Events
585 BC - A
solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist
Thales, while
Alyattes is battling
Cyaxares in the
Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. 1503 -
James IV of Scotland and
Margaret Tudor are married by
Pope Alexander VI according to
Papal Bull.1503 - The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between
Scotland and
England is signed, which would actually last 10 years.1533 - The
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King
Henry VIII to
Anne Boleyn valid1588 - The
Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from
Lisbon heading for the
English Channel. (It will take until
May 30 for all ships to leave port).1644 -
Bolton Massacre by
Royalist troops under the command of the
Earl of Derby.
1754 -
French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war,
Virginia militia under 22-year-old
Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a
French reconnaissance party in the
Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now
Fayette County in southwestern
Pennsylvania.
1774 -
American Revolutionary War: The first
Continental Congress convenes.
1830 - President
Andrew Jackson signs The
Indian Removal Act which relocates Indians
1863 -
American Civil War: The
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first
African American regiment, leaves
Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the
Union.
1892 - In
San Francisco, California,
John Muir organizes the
Sierra Club.
1905 -
Russo-Japanese War: The
Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the
Russian Baltic Fleet by
Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the
Imperial Japanese Navy.
1918 - The
Democratic Republic of Armenia and
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence from the
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
1926 -
Ditadura Nacional established in
Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. (
28th May 1926 coup d'état.)
1930 - The
Chrysler Building in
New York City officially opens.
1934 - Near
Callander, Ontario, the
Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first
quintuplets to survive
infancy.1934 - The
Glyndebourne festival in
England is inaugurated.
1936 -
Alan Turing submits
On Computable Numbers for publication.
1937 - The
Golden Gate Bridge in
San Francisco,
California, is officially opened by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in
Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span. 1937 -
Neville Chamberlain becomes
British Prime Minister.
1940 -
World War II:
Belgium surrenders to
Germany.1940 -
World War II:
Norwegian,
French,
Polish and
British forces recapture
Narvik. First allied infantry victory in
World War II.
1942 -
World War II: In retaliation for the
assassination of
Reinhard Heydrich,
Nazis in
Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
1952 -
Memphis Kiddie Park opens in
Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's
Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating
steel roller coaster in
North America.1952 - The women of
Greece gain the
suffrage.
1955 -
Henry Bolte becomes
Premier of the state of
Victoria.
1961 -
Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read
newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the
human rights organization
Amnesty International.
1964 - The
Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1970 - The formerly united Free University of
Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the
French-speaking
Université Libre de Bruxelles and the
Dutch-speaking
Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
1974 -
Northern Ireland's power-sharing
Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a
general strike by
loyalists.
1975 - Fifteen
West African countries sign the
Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the
Economic Community of West African States.
1977 - In
Southgate, Kentucky, the
Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1978 - Second round of the
presidential elections in
Upper Volta. Elections won by incumbent
Sangoulé Lamizana.
1979 -
Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of
Greece with the
European Economic Community.
1982 -
Falklands War:
British forces defeat the
Argentines at the
Battle of Goose Green.
1987 - 19-year-old
West German pilot
Mathias Rust evades
Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in
Red Square in
Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until
August 3,
1988.1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the
USS Monitor near
Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina.
1991 - The capital city of
Addis Ababa, falls to the
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the
Derg regime in
Ethiopia and the
Ethiopian Civil War.
1995 - The
Russian town of
Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude
earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ⅔ of total population.
1996 - U.S. President
Bill Clinton's former business partners in the
Whitewater land deal,
James McDougal and
Susan McDougal, and
Arkansas Governor
Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 -
Nuclear testing:
Pakistan responds to a series of
Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the
United States,
Japan, and other nations to impose
economic sanctions.
1999 - In
Milan,
Italy, after 22 years of restoration work,
Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "
The Last Supper" is put back on display.1999 - Two
Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers
Jackie Arklöv and
Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
2002 -
NATO declares
Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2003 -
Peter Hollingworth becomes the first
Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 - The
Iraqi Governing Council chooses
Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-
Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of
Iraq's interim government.
2006 - German-born
Pope Benedict XVI visits
Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland.
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