Events1497 -
Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.1568 - Battle of Langside: the forces of
Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of
Scottish Protestants under
James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her
half-brother.
1619 -
Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in
The Hague after having been accused of treason.
1648 - Construction of the
Red Fort at
Delhi was completed.
1779 -
War of Bavarian Succession:
Russian and
French mediators at the
Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement
Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the
Innviertel).
1787 -
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves
Portsmouth,
England with eleven ships full of convicts (
First Fleet) to establish a
penal colony in
Australia.
1830 -
Ecuador gains its independence.
1846 -
Mexican-American War: The
United States declares war on
Mexico.
1848 - First performance of
Finland's
national anthem.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the
breakaway states as having belligerent rights.1861 -
Great Comet of 1861 discovered in
Australia.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Resaca – the
battle begins with
Union General Sherman fighting toward
Atlanta.
1865 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south
Texas, more than a month after
Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a
Confederate victory.
1880 - In
Menlo Park, New Jersey,
Thomas Edison performs the first test of his
electric railway.
1888 - With the passage of the
Lei Áurea ("
Golden Law"),
Brazil abolishes
slavery.
1909 - The first
Giro d'Italia took place in
Milan.
Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
1912 - In the
United Kingdom, the
Royal Flying Corps (now the
Royal Air Force) was established.
1913 -
Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine
aircraft.
1917 - Three peasant children report seeing the
Blessed Virgin Mary near
Fátima,
Portugal. 1917 - The
Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future
Pope Pius XII, is consecrated
Archbishop by
Pope Benedict XV.
1939 - The first commercial
FM radio station in the United States is launched in
Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later became
WDRC-FM.
1940 -
World War II:
Germany's conquest of
France begins as the
German army crosses the
Meuse River.
Churchill makes his "
blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the
House of Commons.1940 - Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the
Nazi invasion in the
Netherlands to
Britain.
Princess Juliana takes her children to
Canada for their safety.
1941 -
World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel
Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1943 -
World War II:
German Afrika Korps and
Italian troops in
North Africa surrender to
Allied forces.
1948 -
1948 Arab-Israeli War: The
Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by
Arab irregulars, the day before
the declaration of independence of the state of
Israel on
May 14.
1952 - The
Rajya Sabha, the
upper house of the
Parliament of India, held its first sitting.
1954 -
Anti-National Service Riots, a riot in
Singapore by Chinese Middle School students.
1958 - During a visit to
Caracas,
Venezuela,
Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by
anti-American demonstrators.1958 -
Pierre Pflimlin becomes
Prime Minister of
France.1958 -
Velcro's
trade mark is registered.
1960 - Hundreds of
UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of
protest against a visit by the
House Un-American Activities Committee. 31 students are arrested, and the
Free Speech Movement is born.
1967 -
Dr. Zakir Hussain became 3rd
President of
India. He was the first
Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position till
August 24,
1969.
1969 -
Race riots in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, later known as the
May 13 Incident.
1972 - Faulty
electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in
Osaka. Blocked exits and nonfunctional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1976 - The final game in the history of the
American Basketball Association is played as the
New York Nets defeat the
Denver Nuggets 112-106 in New York to win the
1976 ABA Championship.
1980 - An
F3 tornado hits
Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
President Carter declares it a
federal disaster area.
1981 -
Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to
assassinate Pope John Paul II in
St. Peter's Square in
Rome.
The Pope was rushed to the
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency
surgery, and managed to survive.
1985 -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police storm
MOVE headquarters to end a
stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 - Large groups of students occupied
Tiananmen Square and began a hunger strike. See
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1996 - Severe
thunderstorms and a
tornado in
Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 -
India carries out two
nuclear tests at
Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11.
United States and
Japan impose
economic sanctions on
India.
2000 -
Lara Dutta (21), who said
beauty pageants give women a platform to voice our choices and opinions is named
Miss Universe 2000 in the
Cyprus capital
Nicosia.2000 - In
Enschede, the
Netherlands, a
fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2001 -
Silvio Berlusconi's
House of Freedoms coalition wins the
Italian general elections.
2005 -
Malcolm Glazer completes a
hostile takeover of
Manchester United for $1.4 billion. 2005 - The
Andijan Massacre occurs in
Uzbekistan.
2006 -
2006 São Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons of the
Brazilian state.
2007 - Construction of the
Calafat-Vidin Bridge between
Romania and
Bulgaria begins.2007 -
Republic Protests in Turkey
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