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What happened in history on this day: May 19?
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- 715 - Saint Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 804 - Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours, France, at age 69.
- 861 - A meteorite falls in the Shinto temple grounds at Nogata-shi in Japan.
- 988 - Dunstan[us] English archbishop of Canterbury, dies.
- 1296 - Celestine V [Pietro del Murrone] Pope (1294), dies.
- 1469 - Birth of Giovanni della Robbia Italian sculptor.
- 1506 - Christopher Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir.
- 1515 - George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles.
- 1517 - Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht.
- 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded.
- 1536 - Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded.
- 1568 - English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary.
- 1571 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines.
- 1585 - Spain confisquates English ships.
- 1608 - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague.
- 1611 - Birth of Innocent XI [Benedetto Odescalchi] Italy, 240th Roman Catholic Pope (1676-89).
- 1635 - France declares war on Spain.
- 1643 - Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army.
- 1643 - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form United Colonies of New England.
- 1647 - Sebastian Vrancx Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies.
- 1652 - Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen.
- 1653 - Carel Reyniersz Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies, dies at age 48.
- 1662 - Uniformity Act of England goes into effect.
- 1749 - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley.
- 1762 - Birth of Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre).
- 1780 - About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England, its cause is unexplained.
- 1792 - Russian army enters Poland.
- 1793 - Netherlands captures French island of Saint Maarten (held until 1795).
- 1795 - Birth of Johns Hopkins; philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University.
- 1795 - Death of Josiah Bartlett at age 65; US physician/judge, signed Declaration of Independence.
- 1801 - Death of Herman H Vitringa; politician (National Meetings).
- 1802 - French Order of Légion d'Honneur forms.
- 1808 - Birth of Samuel Jameson Gholson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1883).
- 1812 - Birth of Felix Kirk Zollicoffer; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1862).
- 1815 - Birth of John Gross Barnard; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1882).
- 1828 - Birth of Adin Ballou Underwood; US Brevet Major General (US volunteers).
- 1845 - Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of General Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at age 68.
- 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, is ratified by the Mexican government.
- 1853 - Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar.
- 1856 - Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts speaks out against slavery.
- 1857 - William Francis Channing and Moses G Farmer patent electric fire alarm.
- 1858 - Birth of Roland Napoleon Bonaparte; French officer/traveller (Surinam).
- 1859 - Birth of Nellie Melba [Heal Mitchell]; Australian soprano (Peach Melba).
- 1860 - Birth of Victor E Orlando; Italy's premier (1917-19).
- 1864 - Birth of Carl Ethan Akeley; US naturalist, developed animal mount process.
- 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, US writer (Scarlet Letter), dies.
- 1869 - Birth of Jules Poncelet; Belgian minister of State.
- 1872 - Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at age 44.
- 1874 - Birth of Gilbert Laird Jessop; cricket player (The Croucher).
- 1876 - Birth of Saint-Georges de Bouchélier; French author (Le Rois Sans Couronne).
- 1878 - Blanche Kelso Bruce is appointed register of treasury by President James Garfield.
- 1879 - Birth of Lord Waldorf Astor in England; second viscount (Conservative)/publisher (London Observer).
- 1879 - Birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor; US/England's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor.
- 1880 - Birth of Allard R Hulshoff; architect of Amsterdam (1924).
- 1883 - Birth of Henricus Keuls; Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp).
- 1884 - Birth of Arthur Meulemans; Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer).
- 1884 - Ringling Brothers circus premieres.
- 1885 - First mass production of shoes (by Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA).
- 1885 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland.
- 1887 - Pieter Blussé van Alblas, liberal minister of Finance, dies at age 75.
- 1890 - Birth of Nguyen Sinh Cung AKA Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam; leader of Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945-1969).
- 1890 - Gus Kempis, cricket player (South Africa's first Test), dies of fever at age 24.
- 1892 - Birth of Konstatin G Paustovski; Russian author (Povestj Zjizni).
- 1892 - Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer.
- 1893 - Heavy rain washes "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway).
- 1895 - José J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies.
- 1900 - Jim Butler discovers an outcrop of gold ore in the Nevada desert, setting off a gold rush.
- 1900 - Great Britain annexes the Tonga archipelago.
- 1901 - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, first President of Republic of South Africa, dies at age 81.
- 1902 - The Colorado African Colonization Company is formed in Denver, Colorado, to promote blacks returning to West Coast of Africa.
- 1903 - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricket player (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies.
- 1904 - Birth of Anthony Bushell in Kent, England; actor (Journey's End).
- 1904 - Birth of Sven Thofelt in Sweden; pentathlete (Olympics-gold-1928).
- 1905 - Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon), linking Iselle Italy and Brig Switzerland.
- 1905 - Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champion.
- 1906 - Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes.
- 1906 - Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco as premier.
- 1909 - Birth of Bruce Bennett in Tacoma, Washington, USA; actor (Before I Hang, Sahara, Perry Mason TV show, Science Fiction Theatre TV show, Virginian TV show, Tales of Wells Fargo TV show, Ford Television Theatre TV show).
- 1909 - Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in six rounds for boxing title.
- 1910 - Birth of Alan Melville; cricket player (graceful South African batsman 1938-49).
- 1913 - Birth of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy; President of India.
- 1913 - US Congress passes Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill, forbidding Japanese from owning land in USA.
- 1915 - Birth of Pol Pot; dictator/mass murderer.
- 1916 - Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun.
- 1918 - Birth of Florence Chadwick; swimmer (first to swim English Channel both ways).
- 1918 - Washington D.C.'s first Sunday game, Washington Senators beat Cleveland Indians 1-0 in 18 innings.
- 1919 - Birth of Betty Jameson in Norman, Oklahoma, USA; LPGA golfer (1947 US Women's Open).
- 1919 - Birth of Georgie Auld AKA John Altwerger in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; jazz tenor saxophonist (Artie Shaw orchestra, Jan Savitt orchestra, Benny Goodman orchestra, Bunny Berigan orchestra).
- 1921 - Birth of Charles van de Reve; slavic (Belief of Kameraden).
- 1921 - Birth of Daniel Gelin in Angers, France; actor (Obsession).
- 1921 - Birth of Karel van het Reve; Dutch Slavist (Comrade's Religion).
- 1921 - US Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system.
- 1922 - Birth of David McLean in Akron, Ohio, USA; actor (Tate - Tate).
- 1922 - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at age 79.
- 1923 - 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4.
- 1923 - KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies.
- 1924 - Billy Zulch, cricket player (South Africa batsman scored two Test centuries), dies.
- 1925 - Birth of Malcolm X [Little] in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; assassinated leader of black Muslims.
- 1926 - French air force bombs Damascus, Syria.
- 1928 - "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners.
- 1928 - 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4.
- 1928 - Birth of Anthony C B Chapman in England; sports car builder/autoracer (Formula One).
- 1929 - Birth of Harvey Cox; US theologist (Secular City).
- 1929 - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium, New York; two people crushed to death.
- 1929 - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government.
- 1930 - Birth of Lorraine Hansberry; playwright (Raisin in the Sun).
- 1930 - White women win voting rights in South Africa.
- 1931 - Birth of Stephen Young in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Traders, Foreign Affairs, Judd for the Defense).
- 1931 - Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel.
- 1934 - Birth of David Sinclair; actor (Love and Hate).
- 1934 - Birth of James Charles Lehrer in Wichita, Kansas, USA; news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report).
- 1934 - Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria.
- 1935 - Birth of David Hartman in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA; TV personality (Good Morning America).
- 1935 - NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936.
- 1935 - Death of Thomas Edward Shaw [Lawrence], "Lawrence of Arabia", from injuries in a motorcycle accident.
- 1936 - Birth of Elisabeth Schwartz in Austria; pairs figure skater (Olympics-gold-1956).
- 1938 - Birth of James H Bilbray; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Nevada).
- 1938 - Birth of Marilyn Chris in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Wanda Wolek - One Life to Live).
- 1939 - Birth of 17th Earl of Pembroke; English landowner/director (Emily).
- 1939 - Birth of Francis R Scobee in Cle Elum, Washington, USA; Air Force/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Challenger disaster).
- 1939 - Birth of James Fox in London, England; actor (Greystoke).
- 1939 - Birth of Nancy Kwan in Hong Kong; actress (Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong, Noble House).
- 1939 - British Winston Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact.
- 1940 - Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time).
- 1940 - Birth of Carlos Diegues; actor (Xica).
- 1940 - Birth of Frank Lorenzo; airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern).
- 1940 - French counter-attack at Péronne under General Charles De Gaulle.
- 1940 - French Premier Paul Reynaud appoints General Maxime Weygand to replace General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin as Chief of General Staff and Allied commander in chief.
- 1941 - Birth of Jimmy Hoffa Junior; son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader.
- 1941 - Birth of Nora Ephron in New York City, New York, USA; novelist/screenwriter/director (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Michael, Heartburn).
- 1941 - German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis.
- 1941 - New German battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.
- 1941 - Werner Sombart, Marxist economist (Händler und Heroes), dies at age 78.
- 1941 - Soviet NKGB agent Richard Sorge in Japan warns Josef Stalin that nine German armies with 150 divisions are preparing for war with the Soviet Union. Stalin rejects the credibility of the information.
- 1942 - Boston Braves' Paul Waner is third National League player to get 3,000 hits (Anson and Wagner).
- 1942 - Birth of Gary Kildall; creator of CP/M.
- 1942 - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at age 69.
- 1943 - Berlin, Germany, is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews).
- 1943 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan.
- 1944 - 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands.
- 1944 - German defense line in Italy collapses.
- 1945 - Birth of Peter Townshend in England; rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who - "Tommy").
- 1945 - Start of the first Victory Test Cricket between England and Australia Services.
- 1946 - Birth of Diedre Lenihan in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; actress (Wendy - Needles and Pins).
- 1946 - Birth of Michele Placido in Foggia, Italy; actor (La Lupa, Poliziotti).
- 1946 - Birth of Phillip Rudd in Melbourne, Australia; rock drummer (AC/DC - "Rock 'n Roll Damnation").
- 1946 - Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam.
- 1947 - Birth of Jerry Hyman in Brooklyn, New York, USA; rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat and Tears).
- 1948 - Birth of Grace Jones [Mendoza] in Spanishtown, Jamaica; singer/actress (Vamp).
- 1948 - Birth of Jean-Pierre Haignere in France; cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17).
- 1948 - Birth of Tom Scott in Los Angeles, California, USA; saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show).
- 1949 - Birth of Dusty Hill; rocker (ZZ Top - "Legs").
- 1951 - 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4.
- 1951 - Birth of Joey Ramone AKA Jeffrey Hyman in Queens, New York, USA; punk rocker (Ramones - "Beat on the Brat" (1976), "Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue", "Baby I Love You").
- 1951 - United Nations begins counter-offensive in Korea.
- 1952 - Birth of Barbara Loomis; rocker (BT Express).
- 1953 - Birth of Henry Lascelles, English grandson of princess Mary.
- 1953 - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War, dies at age 79.
- 1953 - Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in Saint George, Utah).
- 1954 - Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at age 73.
- 1954 - Birth of Rick Cerone in Newark, New Jersey, USA; catcher (New York Yankees/Boston Red Sox/New York Mets/Montreal Expos).
- 1954 - Charles Edward Ives, American composer (Unanswered Question), dies at age 79.
- 1954 - Postmaster General Summerfield approves US Central Intelligence Agency mail-opening project.
- 1954 - Birth of Phil Rudd; drummer (AC/DC).
- 1955 - Atkinson and Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt West Indies versus Australia.
- 1955 - Birth of Ed Whitson; pitcher (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres).
- 1955 - Birth of Pierre J Thuot in Groton, Connecticut, USA; Lieutenant Commander US Navy/astronaut (STS 36, 49, 62).
- 1956 - 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4.
- 1956 - Birth of Althea Gwyn; Women's Professional Basketball League center (New York Stars).
- 1956 - Birth of Martyn Ware; rocker (Heaven 17 - "Electric Dreams").
- 1956 - Birth of Steven Ford in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; actor (When Harry Met Sally, The Young and the Restless, Secret Service).
- 1956 - Pittsburgh Pirates' player Dale Long hits 9th-inning homerun, first homerun in eight straight games.
- 1957 - Adone Zoli forms Italian Government.
- 1957 - Birth of Bill Laimbeer; NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons).
- 1957 - Birth of Sophia Crawford in London, England; actress (Power Rangers).
- 1958 - South Pacific movie soundtrack album goes to number one and stays for 31 weeks.
- 1958 - Death of Ronald Colman at age 67 of a lung infection; host (Favorite Story radio show), actor (The Halls of Ivy radio and TV show, Prisoner of Zenda).
- 1958 - US and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1959 - Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands.
- 1960 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film Pollyanna to theaters in the USA. The film is based on the novel by Eleanor H. Porter.
- 1960 - Alan Freed and eight other disk jockeys accused of taking radio payola.
- 1960 - Belgian parliament requires rest day for self-employed.
- 1960 - Juan Marichal debuts as San Francisco Giants' pitcher, beats Philadelphia Phillies on one-hitter.
- 1960 - US Air Force Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222m.
- 1961 - Birth of Lisa Rathgber in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA; bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1980).
- 1961 - Birth of Lisa Wagner; bowler (3-time LPBT Player of Year, Bowler of Decade).
- 1961 - Joe Howard; singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at age 94.
- 1962 - 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2.
- 1962 - Birth of Iain Harvie; Scottish rock guitarist (Del Amitri - "Nothing Ever Happens").
- 1962 - Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea.
- 1962 - Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's National League hit record with 3,431.
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric).
- 1963 - Birth of Yazz [Yasmin Evans]; rocker ("Fine Time", "The One Way is Up").
- 1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open.
- 1964 - Birth of Michael Dean Standly in Abilene, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1993 Freeport-McMoRan).
- 1964 - US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy.
- 1964 - Birth of Tim Waldrip in Spokane, Washington, USA; actor (American Dream, Loving).
- 1965 - Birth of Edward Odumbe; cricket player (Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup).
- 1965 - Birth of Joshua Rifkind; actor (Marshall Chronicles).
- 1965 - Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies.
- 1965 - West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II.
- 1966 - Birth of Keith Jennings; NFL tight end (Chicago Bears).
- 1966 - Birth of Marc Bureau in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada; NHL center (Montreal Canadiens).
- 1966 - Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's king by Captain Cook (1773), dies.
- 1967 - Birth of John Friesz; NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks).
- 1967 - Birth of Turk Wendell in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA; pitcher (Chicago Cubs).
- 1967 - US bombs Hanoi, Vietnam.
- 1967 - USSR ratifies treaty with England and US banning nuclear weapons in space.
- 1968 - In Los Angeles, California, and New York, New York, the 20th Annual Emmy Awards are presented, hosted by Frank Sinatra (Los Angeles) and Dick Van Dyke (New York).
- Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series: Bill Cosby for I Spy
- Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama: Melvyn Douglas for episode "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" of CBS Playhouse
- Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series: Don Adams for Get Smart
- Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series: Barbara Bain for Mission: Impossible
- Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama: Maureen Stapleton for Among the Paths to Eden
- Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series: Lucille Ball for The Lucy Show
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama: Milburn Stone for episode "Baker's Dozen" of Gunsmoke
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy: Werner Klemperer for Hogan's Heroes
- Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama: Barbara Anderson for Ironside
- Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy: Marion Lorne for Bewitched
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy: Bruce Bilson for episode "Maxwell Smart, Private Eye" of Get Smart
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama: Paul Bogart for episode "Dear Friends" of CBS Playhouse
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Music or Variety: Jack Haley Junior for Movin' with Nancy
- Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy: Allan Burns and Chris Hayward for episode "The Coming Out Party" of He & She
- Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama: Loring Mandel for episode "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" of CBS Playhouse
- Outstanding Writing Achievement in Music or Variety: Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan, Coslough Johnson, Paul Keyes, Marc London, Allan Manings, David Panich, Hugh Wedlock Junior, and Digby Wolfe for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Ralph Woolsey for episode "A Thief is a Thief is a Thief" of It Takes a Thief
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic Design: Jan Scott and George Gaines for Kismet
- Outstanding Musical or Variety Series: George Schlatter for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
- Outstanding Musical or Variety Program: George Schlatter for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
- Outstanding Achievement in Musical Composition: Earle Hagen for episode "Laya" of I Spy
- Outstanding Dramatic Series: Mission: Impossible
- Special Classification of Individual Achievements: Art Carney for The Jackie Gleason Show
- Outstanding Dramatic Program: "Elizabeth the Queen" of Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming - Programs: ABC's Wide World of Sports
- Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming - Programs: Today
- Outstanding Comedy Series: Get Smart
- International Award, Entertainment: episode "Call Me Daddy" of Armchair Theatre.
- 1968 - Birth of James Parrish; NFL outside linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers).
- 1968 - Birth of Jeanne Basone in Burbank, California, USA; wrestler (Hollywood-GLOW).
- 1968 - Birth of Mark Janssens in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada; NHL center (Hartford Whalers).
- 1968 - Birth of Paul Justin; NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1968 - Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting ten in six consecutive games.
- 1969 - Birth of Cecile Ulbrich Tucker in Warren, Maine, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of David Wharton in Warminster, Pennsylvania, USA; American Olympic swimmer (Olympics-silver-1988).
- 1969 - Birth of Kevin Scott; WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores).
- 1969 - Birth of Richard Dumas; NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers).
- 1969 - ABC airs the last The Big Valley TV show.
- 1969 - Death of Coleman Hawkins at age 69 of bronchial pneumonia in New York, USA; jazz saxophonist ("Body and Soul" (1939)).
- 1970 - Birth of Jason Gray-Stanford in Vancouver, BC, Canada; actor (Monk).
- 1971 - Birth of Darryl Morrison; NFL safety (Washington Redskins).
- 1971 - Birth of Lori Ann Mundt in Yorkton, Saskatchawan, Canada; volleyball player (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at age 68.
- 1971 - USSR launches Mars 2, first spacecraft to crash land on Mars.
- 1972 - Birth of Jenny Berggren; singer (Ace of Base).
- 1972 - Birth of Ronald Williams; Canadian Football League running back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
- 1972 - Birth of Willie Brown; NFL/WLAF linebacker (Seattle Seahawks, Rhein Fire).
- 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1973 - 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4.
- 1973 - Birth of Andreas Johansson in Hofors, Sweden; NHL forward (Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Islanders).
- 1974 - NHL Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2.
- 1974 - Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election.
- 1975 - In Los Angeles, California, the 27th Annual Emmy Awards (primetime programming) are presented.
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy: Laurence Olivier for Love Among the Ruins
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Robert Blake for Baretta
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Tony Randall for The Odd Couple
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series: Peter Falk for the Columbo series of The NBC Mystery Movie
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Jean Marsh for Upstairs, Downstairs
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy: Katharine Hepburn for Love Among the Ruins
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series: Jessica Walter for Amy Prentiss
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Valerie Harper for Rhoda
- Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music: Jack Albertson for Cher
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special: Anthony Quayle for QB VII
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Will Geer for The Waltons
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series: Patrick McGoohan for Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Edward Asner for Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Betty White for Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music: Cloris Leachman for Cher
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Special: Juliet Mills for QB VII
- Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Ellen Corby for The Waltons
- Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series: Zohra Lampert for episode Queen of the Gypsies of Kojak and Cloris Leachman for episode Phyllis Whips Inflation of Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series: Dave Powers for The Carol Burnett Show
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series: Gene Reynolds for episode O.R.. of M*A*S*H
- Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: Bill Bain for episode A Sudden Storm of Upstairs, Downstairs
- Outstanding Directing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy: George Cukor for Love Among the Ruins
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special: Bill Davis for An Evening with John Denver
- Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction: Ernie Buttelman, Jim Angel, Jim Balden, Ron Brooks, and Art LaCombe for The Missiles of October
- Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Original Teleplay: James Costigan for Love Among the Ruins
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series: Ed Simmons, Gary Belkin, Roger Beatty, Arnie Kogen, Bill Richmond, Gene Perret, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Dick Clair, and Jenna McMahon for The Carol Burnett Show
- Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series: Howard Fast for episode The Ambassador of Benjamin Franklin
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special: Bob Wells, John Bradford, Cy Coleman for Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
- Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Adaptation: David W. Rintels for Clarence Darrow
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series: Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels for episode Mary Richards Goes to Jail of Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Series: Richard C. Glouner for Columbo: Playback
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Special: David M. Walsh for Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction or Scenic Design - For a Single Episode of a Comedy, Drama or Limited Series: Charles Lisanby and Robert Checchi for episode The Ambassador of Benjamin Franklin
- Outstanding Achievemnet in Art Direction or Scenic Design - For a Single Episode of a Comedy-Variety or Music Series or a Comedy-Variety or Music Special: Robert Kelly and Robert Checchi for Cher
- Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design: Guy C. Verhille for The Legend of Lizzie Borden and Margaret Furse for Love Among the Ruins
- Outstanding Achievement in Film or Tape Sound Mixing: Marshall King for The American Film Institute Salute to James Cagney
- Outstanding Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Special: Byron 'Buzz' Brandt and Irving Rosenblum for QB VII and John A. Martinelli for The Legend of Lizzie Borden
- Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing: Gary Anderson and Jim McElroy for Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley
- Outstanding Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Series - For a Single Episode of a Comedy Series: Douglas Hines for episode An Affair To Forget of Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Series - For a Single Episode of a Drama Series: Donald R. Rode for episode Mirror, Mirror On The Wall of Petrocelli
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing: Marvin I. Kosberg, Richard Burrow, Milton C. Burrow, Jack Milner, Ron Ashcroft, James Ballas, Josef von Stroheim, Jerry Rosenthal, William Andrews, Edward L. Sandlin, David M. Horton, Alvin Kajita, Tony Garber, and Jeremy Hoenack for QB VII
- Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music: An Evening with John Denver
- Outstanding Classical Music Program: Profile in Music: Beverly Sills Festival
- Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special: Jerry Goldsmith for QB VII
- Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series: The Carol Burnett Show
- Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series: Billy Goldenberg for episode The Rebel of Benjamin Franklin
- Outstanding Drama Series: Upstairs, Downstairs
- Outstanding Limited Series: Benjamin Franklin
- Outstanding Special - Drama or Comedy: The Law
- Outstanding Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts: Edie Panda for episode The Ambassador of Benjamin Franklin
- Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design: Phill Norman for QB VII
- Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement: Masterpiece Theatre and The American Film Institute Salute to James Cagney
- Outstanding Comedy Series: Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Children's Special: Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
- Outstanding Achievement in Choreography: Marge Champion for Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction or Scenic Design - For a Dramatic Special or Feature Length Film Made for Television: Carmen Dillon and Tessa Davies for Love Among the Ruins
- 1975 - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India.
- 1975 - Junko Tabei climbs to the top of Mount Everest.
- 1976 - Birth of Kevin Garnett; NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 1976 - Gold ownership legalized in Australia.
- 1976 - Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge.
- 1976 - US Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
- 1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1978 - (to May 20) French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.
- 1978 - George Gladstone, cricket player (one Test West Indies versus England 1930), dies.
- 1979 - 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2.
- 1979 - After a bitter six-week strike, the major league umpires return to work.
- 1980 - Birth of Dean Heffernan; Australian football player (Central Coast Mariners).
- 1980 - Apple Computer introduces the Apple III computer. It features twice the processor speed (2 MHz 6502 processor) as the Apple II, twice the memory (128 kB), built-in 5.25-inch floppy drive, Apple SOS operating system. With a small case and no cooling fan, reliability problems limit lifetime sales over four years to 65,000 units.
- 1981 - Pittsburgh Pirates' Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Atlanta Braves' Terry Harper, then retires the next 27 batters.
- 1982 - IFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg, Sweden.
- 1983 - NASA launches Intelsat V.
- 1983 - Death of Jean Rey, Belgian minister, President of the European Commission (born 1902).
- 1984 - Pat LaFontaine scores two goals within 22 seconds in an NHL playoff game.
- 1984 - NHL Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1.
- 1984 - 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Junior aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6.
- 1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic.
- 1986 - Birth of Eric Lloyd; actor (Jesse, Laurie Hill).
- 1986 - Anti-apartheid activist Hélène Pastoors sentenced to ten years in South Africa.
- 1987 - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, science-fiction author (Byte Beautiful), dies at age 71.
- 1988 - Boston Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's number 1.
- 1988 - Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellín drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than three tons of cocaine into US.
- 1988 - Virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at age 90.
- 1989 - Able J Herzberg, Russian/Netherlands lawyer (Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies.
- 1989 - Dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for first time, closes at 2,501.1.
- 1989 - Death of Robert Webber of ALS at age 64; TV actor (40-year career, over 500 appearances, Alex - Moonlighting).
- 1989 - United States Senator Albert Gore introduces a U$1.75 billion bill in Congress to finance creation of a nationwide "data super highway" to link supercomputers.
- 1989 - In China, Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
- 1990 - General Elvis, TV drama, last airs on ABC.
- 1990 - 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6.
- 1991 - Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies.
- 1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic.
- 1991 - Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at age 74.
- 1991 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge.
- 1992 - Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 pounds, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet three inches.
- 1992 - Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title.
- 1993 - Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellín, Colombia, kills 132.
- 1993 - Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,500 for first time (3,500.03).
- 1993 - Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino.
- 1993 - Richard Murphy, director (Three Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at age 81.
- 1993 - S W Sohoni, cricket player (4 Tests for India), dies.
- 1994 - NBC airs the final episode of TV show L.A. Law, after an 8-year run.
- 1994 - Death of Henry Morgan at age 79 of cancer; panelist (To Tell the Truth TV show).
- 1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady (1961-63), dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 64 (born 1929).
- 1994 - Luis Ocana Span, cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at age 48.
- 1994 - An acoustic guitar previously owned by David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and George Michael sells for a record US$300,000 dollars at a charity auction in London, England.
- 1995 - World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai.
- 1995 - Fox releases the film Die Hard: With A Vengeance to theaters.
- 1996 - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday), dies at age 89.
- 1996 - STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit.
- 1996 - Death of John Beradino of pancreatic cancer at age 79; major league baseball player, TV actor (I Led Three Lives, The New Breed, General Hospital).
- 1996 - CBS airs the final episode of TV show Murder, She Wrote.
- 1998 - The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80-90 percent of the world's newspagers without service.
- 1998 - The US aircraft Yorktown is located by searchers, three miles below the ocean surface, where she sank on June 7, 1942.
- 1998 - Death of Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1922).
- 1999 - Fox releases the film Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace to theaters.
- 2000 - Buena Vista releases the film Dinosaur to theaters.
- 2002 - Death of John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (born 1911).
- 2003 - Pen Hadow becomes the first man to walk alone, without any outside help, from Canada to the North Pole.
- 2004 - Tony Blair is hit with a purple flour bomb in the chamber of the House of Commons during a session of Prime Minister's Questions.
- 2004 - Brad Thompson breaks a 97-year-old minor league record set by pitching 57 consecutive scoreless innings.
- 2004 - DreamWorks releases the film Shrek 2 to theaters.
- 2004 - Jeremy Sivits pleads guilty in a court-martial in connection with alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
- 2005 - Fox releases the film Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith to theaters.
- 2006 - Sony releases the film The Da Vinci Code to theaters.
- 2006 - Death of Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (born 1940).
- 2007 - The 126th FA Cup Final is held, the first at the new Wembley Stadium. Chelsea defeat Manchester United 1-0.
- 2008 - Nintendo launches the Wii Fit exercise game for the Nintendo Wii video game system in the US, initially only in New York City. Price is US$90 including game and balance board input device.
- 2008 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Dallas Stars 4-1 in Game six to advance to the NHL Stanley Cup final game.
- 2009 - UK Speaker of the House Michael Martin is forced to resign over expenses scandal.
- 2009 - Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is found dead in northeast Sri Lanka.
- 2010 - Protests in Bangkok, Thailand end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and leaving more than 2,100 injured.
- 2011 - Death of Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1926).
- 2016 - EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes with 66 people on board over the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo.
- 2018 - The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, England, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.
- 2019 - Eleven people are killed in a shooting at a bar in Belém, Brazil.
- 2019 - Google pulls Android update support for Huawei phones, as well as the Google Play Store and Gmail apps, after the Chinese technology company is blacklisted by the United States.
- 2019 - HBO airs the final episode of Game of Thrones TV show.
- 2020 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announces the termination of all agreements, including security ones, with Israel and the United States, in response to Israel's plans to annex the Jordan Valley.
- 2023 - Death of Martin Amis at age 73 of esophageal cancer at home in Lake Worth, Florida, USA; author (Money, London Fields).
- 2023 - Death of Andy Rourke at age 59 of pancreatic cancer in Manhattan, New York, USA; bassist (Smiths).
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