138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectivelymaking him his successor.
1095 - Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William IIRufus
1358 - Dalmatie flees Venice
1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
1502 - Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats governmentmachine
1540 - Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities ofCibola Mexico
1570 - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth I, absolves her subjectsfrom allegiance
1605 - Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Vander Haghen
1623 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
1634 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1643 - Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians
1667 - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby onSuriname River
1746 - Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC(admission 1 cent)
1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered
1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldierssurrender after the Last Invasion of Britain
1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase oftimber land
1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1804 - Jefferson nominated for president atDemocratic-Republican caucus
1830 - Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris
1836 - Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishotfirearm
1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits AfricanAmerican slave Joice Heth.
1837 - 1st US electric printing press patented by ThomasDavenport
1838 - London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in8 hours
1839 - Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa BayFlorida, to West
1847 - State University of Iowa is approved
1859 - 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by PresAbraham Lincoln
1863 - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller ofcurrency
1870 - Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress(Sen-R-MS)
1875 - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at FtSill
1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around governmentgrounds
1892 - James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London
1896 - Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieriof Eritrea
1901 - George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres inNYC
1901 - US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan
1904 - J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish NatlTheater Society
1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughsin 2 games
1905 - Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political partyforms
1907 - George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres inLondon
1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop toBritish-Indies
1911 - Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres inPhiladelphia
1912 - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of GuillaumeIV, becomes the first reigning Grand duch*ess of Luxembourg.
1916 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1919 - Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent pergallon)
1921 - Georgian SSR proclaimed
1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia,occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1923 - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
1924 - Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketballgame (163-3)
1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1925 - US female Figure Skating championship won by BeatrixLoughran
1925 - US male Figure Skating championship won by NathanielNiles
1925 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the SovietUnion were established.
1926 - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
1926 - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war ongovernment/warlords
1927 - Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic throughPolish corridor
1930 - Check photographing device patented
1930 - George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vEngland (114 & 112)
1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1933 - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts ongoal line)
1933 - Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in anIslington garden
1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vsCanadians)
1941 - Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak(15-0-8)
1941 - February strike against persecution of Jews, inAmsterdam
1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan
1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1948 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomespremier
1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Cocapremieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & WoodyAllen
1951 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYCafter 278 perf
1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball GolfTournament
1952 - 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
1953 - "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for559 perfs
1954 - Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
1956 - Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet PartyConference
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be theDay"
1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrustexempt pro sport
1960 - John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos,"premieres
1960 - Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres inNYC
1961 - Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball winstreak
1961 - Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release torecord 14,10
1962 - India Congress Party wins elections
1962 - Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon
1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please PleaseMe"
1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 forheavyweight boxing title
1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1968 - Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransomfor the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
1971 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316performances
1971 - P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieresin NYC
1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies forRick Wise
1972 - Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish"single
1973 - "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601performances
1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25murders
1973 - Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieresin NYC
1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandembicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed onAugust 27, 1975
1975 - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriouslyinjured
1977 - New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guardwith 68 pts
1977 - Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 milliongallons
1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1978 - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZChristchurch
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space stationis launched
1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, BillyJoel wins
1981 - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders
1981 - Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously tostrike on May 29
1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981 - NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84penalties (392 mins)
1981 - NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs CalgaryFlames
1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears onDonahue
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votesunanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agentcompensation remains unresolved
1982 - Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collinswins
1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines,Marcos flees
1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2luxury hotel
1987 - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drugabuse
1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1988 - Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins inWorcester Mass
1988 - South Korea adopts constitution
1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in CommunistHungary forms
1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-yearcareer
1989 - Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach TomLandry
1989 - Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park
1989 - Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar atDe Bilt)
1989 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxingtitle
1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket WorldSeries Cup
1990 - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
1990 - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaksdown, saying that she will never have children & no man canstand her for long
1991 - Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka(122 & 100*)
1991 - Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL'sToronto Argonauts
1991 - US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scudmissile, kills 28
1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins
1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenianarmed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region ofAzerbaijan
1993 - "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207performances
1993 - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
1993 - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day intrecord low
1994 - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30Palestinians in Hebron
1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria,kills 31
1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldierskilled)
1995 - British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponentGerard McClellan in hospital
1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 sh*te mosque goersdead
1995 - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
1996 - "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52performances
1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v LeewardIs
1998 - Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on batterycharges
1998 - Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
2009 - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 Peopleare being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, byBangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.
2011 - In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-ledgovernment suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government sincethe formation of the Irish state in 1921.
2012 - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling ofHoms and Hama
2012 - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people inMukalla, Yemen
2012 - World Health Organization removes India from the list ofpolio endemic countries
2012 - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from strokeat 79
2013 - Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins theItalian general election
2013 - Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seekanother term in 2018
