth - James A Traficant Jr (Representative-D-OH, 1985- )
- 1941 Birth - Jim Mitchum Bridgeport CT, actor (Blackout, Invincible 6)
- 1941 Birth - John Fred rocker
- 1941 Death - Heinrich Zollner composer, dies at 86
- 1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
- 1942 Birth - Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
- 1942 Birth - Norman Lamont MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
- 1942 Birth - Robin Hobbs cricketer (England leg-spinner 1967-71)
- 1942 Birth - Ruth Holland journalist
- 1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
- 1942 HMS OLYMPUS, sunk off Malta Grand Harbour - German E-boat-laid mines. On passage with personnel from Malta to Gibraltar, including many of the crews of bombed submarines P.36 and P.39; few survivors
- 1942 World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
- 1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet orders: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
- 1943 Birth - Paul Samwell-Smith London England, rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love)
- 1943 Birth - Toni Tennille Montgomery AL, female Beachboy (Captain & Tennille)
- 1943 Death - Mordicai Anielewicz commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
- 1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
- 1944 Birth - Gary Glitter [Paul Gadd] Banbury Oxfordshire England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
- 1944 The first eye bank is established in New York City
- 1944 U-575 sinks Asphodel
- 1945 Birth - Arthur Docters van Leeuwen jurist (Holland's secret service)
- 1945 Birth - Keith Jarrett jazz musician/film composer (Nachtfahrer)
- 1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
- 1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
- 1945 Combat in Europe ends in World War II: VE Day. German forces agree to an unconditional surrender.
- 1945 End of the Prague uprising, today still celebrated as national holiday in the Czech Republic
- 1945 General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin
- 1945 Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Stif massacre.
- 1945 In Berlin, the unconditional surrender is ratified, marking an end to twelve and a half years of the Nazi Third Reich.
- 1946 The Estonian school girls Aili Jgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
- 1947 Birth - Felicity Lott English soprano (We come to the river)
- 1947 Birth - Phil Sawyer rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
- 1947 Birth - Rick Zehringer Celina OH, rocker (McCoys)
- 1948 Birth - John Reid MP
- 1948 Birth - Maurizio Nichetti actor (Icicle Thief, Volcano)
- 1948 Bradman scores 146 Australia vs Surrey, 174 minutes, 15 fours
- 1948 Death - Alfred Holy composer, dies at 81
- 1949 West German constitution approved
- 1950 Birth - Mark Blankfield Pasadena TX, comedian (Fridays, Good & Evil)
- 1950 Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
- 1950 Death - Franklin Dyall dies at 76
- 1951 Birth - Chris Frantz Fort Campbell KY, rock drummer (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
- 1951 Birth - Deborah Harmon actress (Ted Knight Show, MASH, Just the 10 of Us)
- 1951 Birth - Philip Bailey rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
- 1951 Dacron men's suits introduced and we live to regret it
- 1952 Birth - Beth Henley Jackson MS, actress/playwright (Miss Firecracker)
- 1952 Birth - Charles J Camarda New York NY, PhD/astronaut
- 1952 Mad Magazine debuts Great Magazine sure wish I still had the first issue, but mon garbaged it
- 1954 Birth - David Keith Knoxville TN, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter)
- 1954 Birth - Pat Meyers LPGA golfer
- 1955 Birth - Alex Van Halen Nijmegen Netherlands, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
- 1955 Birth - Stephen Furst Norfolk VA, actor (Animal House, Elliot-St Elsewhere)
- 1956 Birth - Gary Wilmot British? entertainer
- 1956 Birth - Jeff Madrigali Walnut Creek CA, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-96)
- 1957 Birth - Deana Deardruff US, 4 X 100 meter swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972)
- 1957 Birth - Jeff Wincott Toronto Ontario Canada, actor (Night Heat)
- 1957 Death - Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters Dutch painter, dies at 75
- 1958 Death - Nasni Matni Lebanese journalist, murdered
- 1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
- 1958 Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
- 1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore
- 1959 Birth - Ronnie Lott Albuquerque NM, NFL defensive back (San Fransisco 49er)
- 1959 Death - Renato Caccioppoli Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
- 1960 Death - Hugo Alfven Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
- 1960 USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
- 1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
- 1961 Birth - Riaz Poonawalla cricketer (Indian 12th man/UAE bat 1994 ICC Trophy)
- 1961 Death - James Fairfax actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
- 1961 The first practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport TX
- 1962 Birth - Terry Baker CFL kicker (Montral Alouettes)
- 1962 London trolley buses go out of service
- 1962 The first Atlas Centaur Launch
- 1963 "Dr No" premieres in US 007 reigns supreme for over 40 years
- 1963 Birth - Clemens Lothaller Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup)
- 1963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
- 1963 Navy ships evacuate 2,279 civilians from Haiti during crisis.
- 1964 Birth - Cheryl Richardson Palo Alto CA, actress (Jennie-General Hospital)
- 1964 Birth - Eric Brittingham rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
- 1964 Birth - Melissa Gilbert [Boxleitner/Brinkman] Los Angeles CA, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
- 1964 Birth - Peter Gill rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or Mar/Jan 8]
- 1965 Death - H T W Hardinge cricketer (scored 25 & 5 in only Test for England), dies
- 1965 Theta Chi Fraternity was established at California State University, Long Beach, Zeta Epsilon Chapter.
- 1966 Birth - Eddie Brown CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
- 1966 Only homerun ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (Frank Robinson)
- 1967 Death - Barbara Payton actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39
- 1967 Death - Elmer Rice New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74
- 1967 Death - Laverne Andrews singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51
- 1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
- 1967 The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- 1968 Birth - Franklin Langham Augusta GA, Nike golfer (1993 Permian Basin Open)
- 1968 Birth - John Johnson NFL linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
- 1968 Birth - Omar Camporese Italy, tennis star
- 1969 Birth - Brad Culpepper NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
- 1969 Birth - Duane Forde CFL fullback (Calgary Stampeders)
- 1969 Birth - Swift Burch CFL defensive end (Montral Alouettes)
- 1969 Cambodia recognizes German Democratic Republic
- 1970 200,000 Australians participate in antiwar demonstrations (Vietnam)
- 1970 Birth - Christine Stark Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
- 1970 Birth - Marco Heering soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
- 1970 Birth - Michael Bevan cricketer (dashing New South Wales & Australian lefty bat)
- 1970 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
- 1970 The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
- 1971 Birth - Carlos Brooks NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
- 1971 Birth - Chris Wolf actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
- 1971 Birth - Stephen Ingram NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
- 1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden
- 1972 Birth - Chris Sanders NFL wide receiver (Tennessee/Houston Oilers)
- 1972 Birth - Keelin Curnuck Miss New York USA (1996)/Ms Venus Swimwear (1994)
- 1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
- 1972 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft mine Haiphong Harbor in North Vietnam.
- 1972 Vietnam War U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
- 1973 A 71-day standoff, between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
- 1973 Birth - Wolf Wigo Abington PA, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
- 1973 Death - Ralph Miller last 19th century baseball player, dies
- 1973 Indians holding South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
- 1974 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
- 1974 Birth - Calvin Branch cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
- 1974 Birth - Colin Daynes Windsor Ontario, 68 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
- 1974 Birth - Korey Stringer NFL tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
- 1974 Canadian Government of Trudeau falls
- 1974 Death - Graham Bond rocker, dies jumping under a train
- 1975 Death - Avery Brundage CEO (International Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87
- 1975 Visitor posting - MAY 8 1975 SHERRIKA SIDWELL WAS BORN
- 1976 Birth - Oleg Tverdovsky Donetsk Ukr, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
- 1976 Death - Alan Baxter dies at 67
- 1976 Death - Ulrike Meinhof lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
- 1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Abba - Fernando
- 1977 David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
- 1978 Birth - Cindy Parlow Memphis TN, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
- 1978 Birth - Sandra Kleinova Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1995 Futures-Turku-Finland)
- 1978 Visitor posting - Imran Kelly was born - United Kingdom
- 1979 Birth - Jayna Cronin Geneva NY, dance skater (& Dreger-1997 National-13th)
- 1979 Death - Talcott Parsons US sociologist, dies at 76
- 1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
- 1980 Visitor posting - Adam Horton was born :-) - USA
- 1981 Death - Daniel Gills Belgian writer, dies at 64
- 1981 Death - Margaret Lindsay actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies from emphysema at 40
- 1981 Death - Maurice Fernandes cricket captain (West Indies in 1st Test win, 1930 vs England), dies
- 1982 Death - Gilles Villeneuve Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident
- 1982 Formula One pilot Gilles Villeneuve dies in a crash during practice for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.
- 1984 Cpl. Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. Ren Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
- 1984 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
- 1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win
- 1985 Death - Dolph Sweet actor (Gimme a Break, Gil McGowan-Another World), dies of cancer at 64
- 1985 Death - Edmond O'Brien actor (Sam Benedict), dies at 69 of Alzheimer's disease
- 1985 Death - Karl Marx German composer/conductor, dies at 87
- 1987 Death - Pam Ewing (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
- 1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
- 1987 The SAS carries out the Loughgall ambush.
- 1988 A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggered an extended 1AESS outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' is still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.
- 1988 Death - Robert A Heinlein sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80
- 1988 François Mitterrand elected President of France
- 1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC
- 1989 Visitor posting - Levi was born...An AMAZING baby boy!!!
- 1990 Death - Tomas O'Fiach [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
- 1990 Visitor posting - May 8 1990 Amber Tamm was born to Bill and Pam Tamm
- 1991 CIA director William H Webster resigns
- 1991 Death - Jean Langlais composer, dies at 84
- 1991 Death - Lloyd Ford stuntman, dies at 79
- 1991 Death - Ronnie Brody British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72
- 1992 Death - Addeke H Boerma director-general (FAO), dies at 80
- 1992 Death - Brian Moore writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59
- 1992 Death - Gul Mahomed cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies
- 1992 Death - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink author (Fear on Java), dies
- 1992 Death - Richard Derr actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
- 1992 Visitor posting - Steve and Bonnie are married
- 1992 Visitor posting - Braylyn Cotter was born to Judy and Mark Cotter. :)
- 1993 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
- 1993 Death - Kees Deenik singer/conductor
- 1993 Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
- 1994 Death - Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar peace activist, dies at 88
- 1994 Death - George Peppard actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65
- 1994 Death - Rupert Haselden journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
- 1994 Death - Steven Keats actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
- 1994 Ernesto Pérez Balladares elected President of Panama
- 1994 José Maria Figueres becomes President of Costa Rica
- 1995 Death - Carroll Best bluegrass banjo, dies at 63
- 1995 Death - Jerry Zipkin socialite, dies at 80
- 1995 Death - Prem Bhatia journalist, dies at 83
- 1995 Death - Teresa Teng singer, dies at 41
- 1995 Visitor posting - Scott Nevet was born and Emma Kennedy had another child soon to have 1 more
- 1996 Death - Jane Cowan cello teacher, dies at 80
- 1996 Death - Luis Miguel Domiguin bullfighter, dies at 69
- 1996 Death - Serge Chermayeff architect/designer, dies at 95
- 1996 South Africa's Const Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution
- 1996 The Constitutional Assembly of South Africa ratifies the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. Considered one of the most liberal Constitutions in the world regarding Human Rights.
- 1997 Death - Kai-Uwe Von Hassel German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies
- 1997 Visitor posting - Vinay Patel born - USA
- 1997 Tea Leoni & David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village
- 1997 Visitor posting - May 8 1997 Jake Wooldredge is born
- 1998 Visitor posting - Sienna Collette Walaszek was born
- 1999 Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
- 2005 The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.
- 2007 A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fin as Deputy First Minister.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Christian Cotay was born to proud parents Alexis & Tracy
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