| * 1294 | John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg |
| * 1342 | Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein) |
| * 1382 | Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge |
| * 1455 | Jews flee Spain |
| * 1494 | Columbus discovers Jamaica |
| * 1494 | Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago" |
| * 1512 | 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
| * 1512 | Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen |
| * 1515 | Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz |
| * 1616 | Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war |
| * 1621 | Francis Bacon accused of bribery |
| * 1624 | Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama |
| * 1629 | French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain |
| * 1640 | English Upper house accept Act of Attainder |
| * 1654 | Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals |
| * 1660 | Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva |
| * 1661 | Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen |
| * 1662 | Royal charter granted Connecticut |
| * 1678 | French conquering fleet at Cura‡ao, 1200 die |
| * 1715 | Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" |
| * 1722 | Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris |
| * 1747 | Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht |
| * 1765 | 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia |
| * 1802 | Washington DC incorporates as a city |
| * 1808 | Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May" |
| * 1810 | Lord Byron swims Hellespont |
| * 1815 | Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples |
| * 1822 | Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) |
| * 1830 | 1st regular steam train passenger service starts |
| * 1845 | 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass) |
| * 1845 | Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China |
| * 1846 | Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas |
| * 1851 | Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die |
| * 1855 | Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens |
| * 1861 | Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan |
| * 1861 | Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen |
| * 1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws |
| * 1863 | Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights) |
| * 1863 | Battle of Salem Church, VA |
| * 1864 | 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault |
| * 1886 | M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC |
| * 1898 | Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517) |
| * 1900 | 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06¬ |
| * 1901 | Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida |
| * 1902 | 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75 |
| * 1903 | AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo |
| * 1906 | British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey |
| * 1909 | 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2 |
| * 1917 | 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" |
| * 1919 | Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain |
| * 1919 | America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City) |
| * 1921 | West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax |
| * 1922 | Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium |
| * 1922 | Salt layer find at Winterswijk |
| * 1923 | 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed |
| * 1926 | British general strike-3 million workers support miners |
| * 1926 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) |
| * 1926 | US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 |
| * 1929 | Prussia bans anti-fascists |
| * 1932 | 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz) |
| * 1933 | 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office |
| * 1934 | Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours |
| * 1936 | French People's Front wins elections |
| * 1936 | NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits |
| * 1937 | Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" |
| * 1938 | Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use |
| * 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 |
| * 1938 | Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain |
| * 1941 | -4] German air raid on Liverpool |
| * 1941 | 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4 |
| * 1942 | Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands |
| * 1942 | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
| * 1942 | Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands |
| * 1942 | Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star |
| * 1943 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) |
| * 1943 | Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed |
| * 1943 | US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia |
| * 1944 | "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway |
| * 1944 | Meat rationing ends in US |
| * 1945 | 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen |
| * 1945 | Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg |
| * 1945 | British troop join in Rangoon |
| * 1945 | German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed |
| * 1946 | International military tribunal in Tokyo begins |
| * 1947 | 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 |
| * 1947 | Japan forms a constitutional democracy |
| * 1948 | Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams |
| * 1949 | 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km |
| * 1951 | Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning |
| * 1951 | NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) |
| * 1952 | "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances |
| * 1952 | 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole |
| * 1952 | 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6 |
| * 1953 | WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| * 1953 | Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims "Freedom to Read" |
| * 1954 | KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| * 1954 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick |
| * 1954 | WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| * 1956 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances |
| * 1956 | A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') |
| * 1956 | Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in NYC |
| * 1958 | 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05 |
| * 1958 | WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits |
| * 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament |
| * 1959 | Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader |
| * 1960 | Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC |
| * 1961 | Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter |
| * 1962 | Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) |
| * 1963 | Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat |
| * 1963 | Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech |
| * 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational |
| * 1965 | 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite |
| * 1965 | 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10 |
| * 1965 | Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US |
| * 1965 | Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (LA Calif) |
| * 1965 | KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| * 1965 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) |
| * 1966 | WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| * 1967 | Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U |
| * 1968 | Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl |
| * 1969 | "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 perfs |
| * 1969 | 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8 |
| * 1970 | 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| * 1970 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational |
| * 1971 | All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations |
| * 1971 | Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
| * 1971 | National Public Radio begins programming |
| * 1971 | Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days |
| * 1971 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) |
| * 1973 | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out |
| * 1973 | KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit |
| * 1975 | 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02 |
| * 1975 | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) |
| * 1976 | Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) |
| * 1976 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) |
| * 1978 | "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US |
| * 1978 | Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II |
| * 1978 | Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston |
| * 1978 | WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game |
| * 1979 | 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) |
| * 1979 | Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases) |
| * 1979 | Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London |
| * 1980 | 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02 |
| * 1980 | Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR |
| * 1980 | Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL |
| * 1981 | "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances |
| * 1981 | "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC |
| * 1981 | Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International |
| * 1982 | ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) |
| * 1982 | NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget |
| * 1982 | Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts |
| * 1983 | Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead |
| * 1983 | Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe |
| * 1983 | US bishops condemn nuclear weapons |
| * 1985 | Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill" |
| * 1986 | 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8 |
| * 1986 | Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 |
| * 1986 | Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR |
| * 1986 | NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit |
| * 1986 | NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game |
| * 1987 | "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances |
| * 1987 | Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| * 1987 | Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart |
| * 1988 | 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida |
| * 1988 | Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000 |
| * 1991 | Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass |
| * 1991 | 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke |
| * 1992 | Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves |
| * 1992 | Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs |
| * 1992 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| * 1992 | NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS |
| * 1992 | Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17 |
| * 1992 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge |
| * 1993 | "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs |
| * 1994 | 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins |
| * 1994 | D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election |
| * 1994 | US space probe Clementine launched |
| * 1995 | "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances |
| * 1995 | Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy |
| * 1995 | David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy) |
| * 1996 | Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks v Glam |
| * 1997 | 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3 |
| * 1997 | ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen |
| * 1997 | Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue |
| * 1998 | wins Titleholders Golf Championship |
