Events
1457 BC -
Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between
Thutmose III and a large
Canaanite coalition under the King of
Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
328 -
Athanasius is elected
Patriarch bishop of
Alexandria.1092 -
Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1450 -
'Abd al-Latif (
Timurid monarch) assassinated.1502 -
Christopher Columbus leaves
Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "
New World".1671 -
Thomas Blood, disguised as a
clergyman, attempts to steal England's
Crown Jewels from the
Tower of London.
1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on
Mother Clap's
molly house in
London are executed at
Tyburn.
1868 - The city of
Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1874 - The first horse-drawn
omnibus made its début in the city of
Mumbai, plying on two routes.
1877 -
Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the
Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of
Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania
1887 -
Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in
London.
1901 -
Australia opens its first
parliament in
Melbourne.
1904 - The steam locomotive
City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
1914 -
J.T. Hearne becomes the first
bowler to take 3000
first-class wickets.
1915 -
World War I:
Second Battle of Artois between
German and
French forces.
1920 -
Polish-Soviet War: The
Polish army under
General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrated their
capture of Kiev with a
victory parade on
Khreschatyk.
1926 -
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and
Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the
North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
1927 - The
Australian Parliament first convenes in
Canberra.
1936 -
Italy formally annexes
Ethiopia after taking the capital
Addis Ababa on
May 5.
1940 -
World War II: The
German submarine U-9 sinks
French coastal submarine Doris near
Den Helder.
1941 -
World War II: The
German submarine
U-110 is captured by the
Royal Navy. On board is the latest
Enigma cryptography machine which
Allied cryptographers later use to break coded
German messages.
1942 -
World War II:
Belgrade becomes the first
Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its
Jewish population, largely with the help of
Serbian collaborators.1942 -
Holocaust:
German SS murder 588
Jewish residents of the
Podolian town of
Zinkiv (
Khmelnytska oblast,
Ukraine). The victims were shot with machine gun in ravine on the order from Gebietskomissar
Eggers and Chief of Gendarmerie Busse.
1945 -
World War II: The final
German surrender to
Marshal Georgy Zhukov at
Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by
Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the
Luftwaffe,
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the
Chief of Staff of
OKW, and
Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as
Commander-in-Chief of the
Kriegsmarine.1945 -
World War II:
Hermann Göring is captured by the
United States Army.1945 -
World War II:
Vidkun Quisling is arrested in
Norway.1945 -
World War II:
Red Army enters
Prague (capitulation of
Nazi occupation troops).1945 -
World War II: The
Soviet Union marks
Victory Day.1945 -
World War II: The
Channel Islands are formally liberated by the
British.
1946 - King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by
Humbert II.
1949 -
Rainier III of Monaco becomes
Prince of
Monaco.
1950 -
Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized
Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "
Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the
European Union.1950 -
L. Ron Hubbard publishes his book on
Dianetics, entitled "".
1955 -
Cold War:
West Germany joins
NATO.1955 -
Sam and Friends debuts on a local
U.S. television channel, marking the first television appearance of both
Jim Henson and what would become
Kermit the Frog and the
Muppets.
1956 - First ascent of
Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.
1960 - The
U.S. FDA announces it will approve
birth control as an additional
indication for
Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved
oral contraceptive pill.
1961 -
Jim Gentile of the
Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in
baseball history to hit
grand slams in consecutive innings.
1965 - Pianist
Vladimir Horowitz gave his first public recital since
1953, at
Carnegie Hall.
1965 -
Bob Dylan played the first of two sold-out performances at the
Royal Albert Hall in London.
1970 -
Vietnam War: In
Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the
White House.
1974 -
Watergate Scandal: The
United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public
impeachment hearings against
President Richard M. Nixon.
1980 - In
Florida,
Liberian freighter
SS Summit Venture hits the
Sunshine Skyway Bridge over
Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.1980 - In
Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to
a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunman and one police officers was killed while thirty-three police and civilian vehicles were destroyed in the chase.1980 - The first meeting of
Pope John Paul II and the
Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in
Ghana.
1987 - A
Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG). crashes after takeoff in
Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
1988 - The new
Australian Parliament House opens in
Canberra.
1992 - At 5:18 a.m. ADT The
Westray Mine in
Plymouth, Pictou County, Nova Scotia experiences a methane explosion killing all 26 miners who were working.1992 -
Armenian forces capture
Shusha in the
Karabakh War, marking a major turning point.
1999 - On Mother's Day, a bus carrying 43 mostly elderly passengers to a
Mississippi casino crashes on
Interstate 610 in
New Orleans, LA when the driver apparently passes out. Twenty-two passengers die.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the
Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem comes to an end when the
Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries.2002 - In
Kaspiysk,
Russia, a remote-controlled
bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
2004 -
Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a
landmine bomb blast under a
VIP stage during a
World War II memorial victory parade in
Grozny,
Chechnya.2004 - The
Canadian national team wins the
World Ice Hockey Championship in
Prague.
2005 -
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is selected as the successor of Pope John Paul II.
2006 - 2 miners,
Todd Russell and
Brant Webb, were freed after 14 days trapped underground in a goldmine at
Beaconsfield, Tasmania,
Australia.2006 -
Estonia ratifies the
European Constitution.
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