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| Date | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.5.1006 | Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus | |
| 1.5.1048 | Bishop Bernold flees St. Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth | |
| 1.5.1394 | "Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple and it's surroundings from an old badger" | |
| 1.5.1523 | Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere | |
| 1.5.1528 | Panfilo the Narvaez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida | |
| 1.5.1544 | Turkish troops occupy Hungary | |
| 1.5.1551 | Council of Trente resumes | |
| 1.5.1598 | Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java | |
| 1.5.1625 | Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia) | |
| 1.5.1625 | Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland | |
| 1.5.1628 | Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women | |
| 1.5.1682 | Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory | |
| 1.5.1703 | Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians | |
| 1.5.1704 | Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad | |
| 1.5.1707 | "England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain" | |
| 1.5.1711 | Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar | |
| 1.5.1715 | Prussia declares war on Sweden | |
| 1.5.1725 | Spain and Austria sign trade treaty | |
| 1.5.1751 | 1st American cricket match is played | |
| 1.5.1756 | France and Austria sign alliance | |
| 1.5.1757 | Austria and France divide Prussia | |
| 1.5.1759 | "British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France" | |
| 1.5.1776 | Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati | |
| 1.5.1777 | "RB Sheridans ""School for Scandal,"" premieres in London" | |
| 1.5.1781 | Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population | |
| 1.5.1786 | "Mozart's opera ""Marriage of Figaro"" premieres in Wien (Vienna)" | |
| 1.5.1822 | John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston | |
| 1.5.1834 | Belgian parliament accept railway laws | |
| 1.5.1840 | "1st adhesive postage stamps (""Penny Blacks"" from England) issued" | |
| 1.5.1841 | "1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California" | |
| 1.5.1844 | Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message | |
| 1.5.1844 | Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate | |
| 1.5.1846 | Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world | |
| 1.5.1850 | John Geary becomes 1st San Francisco mayor | |
| 1.5.1851 | Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London | |
| 1.5.1853 | Argentina adopts it's constitution | |
| 1.5.1854 | Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes | |
| 1.5.1857 | "William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy" | |
| 1.5.1861 | Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry | |
| 1.5.1862 | Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans | |
| 1.5.1863 | "Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (29,000 injured or died)" | |
| 1.5.1863 | "Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi" | |
| 1.5.1863 | "Confederate ""National Flag"" replaces ""Stars and Bars""" | |
| 1.5.1863 | Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers | |
| 1.5.1864 | "Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)" | |
| 1.5.1866 | American Equal Rights Association forms | |
| 1.5.1867 | Howard University chartered | |
| 1.5.1867 | "Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration" | |
| 1.5.1869 | Folies Bergere opens in Paris | |
| 1.5.1873 | 1st U.S. postal card issued | |
| 1.5.1873 | Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna | |
| 1.5.1873 | International Exhibition opens in Vienna | |
| 1.5.1875 | "238 members of ""Whiskey Ring"" accused of anti-US activities" | |
| 1.5.1883 | Amsterdam World's Fair opens | |
| 1.5.1883 | "Baseball returns to Philadelphia, 1st NL game since 1876" | |
| 1.5.1883 | """Buffalo Bill"" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show" | |
| 1.5.1883 | New York Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer | |
| 1.5.1884 | Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) | |
| 1.5.1884 | Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league | |
| 1.5.1885 | "Maria ""Goeie Mie"" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth" | |
| 1.5.1886 | "U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins" | |
| 1.5.1889 | "1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International" | |
| 1.5.1889 | Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) | |
| 1.5.1891 | "Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3" | |
| 1.5.1892 | "U.S. Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay" | |
| 1.5.1893 | World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago | |
| 1.5.1898 | "George Dewey commands, ""You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"" as U.S. route Spanish fleet at Manila" | |
| 1.5.1900 | "Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah" | |
| 1.5.1900 | Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond | |
| 1.5.1901 | Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox | |
| 1.5.1901 | Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League | |
| 1.5.1901 | Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo | |
| 1.5.1906 | "Phillie's John Lush no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0" | |
| 1.5.1907 | Belgium government of De Trooz forms | |
| 1.5.1907 | Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies) | |
| 1.5.1908 | "World's most intense shower (2.47"" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama" | |
| 1.5.1909 | Netherlands begins unity with Belgium | |
| 1.5.1912 | Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms | |
| 1.5.1912 | Beverly Hills Hotel opens | |
| 1.5.1913 | Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St. New York City | |
| 1.5.1914 | China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification | |
| 1.5.1915 | "British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool" | |
| 1.5.1915 | German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight | |
| 1.5.1919 | "Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages" | |
| 1.5.1920 | "Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds" | |
| 1.5.1920 | Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens | |
| 1.5.1920 | "Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings" | |
| 1.5.1921 | Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda | |
| 1.5.1922 | "Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game" | |
| 1.5.1924 | Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece | |
| 1.5.1925 | "A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single" | |
| 1.5.1925 | Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony | |
| 1.5.1926 | British coal-miners go on strike | |
| 1.5.1926 | Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings | |
| 1.5.1926 | Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League | |
| 1.5.1927 | 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) | |
| 1.5.1927 | Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam | |
| 1.5.1927 | Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen | |
| 1.5.1928 | "6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania" | |
| 1.5.1928 | Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter | |
| 1.5.1928 | Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) | |
| 1.5.1928 | Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service | |
| 1.5.1928 | Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms | |
| 1.5.1929 | Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds | |
| 1.5.1929 | Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen | |
| 1.5.1929 | Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin | |
| 1.5.1930 | "Bradman scores 236 Aust vs. Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng" | |
| 1.5.1931 | Empire State Building opens in New York City | |
| 1.5.1931 | Norway claims Peter I Island | |
| 1.5.1931 | Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS | |
| 1.5.1932 | 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo | |
| 1.5.1934 | Austria signs pact with Vatican | |
| 1.5.1934 | Philippine legislature accepts U.S. proposal for independence | |
| 1.5.1934 | Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert | |
| 1.5.1935 | Boulder Dam completed | |
| 1.5.1935 | Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated | |
| 1.5.1936 | Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades | |
| 1.5.1936 | FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis | |
| 1.5.1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality | |
| 1.5.1939 | Batman comics hit street | |
| 1.5.1939 | Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) | |
| 1.5.1940 | The 1940 Olympics are cancelled | |
| 1.5.1941 | General Mills introduces Cheerios | |
| 1.5.1941 | German assault on Tobruk | |
| 1.5.1941 | """Citizen Kane,"" directed and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York" | |
| 1.5.1942 | "Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear ""Jewish star""" | |
| 1.5.1943 | "1st edition of illegal ""The Free Artist"" appears in Amsterdam" | |
| 1.5.1943 | 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04 | |
| 1.5.1943 | Food rationing begins in U.S. | |
| 1.5.1943 | German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta | |
| 1.5.1943 | German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes | |
| 1.5.1943 | Rauter signs unofficial death sentence | |
| 1.5.1944 | "Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight" | |
| 1.5.1944 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) | |
| 1.5.1944 | "Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails" | |
| 1.5.1945 | Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government | |
| 1.5.1945 | Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan | |
| 1.5.1945 | General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms | |
| 1.5.1945 | "Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II" | |
| 1.5.1945 | Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg | |
| 1.5.1945 | Soviet army reach Rostock | |
| 1.5.1945 | "900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide" | |
| 1.5.1946 | Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander | |
| 1.5.1946 | "Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named ""American Mother of Year""" | |
| 1.5.1947 | Cleveland Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad | |
| 1.5.1947 | "Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA" | |
| 1.5.1947 | Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated | |
| 1.5.1947 | "Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA" | |
| 1.5.1948 | North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea | |
| 1.5.1948 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam | |
| 1.5.1948 | 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4 | |
| 1.5.1949 | A's Elmer Valo is 1st AL'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game | |
| 1.5.1949 | "Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)" | |
| 1.5.1950 | "Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry" | |
| 1.5.1950 | Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade | |
| 1.5.1950 | New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China | |
| 1.5.1950 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific) | |
| 1.5.1950 | "WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.5.1951 | "600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany" | |
| 1.5.1951 | Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir | |
| 1.5.1951 | Mickey Mantle's 1st HR | |
| 1.5.1951 | Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox | |
| 1.5.1952 | Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada | |
| 1.5.1952 | "Mr. Potato Head, introduced" | |
| 1.5.1952 | TWA introduces tourist class | |
| 1.5.1954 | 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03 | |
| 1.5.1954 | Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden) | |
| 1.5.1954 | HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies) | |
| 1.5.1954 | "WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting" | |
| 1.5.1955 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament | |
| 1.5.1955 | "Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)" | |
| 1.5.1957 | Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord | |
| 1.5.1957 | Larry King's 1st radio broadcast | |
| 1.5.1957 | U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million | |
| 1.5.1957 | Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km | |
| 1.5.1958 | Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai | |
| 1.5.1958 | Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina | |
| 1.5.1959 | Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 1.5.1959 | West Germany introduces 5 day work week | |
| 1.5.1959 | White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR | |
| 1.5.1960 | India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states | |
| 1.5.1960 | Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis | |
| 1.5.1960 | Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane | |
| 1.5.1961 | 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba | |
| 1.5.1961 | Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba | |
| 1.5.1961 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| 1.5.1961 | Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain | |
| 1.5.1962 | 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria | |
| 1.5.1962 | "Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start" | |
| 1.5.1962 | John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act | |
| 1.5.1963 | "1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest" | |
| 1.5.1963 | Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands | |
| 1.5.1964 | 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) | |
| 1.5.1965 | 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2 | |
| 1.5.1965 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3" | |
| 1.5.1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon | |
| 1.5.1966 | Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) | |
| 1.5.1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational | |
| 1.5.1966 | "Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting" | |
| 1.5.1966 | U.S. troops shooting targets in Cambodia | |
| 1.5.1967 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua | |
| 1.5.1967 | Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed | |
| 1.5.1967 | Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank | |
| 1.5.1967 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) | |
| 1.5.1968 | """Ben Franklin in Paris"" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 215 performances" | |
| 1.5.1968 | Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup | |
| 1.5.1969 | 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City | |
| 1.5.1969 | "Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0" | |
| 1.5.1969 | "Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000" | |
| 1.5.1971 | 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2 | |
| 1.5.1971 | Amtrak Railroad begins operation | |
| 1.5.1971 | "Rolling Stones release ""Brown Sugar""" | |
| 1.5.1972 | """Different Times"" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 24 performances" | |
| 1.5.1972 | North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee | |
| 1.5.1972 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) | |
| 1.5.1972 | Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres | |
| 1.5.1973 | "San Francisco Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7" | |
| 1.5.1975 | Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead | |
| 1.5.1976 | "102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6" | |
| 1.5.1976 | "Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2)" | |
| 1.5.1977 | Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) | |
| 1.5.1977 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic | |
| 1.5.1977 | Empress Lilly dedicated | |
| 1.5.1978 | 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated | |
| 1.5.1978 | MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht | |
| 1.5.1978 | Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone | |
| 1.5.1979 | Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel | |
| 1.5.1979 | Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) | |
| 1.5.1979 | Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing | |
| 1.5.1980 | 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins | |
| 1.5.1980 | Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff) | |
| 1.5.1980 | """Day in Hollywood, A Night..."" opens at John Golden New York City for 588 perf" | |
| 1.5.1980 | Sabres and Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff | |
| 1.5.1981 | Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett | |
| 1.5.1981 | Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges | |
| 1.5.1981 | Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 | |
| 1.5.1982 | 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4 | |
| 1.5.1982 | "1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee opens" | |
| 1.5.1982 | Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead | |
| 1.5.1983 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament | |
| 1.5.1983 | """My One and Only"" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 767 performances" | |
| 1.5.1983 | "Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)" | |
| 1.5.1984 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 1.5.1984 | Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy | |
| 1.5.1985 | """Communist"" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels" | |
| 1.5.1985 | U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua | |
| 1.5.1985 | "William Hoffman's ""As Is,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 1.5.1986 | Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph | |
| 1.5.1986 | Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap | |
| 1.5.1986 | Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole | |
| 1.5.1987 | 46 home runs hit in 13 baseball games | |
| 1.5.1987 | "Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun" | |
| 1.5.1988 | "IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3" | |
| 1.5.1988 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic | |
| 1.5.1988 | """Romance/Romance"" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 297 performances" | |
| 1.5.1989 | Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public | |
| 1.5.1989 | Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days | |
| 1.5.1989 | U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting | |
| 1.5.1990 | """Prelude to a Kiss"" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City" | |
| 1.5.1991 | A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks | |
| 1.5.1991 | Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy | |
| 1.5.1991 | Angola's civil war ends | |
| 1.5.1991 | Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge | |
| 1.5.1991 | "Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings" | |
| 1.5.1991 | "Nolan Ryan pitches his 7th no-hitter, beating Toronto" | |
| 1.5.1991 | Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal | |
| 1.5.1991 | Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0) | |
| 1.5.1991 | """Will Rogers Follies"" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 983 performances" | |
| 1.5.1992 | Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior | |
| 1.5.1992 | Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King | |
| 1.5.1992 | New York Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils) | |
| 1.5.1992 | "Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base" | |
| 1.5.1993 | 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4 | |
| 1.5.1993 | Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) | |
| 1.5.1994 | "Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman" | |
| 1.5.1994 | """My Fair Lady"" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 165 performances" | |
| 1.5.1994 | """Rise and Fall of Little Voice"" opens at Neil Simon New York City for 9 performances" | |
| 1.5.1994 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament | |
| 1.5.1994 | Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship | |
| 1.5.1994 | "Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed" | |
| 1.5.1995 | """On the Waterfront"" opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances" | |
| 1.5.1995 | Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs. WI at Sabina Park | |
| 1.5.1996 | Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game | |
| 1.5.1996 | """Ideal Husband"" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 308 performances" | |
| 1.5.1997 | "Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego, California on KIOZ 105.3 FM" | |
| 1.5.1997 | Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K. | |
| 1.5.1999 | 125th Kentucky Derby | |
| 2.5.1345 | """Quaden Maendach"" in Gent: Battles between volders and weavers" | |
| 2.5.1497 | John Cabot departs to North-America | |
| 2.5.1526 | German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League | |
| 2.5.1536 | King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest | |
| 2.5.1595 | King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Neth | |
| 2.5.1598 | France and Spain signs Peace of Vervins | |
| 2.5.1652 | Frederik Hendriks daughter Albertine Agnes marries Willem Frederik | |
| 2.5.1668 | 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands | |
| 2.5.1668 | "Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution" | |
| 2.5.1670 | King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company | |
| 2.5.1703 | Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant | |
| 2.5.1749 | "Empress Maria Theresa signs ""Haugwitzschen State reform""" | |
| 2.5.1750 | "Carlo Goldoni's ""La Botega di Caffe,"" premieres in Mantua" | |
| 2.5.1776 | France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels | |
| 2.5.1780 | "William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris" | |
| 2.5.1808 | Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid | |
| 2.5.1824 | Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald) | |
| 2.5.1833 | Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs | |
| 2.5.1845 | "Domingo Sarmiento publishes ""Civilizacion y Barbarie""" | |
| 2.5.1853 | Franconi's Hippodrome opens (New York City) | |
| 2.5.1863 | "South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia" | |
| 2.5.1863 | "Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men" | |
| 2.5.1865 | "President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis" | |
| 2.5.1876 | Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League | |
| 2.5.1878 | U.S. stops minting 20 cent coin | |
| 2.5.1885 | Congo Free State forms by King Leopold II of Belgium | |
| 2.5.1885 | """Good Housekeeping"" magazine is 1st published" | |
| 2.5.1887 | "G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence" | |
| 2.5.1887 | Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film | |
| 2.5.1889 | Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale | |
| 2.5.1890 | Territory of Oklahoma created | |
| 2.5.1900 | "George Bernard Shaws ""You Never Can Tell,"" premieres in London" | |
| 2.5.1902 | "1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon" | |
| 2.5.1903 | 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09 | |
| 2.5.1904 | 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08 | |
| 2.5.1905 | French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work | |
| 2.5.1906 | 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8 | |
| 2.5.1907 | Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government | |
| 2.5.1909 | Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs | |
| 2.5.1911 | French troops occupy Fes El Bali Morocco | |
| 2.5.1915 | Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road | |
| 2.5.1916 | 2nd Ave and Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe and Selwyn Avenue named | |
| 2.5.1916 | U.S. president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act | |
| 2.5.1917 | "Cin Fred Tooney and Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits and a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0" | |
| 2.5.1919 | 1st U.S. air passenger service starts | |
| 2.5.1920 | 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis | |
| 2.5.1921 | Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia | |
| 2.5.1922 | WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Ft. Worth Texas | |
| 2.5.1923 | "Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0" | |
| 2.5.1924 | Netherlands refuses to recognize U.S.S.R. | |
| 2.5.1925 | Kezar Stadium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens | |
| 2.5.1926 | U.S. military intervenes in Nicaragua | |
| 2.5.1927 | International Economic Conference (52 countries including U.S.S.R.) opens | |
| 2.5.1927 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) | |
| 2.5.1928 | KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions | |
| 2.5.1930 | Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights | |
| 2.5.1932 | Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network) | |
| 2.5.1932 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth) | |
| 2.5.1933 | "In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions" | |
| 2.5.1934 | Nazi-Germany begins People's court | |
| 2.5.1936 | 62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6 | |
| 2.5.1936 | Emperor Haile Selassie and family flee Abyssinia | |
| 2.5.1936 | """Peter and Wolf"" premieres in Moscow" | |
| 2.5.1938 | "Ella Fitzgerald records ""A-Tisket, A-Tasket""" | |
| 2.5.1938 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) | |
| 2.5.1939 | "Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2" | |
| 2.5.1941 | FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1 | |
| 2.5.1941 | Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy | |
| 2.5.1941 | Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists | |
| 2.5.1941 | Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400 | |
| 2.5.1942 | 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4 | |
| 2.5.1942 | Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma | |
| 2.5.1943 | German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia | |
| 2.5.1944 | "WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in New York City (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast" | |
| 2.5.1945 | Allies occupy Wismar | |
| 2.5.1945 | Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen | |
| 2.5.1945 | German Army in Italy surrenders | |
| 2.5.1945 | Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders | |
| 2.5.1945 | Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste | |
| 2.5.1946 | "Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die" | |
| 2.5.1947 | "Eugene O'Neill's ""Moon for the Misbegotten,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 2.5.1949 | "Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for ""Death of a Salesman""" | |
| 2.5.1949 | Bolivian state of siege proclaimed | |
| 2.5.1949 | "Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0" | |
| 2.5.1950 | "Carlo Terrons ""Giuditta,"" premieres in Milan" | |
| 2.5.1950 | Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration | |
| 2.5.1950 | Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR | |
| 2.5.1952 | "1st performance of John Cage's ""Water Music""" | |
| 2.5.1952 | 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet | |
| 2.5.1952 | Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers | |
| 2.5.1953 | 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02 | |
| 2.5.1953 | Feisal II installed as king of Iraq | |
| 2.5.1953 | Hussein I installed as king of Jordan | |
| 2.5.1954 | Stan Musial hits 5 home runs in a doubleheader | |
| 2.5.1955 | "India poses discrimination ""onaanraakbaren"" punishable" | |
| 2.5.1955 | Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) | |
| 2.5.1955 | "WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 2.5.1956 | U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus | |
| 2.5.1956 | U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation | |
| 2.5.1958 | "Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into New York City" | |
| 2.5.1959 | 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2 | |
| 2.5.1960 | Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance | |
| 2.5.1960 | "House investigating committee, looking into payola questions" | |
| 2.5.1960 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent) | |
| 2.5.1962 | Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I | |
| 2.5.1962 | OAS strikes in Algeria | |
| 2.5.1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island | |
| 2.5.1962 | "WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, New York (PBS) 1st broadcast" | |
| 2.5.1964 | 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00 | |
| 2.5.1964 | "Beatles' ""Beatles' 2nd Album"" goes #1 and stays #1 for for 5 weeks" | |
| 2.5.1964 | "Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ" | |
| 2.5.1965 | Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service | |
| 2.5.1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational | |
| 2.5.1965 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open | |
| 2.5.1965 | """New Faces of 1965"" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 52 performances" | |
| 2.5.1966 | "Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days)" | |
| 2.5.1967 | "Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2" | |
| 2.5.1968 | 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony | |
| 2.5.1968 | "22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2" | |
| 2.5.1968 | Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London | |
| 2.5.1968 | Israeli television begins transmitting | |
| 2.5.1969 | British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York | |
| 2.5.1970 | 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump) | |
| 2.5.1970 | 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4 | |
| 2.5.1970 | "KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, Arizona (NBC) 1st broadcast" | |
| 2.5.1971 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open | |
| 2.5.1972 | Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho) | |
| 2.5.1972 | "Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA" | |
| 2.5.1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 2.5.1974 | Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred | |
| 2.5.1975 | Apple records closes down | |
| 2.5.1976 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic | |
| 2.5.1977 | """King and I"" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 719 performances" | |
| 2.5.1978 | NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games | |
| 2.5.1979 | 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell | |
| 2.5.1979 | """Quadrophenia"" premieres in London" | |
| 2.5.1980 | Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder | |
| 2.5.1980 | "Pink Floyd's ""Another Brick in Wall (Part II)"" is banned in South Africa" | |
| 2.5.1980 | Pope John Paul II begins African tour | |
| 2.5.1980 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 2.5.1981 | Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes | |
| 2.5.1981 | 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02 | |
| 2.5.1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic | |
| 2.5.1982 | "Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men" | |
| 2.5.1983 | "6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California" | |
| 2.5.1984 | Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn) | |
| 2.5.1984 | Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid | |
| 2.5.1984 | """Sunday in the Park with George"" opens at Booth New York City for 604 performances" | |
| 2.5.1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 2.5.1985 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 2.5.1986 | Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II | |
| 2.5.1986 | Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver | |
| 2.5.1987 | 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4 | |
| 2.5.1988 | Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt and get a new park | |
| 2.5.1988 | "David Mamet's ""Speed-the-Plow,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 2.5.1988 | "Jackson Pollock's ""Search"" sold for $4,800,000" | |
| 2.5.1988 | Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump | |
| 2.5.1990 | """Some Americans Abroad"" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 62 performances" | |
| 2.5.1990 | South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid | |
| 2.5.1991 | Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus | |
| 2.5.1992 | 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03 | |
| 2.5.1992 | """High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club"" opens at H Hayes New York City 14 performances" | |
| 2.5.1992 | Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic | |
| 2.5.1993 | """5 Guys Named Moe"" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 445 performances" | |
| 2.5.1993 | """Candida"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances" | |
| 2.5.1993 | Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic | |
| 2.5.1993 | """Redwood Curtain"" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 40 performances" | |
| 2.5.1993 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament | |
| 2.5.1993 | """Tango Passion"" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 5 performances" | |
| 2.5.1994 | "Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed" | |
| 2.5.1994 | Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides | |
| 2.5.1994 | "Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros ""Love is Wonderful Thing""" | |
| 2.5.1995 | Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning | |
| 2.5.1995 | """Hamlet"" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 121 performances" | |
| 2.5.1995 | "Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six" | |
| 2.5.1997 | Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating | |
| 2.5.1997 | Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber | |
| 2.5.1997 | Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders | |
| 2.5.1998 | 124th Kentucky Derby | |
| 3.5.1294 | John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg | |
| 3.5.1342 | Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein) | |
| 3.5.1382 | Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge | |
| 3.5.1455 | Jews flee Spain | |
| 3.5.1494 | Columbus discovers Jamaica | |
| 3.5.1494 | "Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it ""St. Iago""" | |
| 3.5.1512 | 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome | |
| 3.5.1512 | Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen | |
| 3.5.1515 | Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz | |
| 3.5.1616 | Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war | |
| 3.5.1621 | Francis Bacon accused of bribery | |
| 3.5.1624 | Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama | |
| 3.5.1629 | French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain | |
| 3.5.1640 | English Upper house accept Act of Attainder | |
| 3.5.1654 | Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals | |
| 3.5.1660 | "Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva" | |
| 3.5.1661 | Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen | |
| 3.5.1662 | Royal charter granted Connecticut | |
| 3.5.1678 | "French conquering fleet at Curaeao, 1200 die" | |
| 3.5.1715 | "Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon ""Baily's Beads""" | |
| 3.5.1722 | "Pierre de Marivaux' ""La Double Inconstance,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 3.5.1747 | Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht | |
| 3.5.1765 | 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia | |
| 3.5.1802 | Washington D.C. incorporates as a city | |
| 3.5.1808 | "Goya's ""Executions of 3rd of May""" | |
| 3.5.1810 | Lord Byron swims Hellespont | |
| 3.5.1815 | Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples | |
| 3.5.1822 | "Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)" | |
| 3.5.1830 | 1st regular steam train passenger service starts | |
| 3.5.1845 | 1st black lawyer (Macon B. Allen) admitted to bar | |
| 3.5.1845 | "Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China" | |
| 3.5.1846 | Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas | |
| 3.5.1851 | Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die | |
| 3.5.1855 | Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens | |
| 3.5.1861 | Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan | |
| 3.5.1861 | "Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen" | |
| 3.5.1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws | |
| 3.5.1863 | "Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights)" | |
| 3.5.1863 | "Battle of Salem Church, Virginia" | |
| 3.5.1864 | 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault | |
| 3.5.1886 | "M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC" | |
| 3.5.1898 | Camp Merriman forms at Presidio | |
| 3.5.1900 | 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06 | |
| 3.5.1901 | "Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida" | |
| 3.5.1902 | 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75 | |
| 3.5.1903 | AVC Heracles (South Carolina Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo | |
| 3.5.1906 | British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey | |
| 3.5.1909 | 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2 | |
| 3.5.1917 | "1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony ""Israel""" | |
| 3.5.1919 | Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain | |
| 3.5.1919 | America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City) | |
| 3.5.1921 | West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax | |
| 3.5.1922 | Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium | |
| 3.5.1922 | Salt layer find at Winterswijk | |
| 3.5.1923 | 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed | |
| 3.5.1926 | British general strike-3 million workers support miners | |
| 3.5.1926 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) | |
| 3.5.1926 | "U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933" | |
| 3.5.1929 | Prussia bans anti-fascists | |
| 3.5.1933 | 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office | |
| 3.5.1934 | "Bradman scores 206 Aust vs. Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours" | |
| 3.5.1936 | French People's Front wins elections | |
| 3.5.1936 | "New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits" | |
| 3.5.1937 | "Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for ""Gone With the Wind""" | |
| 3.5.1938 | Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use | |
| 3.5.1938 | Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941 | |
| 3.5.1938 | Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain | |
| 3.5.1941 | 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4 | |
| 3.5.1941 | German air raid on Liverpool | |
| 3.5.1942 | "Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands" | |
| 3.5.1942 | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter | |
| 3.5.1942 | "Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands" | |
| 3.5.1942 | Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star | |
| 3.5.1943 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) | |
| 3.5.1943 | "Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed" | |
| 3.5.1943 | U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia | |
| 3.5.1944 | Meat rationing ends in U.S. | |
| 3.5.1944 | """Meet Me in St. Louis"" opens on Broadway" | |
| 3.5.1945 | 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen | |
| 3.5.1945 | Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg | |
| 3.5.1945 | British troop join in Rangoon | |
| 3.5.1945 | "German ship ""Cap Arcona"" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed" | |
| 3.5.1946 | International military tribunal in Tokyo begins | |
| 3.5.1947 | 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 | |
| 3.5.1947 | Japan forms a constitutional democracy | |
| 3.5.1948 | Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams | |
| 3.5.1949 | 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km | |
| 3.5.1951 | Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning | |
| 3.5.1951 | New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) | |
| 3.5.1952 | 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole | |
| 3.5.1952 | 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6 | |
| 3.5.1952 | """Call Me Madam"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 644 performances" | |
| 3.5.1953 | "WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 3.5.1954 | "KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 3.5.1954 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick | |
| 3.5.1954 | "WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 3.5.1956 | "Frank Loesser's musical ""Most Happy Fella,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 3.5.1956 | """Most Happy Fella"" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 678 performances" | |
| 3.5.1956 | "A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')" | |
| 3.5.1958 | 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05 | |
| 3.5.1958 | "WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits" | |
| 3.5.1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament | |
| 3.5.1959 | Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive home runs in a doubleheader | |
| 3.5.1960 | "Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical ""Fantasticks,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 3.5.1961 | Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter | |
| 3.5.1962 | "Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)" | |
| 3.5.1963 | Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat | |
| 3.5.1963 | "Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his ""I have a dream"" speech" | |
| 3.5.1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational | |
| 3.5.1965 | "1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite" | |
| 3.5.1965 | "3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10" | |
| 3.5.1965 | Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S. | |
| 3.5.1965 | "Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles California)" | |
| 3.5.1965 | "KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast" | |
| 3.5.1965 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) | |
| 3.5.1966 | "WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 3.5.1967 | Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University | |
| 3.5.1969 | 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8 | |
| 3.5.1969 | """Trumpets of the Lord"" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 7 performances" | |
| 3.5.1970 | "24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3" | |
| 3.5.1970 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational | |
| 3.5.1971 | All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations | |
| 3.5.1971 | Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader | |
| 3.5.1971 | "Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days" | |
| 3.5.1971 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) | |
| 3.5.1973 | "Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished" | |
| 3.5.1973 | Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit | |
| 3.5.1975 | 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02 | |
| 3.5.1975 | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) | |
| 3.5.1976 | Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) | |
| 3.5.1976 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) | |
| 3.5.1978 | Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II | |
| 3.5.1978 | "Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston" | |
| 3.5.1978 | """Sun Day"" - solar energy events are held in US" | |
| 3.5.1978 | WI all set to lose cricket test vs. Aust at Kingston till riots end game | |
| 3.5.1979 | Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases) | |
| 3.5.1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain | |
| 3.5.1979 | "Martin Sherman's ""Bent,"" premieres in London" | |
| 3.5.1980 | 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02 | |
| 3.5.1980 | Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR | |
| 3.5.1980 | Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL and NL | |
| 3.5.1981 | """Can-Can"" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 5 performances" | |
| 3.5.1981 | """Moony, Shapiro Songbook"" opens and closes at Morosco Theater New York City" | |
| 3.5.1981 | Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International | |
| 3.5.1982 | ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) | |
| 3.5.1982 | New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget | |
| 3.5.1982 | President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts | |
| 3.5.1983 | Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead | |
| 3.5.1983 | Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe | |
| 3.5.1983 | U.S. bishops condemn nuclear weapons | |
| 3.5.1986 | 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8 | |
| 3.5.1986 | "Air Lanka crashes, killing 22" | |
| 3.5.1986 | Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR | |
| 3.5.1986 | "NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit" | |
| 3.5.1986 | New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game | |
| 3.5.1987 | Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic | |
| 3.5.1987 | Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart | |
| 3.5.1987 | """Mikado"" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 46 performances" | |
| 3.5.1988 | "4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida" | |
| 3.5.1988 | "Jasper Johns' ""Diver"" sold for $4,200,000" | |
| 3.5.1991 | "356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke" | |
| 3.5.1991 | Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass | |
| 3.5.1992 | "Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves" | |
| 3.5.1992 | Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs | |
| 3.5.1992 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic | |
| 3.5.1992 | New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS | |
| 3.5.1992 | "Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17" | |
| 3.5.1992 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge | |
| 3.5.1993 | """Kiss of the Spider Woman"" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 906 performances" | |
| 3.5.1994 | 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins | |
| 3.5.1994 | D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election | |
| 3.5.1994 | U.S. space probe Clementine launched | |
| 3.5.1995 | Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy | |
| 3.5.1995 | "David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus and Buddy)" | |
| 3.5.1995 | """My Thing of Love"" opens at Beck Theater New York City for 16 performances" | |
| 3.5.1996 | Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks vs. Glam | |
| 3.5.1997 | 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3 | |
| 3.5.1997 | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen | |
| 3.5.1997 | Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue | |
| 3.5.1998 | wins Titleholders Golf Championship | |
| 4.5.1303 | Flemings conquers Middelburg | |
| 4.5.1471 | Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha | |
| 4.5.1493 | Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal | |
| 4.5.1494 | Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica | |
| 4.5.1540 | Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople | |
| 4.5.1572 | Veere sides with Geuzen | |
| 4.5.1626 | Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons | |
| 4.5.1626 | Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands | |
| 4.5.1634 | Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies | |
| 4.5.1652 | Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels | |
| 4.5.1715 | French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) | |
| 4.5.1728 | "Georg F Handels opera ""Tolomeo, re di Egitto,"" premieres in London" | |
| 4.5.1747 | Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel | |
| 4.5.1776 | Rhode Island declares independence from England | |
| 4.5.1780 | American Academy of Arts and Science founded | |
| 4.5.1780 | Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby | |
| 4.5.1783 | Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus | |
| 4.5.1805 | Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx | |
| 4.5.1814 | Bourbon reign restored in France | |
| 4.5.1818 | Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling | |
| 4.5.1834 | Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean | |
| 4.5.1839 | The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio | |
| 4.5.1843 | Great-Britain annexes Natal | |
| 4.5.1846 | U.S. state Michigan ends death penalty | |
| 4.5.1847 | New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration | |
| 4.5.1851 | 1st major San Francisco fire | |
| 4.5.1858 | War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz | |
| 4.5.1861 | "At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel Navy is cast" | |
| 4.5.1862 | "Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia" | |
| 4.5.1862 | "Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains" | |
| 4.5.1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church | |
| 4.5.1863 | End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws | |
| 4.5.1864 | Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock | |
| 4.5.1864 | Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E. Lee | |
| 4.5.1865 | "Battle of Citronville, Alabama; Richard Taylor surrenders" | |
| 4.5.1865 | "Battle of Mobile, Alabama" | |
| 4.5.1866 | Woodward's Gardens opens to public | |
| 4.5.1871 | "1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double" | |
| 4.5.1878 | Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House | |
| 4.5.1883 | "John Gordon Cashmans begins ""Vicksburg Evening Post"" (Miss)" | |
| 4.5.1886 | Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen | |
| 4.5.1888 | Italy and Spain sign military covenant | |
| 4.5.1893 | Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging | |
| 4.5.1896 | 1st edition of London Daily Mail ( penny) | |
| 4.5.1896 | Grease fire ignites ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado | |
| 4.5.1897 | 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12 | |
| 4.5.1897 | Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200 | |
| 4.5.1898 | 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09 | |
| 4.5.1899 | 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12 | |
| 4.5.1910 | "Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent" | |
| 4.5.1910 | Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy | |
| 4.5.1910 | Tel Aviv founded | |
| 4.5.1912 | Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes | |
| 4.5.1915 | Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany | |
| 4.5.1916 | "At request of U.S., Germany curtails its submarine warfare" | |
| 4.5.1917 | Arabs sack Tel Aviv | |
| 4.5.1918 | "Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4" | |
| 4.5.1919 | 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) | |
| 4.5.1919 | FVC soccer team forms | |
| 4.5.1919 | "Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3" | |
| 4.5.1922 | "KNX-AM in Los Angeles, California begins radio transmissions" | |
| 4.5.1923 | "Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna" | |
| 4.5.1923 | New York state revokes Prohibition law | |
| 4.5.1924 | "8th Olympic games open at Paris, France" | |
| 4.5.1924 | German Republic election fascists and communists win | |
| 4.5.1925 | League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage | |
| 4.5.1926 | General strike hits Britain | |
| 4.5.1927 | "1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)" | |
| 4.5.1927 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms | |
| 4.5.1927 | Nicaragua agrees to a U.S. supervised presidential election in 1928 | |
| 4.5.1929 | "Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9" | |
| 4.5.1931 | Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president | |
| 4.5.1932 | "Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary" | |
| 4.5.1933 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) | |
| 4.5.1935 | 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05 | |
| 4.5.1936 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) | |
| 4.5.1938 | Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire | |
| 4.5.1940 | "21 ""not neutral"" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands" | |
| 4.5.1940 | 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05 | |
| 4.5.1942 | Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) | |
| 4.5.1942 | Food 1st rationed in U.S. | |
| 4.5.1942 | German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages | |
| 4.5.1942 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) | |
| 4.5.1943 | NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier | |
| 4.5.1945 | "German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender" | |
| 4.5.1946 | 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay | |
| 4.5.1946 | 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6 | |
| 4.5.1946 | Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped | |
| 4.5.1948 | The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death | |
| 4.5.1949 | Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives) | |
| 4.5.1952 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open | |
| 4.5.1953 | Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) | |
| 4.5.1954 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island | |
| 4.5.1956 | Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam | |
| 4.5.1956 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak | |
| 4.5.1957 | 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2 | |
| 4.5.1957 | "Alan Freed hosts ""Rock n' Roll Show"" 1st prime-time network rock show" | |
| 4.5.1957 | Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam | |
| 4.5.1958 | Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia | |
| 4.5.1959 | 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win | |
| 4.5.1959 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish | |
| 4.5.1960 | "1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland" | |
| 4.5.1961 | 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South | |
| 4.5.1961 | 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given. | |
| 4.5.1961 | "CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, D.C." | |
| 4.5.1961 | "Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon" | |
| 4.5.1961 | South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested | |
| 4.5.1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island | |
| 4.5.1963 | 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8 | |
| 4.5.1963 | Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game | |
| 4.5.1964 | 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva | |
| 4.5.1964 | """Another World"" and ""As the World Turns"" premieres on TV" | |
| 4.5.1964 | "KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 4.5.1964 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) | |
| 4.5.1965 | Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record | |
| 4.5.1966 | Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R. | |
| 4.5.1967 | Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7 | |
| 4.5.1968 | "1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3" | |
| 4.5.1968 | 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins | |
| 4.5.1968 | Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02 | |
| 4.5.1969 | "Charles Gordone's ""No Place to be Somebody,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 4.5.1969 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational | |
| 4.5.1969 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games | |
| 4.5.1970 | National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio | |
| 4.5.1970 | Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt | |
| 4.5.1970 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) | |
| 4.5.1972 | Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam | |
| 4.5.1973 | 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine | |
| 4.5.1973 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella | |
| 4.5.1973 | "Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20" | |
| 4.5.1973 | Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope | |
| 4.5.1973 | Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings | |
| 4.5.1973 | "Wings release ""Red Rose Speedway"" in UK" | |
| 4.5.1974 | 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04 | |
| 4.5.1975 | "Ed Bullins' ""Taking of Miss Jane,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 4.5.1975 | Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots | |
| 4.5.1975 | Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time | |
| 4.5.1975 | Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic | |
| 4.5.1976 | """1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 7 performances" | |
| 4.5.1976 | Kiss performs their 1st concert | |
| 4.5.1978 | Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany | |
| 4.5.1979 | Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st | |
| 4.5.1979 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 | |
| 4.5.1980 | Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning | |
| 4.5.1980 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament | |
| 4.5.1980 | "White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958" | |
| 4.5.1981 | Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles | |
| 4.5.1981 | Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) | |
| 4.5.1981 | "Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2" | |
| 4.5.1982 | British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket | |
| 4.5.1982 | Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0 | |
| 4.5.1982 | "Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans" | |
| 4.5.1983 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC | |
| 4.5.1984 | Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) | |
| 4.5.1985 | "111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2" | |
| 4.5.1986 | President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan | |
| 4.5.1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 4.5.1989 | Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat | |
| 4.5.1989 | U.S. launches Magellan to Venus | |
| 4.5.1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-30 launched | |
| 4.5.1990 | Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger | |
| 4.5.1990 | Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence | |
| 4.5.1990 | Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns | |
| 4.5.1990 | "Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah" | |
| 4.5.1991 | Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9) | |
| 4.5.1991 | "Morris K. Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease" | |
| 4.5.1991 | New York Mets M Sasser and Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs | |
| 4.5.1991 | President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat | |
| 4.5.1991 | 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03 | |
| 4.5.1991 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent | |
| 4.5.1991 | Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed | |
| 4.5.1993 | """Angels in America-Millennium Approaches"" opens at Kerr for 367 performances" | |
| 4.5.1994 | Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II | |
| 4.5.1994 | Courtney Love cleared of drug charges | |
| 4.5.1996 | 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01 | |
| 4.5.1996 | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel | |
| 4.5.1996 | Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917 | |
| 4.5.1997 | Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic | |
| 4.5.1997 | Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open | |
| 4.5.1997 | Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship | |
| 4.5.1997 | Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship | |
| 5.5.553 | 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens | |
| 5.5.1382 | Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army | |
| 5.5.1430 | Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany | |
| 5.5.1494 | "On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica" | |
| 5.5.1640 | English Short Parliament unites | |
| 5.5.1646 | King Charles I surrenders at Scotland | |
| 5.5.1665 | Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow | |
| 5.5.1726 | Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris | |
| 5.5.1762 | Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty | |
| 5.5.1764 | Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls | |
| 5.5.1780 | 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston) | |
| 5.5.1789 | French States-General for It first since 1614 together | |
| 5.5.1797 | Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi | |
| 5.5.1809 | Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland | |
| 5.5.1809 | Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw) | |
| 5.5.1814 | "British attack Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York" | |
| 5.5.1816 | American Bible Society organized in New York | |
| 5.5.1834 | Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz | |
| 5.5.1835 | King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway | |
| 5.5.1842 | City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) | |
| 5.5.1847 | American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) | |
| 5.5.1854 | English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast | |
| 5.5.1855 | "New York City regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration" | |
| 5.5.1862 | "French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo" | |
| 5.5.1862 | "Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia" | |
| 5.5.1863 | "Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi" | |
| 5.5.1863 | Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for U.S. boxing title in 63rd round | |
| 5.5.1864 | Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge | |
| 5.5.1864 | Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke | |
| 5.5.1864 | "Battle of Wilderness, Virginia (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)" | |
| 5.5.1864 | Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga Georgia to Atlanta GA | |
| 5.5.1865 | 1st U.S. train robbery (North Bend Ohio) | |
| 5.5.1874 | Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law | |
| 5.5.1881 | Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine | |
| 5.5.1891 | "Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor" | |
| 5.5.1893 | Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange | |
| 5.5.1900 | """The Billboard"" began weekly publication" | |
| 5.5.1904 | Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0) | |
| 5.5.1905 | "Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper ""Chicago Defender""" | |
| 5.5.1908 | 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2 | |
| 5.5.1908 | Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco | |
| 5.5.1912 | "5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden" | |
| 5.5.1912 | Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) | |
| 5.5.1915 | German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom | |
| 5.5.1916 | "U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924" | |
| 5.5.1917 | "St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0" | |
| 5.5.1920 | German-Latvian peace treaty signed | |
| 5.5.1920 | Polish troops occupy Kiev | |
| 5.5.1920 | U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal | |
| 5.5.1921 | 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired | |
| 5.5.1921 | Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) | |
| 5.5.1922 | Construction begins on Yankee Stadium | |
| 5.5.1924 | Unions terminate Twentse textile strike | |
| 5.5.1925 | John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee | |
| 5.5.1925 | "Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)" | |
| 5.5.1925 | "Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak" | |
| 5.5.1926 | Geldrop soccer team forms | |
| 5.5.1926 | "Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for ""Arrowsmith""" | |
| 5.5.1927 | "Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin" | |
| 5.5.1930 | 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson) | |
| 5.5.1930 | "Bradman scores 185* Aust vs. Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours" | |
| 5.5.1932 | Japan and China sign a peace treaty | |
| 5.5.1934 | 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04 | |
| 5.5.1935 | "Jessie Owens of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 8""" | |
| 5.5.1936 | Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip | |
| 5.5.1936 | Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa | |
| 5.5.1938 | "Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning" | |
| 5.5.1939 | Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky | |
| 5.5.1940 | Norwegian government in exile forms in London | |
| 5.5.1941 | 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England | |
| 5.5.1941 | Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa | |
| 5.5.1941 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) | |
| 5.5.1942 | British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar | |
| 5.5.1942 | U.S. begins rationing sugar during WW II | |
| 5.5.1943 | Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System | |
| 5.5.1944 | Gandhi freed from prison | |
| 5.5.1944 | Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim | |
| 5.5.1945 | Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated | |
| 5.5.1945 | Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control | |
| 5.5.1945 | Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated | |
| 5.5.1945 | Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague | |
| 5.5.1947 | Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850M in damage | |
| 5.5.1947 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) | |
| 5.5.1948 | 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier | |
| 5.5.1948 | Belgian government of Spaak resigns | |
| 5.5.1949 | Council of Europe forms | |
| 5.5.1949 | "KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, California (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 5.5.1949 | Statue of Council of Europe drawn | |
| 5.5.1949 | Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame | |
| 5.5.1950 | Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand | |
| 5.5.1951 | 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6 | |
| 5.5.1951 | """Out of This World"" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 157 performances" | |
| 5.5.1952 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) | |
| 5.5.1952 | "Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base" | |
| 5.5.1954 | Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay | |
| 5.5.1955 | """Damn Yankees"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1022 performances" | |
| 5.5.1955 | Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce | |
| 5.5.1955 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site | |
| 5.5.1955 | West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers | |
| 5.5.1956 | 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4 | |
| 5.5.1956 | Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude | |
| 5.5.1956 | Jim Bailey (U.S.) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles California | |
| 5.5.1956 | "World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo" | |
| 5.5.1957 | Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria | |
| 5.5.1957 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open | |
| 5.5.1958 | "KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 5.5.1958 | Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) | |
| 5.5.1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak | |
| 5.5.1961 | Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) | |
| 5.5.1962 | 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4 | |
| 5.5.1962 | "Los Angeles Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Baltimore Orioles, 2-0" | |
| 5.5.1962 | West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album | |
| 5.5.1963 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open | |
| 5.5.1964 | Separatists riot in Quebec | |
| 5.5.1965 | 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam | |
| 5.5.1966 | Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II | |
| 5.5.1966 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2" | |
| 5.5.1966 | Willie Mays hit his 512th HR | |
| 5.5.1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational | |
| 5.5.1969 | "23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3" | |
| 5.5.1969 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) | |
| 5.5.1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site | |
| 5.5.1971 | """Earl of Ruston"" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 5 performances" | |
| 5.5.1971 | Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (New York City) | |
| 5.5.1972 | Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 | |
| 5.5.1973 | 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4 | |
| 5.5.1974 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic | |
| 5.5.1975 | "A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, and scored 33 runs)" | |
| 5.5.1975 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) | |
| 5.5.1976 | Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II | |
| 5.5.1976 | "Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24" | |
| 5.5.1978 | "Cincinnati Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits" | |
| 5.5.1979 | 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4 | |
| 5.5.1979 | Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting | |
| 5.5.1979 | Voyager 1 passes Jupiter | |
| 5.5.1980 | Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building | |
| 5.5.1981 | "16th and final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge" | |
| 5.5.1983 | Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead | |
| 5.5.1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 5.5.1984 | "110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4" | |
| 5.5.1985 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational | |
| 5.5.1986 | Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland | |
| 5.5.1987 | Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings | |
| 5.5.1987 | "Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East" | |
| 5.5.1987 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 5.5.1988 | Eugene Marino installed as 1st black U.S. archbishop | |
| 5.5.1989 | "Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York" | |
| 5.5.1990 | 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02 | |
| 5.5.1990 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren | |
| 5.5.1990 | "Paul Hogan and Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia" | |
| 5.5.1991 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic | |
| 5.5.1992 | Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection | |
| 5.5.1994 | Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections | |
| 5.5.1994 | North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen | |
| 5.5.1994 | """Sally Marrand Her Escorts"" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances" | |
| 5.5.1995 | Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics) | |
| 5.5.1996 | """Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore"" closes at Belasco after 12 performances" | |
| 5.5.1996 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship | |
| 5.5.1996 | "Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe" | |
| 5.5.1997 | "Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful" | |
| 5.5.1997 | """Married With Children"" final episode on Fox TV" | |
| 5.5.2000 | "Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon" | |
| 6.5.1312 | Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna | |
| 6.5.1476 | Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg and duke Charles the Stout arrange marriage of their children | |
| 6.5.1527 | Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance | |
| 6.5.1529 | Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals | |
| 6.5.1536 | "King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church" | |
| 6.5.1598 | Arch duke Albrecht and Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands | |
| 6.5.1626 | Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets | |
| 6.5.1642 | Ville Marie (Montreal) forms | |
| 6.5.1644 | Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil | |
| 6.5.1648 | Battle at Zolty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir | |
| 6.5.1672 | Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands | |
| 6.5.1733 | 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni | |
| 6.5.1753 | French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle | |
| 6.5.1757 | Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army | |
| 6.5.1787 | "1st Black Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston" | |
| 6.5.1794 | "Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France" | |
| 6.5.1804 | "Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816)" | |
| 6.5.1833 | John Deere makes 1st steel plow | |
| 6.5.1835 | 1st edition of New York Herald (price 1 cents ) | |
| 6.5.1844 | Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote | |
| 6.5.1848 | Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony | |
| 6.5.1851 | "Dr. John Gorrie patents a ""refrigeration machine""" | |
| 6.5.1851 | Linus Yale patents Yale-lock | |
| 6.5.1851 | San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts | |
| 6.5.1853 | "1st major U.S. rail disaster kills 46 in Norwalk, Connecticut" | |
| 6.5.1860 | "San Francisco Olympic Club, 1st U.S. athletic club forms" | |
| 6.5.1861 | Arkansas and Tennessee becomes 9th and 10th state to secede from US | |
| 6.5.1861 | Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between U.S. and Confederacy | |
| 6.5.1864 | "Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia" | |
| 6.5.1864 | Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured | |
| 6.5.1864 | General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia | |
| 6.5.1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S. Congress ceases Chinese immigration | |
| 6.5.1882 | Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria | |
| 6.5.1889 | "Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed" | |
| 6.5.1890 | Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)] | |
| 6.5.1891 | Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike | |
| 6.5.1895 | 21st Kentucky Derby: Soup Perkins aboard Halma wins in 2:37 | |
| 6.5.1896 | 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75 | |
| 6.5.1902 | British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die | |
| 6.5.1902 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place""" | |
| 6.5.1902 | Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa | |
| 6.5.1903 | Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers | |
| 6.5.1904 | American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting | |
| 6.5.1906 | """Temporary"" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St. SF" | |
| 6.5.1907 | 33rd Kentucky Derby: Andy Minder aboard Pink Star wins in 2:12.6 | |
| 6.5.1910 | King George V ascends to British throne | |
| 6.5.1913 | "King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania" | |
| 6.5.1914 | British House of Lords rejects women suffrage | |
| 6.5.1915 | "Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont" | |
| 6.5.1915 | German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland | |
| 6.5.1915 | "Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut and 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15" | |
| 6.5.1916 | "Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa" | |
| 6.5.1917 | "St. Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0" | |
| 6.5.1919 | "Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa" | |
| 6.5.1921 | American Soccer League forms | |
| 6.5.1925 | Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884 | |
| 6.5.1929 | AL announces it will discontinue MVP award | |
| 6.5.1929 | New York to San Francisco footrace begins | |
| 6.5.1933 | 59th Kentucky Derby: Don Meade aboard Brokers Tip wins in 2:06.8 | |
| 6.5.1933 | Italy and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement | |
| 6.5.1934 | "Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, and B Walters" | |
| 6.5.1935 | British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee | |
| 6.5.1935 | KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC) | |
| 6.5.1935 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) | |
| 6.5.1937 | "Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey (36 die)" | |
| 6.5.1938 | "Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for ""offending a friendly head of state"" (Hitler)" | |
| 6.5.1939 | "1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's ""Jeanne d'Arc Ouch B-cher""" | |
| 6.5.1939 | 65th Kentucky Derby: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:03.4 | |
| 6.5.1940 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) | |
| 6.5.1941 | Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia | |
| 6.5.1942 | Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies | |
| 6.5.1943 | British 1st army opens assault on Tunis | |
| 6.5.1944 | 70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2 | |
| 6.5.1944 | KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO | |
| 6.5.1945 | General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands | |
| 6.5.1946 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) | |
| 6.5.1948 | """Sally"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 36 performances" | |
| 6.5.1950 | 76th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6 | |
| 6.5.1950 | """Great to Be Alive"" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 52 performances" | |
| 6.5.1950 | "Liz Taylor's 1st marriage to Conrad Hilton, Jr." | |
| 6.5.1951 | "Pittsburgh Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0" | |
| 6.5.1953 | "Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0" | |
| 6.5.1954 | Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4) | |
| 6.5.1955 | West Germany joins NATO | |
| 6.5.1956 | Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header | |
| 6.5.1956 | "WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 6.5.1957 | Italian government of Segni resigns | |
| 6.5.1957 | "Last broadcast of ""I Love Lucy"" on CBS-TV" | |
| 6.5.1957 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) | |
| 6.5.1960 | English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) | |
| 6.5.1960 | President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 | |
| 6.5.1960 | Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta | |
| 6.5.1960 | "Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico" | |
| 6.5.1961 | 87th Kentucky Derby: John Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 2:04 | |
| 6.5.1961 | Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party | |
| 6.5.1962 | 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen) | |
| 6.5.1962 | Antonio Segni elected president of Italy | |
| 6.5.1962 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament | |
| 6.5.1962 | Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos | |
| 6.5.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean | |
| 6.5.1963 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) | |
| 6.5.1964 | "Joe Orton's ""Entertaining Mr. Sloan,"" premieres in London" | |
| 6.5.1965 | Lawry and Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies | |
| 6.5.1966 | Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin | |
| 6.5.1966 | Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7 | |
| 6.5.1967 | 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College | |
| 6.5.1967 | 93rd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Ussery on Proud Clarion wins in 2:00.6 | |
| 6.5.1967 | Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22) | |
| 6.5.1967 | Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India | |
| 6.5.1968 | "Battle between students and troops in Paris, 1000 injured" | |
| 6.5.1968 | "Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets NL record of 225th consecutive errorless game (108 chances consecutively since June 16, 1964)" | |
| 6.5.1968 | Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards | |
| 6.5.1970 | Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt. Everest | |
| 6.5.1972 | 98th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:01.8 | |
| 6.5.1973 | "1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1" | |
| 6.5.1973 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic | |
| 6.5.1974 | A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Balt ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games | |
| 6.5.1974 | "Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)" | |
| 6.5.1974 | "Stolen ""Guitar Player"" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London" | |
| 6.5.1974 | West German chancellor W. Brandt resigns | |
| 6.5.1975 | "3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska" | |
| 6.5.1977 | """Beatles at Hollywood Bowl,"" released in U.K." | |
| 6.5.1978 | 104th Kentucky Derby: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:01.2 | |
| 6.5.1978 | South Africa military goes into Angola | |
| 6.5.1979 | Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m | |
| 6.5.1979 | "Louis LaRusso II's ""Knockout,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 6.5.1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament | |
| 6.5.1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 6.5.1981 | """Inacent Black"" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 14 performances" | |
| 6.5.1981 | Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired and replaced by Rene Lachemann | |
| 6.5.1981 | U.S. expels Libyan diplomats | |
| 6.5.1982 | Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games | |
| 6.5.1984 | "Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken, Jr. hits for cycle" | |
| 6.5.1984 | Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election | |
| 6.5.1985 | 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB | |
| 6.5.1986 | Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup | |
| 6.5.1986 | Donald E. Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop | |
| 6.5.1986 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 6.5.1987 | Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice | |
| 6.5.1987 | Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH | |
| 6.5.1987 | Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes | |
| 6.5.1987 | PTL's Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God | |
| 6.5.1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 6.5.1988 | "Doughnutgate incident: New Jersey Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended" | |
| 6.5.1988 | Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs vs. Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes | |
| 6.5.1989 | 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05 | |
| 6.5.1990 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic | |
| 6.5.1990 | Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party | |
| 6.5.1991 | Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees | |
| 6.5.1991 | "Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9""" | |
| 6.5.1991 | Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands | |
| 6.5.1992 | New York Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games | |
| 6.5.1992 | Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II | |
| 6.5.1993 | STS-55 (Columbia) lands | |
| 6.5.1994 | Chunnel linking England and France officially opens | |
| 6.5.1994 | Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show | |
| 6.5.1994 | House passes the assault weapons ban | |
| 6.5.1994 | Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 6.5.1994 | "Nelson Mandela and his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa" | |
| 6.5.1995 | 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2 | |
| 6.5.1995 | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby | |
| 6.5.1995 | Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV | |
| 6.5.1996 | Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war | |
| 6.5.1996 | Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of Pres | |
| 6.5.1996 | "Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford, Connecticut on WCCC 106.9 FM" | |
| 6.5.1997 | Army Staff Sgt Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape | |
| 6.5.1997 | Michael Jackson and Bee Gees inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | |
| 6.5.1997 | NHL Hartford Whalers become Carolina Hurricanes | |
| 6.5.1997 | Rick Pitino becomes coach of Boston Celtics | |
| 7.5.1274 | 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens | |
| 7.5.1355 | "1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara" | |
| 7.5.1416 | Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay | |
| 7.5.1429 | English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc | |
| 7.5.1579 | Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands | |
| 7.5.1624 | "Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru" | |
| 7.5.1638 | Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited) | |
| 7.5.1660 | "Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni" | |
| 7.5.1663 | Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens | |
| 7.5.1700 | William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation | |
| 7.5.1748 | French troops conquer Maastricht | |
| 7.5.1765 | Adm Nelsons sailboat HMS Victory runs aground | |
| 7.5.1771 | Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada | |
| 7.5.1775 | Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria | |
| 7.5.1789 | 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in New York City) | |
| 7.5.1792 | Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington) | |
| 7.5.1800 | Indiana Territory organized | |
| 7.5.1824 | "Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna" | |
| 7.5.1832 | Greece becomes independent republic | |
| 7.5.1832 | Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece | |
| 7.5.1840 | "Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317" | |
| 7.5.1847 | American Medical Association organizes (Phila) | |
| 7.5.1848 | Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia | |
| 7.5.1856 | Argentine and Brazilian sign a navigation pact | |
| 7.5.1861 | Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN | |
| 7.5.1862 | "Battle of West Point, Virginia (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)" | |
| 7.5.1862 | Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire | |
| 7.5.1864 | "Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)" | |
| 7.5.1864 | Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff) | |
| 7.5.1866 | German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt | |
| 7.5.1867 | Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans | |
| 7.5.1873 | U.S. Marines attack Panama | |
| 7.5.1875 | "German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed" | |
| 7.5.1885 | "John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti" | |
| 7.5.1888 | "Edouard Lalo's opera ""Le roi d'Ys,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 7.5.1888 | "George Eastman patents ""Kodak box camera""" | |
| 7.5.1891 | "Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed" | |
| 7.5.1902 | "Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent kills 2-5,000" | |
| 7.5.1904 | Flexible Flyer trademark registered | |
| 7.5.1907 | Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph) | |
| 7.5.1909 | Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv) | |
| 7.5.1910 | 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6 | |
| 7.5.1912 | Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer | |
| 7.5.1913 | British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote | |
| 7.5.1914 | U.S. Congress establishes mother's day | |
| 7.5.1914 | Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House | |
| 7.5.1915 | Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost | |
| 7.5.1917 | "Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0" | |
| 7.5.1920 | U.S.S.R. recognizes Georgia's independence | |
| 7.5.1921 | 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2 | |
| 7.5.1922 | Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2 | |
| 7.5.1922 | "New York Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0" | |
| 7.5.1923 | Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad | |
| 7.5.1924 | "Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana" | |
| 7.5.1925 | Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row | |
| 7.5.1925 | Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play | |
| 7.5.1927 | San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated | |
| 7.5.1928 | England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21 | |
| 7.5.1928 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) | |
| 7.5.1930 | Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex vs. Northants in 330 mins | |
| 7.5.1932 | 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2 | |
| 7.5.1934 | Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal | |
| 7.5.1934 | Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region | |
| 7.5.1934 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) | |
| 7.5.1934 | "World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines" | |
| 7.5.1938 | 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8 | |
| 7.5.1938 | "Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany ""undesired strangers""" | |
| 7.5.1939 | Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis | |
| 7.5.1940 | Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain | |
| 7.5.1941 | British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3) | |
| 7.5.1941 | Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid | |
| 7.5.1941 | "Glenn Miller records ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"" for RCA" | |
| 7.5.1942 | Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion | |
| 7.5.1942 | Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed | |
| 7.5.1943 | British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia | |
| 7.5.1943 | Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps | |
| 7.5.1943 | "Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched" | |
| 7.5.1943 | "U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia" | |
| 7.5.1943 | "U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia" | |
| 7.5.1944 | German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia | |
| 7.5.1945 | Branch Rickey announces formation of the U.S. Negro Baseball League | |
| 7.5.1945 | "British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands" | |
| 7.5.1945 | Formal undertaking of complete German surrender | |
| 7.5.1945 | Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated | |
| 7.5.1945 | Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender | |
| 7.5.1945 | Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth | |
| 7.5.1945 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) | |
| 7.5.1945 | "SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22" | |
| 7.5.1946 | William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands | |
| 7.5.1947 | General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution | |
| 7.5.1947 | """Kraft Television Theater"" premieres on NBC" | |
| 7.5.1947 | Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt | |
| 7.5.1948 | Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death | |
| 7.5.1949 | 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2 | |
| 7.5.1951 | International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics | |
| 7.5.1951 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) | |
| 7.5.1953 | """Can Can"" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 892 performances" | |
| 7.5.1953 | "Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile" | |
| 7.5.1954 | French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu | |
| 7.5.1954 | "U.S., Great Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO" | |
| 7.5.1955 | 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8 | |
| 7.5.1955 | U.S.S.R. signs peace treaty with France and Great-Britain | |
| 7.5.1955 | West Europe Union established | |
| 7.5.1956 | "Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300" | |
| 7.5.1956 | "New York Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat" | |
| 7.5.1956 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett | |
| 7.5.1957 | Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald | |
| 7.5.1957 | "Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)" | |
| 7.5.1958 | "Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m" | |
| 7.5.1959 | """Roy Campanella Night"" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition" | |
| 7.5.1960 | 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4 | |
| 7.5.1960 | """Christine"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances" | |
| 7.5.1960 | Dodgers Larry and Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery | |
| 7.5.1960 | """Flower Drum Song"" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 602 performances" | |
| 7.5.1960 | """From A to Z"" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 21 performances" | |
| 7.5.1960 | Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R. | |
| 7.5.1960 | Los Angeles Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry | |
| 7.5.1960 | Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12 -8 for world chess championship | |
| 7.5.1960 | U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy | |
| 7.5.1961 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open | |
| 7.5.1961 | """Young Abe Lincoln"" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 27 performances" | |
| 7.5.1962 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) | |
| 7.5.1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island | |
| 7.5.1963 | Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ | |
| 7.5.1963 | "SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))" | |
| 7.5.1965 | "WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 7.5.1966 | 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02 | |
| 7.5.1966 | "Mamas and Papas ""Monday Monday"" hits #1" | |
| 7.5.1966 | Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene | |
| 7.5.1967 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open | |
| 7.5.1969 | "2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1" | |
| 7.5.1969 | "Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA" | |
| 7.5.1970 | """Long and Winding Road"" becomes Beatles' last American release" | |
| 7.5.1972 | "26th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1" | |
| 7.5.1972 | Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic | |
| 7.5.1973 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) | |
| 7.5.1974 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) | |
| 7.5.1975 | Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead | |
| 7.5.1975 | "President Ford declares an end to ""Vietnam Era""" | |
| 7.5.1975 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays | |
| 7.5.1977 | 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2 | |
| 7.5.1977 | """Happy End"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 75 performances" | |
| 7.5.1979 | 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila | |
| 7.5.1979 | Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland) | |
| 7.5.1980 | "Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried" | |
| 7.5.1980 | "Samm-Art Williams' ""Home,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 7.5.1982 | Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing | |
| 7.5.1982 | IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 | |
| 7.5.1982 | """Is There Life after High School?"" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances" | |
| 7.5.1982 | Oakland Raiders to move to Los Angeles | |
| 7.5.1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 7.5.1983 | 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2 | |
| 7.5.1983 | "August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups" | |
| 7.5.1983 | Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2 | |
| 7.5.1984 | $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit | |
| 7.5.1984 | Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic | |
| 7.5.1986 | Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I | |
| 7.5.1986 | "Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires" | |
| 7.5.1987 | "105 degrees F in Sacramento, California" | |
| 7.5.1987 | Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers | |
| 7.5.1988 | 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2 | |
| 7.5.1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. | |
| 7.5.1989 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic | |
| 7.5.1989 | "Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet" | |
| 7.5.1989 | Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency | |
| 7.5.1991 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 7.5.1991 | Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs | |
| 7.5.1992 | 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine | |
| 7.5.1992 | Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes | |
| 7.5.1992 | "Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races" | |
| 7.5.1992 | U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour) | |
| 7.5.1993 | South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections | |
| 7.5.1994 | 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6 | |
| 7.5.1994 | Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle) | |
| 7.5.1994 | "Edvard Munchs painting ""The Scream"" recovered 3 months after stolen" | |
| 7.5.1994 | Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42) | |
| 7.5.1994 | Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24) | |
| 7.5.1995 | Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election | |
| 7.5.1995 | Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic | |
| 7.5.1995 | """On the Waterfront"" closes at Atkinson Theater New York City after 8 performances" | |
| 7.5.1995 | "Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours and 36 minutes" | |
| 7.5.1996 | Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown | |
| 7.5.1997 | Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants | |
| 7.5.1997 | "Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)" | |
| 8.5.535 | John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 8.5.615 | St. Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 8.5.685 | St. Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| 8.5.1360 | Treaty of Bretigny signed by English and French | |
| 8.5.1429 | French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orleans | |
| 8.5.1450 | Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI | |
| 8.5.1541 | Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River | |
| 8.5.1624 | Hung king Bethlen Gabor and emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna | |
| 8.5.1639 | "William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island" | |
| 8.5.1660 | English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns | |
| 8.5.1721 | "Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII" | |
| 8.5.1741 | France and Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg | |
| 8.5.1784 | "Only known deaths by hailstones in U.S. in Winnsborough, South Carolina" | |
| 8.5.1792 | "British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt. Rainier, Washington" | |
| 8.5.1792 | U.S. establishes military draft | |
| 8.5.1794 | U.S. Post Office established | |
| 8.5.1823 | """Home Sweet Home"" 1st sung (London)" | |
| 8.5.1834 | Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle | |
| 8.5.1834 | "Prussia, Austria and Russia sign classified accord about Belgium" | |
| 8.5.1840 | Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process | |
| 8.5.1842 | Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die | |
| 8.5.1846 | 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas | |
| 8.5.1847 | Robert Thompson patents rubber tire | |
| 8.5.1858 | John Brown holds antislavery convention | |
| 8.5.1861 | "Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of the Confederacy" | |
| 8.5.1862 | Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va | |
| 8.5.1863 | Confederacion Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia | |
| 8.5.1864 | Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway bridge Virginia (Drewry's Bluff) | |
| 8.5.1864 | Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton | |
| 8.5.1864 | "Battle of Antietam, Virginia (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)" | |
| 8.5.1866 | Australian Rules Football is created | |
| 8.5.1871 | English - U.S. treaty ends Alabama dispute | |
| 8.5.1877 | 1st Westminster Dog Show held | |
| 8.5.1878 | "1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines" | |
| 8.5.1879 | George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile | |
| 8.5.1881 | Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch | |
| 8.5.1882 | "David Belasco's ""La Belle Russe,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 8.5.1885 | "Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl" | |
| 8.5.1886 | Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke (contained cocaine) | |
| 8.5.1895 | China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki | |
| 8.5.1896 | Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire | |
| 8.5.1897 | 22nd Preakness: T Thorpe aboard Paul Kauvar wins in 1:51 | |
| 8.5.1900 | 250 grave robbers shot to death | |
| 8.5.1900 | "Galveston Texas, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die" | |
| 8.5.1900 | John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson sign with Cardinals | |
| 8.5.1901 | "In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4" | |
| 8.5.1902 | "Mt. Pelee erupts, wipes out St. Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000" | |
| 8.5.1906 | Philadelphia A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield and hits 2 HRs | |
| 8.5.1907 | "Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0" | |
| 8.5.1907 | Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 8.5.1909 | Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6) | |
| 8.5.1909 | Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31) | |
| 8.5.1915 | 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4 | |
| 8.5.1916 | German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes | |
| 8.5.1919 | 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a Navy seaplane | |
| 8.5.1919 | Appingedam soccer team forms | |
| 8.5.1920 | 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09 | |
| 8.5.1921 | Sweden abolished capital punishment | |
| 8.5.1923 | "Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* vs. Somerset at Bath" | |
| 8.5.1924 | "Arthur Honegger's ""Pacifica 231,"" premieres" | |
| 8.5.1924 | Memel territories given to Lithuania | |
| 8.5.1924 | Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut | |
| 8.5.1925 | 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59 | |
| 8.5.1925 | French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco | |
| 8.5.1926 | 1st flight over North Pole by Bennett and Byrd | |
| 8.5.1926 | A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | |
| 8.5.1926 | Fire breaks out in Fenway Park | |
| 8.5.1929 | "Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway" | |
| 8.5.1929 | "New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0" | |
| 8.5.1931 | "Operette ""Land of Smiles,"" premieres in London" | |
| 8.5.1935 | "Cincinnati Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th beat Phils 15-4" | |
| 8.5.1936 | Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track | |
| 8.5.1937 | 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2 | |
| 8.5.1938 | "Stravinsky's ""Dumbarton Oaks,"" premieres in Washington, D.C." | |
| 8.5.1941 | German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean | |
| 8.5.1942 | "1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund" | |
| 8.5.1942 | Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea | |
| 8.5.1942 | German summer offensive opens in Crimea | |
| 8.5.1943 | 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4 | |
| 8.5.1943 | "Adm Cunningham of British fleet: ""Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass""" | |
| 8.5.1944 | 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death | |
| 8.5.1944 | U-575 sinks Asphodel | |
| 8.5.1945 | Canadian troops move into Amsterdam | |
| 8.5.1945 | "Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet" | |
| 8.5.1945 | Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov | |
| 8.5.1945 | "V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe" | |
| 8.5.1946 | Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game | |
| 8.5.1947 | A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon | |
| 8.5.1948 | "Bradman scores 146 Aust vs. Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours" | |
| 8.5.1949 | West German constitution approved | |
| 8.5.1950 | Chiang Kai-shek asks U.S. for weapons | |
| 8.5.1951 | Dacron men's suits introduced | |
| 8.5.1951 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak | |
| 8.5.1952 | Mad Magazine debuts | |
| 8.5.1952 | """Of Thee I Sing"" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 72 performances" | |
| 8.5.1952 | """Shuffle Along"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 4 performances" | |
| 8.5.1953 | "WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 8.5.1954 | "1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA" | |
| 8.5.1956 | "John Osbornes ""Look Back in Anger,"" premieres in London" | |
| 8.5.1958 | "President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock" | |
| 8.5.1958 | "Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru" | |
| 8.5.1959 | 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore | |
| 8.5.1960 | U.S.S.R. and Cuba resume diplomatic relations | |
| 8.5.1960 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open | |
| 8.5.1961 | "1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport, Texas" | |
| 8.5.1961 | "Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington" | |
| 8.5.1962 | 1st Atlas Centaur Launch | |
| 8.5.1962 | """Funny Thing Happened"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 965 performances" | |
| 8.5.1962 | London trolley buses go out of service | |
| 8.5.1963 | """Dr. No"" premieres in U.S." | |
| 8.5.1963 | John F. Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression | |
| 8.5.1965 | "1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7"")" | |
| 8.5.1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open | |
| 8.5.1966 | "Last game at old Busch stadium, St. Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF" | |
| 8.5.1966 | Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson) | |
| 8.5.1967 | Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army | |
| 8.5.1968 | Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0) | |
| 8.5.1968 | Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner) | |
| 8.5.1969 | Cambodia recognizes German DR | |
| 8.5.1969 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation | |
| 8.5.1970 | "Beatles release ""Let it Be"" album" | |
| 8.5.1970 | Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street | |
| 8.5.1970 | "NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99" | |
| 8.5.1971 | """Earl of Ruston"" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 5 performances" | |
| 8.5.1971 | Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden | |
| 8.5.1972 | "Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians" | |
| 8.5.1973 | "Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs mgr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, thus technically becoming baseball's 1st black manager" | |
| 8.5.1973 | Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender | |
| 8.5.1974 | 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted | |
| 8.5.1974 | Canada government of Trudeau falls | |
| 8.5.1974 | FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II | |
| 8.5.1976 | """1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 7 performances" | |
| 8.5.1977 | "David Berkowitz pleads guilty in ""Son of Sam"" 44-caliber shootings" | |
| 8.5.1977 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic | |
| 8.5.1978 | "ABC TV airs ""Stars Salute Israel at 30""" | |
| 8.5.1978 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament | |
| 8.5.1979 | Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3 | |
| 8.5.1980 | "Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game" | |
| 8.5.1980 | World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated | |
| 8.5.1981 | "Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record" | |
| 8.5.1982 | Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead | |
| 8.5.1983 | Janet Coles wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament | |
| 8.5.1984 | "Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)" | |
| 8.5.1984 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 8.5.1984 | Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles | |
| 8.5.1984 | Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed | |
| 8.5.1984 | U.S.S.R. announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics | |
| 8.5.1985 | 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Judds win | |
| 8.5.1985 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 8.5.1987 | Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race due to Donna Rice affair | |
| 8.5.1988 | "Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils" | |
| 8.5.1988 | Francois Mitterrand elected president of France | |
| 8.5.1988 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic | |
| 8.5.1988 | "Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St. in New York City" | |
| 8.5.1988 | """Oba Oba"" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 46 performances" | |
| 8.5.1989 | "Paul McCartney releases ""My Brave Face"" and ""Ferry Cross the Mersey""" | |
| 8.5.1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-30 lands | |
| 8.5.1990 | Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway | |
| 8.5.1991 | CIA director William H. Webster resigns | |
| 8.5.1993 | "16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman and takes New York City subway train and 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride" | |
| 8.5.1993 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware | |
| 8.5.1993 | Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title | |
| 8.5.1994 | 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes | |
| 8.5.1994 | Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game | |
| 8.5.1994 | Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama | |
| 8.5.1994 | Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica | |
| 8.5.1994 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic | |
| 8.5.1994 | President Clinton announces U.S. will no longer repatriate boat people | |
| 8.5.1994 | """Rise and Fall of Little Voice"" closes at Neil Simon New York City after 9 performances" | |
| 8.5.1996 | New York Yankee Dwight Gooden wins his 1st AL game beating Tigers 10-3 | |
| 8.5.1996 | South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution | |
| 8.5.1997 | Tea Leoni and David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village | |
| 9.5.1002 | "After trailing 9-0, St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta Braves 12-11" | |
| 9.5.1092 | Lincoln Cathedral consecrated | |
| 9.5.1336 | Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux | |
| 9.5.1386 | Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England | |
| 9.5.1460 | Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings | |
| 9.5.1502 | Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to New World | |
| 9.5.1519 | Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government | |
| 9.5.1573 | Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king | |
| 9.5.1588 | Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris | |
| 9.5.1671 | Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels | |
| 9.5.1689 | English King Willem III declares war on France | |
| 9.5.1738 | England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea and West-Indies | |
| 9.5.1753 | King Louis XV disbands French parliament | |
| 9.5.1754 | "1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake ""Join or Die""" | |
| 9.5.1766 | John Byron back in England after trip around the world | |
| 9.5.1785 | British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle | |
| 9.5.1788 | English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade | |
| 9.5.1836 | "HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius" | |
| 9.5.1837 | """Sherrod"" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies" | |
| 9.5.1846 | Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande | |
| 9.5.1862 | "Battle of Farmington, Mississippi" | |
| 9.5.1862 | "Battle of Ft. Pickens, Florida (Pensacola), evacuated by CS" | |
| 9.5.1862 | "U.S. Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island" | |
| 9.5.1864 | "Battle of Cloyd's Mt, and Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery's Bluff, Ft. Darling)" | |
| 9.5.1864 | "Battle of Dalton, Geogia" | |
| 9.5.1864 | "Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark" | |
| 9.5.1864 | "Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia" | |
| 9.5.1868 | "Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres" | |
| 9.5.1874 | "Victoria Embankment, in London opens" | |
| 9.5.1882 | Telegraph Hill RR Co organized | |
| 9.5.1889 | 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34 | |
| 9.5.1896 | 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) | |
| 9.5.1899 | Lawn mower patented | |
| 9.5.1901 | Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne | |
| 9.5.1901 | Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chicago White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2 | |
| 9.5.1908 | Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname | |
| 9.5.1911 | Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland | |
| 9.5.1913 | 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote | |
| 9.5.1914 | 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4 | |
| 9.5.1914 | President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day | |
| 9.5.1915 | German and French fight Battle of Artois | |
| 9.5.1916 | British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey | |
| 9.5.1925 | "Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid" | |
| 9.5.1926 | Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole | |
| 9.5.1927 | 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6 | |
| 9.5.1927 | Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia | |
| 9.5.1929 | New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates | |
| 9.5.1929 | WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions | |
| 9.5.1930 | 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6 | |
| 9.5.1931 | 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59 | |
| 9.5.1932 | 58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8 | |
| 9.5.1932 | "Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity" | |
| 9.5.1932 | WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC | |
| 9.5.1933 | Spanish anarchists call for general strike | |
| 9.5.1934 | Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University! | |
| 9.5.1936 | 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire | |
| 9.5.1936 | "Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)" | |
| 9.5.1937 | Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6) | |
| 9.5.1939 | "Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha" | |
| 9.5.1941 | English Army breaks German spy codes | |
| 9.5.1942 | 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57 | |
| 9.5.1943 | 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia | |
| 9.5.1943 | Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens | |
| 9.5.1944 | Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana | |
| 9.5.1944 | Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested | |
| 9.5.1944 | Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness | |
| 9.5.1944 | Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol | |
| 9.5.1945 | Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day) | |
| 9.5.1945 | Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested | |
| 9.5.1945 | "New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier" | |
| 9.5.1945 | Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested | |
| 9.5.1945 | Victory celebration at Red Square | |
| 9.5.1946 | "1st hour long entertainment TV show, ""NBC's Hour Glass"" premieres" | |
| 9.5.1946 | "1st variety show on TV ""NBC's Hour Glass,"" premieres" | |
| 9.5.1946 | "King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto" | |
| 9.5.1949 | "Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway, London" | |
| 9.5.1949 | Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco | |
| 9.5.1950 | French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS | |
| 9.5.1950 | Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville | |
| 9.5.1951 | Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River | |
| 9.5.1955 | German Federal Republic joins NATO | |
| 9.5.1958 | Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship | |
| 9.5.1959 | "Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox" | |
| 9.5.1960 | Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth | |
| 9.5.1960 | U.S. is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally | |
| 9.5.1960 | U.S. send U-2 over U.S.S.R. | |
| 9.5.1961 | Baltimore Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minnesota Twins | |
| 9.5.1961 | "FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a ""vast wasteland""" | |
| 9.5.1961 | Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings | |
| 9.5.1962 | Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone | |
| 9.5.1962 | Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time | |
| 9.5.1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island | |
| 9.5.1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 9.5.1964 | Khrushchev visits Egypt | |
| 9.5.1964 | "Peter and Gordon release ""World Without Love""" | |
| 9.5.1965 | Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert | |
| 9.5.1965 | Luna 5 launched (U.S.S.R.) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails) | |
| 9.5.1966 | 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) | |
| 9.5.1966 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC | |
| 9.5.1967 | 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship | |
| 9.5.1967 | Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam | |
| 9.5.1969 | BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick | |
| 9.5.1970 | "100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War" | |
| 9.5.1971 | "23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton" | |
| 9.5.1971 | Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) | |
| 9.5.1971 | Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes | |
| 9.5.1971 | "Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history" | |
| 9.5.1971 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open | |
| 9.5.1973 | "For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 home runs in a game" | |
| 9.5.1974 | House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment | |
| 9.5.1975 | Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) | |
| 9.5.1975 | Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead | |
| 9.5.1976 | Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament | |
| 9.5.1976 | """So Long 174th St"" closes at Harkness Theater New York City after 16 performances" | |
| 9.5.1977 | "Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed" | |
| 9.5.1977 | Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon | |
| 9.5.1977 | Patty Hearst let out of jail | |
| 9.5.1978 | """Ain't Misbehavin'"" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 1604 performances" | |
| 9.5.1978 | Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found | |
| 9.5.1978 | Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage | |
| 9.5.1978 | "Musical ""Ain't Misbehavin',"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 9.5.1978 | "PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth" | |
| 9.5.1979 | "US and U.S.S.R. sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons" | |
| 9.5.1980 | 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge | |
| 9.5.1981 | Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian | |
| 9.5.1982 | """9"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 739 performances" | |
| 9.5.1982 | "Arthur Kopit's musical ""Nine,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 9.5.1982 | Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic | |
| 9.5.1983 | 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson | |
| 9.5.1984 | "Alexander Calder's ""Big Crinkly"" sells for $852,000" | |
| 9.5.1984 | "White Sox and Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game, 25 innings" | |
| 9.5.1987 | 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw | |
| 9.5.1987 | "Actor Tom Cruise (27) and actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry" | |
| 9.5.1987 | Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit home runs in 2 consecutive games | |
| 9.5.1988 | Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth | |
| 9.5.1988 | Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms | |
| 9.5.1989 | Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press | |
| 9.5.1989 | "New York Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop" | |
| 9.5.1989 | "New York Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher" | |
| 9.5.1989 | """Saratina!"" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 597 performances" | |
| 9.5.1990 | New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur | |
| 9.5.1990 | Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II | |
| 9.5.1991 | Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession | |
| 9.5.1991 | Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer | |
| 9.5.1992 | America Cup finals begin in San Diego | |
| 9.5.1992 | "Final episode of ""Golden Girls"" airs on NBC-TV" | |
| 9.5.1992 | "Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe" | |
| 9.5.1993 | """Ain't Broadway Grand"" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 25 performances" | |
| 9.5.1993 | "Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300" | |
| 9.5.1993 | Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic | |
| 9.5.1993 | "Mustapha Matura's ""Playboy of West Indies,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 9.5.1993 | Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years | |
| 9.5.1993 | """Song of Jacob Zulu"" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 53 performances" | |
| 9.5.1994 | Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York | |
| 9.5.1994 | """Passion"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 280 performances" | |
| 9.5.1995 | "Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0" | |
| 9.5.1995 | "Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus" | |
| 9.5.1997 | 1st U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam | |
| 9.5.1997 | San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones | |
| 9.5.1998 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by | |
| 10.5.1267 | Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb | |
| 10.5.1278 | Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining | |
| 10.5.1291 | Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I | |
| 10.5.1427 | Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland | |
| 10.5.1497 | Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World | |
| 10.5.1503 | Columbus discovers Cayman Islands | |
| 10.5.1525 | Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague | |
| 10.5.1534 | French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland | |
| 10.5.1559 | Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary | |
| 10.5.1570 | Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant | |
| 10.5.1624 | "Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist" | |
| 10.5.1652 | "John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va" | |
| 10.5.1655 | Jamaica captured by English | |
| 10.5.1676 | "Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia government begins" | |
| 10.5.1752 | Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod | |
| 10.5.1774 | Louis XVI ascends to throne of France | |
| 10.5.1775 | 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania issues paper currency for 1st time | |
| 10.5.1775 | "2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander" | |
| 10.5.1775 | Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution | |
| 10.5.1787 | Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings | |
| 10.5.1796 | French government arrest 10 utopists | |
| 10.5.1796 | Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge | |
| 10.5.1796 | Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam | |
| 10.5.1797 | "1st Navy ship, the ""United States,"" is launched" | |
| 10.5.1816 | "English steamship ""Defiance"" arrives at Rotterdam harbor" | |
| 10.5.1823 | 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft. Snelling | |
| 10.5.1849 | Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in New York City (22 killed) | |
| 10.5.1857 | Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut | |
| 10.5.1857 | "Sepoy-revolt in Meerutkazerne, Delhi" | |
| 10.5.1861 | "Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri" | |
| 10.5.1862 | "Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee (Plum Point Bend)" | |
| 10.5.1864 | "Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia" | |
| 10.5.1864 | Skirmish at Ny River Virginia | |
| 10.5.1865 | Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville Georgia | |
| 10.5.1865 | Surrender of Sam Jones | |
| 10.5.1869 | "Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR" | |
| 10.5.1870 | "Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch" | |
| 10.5.1871 | German-French peace treaty signed: France cedes Elzas | |
| 10.5.1871 | Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France and Germany | |
| 10.5.1872 | Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president | |
| 10.5.1876 | Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia | |
| 10.5.1879 | "Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa" | |
| 10.5.1880 | General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria | |
| 10.5.1881 | Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation | |
| 10.5.1889 | 17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17 | |
| 10.5.1893 | 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39 | |
| 10.5.1893 | Imperial Institute in London opens | |
| 10.5.1905 | 31st Kentucky Derby: Jack Martin aboard Agile wins in 2:100.75 | |
| 10.5.1906 | Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time | |
| 10.5.1907 | "Paul Dukas' opera ""Ariane et Barbe Bleue,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 10.5.1908 | 1st Mother's Day observed | |
| 10.5.1909 | Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning | |
| 10.5.1910 | "1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)" | |
| 10.5.1910 | 36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4 | |
| 10.5.1910 | Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass | |
| 10.5.1913 | 39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8 | |
| 10.5.1913 | Yanks commit 8 errors and still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings | |
| 10.5.1915 | Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea | |
| 10.5.1916 | "Disastrous fire in Ellendale, North Dakota" | |
| 10.5.1916 | Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam | |
| 10.5.1917 | Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks | |
| 10.5.1918 | HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor | |
| 10.5.1919 | 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8 | |
| 10.5.1919 | "Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed" | |
| 10.5.1921 | "Luigi Pirandello's ""Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore,"" premieres" | |
| 10.5.1922 | Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar | |
| 10.5.1922 | WHB-AM in Kansas City Missouri begins radio transmissions | |
| 10.5.1924 | J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI | |
| 10.5.1926 | 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8 | |
| 10.5.1928 | "WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming" | |
| 10.5.1929 | 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr. Freeland wins in 2:01.6 | |
| 10.5.1929 | 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane | |
| 10.5.1930 | "Adler Planetarium, 1st U.S. planetarium, opens in Chicago" | |
| 10.5.1930 | Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs. Yorkshire at Sheffield | |
| 10.5.1931 | "Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey" | |
| 10.5.1932 | "Government declares ""Wilhelmus"" Netherlands national anthem" | |
| 10.5.1932 | Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France | |
| 10.5.1933 | Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms | |
| 10.5.1933 | Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany | |
| 10.5.1933 | Paraguay declares war on Bolivia | |
| 10.5.1933 | Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands | |
| 10.5.1936 | Manuel Azana elected president of Spain | |
| 10.5.1936 | Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt | |
| 10.5.1937 | Busmen strike in London | |
| 10.5.1938 | Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam | |
| 10.5.1940 | British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms | |
| 10.5.1940 | Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks | |
| 10.5.1940 | Dutch-Indies Gov Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege | |
| 10.5.1940 | French marines stationed on Aruba | |
| 10.5.1940 | French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands | |
| 10.5.1940 | "Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg" | |
| 10.5.1940 | Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM | |
| 10.5.1941 | 67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8 | |
| 10.5.1941 | Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland | |
| 10.5.1941 | England's House of Commons and Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz | |
| 10.5.1941 | Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason | |
| 10.5.1944 | Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan | |
| 10.5.1944 | Smith vs. Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal | |
| 10.5.1945 | Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese | |
| 10.5.1945 | Russian troops occupied Prague | |
| 10.5.1946 | "Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam" | |
| 10.5.1946 | Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy | |
| 10.5.1947 | 73rd Preakness: Doug Dodson aboard Faultless wins in 1:59 | |
| 10.5.1947 | """Chocolate Soldier"" closes at Century Theater New York City after 69 performances" | |
| 10.5.1948 | 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel | |
| 10.5.1948 | Winston Churchill visits The Hague | |
| 10.5.1951 | Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council | |
| 10.5.1952 | """Shuffle Along"" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 4 performances" | |
| 10.5.1953 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open | |
| 10.5.1953 | "KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 10.5.1954 | Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris | |
| 10.5.1956 | "French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria" | |
| 10.5.1956 | "KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, California (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 10.5.1957 | 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon | |
| 10.5.1957 | "Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow" | |
| 10.5.1959 | "Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released and charged with loss 2 months after his retirement" | |
| 10.5.1959 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational | |
| 10.5.1960 | John F. Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia | |
| 10.5.1960 | USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water | |
| 10.5.1961 | """Beyond the Fringe,"" premieres in London" | |
| 10.5.1963 | Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison | |
| 10.5.1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational | |
| 10.5.1967 | Foundation Arizona soccer team forms in Alkmaar | |
| 10.5.1967 | Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning) | |
| 10.5.1967 | "Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges" | |
| 10.5.1967 | Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares U.S. aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia | |
| 10.5.1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 10.5.1968 | Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam | |
| 10.5.1969 | Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space | |
| 10.5.1969 | "Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times" | |
| 10.5.1969 | U.S. troop begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill | |
| 10.5.1970 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open | |
| 10.5.1970 | "Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5" | |
| 10.5.1970 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games | |
| 10.5.1971 | U.S. special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents | |
| 10.5.1972 | "Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77" | |
| 10.5.1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 10.5.1973 | "27th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1" | |
| 10.5.1973 | "9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4" | |
| 10.5.1973 | Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania | |
| 10.5.1973 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2" | |
| 10.5.1974 | "7th ABA championship: New York Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1" | |
| 10.5.1975 | "Brian Oldfield of U.S. put shot 75', an unofficial record" | |
| 10.5.1978 | """Angel"" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 5 performances" | |
| 10.5.1978 | Liverpool wins 23rd Europe Cup I | |
| 10.5.1979 | Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing | |
| 10.5.1979 | John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros | |
| 10.5.1979 | "Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka [From May 2]" | |
| 10.5.1980 | """Happy New Year"" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 17 performances" | |
| 10.5.1981 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament | |
| 10.5.1981 | Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for President of France | |
| 10.5.1981 | "Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits San Francisco Giants, 4-0" | |
| 10.5.1982 | WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network | |
| 10.5.1982 | WABC New York City plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine) | |
| 10.5.1983 | """Laverne and Shirley,"" last airs on ABC-TV" | |
| 10.5.1983 | Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul | |
| 10.5.1983 | Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead | |
| 10.5.1984 | International Court of Justice rules on U.S. blockade of Nicaragua | |
| 10.5.1985 | Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB | |
| 10.5.1986 | """Rock Me Amadeus,"" by Falco hit #1 on U.K. pop chart" | |
| 10.5.1986 | "Tommy Lee, drummer of Motley Crue, marries Heather Locklear" | |
| 10.5.1987 | Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic | |
| 10.5.1988 | "Edgar Degas' ""Danseresje of 14"" sold for $10,120,000" | |
| 10.5.1989 | FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II | |
| 10.5.1989 | "Gen Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin" | |
| 10.5.1990 | French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph | |
| 10.5.1990 | Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella | |
| 10.5.1990 | """Zoya's Apartment"" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 45 performances" | |
| 10.5.1991 | Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving Madonna's apt | |
| 10.5.1992 | "Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel" | |
| 10.5.1992 | """Hamlet"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances" | |
| 10.5.1992 | Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic | |
| 10.5.1993 | "Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145" | |
| 10.5.1993 | Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman | |
| 10.5.1993 | "Paul Cezannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in New York City" | |
| 10.5.1993 | Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol | |
| 10.5.1994 | """Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public"" opens at Lunt-Font New York City for 16 per" | |
| 10.5.1994 | Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31) | |
| 10.5.1994 | Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president | |
| 10.5.1994 | Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists | |
| 10.5.1994 | Barbra Striesand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years | |
| 10.5.1995 | 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins | |
| 10.5.1995 | Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein | |
| 10.5.1995 | "In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident" | |
| 10.5.1996 | 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games | |
| 10.5.1996 | """Twister"" premieres" | |
| 10.5.1997 | Chicago Cubs turn baseballs 68th triple play (vs San Francisco Giants) | |
| 11.5.330 | Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire | |
| 11.5.1189 | "Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa and 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg" | |
| 11.5.1330 | Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire | |
| 11.5.1421 | Jews are expelled from Styria Austria | |
| 11.5.1502 | "Columbus begins 4th and last trip to ""Indies""" | |
| 11.5.1548 | Great fire in Brielle | |
| 11.5.1625 | Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper-Austria | |
| 11.5.1674 | Netherlands and Cologne sign peace treaty | |
| 11.5.1678 | "French adm Jean d'Estrees' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaeao" | |
| 11.5.1689 | "Battle of Bantry Bay, French and English naval battle" | |
| 11.5.1690 | English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia | |
| 11.5.1745 | Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war | |
| 11.5.1749 | British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization | |
| 11.5.1751 | 1st U.S. hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) | |
| 11.5.1752 | 1st U.S. fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia) | |
| 11.5.1772 | "Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed" | |
| 11.5.1784 | England and Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty | |
| 11.5.1792 | Columbia River discovered and named by U.S. Capt Robert Gray | |
| 11.5.1812 | Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on! | |
| 11.5.1814 | Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh | |
| 11.5.1816 | American Bible Society forms in New York | |
| 11.5.1818 | "Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0" | |
| 11.5.1833 | """Lady-of-the-Lake"" strikes iceberg and sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215" | |
| 11.5.1850 | Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco | |
| 11.5.1858 | Minnesota admitted as 32nd U.S. state | |
| 11.5.1862 | "Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia" | |
| 11.5.1864 | "Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)" | |
| 11.5.1864 | Gen J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern | |
| 11.5.1867 | "Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg" | |
| 11.5.1875 | "George ""Charmer"" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout" | |
| 11.5.1881 | "Bedrich Smetana's opera ""Libusa,"" premieres in Prague" | |
| 11.5.1887 | 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39 | |
| 11.5.1888 | 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49 | |
| 11.5.1892 | 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41 | |
| 11.5.1893 | Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km) | |
| 11.5.1894 | American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co | |
| 11.5.1897 | Washington Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers | |
| 11.5.1900 | James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavywgt boxing title | |
| 11.5.1904 | Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace | |
| 11.5.1907 | Bank of San Francisco incorporated | |
| 11.5.1910 | Montana's Glacier National Park forms | |
| 11.5.1912 | 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4 | |
| 11.5.1916 | Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented | |
| 11.5.1917 | Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand | |
| 11.5.1918 | 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8 | |
| 11.5.1919 | "Yanks' Jack Quinn and Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie" | |
| 11.5.1921 | Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality | |
| 11.5.1923 | 10 home runs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St. Louis Cardinals | |
| 11.5.1924 | Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election | |
| 11.5.1924 | Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) | |
| 11.5.1925 | Communist Party of Holland splits | |
| 11.5.1925 | Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR | |
| 11.5.1926 | Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean | |
| 11.5.1927 | Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer | |
| 11.5.1927 | Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | |
| 11.5.1928 | 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4 | |
| 11.5.1928 | 54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2 | |
| 11.5.1928 | 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St. George's | |
| 11.5.1928 | "General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, New York)" | |
| 11.5.1929 | 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week) | |
| 11.5.1929 | Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx | |
| 11.5.1931 | "Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe" | |
| 11.5.1935 | 61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4 | |
| 11.5.1940 | 66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6 | |
| 11.5.1940 | New York World's Fair reopens | |
| 11.5.1941 | 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England | |
| 11.5.1942 | Japanese troops conquer Kalewa | |
| 11.5.1943 | Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders | |
| 11.5.1943 | "U.S. 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st U.S. territory recaptured)" | |
| 11.5.1944 | Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer | |
| 11.5.1944 | Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison | |
| 11.5.1945 | U.S. Marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa | |
| 11.5.1946 | "1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1)" | |
| 11.5.1946 | 72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4 | |
| 11.5.1947 | "BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire in Akron, Ohio" | |
| 11.5.1947 | Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy | |
| 11.5.1948 | Haganah takes control of Safed and port of Haifa | |
| 11.5.1948 | Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy | |
| 11.5.1949 | 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 in New York City | |
| 11.5.1949 | "By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of U.N." | |
| 11.5.1949 | Siam renames itself Thailand | |
| 11.5.1950 | "Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die" | |
| 11.5.1950 | "Eugene Ionesco's ""La Cantatrice Chauve,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 11.5.1951 | Jay Forrester patents computer core memory | |
| 11.5.1953 | Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas and causes $39M damage | |
| 11.5.1953 | Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory | |
| 11.5.1955 | Israel attacks Gaza | |
| 11.5.1956 | "Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV" | |
| 11.5.1957 | Gabriel Paris forms government of Colombia | |
| 11.5.1958 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open | |
| 11.5.1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island | |
| 11.5.1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak | |
| 11.5.1959 | "Elvis Presley's 1st entry on U.K. charts with ""Heartbreak Hotel""" | |
| 11.5.1959 | """Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb"" by Byrnes and Connie Stevens hits #4" | |
| 11.5.1959 | "Rodgers and Barer's musical ""Once upon a mattress,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 11.5.1959 | Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends | |
| 11.5.1960 | "French liner ""France"" launched" | |
| 11.5.1960 | Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires | |
| 11.5.1962 | Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy | |
| 11.5.1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island | |
| 11.5.1962 | U.S. sends troops to Thailand | |
| 11.5.1963 | "Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats New York Giants, 8-0" | |
| 11.5.1963 | """Puff (The Magic Dragon)"" by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2" | |
| 11.5.1963 | Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama | |
| 11.5.1965 | "1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)" | |
| 11.5.1965 | "Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000" | |
| 11.5.1965 | Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument | |
| 11.5.1965 | """Flora, the Red Menace"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 87 performances" | |
| 11.5.1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | |
| 11.5.1965 | West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy | |
| 11.5.1966 | Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I | |
| 11.5.1967 | "100,000,000th U.S. phone connected" | |
| 11.5.1967 | "Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark apply for EG membership" | |
| 11.5.1967 | """Sing, Israel Sing"" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 14 performances" | |
| 11.5.1968 | "Richard Harris releases ""MacArthur Park""" | |
| 11.5.1968 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games | |
| 11.5.1968 | "Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured" | |
| 11.5.1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open | |
| 11.5.1969 | Monty Python comedy troupe forms | |
| 11.5.1970 | "Sammy Davis, Jr. weds Altovise" | |
| 11.5.1971 | Cleveland's Steve Dunning becomes last AL pitcher to hit grand slam | |
| 11.5.1972 | Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams and cash | |
| 11.5.1972 | John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show | |
| 11.5.1972 | "Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 2" | |
| 11.5.1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 11.5.1973 | Dutch government of Uyl forms | |
| 11.5.1974 | """Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"" by Frank Sinatra hits #83" | |
| 11.5.1974 | "Steely Dan releases ""Rikki Don't Lose that Number""" | |
| 11.5.1974 | """Tubular Bells"" by Mike Oldfield hits #7" | |
| 11.5.1975 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic | |
| 11.5.1975 | Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games | |
| 11.5.1975 | Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market | |
| 11.5.1976 | Emmy 3rd Daytime Award presentation | |
| 11.5.1976 | "Last broadcast of ""Marcus Welby, MD"" on ABC-TV" | |
| 11.5.1977 | Hamburger SV wins 17th soccer Europe Cup II | |
| 11.5.1977 | Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game | |
| 11.5.1978 | Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps | |
| 11.5.1980 | Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament | |
| 11.5.1980 | "Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, and home in one inning for Phillies" | |
| 11.5.1981 | "Andrew Lloyd Webber/T.S. Eliot's musical ""Cats"", premieres in London" | |
| 11.5.1981 | "Kim Carnes' ""Bette Davis Eyes"" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks" | |
| 11.5.1982 | Canucks 4-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead | |
| 11.5.1983 | Aberdeen wins 23rd Europe Cup II | |
| 11.5.1983 | Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth | |
| 11.5.1983 | """Dance a Little Closer"" opens and closes at Minskoff Theater New York City" | |
| 11.5.1984 | Johan Cruijff quits soccer | |
| 11.5.1984 | Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4) | |
| 11.5.1984 | Transit of Earth as seen on Mars | |
| 11.5.1985 | 40 die and 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground | |
| 11.5.1985 | Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India | |
| 11.5.1985 | "Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cincinnati Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez and Cesar Cedeno" | |
| 11.5.1985 | "Madonna's ""Crazy For You,"" single goes #1" | |
| 11.5.1985 | Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands | |
| 11.5.1985 | Soccer stadium in Bradford England catches fire; 53 die | |
| 11.5.1986 | Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic | |
| 11.5.1987 | 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) | |
| 11.5.1987 | Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines | |
| 11.5.1988 | France performs nuclear test | |
| 11.5.1988 | KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II | |
| 11.5.1988 | Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) | |
| 11.5.1989 | "217th and final episode of ""Dynasty"" is aired" | |
| 11.5.1989 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 11.5.1989 | Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds | |
| 11.5.1989 | "President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama" | |
| 11.5.1990 | New York Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt | |
| 11.5.1993 | 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins | |
| 11.5.1993 | Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire | |
| 11.5.1994 | 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa | |
| 11.5.1994 | """Grease,"" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater New York City for 1,503 performances" | |
| 11.5.1994 | Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup | |
| 11.5.1994 | """Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult,"" released in France" | |
| 11.5.1996 | "Florida Marlin Al Leiter no hits Colorado Rockies, 11-0" | |
| 11.5.1996 | "Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die" | |
| 11.5.1997 | Sara Lee LPGA Classic | |
| 11.5.1997 | Scott McCarron wins Bellsouth Golf Classic | |
| 11.5.1997 | Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Sara Lee Classic | |
| 11.5.1997 | New York Mets C. Everett and Butch Huskey are 9th to hit consecutive pinch HRs | |
| 11.5.1997 | Paine Webber Senior Golf Invitational | |
| 11.5.1997 | """Play On!"" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 61 performances" | |
| 12.5.254 | Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope | |
| 12.5.919 | Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich | |
| 12.5.1082 | Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr | |
| 12.5.1215 | English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country | |
| 12.5.1328 | Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V | |
| 12.5.1459 | Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur | |
| 12.5.1525 | Battle at Boblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers | |
| 12.5.1534 | Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian | |
| 12.5.1551 | "San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens" | |
| 12.5.1588 | Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris | |
| 12.5.1604 | Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius | |
| 12.5.1640 | Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV | |
| 12.5.1641 | Prince Willem II (14) marries Engl princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9) | |
| 12.5.1689 | England and Netherlands form League of Augsburg | |
| 12.5.1695 | English king Willem III departs to Netherlands | |
| 12.5.1701 | Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701) | |
| 12.5.1733 | Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague | |
| 12.5.1776 | "Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns" | |
| 12.5.1777 | 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette) | |
| 12.5.1780 | "British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina" | |
| 12.5.1780 | "Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War)" | |
| 12.5.1789 | Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses | |
| 12.5.1792 | Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented | |
| 12.5.1832 | "Gaetano Donizetti's opera ""L'elisir d'amore,"" premieres in Milan" | |
| 12.5.1835 | Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile | |
| 12.5.1849 | Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam | |
| 12.5.1862 | Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana | |
| 12.5.1863 | "Battle of Raymond, Mississippi" | |
| 12.5.1864 | "Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (Ft. Darling)" | |
| 12.5.1864 | "Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia" | |
| 12.5.1864 | "Battle of Todd's Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid)" | |
| 12.5.1864 | Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River | |
| 12.5.1864 | U.S. Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general | |
| 12.5.1865 | "Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas" | |
| 12.5.1870 | Manitoba becomes a province of Canada | |
| 12.5.1871 | "Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky" | |
| 12.5.1874 | "U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized" | |
| 12.5.1875 | "1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St. Louis 0" | |
| 12.5.1877 | Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia | |
| 12.5.1881 | France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony | |
| 12.5.1881 | "Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate" | |
| 12.5.1885 | "Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada" | |
| 12.5.1888 | Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale | |
| 12.5.1890 | Louisiana legalized prize fighting | |
| 12.5.1891 | Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname | |
| 12.5.1894 | "Ludwig Englander's musical ""Passing Show,"" premieres in New York City" | |
| 12.5.1897 | "1800-1900 year old fossil of ""girl of Yde"" found in Drente Neth" | |
| 12.5.1897 | Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece | |
| 12.5.1898 | "Louisiana adopts new constitution with ""grandfather clause"" designed to eliminate black voters" | |
| 12.5.1900 | "Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed" | |
| 12.5.1900 | Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city | |
| 12.5.1901 | President McKinley visits San Francisco | |
| 12.5.1908 | "George Bernard Shaws' ""Getting Married,"" premieres in London" | |
| 12.5.1908 | Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield | |
| 12.5.1909 | 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8 | |
| 12.5.1910 | 2nd NAACP conference (New York City) | |
| 12.5.1910 | "Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0" | |
| 12.5.1913 | Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2) | |
| 12.5.1915 | "Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250" | |
| 12.5.1915 | "Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of ""Book Week""" | |
| 12.5.1917 | 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4 | |
| 12.5.1917 | 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6 | |
| 12.5.1919 | "Yanks and Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15" | |
| 12.5.1921 | National Hospital Day 1st observed | |
| 12.5.1923 | 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6 | |
| 12.5.1924 | 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2 | |
| 12.5.1924 | 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind | |
| 12.5.1925 | Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics | |
| 12.5.1925 | Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament | |
| 12.5.1926 | Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole | |
| 12.5.1926 | British general strike ends | |
| 12.5.1926 | "Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad" | |
| 12.5.1926 | Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared | |
| 12.5.1926 | Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole | |
| 12.5.1928 | Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy | |
| 12.5.1929 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) | |
| 12.5.1930 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) | |
| 12.5.1932 | "Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey" | |
| 12.5.1932 | "Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney" | |
| 12.5.1933 | Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers | |
| 12.5.1934 | 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2 | |
| 12.5.1934 | """Cocktails For Two,"" by Duke Ellington hits #1" | |
| 12.5.1936 | "Ralph Vaughan Williams' ""Poisoned Kiss,"" premieres in London" | |
| 12.5.1937 | George VI crowned King of England | |
| 12.5.1937 | "St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3" | |
| 12.5.1938 | Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) | |
| 12.5.1940 | French mariners occupy St. Maarten | |
| 12.5.1940 | German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug | |
| 12.5.1940 | Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River | |
| 12.5.1941 | Great British convoy marches into Alexandria | |
| 12.5.1942 | "1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz" | |
| 12.5.1942 | David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine | |
| 12.5.1942 | Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River | |
| 12.5.1942 | "Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943" | |
| 12.5.1943 | Axis forces in North Africa surrender | |
| 12.5.1943 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S. | |
| 12.5.1943 | German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender | |
| 12.5.1944 | "900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen and Brux" | |
| 12.5.1944 | Krim purged of nazi troops | |
| 12.5.1944 | Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat | |
| 12.5.1948 | Queen Wilhelmina resigns | |
| 12.5.1949 | 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India) | |
| 12.5.1949 | West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade | |
| 12.5.1950 | "Darius Milhauds opera ""Bolivar,"" premieres in Paris" | |
| 12.5.1951 | "1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll" | |
| 12.5.1952 | Charlton Playground named in Bronx | |
| 12.5.1953 | "KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 12.5.1955 | "Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)" | |
| 12.5.1956 | "Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats New York Giants, 3-0" | |
| 12.5.1956 | East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves | |
| 12.5.1957 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open | |
| 12.5.1958 | """Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu"" by Dicky Doo and The Dont's hits #40" | |
| 12.5.1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak | |
| 12.5.1959 | Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher) | |
| 12.5.1959 | """Nervous Set"" opens at Henry Miller's Theater New York City for 23 performances" | |
| 12.5.1960 | Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special | |
| 12.5.1961 | Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time | |
| 12.5.1962 | Grevelingendam closes | |
| 12.5.1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island | |
| 12.5.1963 | Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show | |
| 12.5.1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open | |
| 12.5.1963 | Race riot in Birmingham Alabama | |
| 12.5.1964 | Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO | |
| 12.5.1965 | Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations | |
| 12.5.1966 | "St. Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns" | |
| 12.5.1967 | H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student | |
| 12.5.1967 | Provo disbands in Netherlands Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | |
| 12.5.1968 | """March of Poor"" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, D.C." | |
| 12.5.1968 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open | |
| 12.5.1968 | "WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting" | |
| 12.5.1969 | Kenneth H. Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH | |
| 12.5.1970 | Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run | |
| 12.5.1970 | Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court | |
| 12.5.1970 | "KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting" | |
| 12.5.1970 | Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) | |
| 12.5.1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 12.5.1971 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St. Tropez Town Hall | |
| 12.5.1972 | "Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)" | |
| 12.5.1972 |