Events1256 -
Augustinian monastic order constituted at Lecceto Monastery when
Pope Alexander IV issues a
papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae1415 - Religious reformers
John Wycliffe and
Jan Hus were condemned as
heretics at the
Council of Constance.1471 -
Wars of the Roses: The
Battle of Tewkesbury –
Edward IV defeats a
Lancastrian Army and kills
Edward,
Prince of Wales.1493 -
Pope Alexander VI divides the
New World between
Spain and
Portugal along the
Demarcation Line.1494 -
Christopher Columbus lands in
Jamaica.
1626 -
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in
New Netherland (present day
Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1675 - King
Charles II of England orders the construction of the
Royal Greenwich Observatory.1686 -
Municipality of
Ilagan was founded in the
Philippines.
1776 -
Rhode Island becomes the first
American colony to renounce allegiance to King
George III.
1799 -
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The
Battle of Seringapatam – The siege of
Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the
Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of
General George Harris.
1814 -
Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at
Portoferraio on the island of
Elba to begin his exile. 1814 - King
Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to
absolutism.
1855 -
American adventurer William Walker departs from
San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer
Nicaragua.
1859 -
Cornwall Railway opened across the
Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of
Devon and
Cornwall in
England.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Chancellorsville – The
battle ends with a
Union retreat.
1865 -
Abraham Lincoln buried in
Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his
assassination.
1869 - The
Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in
Japan.
1871 - The
National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 -
Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a
labor rally in
Chicago,
Illinois,
United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The
police fire into the crowd.
1904 - Construction begins by the
United States on the
Panama Canal.1904 - German football club
FC Schalke 04 was founded1904 -
Charles Stewart Rolls met
Frederick Henry Royce at the
Midland Hotel in
Manchester England.
1910 - The
Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1912 -
Italy occupies the Greek island of
Rhodes.
1919 -
May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in
Tiananmen Square in
Beijing,
China, protesting the
Treaty of Versailles, which transferred
Chinese territory to
Japan.
1924 - The
1924 Summer Olympics open in
Paris,
France.
1930 -
British police arrest
Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison.
1932 - In
Atlanta, Georgia,
mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for
tax evasion.
1942 -
World War II:
Battle of the Coral Sea – The
battle begins with an attack by aircraft from the
United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on
Japanese naval forces at
Tulagi Island in the
Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had
invaded Tulagi the day before.
1945 - World War II: Liberation of the
Neuengamme concentration camp near
Hamburg by the
British Army.1945 - World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1946 - In
San Francisco Bay,
US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine Barracks stop a two-day
riot at
Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
1948 -
Norman Mailer's first novel,
The Naked and the Dead, is published.
1949 - The entire
Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in
a plane crash at the
Superga hill at the edge of
Turin,
Italy.
1953 -
Ernest Hemingway is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for
The Old Man and the Sea.
1961 -
American civil rights movement: The "
Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the
South.
1964 - The long-running soap opera
Another World, which would run until
1999, debuts on
NBC.
1970 -
Vietnam War:
Kent State shootings – The
Ohio National Guard, sent to
Kent State University after the
ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the
United States' invasion of
Cambodia.
1972 - The
Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling
environmental organization founded in
Canada in
1971, officially changes its name to "
Greenpeace Foundation".
1974 - An all-female
Japanese team reaches the summit of
Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
1979 -
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1980 -
President Josip Broz Tito of
Yugoslavia dies in
Ljubljana at the age of 87.
1981 -
Donald Eugene Webb is placed on the
FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.
1982 - 20 sailors are killed when the
British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) is hit by an
Argentinian Exocet missile during the
Falklands War.
1988 - The
PEPCON disaster rocked
Henderson, Nevada, as tons of
space shuttle fuel detonated during a fire.
1989 -
Iran-Contra Affair: Former
White House aide
Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1990 -
Latvia proclaims renewal of its independence after the
Soviet occupation.
1994 -
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
PLO leader
Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding
Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the
Gaza Strip and
Jericho.
1996 -
José María Aznar is appointed
Prime Minister of
Spain, thus ending 13 years of
Socialist rule.
1998 - A federal judge in
Sacramento, California, gives "
Unabomber"
Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the
death penalty.
2000 -
Ken Livingstone becomes the first
Mayor of London.
2001 -
Pope John Paul II follows
Saint Paul's footsteps across the
Mediterranean, from
Greece to
Syria to
Malta.
2002 - An
EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of
Kano,
Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
2003 -
The Outbreak of 2003 begins. Ninety-four tornadoes begin the week-long outbreak.
2007 - A series of
tornadoes rip through Western Kansas, including the first EF-5 tornado that destroyed the town of Greensburg.
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