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What happened in history on this day: May 14?
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- 347 - Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies.
- 649 - Theodore I dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 964 - John XII [Octavianus] Pope (955-64), dies.
- 1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy.
- 1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France.
- 1264 - Baron's War fought in England.
- 1264 - Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III.
- 1316 - Birth of Karl IV (King Wenceslas) in Prague, Bohemia; German King (1346-78), Holy Roman Enperor (1355-78), established the University of Prague.
- 1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy.
- 1565 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf German reform theologist, dies.
- 1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten.
- 1590 - Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League.
- 1608 - Formation of the Protestant Union.
- 1610 - Henry IV first Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at age 56.
- 1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon.
- 1643 - Louis XIII king of France (1610-43), dies at age 41.
- 1643 - Louis XIV (4) becomes king of France.
- 1652 - Birth of Johann Philipp Fortsch composer.
- 1660 - Charles II proclaimed King of England, at Sherborne.
- 1664 - Turkish great Köprülü attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers.
- 1667 - Georges de Scudéry French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at age 65.
- 1679 - Birth of Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer.
- 1702 - England and Netherlands declares war on France and Spain.
- 1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw.
- 1710 - Birth of Adolf Frederik king of Sweden (1751-70).
- 1726 - John B Wellekens poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies.
- 1726 - Moshe Darshan Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies.
- 1727 - Birth of Thomas Gainsborough England, baptized, artist (The Blue Boy).
- 1742 - Dominique Marie Valet French Roman Catholic/old-catholic bishop, dies at age 64.
- 1761 - Thomas Simpson English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at age 50.
- 1767 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea.
- 1771 - Birth of Robert Owen England, factory owner/socialist.
- 1780 - Birth of Auguste De Polignac; premier of France (Réponse à mes adversaires).
- 1796 - Edward Jenner administers first smallpox innoculation.
- 1804 - The Meriwether Lewis and William Clark expedition of about 45 men leaves Saint Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
- 1830 - Birth of George Pierce Doles; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1864).
- 1832 - Birth of Charles Frederick Peace in Cheffield, England; longtime thief/burglar/murderer.
- 1836 - Birth of James Patrick; Major Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1877).
- 1836 - Texas officially becomes an independent republic.
- 1845 - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens.
- 1846 - Birth of Arnold Kerdijk; Dutch liberal politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper).
- 1846 - Birth of Pieter W A Cort van de Linden; Dutch premier (1913-18).
- 1853 - Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk.
- 1855 - A branch of the Royal Mint opens in Sydney, New South Wales for coinage of gold sovereigns.
- 1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents the chronograph.
- 1864 - William N Green Junior, USA Brigadier-General, dies.
- 1867 - Birth of Kurt Eisner; German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19).
- 1874 - Harvard beats University of McGill (Montréal) in football, 3-0.
- 1878 - Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly).
- 1881 - Birth of Ed Walsh; pitcher, whose lifetime ERA of 1.82 is the lowest ever.
- 1881 - Birth of Julian Eltinge AKA William Dalton in Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA; vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator.
- 1883 - Birth of Jan Olieslagers; Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil).
- 1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US.
- 1885 - 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25.
- 1885 - Birth of Otto Klemperer in Breslau, Germany; conductor/composer (Das Ziel).
- 1886 - 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.5.
- 1888 - 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.25.
- 1888 - Birth of Miles Mander in Wolverhampton, England; actor (Tower of London).
- 1890 - 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45.
- 1893 - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at age 83.
- 1895 - Birth of Lew Lehr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One).
- 1897 - Great Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia.
- 1903 - Birth of Bertha Bohny AKA Lillian Bohny AKA Billie Dove in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride) (dies 1997).
- 1905 - Second official international soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0.
- 1906 - Birth of Hastings Kamuzu Banda; President of Malawi (1964-94).
- 1906 - Birth of James Flavin in Portland, Maine, USA; actor (Man With a Camera).
- 1907 - Birth of Mohammed Ayub Khan; general/premier/President (Pakistan).
- 1908 - First passenger flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, by Wilbur Wright as pilot, with Charles Furnas as passenger.
- 1909 - Birth of Vladimir Alatortsev; USSR International Chess Master (1950).
- 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at age 63.
- 1912 - King Frederik VIII of Denmark (1906-12), dies at age 68.
- 1915 - Birth of Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty; trombonist (Spike Jones and City Slickers).
- 1917 - Birth of Lou Harrison in Portland, Oregon, USA; composer (Rapunzel).
- 1918 - Birth of Arthur McIntyre; cricket wicket-keeper (England three times early 1950s).
- 1918 - Cleveland Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19).
- 1918 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington DC.
- 1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53.
- 1919 - Birth of Heloise; columnist (Heloise and her helpful hints).
- 1919 - Birth of Maarten Vrolijk; Dutch socialist-democrat party minister (CRM 1965-66).
- 1919 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta.
- 1920 - New York Giants inform New York Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season.
- 1920 - Washington Senators' Walter Johnson wins his 300th game versus Detroit Tigers.
- 1921 - Benito Mussolini's fascists obtain 29 parliament seats in Italy.
- 1922 - Birth of Richard Deacon; actor (Mel Cooley - Dick Van Dyke Show).
- 1923 - Birth of Diane Arbus [Nemerov] in New York City, New York, USA; photographer (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Nudists).
- 1925 - Birth of Patrice Munsel in Spokane, Washington, USA; soprano (Patrice Munsel Show).
- 1925 - Henry Rider Haggard; English writer (Dawn, She), dies.
- 1926 - Birth of Eric Morecambe in London, England; comedian (Morecambe and Wise, Picadilly Palace).
- 1927 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie.
- 1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06.
- 1929 - Birth of Vladimir Antoshin in USSR; International Chess Grandmaster (1964).
- 1930 - Birth of Edward V "Ned" Regan in Planfield, New Jersey, USA; American politician (Controller-Republican-New York, 1978-).
- 1933 - Birth of John Mortimore; cricket player (England off-spinner 1959-64).
- 1933 - Birth of Lajos Kovacs in Hungary; actor (Wings of Desire).
- 1935 - Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, third in US.
- 1935 - Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement.
- 1936 - Birth of Bobby Darin [Walden Waldo Cassotto] in Bronx, New York, USA; singer ("Mack the Knife").
- 1936 - Edmond Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at age 74.
- 1936 - Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at age 71.
- 1937 - Birth of Dick Howser; shortstop (Kansas City Athletics), manager (Kansas City Royals).
- 1937 - Birth of Eric Herfst; Dutch cabaret performer/actor (Floris).
- 1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8.
- 1938 - English soccer team beats Germany, 6-3.
- 1938 - Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at age 81.
- 1940 - Birth of Chay Blyth; English sailor (Alone in Order to the World).
- 1940 - Boston Bees' Jimmie Foxx's homerun goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof.
- 1940 - Emma Goldman, US anarchist/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies.
- 1940 - German breakthrough at Sedan.
- 1940 - Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at age 49.
- 1940 - Lord Beaverbrook is appointed British minister of aircraft production.
- 1940 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), commits suicide at age 38.
- 1940 - (2000 hours) Netherlands Commander in Chief General Henri Gerard Winkelman orders the cessation of hostilities around Rotterdam and Utrecht. About 25,000 men of the army of 100,000 were killed in the fighting. Fighting in Zeeland is to continue.
- 1941 - 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested.
- 1941 - Birth of Nasim-ul-Ghani, cricket player (Pakistan left-handed all-rounder 1958-73).
- 1942 - Birth of Byron L Dorgan; American politician (Representative-Democrat-North Dakota, 1981-).
- 1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded.
- 1943 - Birth of Alan B Mollohan; American politician (Representative-Democrat-West Virginia, 1983-).
- 1943 - Birth of Dereck "Lek" Leckenby in Leeds, England; guitarist (Herman's Hermits - "There's a Kind of Hush", "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter").
- 1943 - Birth of Elizabeth Ray in Marshall, North Carolina, USA; congressman Wilbur Mills' lover.
- 1943 - Birth of Jack Bruce in Lanarkshire, Scotland; bassist (Cream - "White Room").
- 1944 - 91 German bombers harass Bristol, England.
- 1944 - Birth of Francesca Annis in London, England; actress (Madame Bovary, Dune, Cleopatra, Flipper's New Adventures).
- 1944 - Birth of Gene Cornish in Ottawa, Canada; rock bassist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Rascals).
- 1944 - Birth of George Lucas in Modesto, California, USA; director (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark).
- 1944 - Birth of Troy Shondell; rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell).
- 1944 - British troops occupy Kohima.
- 1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.
- 1945 - US offensive on Okinawa; Sugar Loaf conquered.
- 1946 - Birth of Robert Jarvik; surgeon/inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart).
- 1947 - Birth of Al Ciner in Chicago, Illinois, USA; rock guitarist (American Breed).
- 1947 - Birth of Dick "Dirt" Tidrow; baseball pitcher (New York Yankees).
- 1947 - Birth of Tamara Dobson in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones).
- 1947 - John Ray Sinnock, American US Mint chief coin engraver (1925-47), dies at age 59.
- 1948 - Birth of Bob Woolmer; cricket player (England batsman mid-1970s).
- 1948 - Birth of Dave LaRoche; baseball pitcher (New York Yankees).
- 1948 - Birth of Robert Zemeckis; director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future).
- 1948 - Birth of Walter Olkewicz in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA; actor (Last Resort, Wizards and Warriors).
- 1948 - Britain withdraws from the Palestine territory as its mandate expires. The State of Israel is proclaimed by Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben Gurion.
- 1948 - US President Harry Truman recognizes the state of Israel.
- 1948 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's first broadcast.
- 1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
- 1948 - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem.
- 1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56.
- 1949 - US President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.
- 1950 - Birth of Mark Blum in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, The Presidio).
- 1950 - Pittsburgh Pirates' Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including two homeruns.
- 1951 - Birth of Jay Beckenstein; saxophonist (Spyro Gyra - "Morning Dance").
- 1951 - Birth of Season (Susan) Hubley in New York City, New York, USA; actress (PrettyKill, Vice Squad, Hardcore).
- 1951 - NBC debuts the TV variety show The Ernie Kovacs Show.
- 1952 - Birth of David Byrne in Dunbartin, Scotand; rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer").
- 1952 - Birth of Donald R McMonagle in Flint, Michigan, USA; Major US Air Force/astronaut (STS 39, 54, 66).
- 1953 - Birth of Bill Meek in Upland, Pennsylvania, USA; prone rifle (Olympics-1996).
- 1953 - Birth of Tom Cochrane in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; rock vocalist/guitarist (Red Rider).
- 1953 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japanese/American painter/etcher, dies at age 59.
- 1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months.
- 1955 - Birth of Peter Kirsten; cricket player (South African middle-order batsman).
- 1955 - Birth of [Jose] Dennis Martinez in Nicaragua; pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Cleveland Indians).
- 1955 - US performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean.
- 1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
- 1956 - Birth of Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw; American sci-fi author (Hawk of May).
- 1956 - Birth of Steve Hogarth in Kendal, England; vocals (Marillion - "Clutching at Straws").
- 1957 - Birth of William G Gregory in Lockport, New York, USA; Major US Air Force/Astronaut (STS 67).
- 1957 - Bob Merrill's musical New Girl in Town premieres at 46th Steet Theater in New York City for 432 performances.
- 1959 - Birth of Mike Quick; NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles).
- 1959 - Birth of Patrick Bruel; Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist (Coup of Sirocco).
- 1960 - Birth of Carlyle Best; cricket player (West Indies batsman late 1980s).
- 1960 - Birth of Frank Nobilo in Auckland, New Zealand; Australasia golfer.
- 1961 - Birth of Tim Roth in London, England; actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent and Theo).
- 1961 - Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama, USA.
- 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open.
- 1962 - Birth of C C Deville; rocker (Poison - "Talk Dirty to Me").
- 1962 - Birth of Ian Astbury in Heswall, Merseyside, England; rock vocalist (Cult - "Fire Woman").
- 1962 - Birth of Martin Rongen; Dutch pop drummer (Rowwen Hèze - "Boem").
- 1962 - Ex-President of Yugoslavia Milovan Djilas sentenced to five years.
- 1962 - Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain.
- 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island.
- 1963 - Birth of Pat Borders in Columbus, Ohio, USA; catcher (California Angels).
- 1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations.
- 1964 - Birth of James M Kelly in Burlington, Iowa, USA; Captain US Air Force/astronaut.
- 1964 - Birth of Nancy Sorel; actress (Generations, Black Foix).
- 1964 - Underground America Day is first observed.
- 1965 - Second Chinese atom bomb explodes.
- 1965 - Birth of Curt Harnett in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; sprint cyclist (Olympics-bronze-1992/1996).
- 1965 - Birth of Dave Widell; NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars).
- 1965 - Birth of Joey Cora in Caguas, Puerto Rico; infielder (Seattle Mariners).
- 1965 - Birth of Kelvin Martin; NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles).
- 1965 - Frances Perkins, US first female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at age 83.
- 1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1966 - Birth of Fab[rice] Marvan in France; Lip Syncher (Milli Vanilli).
- 1966 - Birth of Leroy Blugh; Canadian Football League defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos).
- 1966 - Birth of Mark Jackson; NBA guard (Indiana Pacers).
- 1966 - Birth of Pooh Richardson; NBA guard (Los Angeles Clippers).
- 1966 - Georgia Camp Johnson, US poet/playwright, dies at age 88.
- 1966 - Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at age 64.
- 1967 - Birth of Natasha Elaine Kaiser-Brown in Des Moines, Iowa, USA; 400 metre runner.
- 1967 - Birth of Shaun Creighton; Australian distance runner (Olympics-1996).
- 1967 - Birth of Tony Siragusa; NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens).
- 1967 - Birth of Valeria Marini in Rome, Italy; sports commentator (Italian Soccer).
- 1968 - The Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp.
- 1968 - Birth of Hiroshi Matsuura; hockey forward (Team Japan 1998).
- 1968 - Czechoslovakian Government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek.
- 1968 - Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WWII, dies at age 86.
- 1968 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to three years in West Berlin.
- 1969 - Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada.
- 1969 - Birth of David William Wood in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; rocker (New Kids - "Lovin' You Forever").
- 1969 - Enid Bennett, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins), dies at age 75.
- 1969 - Last Chevrolet Corvair car built.
- 1970 - Death of Billie Burke at age 84; actress/comedienne (Glinda the Good Witch - The Wizard of Oz movie, Eddie Cantor Radio Show, Playhouse 90).
- 1970 - Birth of Natasha Ryan in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Amy - Ladies' Man).
- 1970 - Birth of Sylvester Stanley; WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire).
- 1970 - Police kill two students in racial disturbance (Jackson State University, Mississippi).
- 1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to the US Supreme Court.
- 1970 - In the eastern Caucasus, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs, a few miles west of Machackala on the Caspian Sea. Extensive damage in the Dagestan Republic.
- 1970 - British Royal Air Force leader Andreas Baader freed after serving two years in West Berlin.
- 1971 - Birth of Raphael Wiggins in Oakland, California, USA; rapper (Lifelines).
- 1972 - 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner and Jean Stapleton.
- 1972 - Birth of Chad Cascadden; NFL linebacker (New York Jets).
- 1972 - In Willie Mays' first game as a New York Mets player, his homer beats the San Francisco Giants, 5-4.
- 1973 - Birth of John Davis; WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- 1973 - Birth of Shanice [Wilson] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; vocalist (Discovery, Loving You).
- 1973 - Birth of Voshon Lenard; NBA guard (Miami Heat).
- 1973 - Open market price of gold breaks US$100 per ounce for the first time.
- 1973 - Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV.
- 1973 - Skylab launched, the first Space Station.
- 1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military.
- 1974 - Birth of Ken Belanger in Sault-Ste-Marie, Ontario, Canada; NHL left wing (New York Islanders).
- 1974 - Birth of Keram Malichi-Sanchez; actor (No Contest, Catwalk, Boulevard).
- 1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, six killed.
- 1975 - Birth of Carmen Klomp; Australian rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1975 - Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II.
- 1975 - French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia.
- 1975 - US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship.
- 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1976 - Birth of Terrance Cauthen in Trenton, New Jersey; lightweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1976 - Keith Relf, rock vocalist (Yardbirds), electrocuted while tuning his guitar at age 33.
- 1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast.
- 1977 - Birth of Anca Barna in Cluj, Romania; tennis star (semifinals 1995 ITF Poland).
- 1977 - Birth of Cesarina Mejia; Miss Dominican Republic Universe (1997).
- 1977 - Birth of Jayna Hefford; ice hockey forward (Canada, Olympics-1998).
- 1977 - English football international' Bobby Moore retires.
- 1977 - Kansas City Royals' Jim Colborn no-hits the Texas Rangers, 6-0.
- 1977 - Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms.
- 1977 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in four games.
- 1978 - Death of Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1894).
- 1978 - Birth of Heather Brink in Lincoln, Nebraska; gymnast (Olympics-1996).
- 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic.
- 1978 - William Powell Lear, inventor of Lear Jet, dies in Reno, Nevada.
- 1979 - Paul van 't Veeer, Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije Volk), dies at age 57.
- 1979 - Birth of Urijah Faber; WEC Featherweight Champion.
- 1980 - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II.
- 1980 - Bucky Dent hits an inside the park homerun, Kansas City Royals walk 14 New York Yankees including five with bases loaded, New York Yankees win 16-3.
- 1980 - Hugh Griffith, actor (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones), dies at age 67.
- 1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192.
- 1981 - 35th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2.
- 1982 - Guinea adopts constitution.
- 1982 - Death of Hugh Beaumont at age 73 following a heart attack; actor (Ward Cleaver - Leave It To Beaver TV show).
- 1982 - Birth of Ai Shibata; Japanese swimmer.
- 1983 - Birth of Amber Tamblyn in Santa Monica, California; actress (Emily Bowen - General Hospital).
- 1983 - Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/President of México (1946-52), dies at age 80.
- 1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20km (1:06:55.5).
- 1984 - Birth of Michael Rensing, German football player.
- 1984 - A one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
- 1984 - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama wins.
- 1984 - Ashton-Tate introduces the dBase III relational database program for 16-bit IBM PC-compatible computers.
- 1984 - Larry Stock, songwriter ("Blueberry Hill"), dies.
- 1985 - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed.
- 1985 - Northwest of Madagascar, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Frank's complete diary.
- 1986 - Reggie Jackson hits his 537th homerun passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place on the Major League Baseball all-time homerun list.
- 1987 - Birth of Francois Steyn; South African rugby player.
- 1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for US$242,000.
- 1987 - Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka executes a bloodless coup in Fiji.
- 1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (Gilda), dies of Alzheimer's disease at age 68 (born 1918).
- 1988 - First non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and Saint Louis Cardinals lose to the Atlanta Braves 7-5 in 19 innings.
- 1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherlands (1948-58), dies at age 101.
- 1988 - Near Carrollton, Kentucky, a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27.
- 1988 - Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1-0 at Wembley.
- 1989 - Moonlighting, TV crime drama, last airs on ABC.
- 1989 - First Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
- 1989 - First time since 1948 a Major league baseball player hits six consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett).
- 1989 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic.
- 1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square, China.
- 1989 - NBC airs the final episode of TV sitcom Family Ties.
- 1990 - 46th time opposing pitchers hit homerun, Valenzuela (Los Angeles Dodgers)/Gross (Montreal Expos).
- 1991 - 42 die in a train collision in Japan.
- 1991 - Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies.
- 1991 - Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies.
- 1991 - Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary, widow of leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide (born 1914).
- 1991 - Robert M Gates becomes 15th director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1991 - Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies.
- 1991 - South African activist Winnie Mandela sentenced to six years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died.
- 1991 - World's largest burrito created at 1,126 pounds.
- 1992 - Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Oakland Raiders), dies of cancer at age 43.
- 1992 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll.
- 1992 - Death of Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (born 1899).
- 1993 - William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at age 85.
- 1994 - Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617.
- 1994 - FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London.
- 1994 - Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide), dies.
- 1995 - 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins.
- 1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most senior spiritual leader.
- 1995 - Eddie Murray of Cleveland Indians hits his 463rd career homerun (ties for 18th).
- 1995 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at age 64.
- 1995 - Death of Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916).
- 1996 - New York Yankees pitcher Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0.
- 1996 - Death of Sritharan Jeganathan, cricket player, first Sri Lankan Test player to die.
- 1997 - Baseball's Exec Council suspends New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
- 1997 - Death of Harry Blackstone Junior, American magician, at age 62 of cancer (born 1934).
- 1997 - Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco, descendant of Dracula, dies at age 76.
- 1997 - The Star Alliance is formed between Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, Thai Airways International and United Airlines.
- 1997 - CBS airs the 100th episode of The Nanny TV show.
- 1998 - The final episode of TV's Seinfeld runs on NBC, with 30-second commercials selling for $2 million each.
- 2000 - Death of Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937).
- 2002 - At the Latino-American Stadium, former US President Jimmy Carter throws the ceremonial first pitch of the Cuban League All-Star game. In warming up, Carter is coached by one-time big league pitching prospect, Fidel Castro.
- 2002 - Birth of Margarita Armstrong-Jones, daughter of Viscount Linley and his wife, Viscountess Linley.
- 2003 - Death of Robert Stack at age 84 after a heart attack; actor (Eliot Ness - The Untouchables, The Name of the Game, Falcon Crest), host (Unsolved Mysteries).
- 2003 - A female suicide bomber blows up explosives strapped to her waist in a crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in Chechnya.
- 2004 - Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, marries Australian Mary Donaldson in Copenhagen.
- 2004 - Death of Anna Lee at age 91 due to pneumonia; actress (A Date with Judy, Lila Quartermaine - General Hospital and Port Charles).
- 2004 - Two US Marines are sentenced to prison for electrocuting an Iraqi prisoner a month earlier.
- 2004 - Warner Bros. releases the film Troy to theaters.
- 2006 - NBC airs the final episode of The West Wing TV show.
- 2007 - Senatorial Elections in the Philippines are held.
- 2007 - A meteor likely causes a 2.1-magnitude earthquake in Hubbardton, Vermont, USA.
- 2007 - Death of Colin St John Wilson, English architect (born 1922).
- 2007 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands, commemorates the attack of 1940 by German bomber planes with a display of spotlights outlining the destroyed portion of the city center.
- 2008 - The U.S. government lists polar bears as a threatened species under its Endangered Species Act because of the effects of global warming.
- 2008 - In Manchester, England, the final game of the UEFA Cup of soccer is held. Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg defeats Scotland's Glasgow Rangers 2-0.
- 2008 - Microsoft reports total sales of the Xbox 360 video game system have reached 10 million, beating the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 to that sales level.
- 2008 - A Francis Bacon triptyck sells for US$86.3 million at Sotheby's auction in New York.
- 2008 - Price of a gallon of regular gasoline hits a US record $4 (on average) in Alaska.
- 2008 - NASA announces the discovery of Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3.
- 2009 - An Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from Kourou in French Guiana, carrying Europe's Herschel and Planck telescopes into space. The satellites will gather new insights into the nature of the cosmos. The combined program cost US$2.5 billion.
- 2009 - Chrysler eliminates 789 car dealerships in the US.
- 2009 - Astronauts from space shuttle Atlantis outfit the Hubble Space Telescope with a new wide field camera that will allow astronomers to capture images of objects formed as early as 500 million years after the birth of the universe.
- 2010 - Rare Coin Wholesalers of California sells a USA 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar coin graded SP-66 PCGS, possibly the first coin struck at the Philadelphia Mint, to Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation of California for US$7.85 million. The price is a new world record for a single US coin.
- 2010 - The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to deliver a Russian module and spare parts to the International Space Station.
- 2018 - The US Supreme Court strikes down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which banned traditional sports betting outside of Nevada.
- 2019 - (to May 18) The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is won by Dutch entrant Duncan Laurence with the song "Arcade".
- 2020 - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance is "ready to support" the UN-recognized Government of National Accord while Greece, a member state of NATO, strongly criticizes Stoltenberg's remarks, saying his recognition of the "Muslim Brotherhood government" does not reflect the positions of the military alliance.
- 2020 - The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 300,000.
- 2021 - The China National Space Administration lands its Zhurong rover at Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover.
- 2022 - The 66th Eurovision Song Contest is won by the Kalush Orchestra of Ukraine.
- 2022 - The rulers of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates unanimously chose Muhammad bin Zayed as president.
- 2022 - A teenager shoots and kills ten people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
- 2022 - Death of Urvashi Vaid at age 63; activist, leader of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force during the American AIDS crisis.
- 2022 - Death of Andrew Symonds at age 46 in a car crash; Australian cricketer (two-time World Cup winner).
- 2023 - Presidential election in Turkey. The bloc of parties supporting current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins 49.5% of seats, supporters of Kemal Kilicdaroglu win 44.9%, the National Alliance wins 35%, and the alliance led by the Peoples' Democratic Party wins 10.6%. A run-off election will be help May 28.
- 2023 - Death of Samantha Weinstein at age 28 of cancer at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Carrie movie (2013)).
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