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0295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

0850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne

1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg

1551 John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal

1650 VOC-management sets new guidelines

1653 Cromwell routes English parliament to house

1657 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet

1702 Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

1715 Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray", premieres in London

1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales

1775 British begin siege of Boston

1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia

1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod", premieres in Weimar

1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

1836 Territory of Wisconsin created

1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published

1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad

1861 Battle of Norfolk VA

1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1865 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens

1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)

1872 San Francisco Bar Association organized

1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus

1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"

1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase

1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitán", premieres in NYC

1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood SD opens

1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium

1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8

1903 New York Highlanders play their 1st game, with jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington Nationals

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis

1904 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida", premieres in London

1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2

1910 Cleveland Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0

1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km

1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11

1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5

1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow CO

1914 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2

1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast

1916 1st National League game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Chicago Cubs beat Cincinnati Reds 7-6

1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")

1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi

1920 7th modern Olympic games open in Antwerp Belgium

1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate

1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio

1920 Phillies manager Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3-run homer and beats New York Giants 3-0

1925 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Illinois in 2:33:00.6

1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across the Atlantic

1931 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Massachusetts in 2:46:45.8

1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday

1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police

1935 "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)

1936 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of Rhode Island in 2:33:40.8

1936 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine

1939 New York World's Fair opens

1939 Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double

1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA

1941 100 German bombers attack Athens

1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps

1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach

1942 Heavy German assault on Malta

1943 Atlanta Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg

1944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench

1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death

1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin

1945 US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany

1945 Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride

1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer

1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa

1946 1st televised baseball broadcast in Chicago, St Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs

1946 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27

1947 Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark

1948 UAW president Walter P Reuther shot & wounded at his home in Detroit

1948 NYC hikes subway fare from 5¢ to 10¢

1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany CA

1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League

1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak Atoll

1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators

1953 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51

1954 "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances

1955 "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances

1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway Park

1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05

1958 Buses replace Key System trains in San Francisco area at 3 AM

1958 Montréal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup

1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops

1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42

1960 "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances

1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight

1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters

1962 New Orleans Citizens Company gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North

1962 OAS-leader ex-General Salan arrested in Algiers

1963 "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances

1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda

1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools

1964 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59

1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington DC (IND) begins broadcasting

1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War

1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon

1967 French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia

1967 New York Mets' Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Chicago Cubs, 6-1

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM

1968 South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed

1969 23rd Tony Awards Great White Hope & 1776 win

1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 (new US marathon record)

1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria

1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"

1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation

1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2

1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket

1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit

1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"

1975 Penguins 1-Islanders 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead

1975 29th Tony Awards Equus & The Wiz win

1975 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer

1976 George Harrison sings the lumberjack song with Monty Python

1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses

1977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres

1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift

1980 Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament

1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs

1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession

1981 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of New Zealand in 2:26:46

1981 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26

1982 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season

1983 Rangers 2-Islanders 7-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 3-2 lead

1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock

1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security

1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghánistán

1985 Karyn Marshall of New York NY lifted 303 lbs in a clean-and-***** lift

1985 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)

1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams

1986 Michael Jrdan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game

1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland

1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances

1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1987 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21

1987 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50

1987 Sri Lanka Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead

1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR

1988 Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)

1988 New Jersey Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten

1988 New York Yankees homerun 9,999 (Dave Winfield) 10,000 (Claudell Washington) 10,001 (jack Clark)

1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians

1990 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of the Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips

1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income

1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million

1991 "Les Miserables", opens at Odense Teater, Odense

1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire

1991 Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 points on a dive (101.85)

1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs

1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain

1992 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43

1992 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14

1992 All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium London

1992 Joan Lunden breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse

1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner

1993 Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)

1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5

1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed

1994 Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263

1994 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands

1996 Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season

1997 1st baseball game in Hawaii, St Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Padres in doubleheader

1997 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682

1997 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Hale Irwin

1997 Chicago Cubs beat New York Mets ending National League worst opening, lost 14 straight games

1997 DL Coburn's "Gin Game", opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances

1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International

1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to homerun on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)

1997 Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic

1997 Noël Coward's "Present Laughter", closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC

1997 PGA Seniors Championship; Hale Irwin wins

1999 Deadliest school shooting in US history at Columbine High School, Littleton CO, 13 killed, 23 wounded

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On This Day Over The Years

753BC Traditional date for the founding of Rome.

1509 Henry VII died and his second son acceded to the British throne as Henry VIII.

1816 Charlotte, eldest of the three Bronté sisters and author of Jane Eyre, born in Yorkshire.

1836 The Texans defeated the Mexicans at the Battle of San Juanita.

1873 The Canadian North-West Mounted Police (Mounties) were established.

1910 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) died in Connecticut, aged 74.

Halley’s comet appeared in 1835 when he was born and he always said he would die when it appeared again, and he did.

1916 Sir Roger Casement was arrested just hours after leaving a German submarine at Banna Strand, County Kerry.

1918 Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, scourge of World War One fliers, was shot down in his Fokker triplane and died.

1946 Death of British economist John Maynard Keynes.

1960 The city of Brasilia was declared the new capital of Brazil.

1970 The Alliance Party, a combination of unionists, liberal Catholics and the New Ulster movement, was launched in Northern Ireland.

1989 Over 100,000 Chinese students gathered in Tiannamen Square, ignoring government warnings of severe punishment.

1997 Snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan scored the fastest 147 maximum break in professional snooker history, five minutes 20 seconds, at the world championships.

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On This Day Over The Years

1500 Navigator Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovered Brazil on behalf of Portugal.

1724 Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, born.

1838 The packet steamer Sirius became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic to New York from Ireland.

The journey took 18 days and 10 hours.

Though a British ship, her crew was almost entirely Irish and she was commanded by Richard Roberts, a Royal Navy lieutenant from Passage West, Co Cork.

The Sirius beat the Great Western by almost eight hours on the trip.

1870 Vladimir llyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Russian revolutionary leader, was born in Simbirsk.

1904 Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist who invented the atomic bomb, born.

1905 Captain William O'Shea, politician and first husband of Katharine O'Shea, died.

1915 Germany first used poison gas at Ypres.

1933 Death of Frederick Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls Royce car company.

1967 Walter Macken, author and dramatist, died.

Among his works were Rain on the Wind (1950) and Seek the Fair Land (1959).

1969 Sailor Robin Knox Johnston made it home after a 312-day solo circumnavigation.

1972 The first people to row across the Pacific Ocean, Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax, arrived in Australia; they had been at sea for 362 days.

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Feast Days

National Day of England FEAST day of St George, St Gerard of Toul, St Ibar, St Adalbert of Prague, and Saints Felix, Fortunatus and Achilleus.

On This Day Over The Years

1349 Edward III founded the Order of the Garter.

1564 William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.

He died on the same date in 1616.

1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author of Don Quixote, born 1661 Charles II was crowned king of Great Britain and Ireland.

1775 Joseph Mallard William Turner, English landscape painter, was born in London.

1858 Max Planck, German physicist, born.

1916 Úoin MacNeill's cancellation of volunteer manoeuvres appeared in the Sunday Independent, causing confusion amongst volunteers throughout the country.

The IRB Military Council, joined from a nursing home by the dying Joseph Plunkett, decided to start the rising the next day.

Peubik, to avoid isolated incidents, sent out orders confirming MacNeill's.

1927 Cardiff City beat ubiknal 1-0 in the FA Cup final to become the first club to take the cup out of England.

1968 The first decimal coins appeared in Britain.

They were the 5p and 10p, replaced the one shilling and two shilling coins.

1984 New Formula Coca-Cola was announced.

On the same day, the United States announced the discovery of the AIDS virus.

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On This Day Over The Years

1743 Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born.

1792 Claude Rouget de l’Isle composed the French national anthem, the Mubikillaise.

1815 Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London.

1889 Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour Chancellor who introduced austerity measures in Britain after the Second World War, was born.

1900 The first issue of the Daily Express, founded by Arthur Pearson, appeared in London.

1916 The Easter rebellion began in Dublin against British rule in Ireland (ended on April 29).

1949 Sweets and chocolate came off ration.

1965 The Pennine Way - 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border - was officially opened.

1986 The Duchess of Windsor died in Paris, aged 89.

1989 Peter Scudamore became the first National Hunt jockey to ride 200 winners in a season when he won at Towcester with Gay Moore.

Birthdays 2001: Shirley MacLaine, entertainer, 67; Stuart Pearce, footballer, 39; Barbra Streisand, singer/actress, 59; John Williams, guitarist, 60.

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Events

1719 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was published.

1792 The guillotine was first used in Paris.

1792 "La Mubikillaise" (French national anthem) was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

1859 Work began on the Suez Canal, supervised by the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, who designed it.

1915 In World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in Turkey.

1925 Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany.

1953 Francis Crick and James D. Watson published their findings on the double helix structure of DNA

1959 The St Lawrence Seaway was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and President Eisenhower, linking the Atlantic with ports on the Great Lakes.

1975 The first free elections for 50 years were held in Portugal, resulting in a precarious Socialist government.

1980 A US commando mission to rescue hostages in Iran failed with the loss of eight lives.

1982 British forces recaptured South Georgia.

1997 The UN General Assembly, convening in an emergency session, voted to condemn Israeli plans to build the Har Homa settlement in East Jerusalem. Only the USA and Micronesia joined Israel in opposing the measure.

Births

1214 King Louis IX of France

1284 King Edward II of England

1599 Oliver Cromwell, Puritan leader in the English Civil War

1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, French-born British engineer

1873 Walter de la Mare, English poet and novelist

1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and pioneer in the development of radio

1918 Ella Fitzgerald, US jazz singer

1940 Al Pacino, US film actor

1947 Johann Cruyff, Dutch footballer

Deaths

1265 Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English Crusader

1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet

1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer who invented the centigrade thermometer

1800 William Cowper, English poet

1840 Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician

1878 Anna Sewell, English author

1976 Carol Reed, English film director

1982 Celia Johnson, English actress

1995 Ginger Rogers, US actress, dancer, and singer

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On This Day Over The Years

1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, scientist and inventor — the complete Renaissance man — was born.

1895 At the Old Bailey, the trial of Oscar Wilde for homosexuality, then a crime, began.

1915 The Pact of London was signed between the Allies and Italy.

1923 The marriage of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth) to the Duke of York (later George VI) took place at Westminster Abbey, the first Royal wedding there since 1383.

1937 The Spanish town of Guernica was almost destroyed by German bombers acting in support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

1947 The English FA Cup Final (between Charlton Athletic and Burnley) was televised in its entirety for the first time.

1957 TV series, The Sky At Night, presented by Patrick Moore, was first screened.

1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to become the Republic of Tanzania.

1968 The largest underground nuclear device ever to be tested in the US exploded in Nevada.

1970 Gypsy Rose Lee, US dancer and striptease artist, died.

1986 An accident at the Soviet nuclear power station at Chernobyl resulted in a massive radiation leak.

1989 American comedienne Lucille Ball died in Los Angeles.

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On This Day Over The Years

1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.

1737 Edward Gibbon, English historian who wrote The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, was born in London.

1749 The first official performance of Handel's music for the Royal Fireworks finished early due to the outbreak of fire.

1791 Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code, was born in Massachusetts.

1810 Beethoven's piano piece Fur Elise was published.

1904 Cecil Day-Lewis, writer, born in Ballinturbet, County Laois.

His novels were published under the pseudonym William Blake, and he became poet laureate in Britain from 1968.

1937 The world's longest suspension bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (4,200 feet long) was opened.

1938 Seanad E´ireann, in its modern form, met for the first time.

1947 Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl set off from Callao, Peru, for Polynesia to prove his theory that the original Polynesian islanders could have come from Peru.

1953 Maud Gonne McBride, revolutionary and the inspiration for WB Yeats, died in Dublin.

1960 French Togoland became independent as the Republic of Togo.

1968 Abortion was legalised in Britain.

1997 The leader of the hardline Spirit of Drumcree group called on Orangemen throughout the North to refuse to negotiate over the right to march.

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0357 - Constantius II visited Rome for the first time.

1282 - Villagers in Palermo led a revolt against French rule in Sicily.

1635 - Virginia Governor John Harvey was accused of treason and removed from office.

1686 - The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatic" was published.

1788 - Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S. constitution.

1789 - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.

1818 - U.S. President James Monroe proclaimed naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

1896 - The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan.

1902 - A revolution broke out in the Dominican Republic.

1910 - First night air flight was performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.

1914 - W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner.

1916 - The British declared martial law throughout Ireland.

1919 - The League of Nations was founded.

1920 - Azerbaijan joined the USSR.

1930 - The first organized night baseball game was played in Independence, Kansas.

1932 - The yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced.

1937 - The first animated-cartoon electric sign was displayed on a building on Broadway in New York City. It was created by Douglas Leight.

1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.

1946 - The Allies indicted Tojo with 55 counts of war crimes.

1947 - Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. The trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing of the Pacific Ocean.

1952 - The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ended when a treaty with the U.S. and 47 other countries went into effect.

1953 - French troops evacuated northern Laos.

1957 - Mike Wallace was seen on TV for the first time. He was the host of "Mike Wallace Interviews."

1959 - Arthur Godfrey was seen for the last time in the final broadcast of "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" on CBS-TV.

1965 - The U.S. Army and Marines invaded the Dominican Republic to evacuate Americans.

1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of boxing title. He sited religious grounds for his refusal.

1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of France.

1969 - In Santa Rosa, CA, Charles M. Schulz's Redwood Empire Ice Arena opened.

1974 - The last Americans were evacuated from Saigon.

1977 - Christopher Boyce was convicted of selling U.S. secrets.

1985 - The largest sand castle in the world was completed near St. Petersburg, FL. It was four stories tall.

1988 - In Maui, HI, one flight attendant was killed when the fuselage of a Boeing 737 ripped open in mid-flight.

1989 - Mobil announced that they were divesting from South Africa because congressional restrictions were too costly.

1992 - The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart.

1994 - Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had given U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, plead guilty to espionage and tax evasion. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

1996 - U.S. President Clinton gave a 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners.

1997 - A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons took effect. Russia and other countries such as Iraq and North Korea did not sign.

1999 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected (on a tie vote of 213-213) a measure expressing supprot for NATO's five-week-old air campaign in Yugoslavia. The House also voted to limit the president's authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.

2000 - Jay Leno received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2001 - A Russian rocket launched from Central Asia with the first space tourist aboard. The crew consisted of California businessman Dennis Tito and two cosmonauts. The destination was the international space station.

Birthdays

James Monroe 1758 - 5th U.S. President, nickname: The Last Cocked Hat

- More information here - Today in U.S. President History

Charles Stuart 1795

Mifflin Gibbs 1828

Louise Homer 1871 - Opera singer

Sidney Toler 1874 - Actor ("Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum", "The Jade Mask")

Lionel Barrymore 1878 - Actor ("Captains Courageous", "It’s a Wonderful Life")

Red (Charles Frederick) Lucas 1902 - Baseball player, "The Nashvilled Narcissus"

Odette Hallowes 1912

Robert Anderson 1917 - Playwright ("Tea and Sympathy", "The Nun’s Story")

Rowland Evans 1921

(Nelle) Harper Lee 1926 - Author ("To Kill A Mockingbird")

Blossom Dearie 1926 - Musician (Blue Stars)

Carolyn Jones 1933

Jackie (John George) Brandt 1934 - Baseball player

Saddam Hussein 1937 - Iraqi leader

Madge Sinclair 1938 - Actress ("Trapper John M.D.", "Coming to America")

Ann-Margret (Olsson) 1941 - Singer, actress ("Viva Las Vegas", "Grumpy Old Men")

John Walters 1945 - Musician (Dr. Hook)

Marcia Strassman 1948 - Actress ("Welcome Back Kotter", "Another Stakeout"), singer

Pablo (Arnoldo) Torrealba 1948 - Baseball player

Bruno Kirby 1949 - Actor ("The Basketball Diaries", "When Harry Met Sally")

Paul Guilfoyle 1955 - Actor ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation")

Jay Leno 1950 - Comedian, television talk show host ("The Tonight Show")

Jim Wiley 1950 - Hockey player

Mary McDonnell 1953 - Actress

Tony Peters 1953 - Football player

Kim Gordon 1953 - Musician (Sonic Youth)

Barry Larkin 1964 - Baseball player

Too Short 1966 - Rapper

Chris Young 1971 - Actor ("Falcon Crest", "The Great Outdoors")

Simba Khali 1971 - Actress

Big Gipp 1973 - Rapper

Elisabeth Rohm 1973 - Actress

Penelope Cruz 1974 - Actress

Nate Richert 1978 - Actor

Jessica Alba 1981 - Actress ("Dark Angel")

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1289 - Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.

1429 - Joan of Arc lead Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.

1661 - The Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan.

1672 - King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands.

1813 - Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.

1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published.

1856 - A peace treaty was signed between England and Russia.

1858 - Austrian troops invaded Piedmont.

1861 - The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union.

1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.

1864 - Theta Xi was founded in Troy, New York.

1879 - In Cleveland, OH, electric arc lights were used for the first time.

1913 - Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.

1916 - Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities in Dublin.

1918 - Germany's Western Front offensive ended in World War I.

1924 - An open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.

1927 - Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis was completed for Lindbergh.

1941 - The Boston Bees agreed to change their name to the Braves.

1945 - The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

1945 - In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.

1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.

1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.

1952 - IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.

1954 - Ernest Borgnine made his network television debut in "Night Visitor" on NBC-TV.

1961 - ABC’s "Wide World of Sports" premiered.

1974 - Phil Donahue’s TV show, "Donahue" moved to Chicago, IL.

1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.

1975 - The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.

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1984 - In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor went online after a long delay due to protests.

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1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev promised more religious freedom.

1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.

1992 - Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.

1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.

1994 - Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris which granted Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

1996 - Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland. Colby's body was later recovered.

1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged.

1997 - Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.

1998 - The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.

1998 - Brazil announced a plan to protect a large area of Amazon forest. The area was about the size of Colorado.

2002 - Kelsey Grammer and his production company, Grammnet Inc., were ordered to pay more than $2 million in unpaid commissions to his former talent agency.

2003 - Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against Best Buy Co. Inc., that claimed the store did not have permission to use his likeness in a print ad.

Birthdays

Alexander II (of Russia) 1745

William Randolph Hearst 1863

Sir Thomas Beecham 1879

Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy) 1899

Hirohito 1901

Tom Ewell 1909

Richard Carlson 1912

Donald Mills (The Mills Brothers) 1915

Celeste Holm 1919

Danny Davis (The Nashville Brass) 1925

Carl Gardner (The Coasters) 1928

Lonnie Donegan 1931

Rod McKuen 1933

Keith Baxter 1933

Otis Rush 1934

Lane Smith 1936

Zubin Mehta 1936

April Stevens 1943

Duane Allen (The Oak Ridge Boys) 1943

Tammi Terrell 1945

Tommy James (Shondells) 1947

Francis Rossi 1949

Francis Rossi (Status Quo) 1949

Dale Earnhardt 1951

Kate Mulgrew 1955

Jerry Seinfeld 1955

Daniel Day-Lewis 1957

Michelle Pfeiffer 1957

Eve Plumb 1958

Mark Kendall (Great White) 1958

Stephanie Bentley 1963

Carnie Wilson (Wilson Phillips) 1968

Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) 1969

Master P 1970

Uma Thurman 1970

Andre Agassi 1970

James Bonamy 1972

Mike Hogan (Cranberries) 1973

Zane Carney 1985

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On This Day Over The Years

311 Christians were legally recognised in the Roman Empire.

1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States of America.

1900 Engine driver Casey Jones died at the throttle of the Cannonball Express at Illinois Central, slowing down the train to save passengers’ lives.

His courageous deed inspired a song that earned the composers $250,000.

1945 Adolf Hitler shot himself dead in his underground bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin.

Eva Braun, whom he had married the previous day, died beside him by taking a cyanide pill.

1970 In the North, the Ulster Defence Regiment took over the duties of the ‘B’ Specials, or Ulster Special Constabulary, which had been abolished.

In 1992 the UDR merged with the Royal Irish Rangers to form the Royal Irish Regiment.

1975 The Vietnam War ended when the South Vietnam Government surrendered to North Vietnam.

Fighting had continued despite the signing of peace treaties in 1973.

1980 Armed terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 20 hostages and threatening to blow it up if their demands were not met.

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On This Day Over The Years

1316 Edward Bruce, brother of King Robert Bruce, crowned King of Ireland at Dundalk.

1840 The first Penny Black stamps with Queen Victoria's head went on sale five days before the official issue date.

They are now worth at least £65,000.

1854 Percy French, painter and composer, born in Co Roscommon.

1873 Missionary and explorer David Livingstone died of malaria in central Africa.

1904 Anton Dvorák, Czech composer, died.

1912 The statue of Peter Pan was installed in Kensington Gardens, London.

JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan, commissioned and paid for the statue, although children were told that fairies put it there.

1925 Cyprus became a British colony, having originally been annexed in1914 when Turkey supported Germany during World War One.

1931 US President Herbert Hoover opened the Empire State Building in New York.

At 1,250ft high and with 102 floors, it was then the world's tallest building.

1945 Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels committed suicide in his bunker after first killing his wife and six children.

1960 An American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Gary Powers, was shot down in the Soviet Union.

1968 Legoland Family Park opened at Billund, Denmark.

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On this day Steve got really, really old

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On this day Steve got really, really old

Even from here I can see a flock of hungry Mods in a feeding frenzy, hovering over your head :lol2: :lol2:

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On this day Steve got really, really old

Even from here I can see a flock of hungry Mods in a feeding frenzy, hovering over your head :lol2: :lol2:

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1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.

1230 - William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.

1335 - Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.

1345 - "Quaden Maendach" in Gent: Battles between volders & weavers

1497 - John Cabot departs to North-America

1526 - German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League

1536 - King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery & incest

1595 - King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Neth

1598 - France & Spain signs Peace of Vervins

1652 - Frederik Hendriks daughter Albertine Agnes marries Willem Frederik

1668 - 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands

1668 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution

1670 - King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company

1672 - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.

1703 - Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant

1749 - Empress Maria Theresa signs "Haugwitzschen State reform"

1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "La Botega di Caffè," premieres in Mantua

1776 - France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels

1780 - William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris

1808 - Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid

1816 - Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.

1824 - Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)

1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.

1833 - Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs

1845 - Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"

1847 - Sabbath famine

1853 - Franconi's Hippodrome opens (NYC)

1863 - South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va

1863 - Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men

1865 - Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis

1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.

1876 - Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League

1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.

1878 - US stops minting 20 cent coin

1885 - "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published

1885 - Congo Free State forms by King Leopold II of Belgium

1887 - G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence

1887 - Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film

1889 - Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale

1890 - Territory of Oklahoma created

1900 - George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell," premieres in London

1902 - "A Trip To The Moon," the 1st science fiction film released

1903 - 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09

1904 - 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08.50

1905 - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work

1906 - 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8

1907 - Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian govt

1908 - 1908 "Take me out to the Ball Game registered for copyright.

1909 - Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs

1911 - French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco

1915 - Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road

1916 - US president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act

1916 - 2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named

1917 - Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0

1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

1919 - 1st US air passenger service starts

1920 - 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis

1921 - Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia

1922 - WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Ft Worth Texas

1923 - Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0

1924 - Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR

1925 - Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens

1926 - US military intervenes in Nicaragua

1927 - Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens

1927 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)

1928 - KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions

1930 - Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

1932 - jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)

1932 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)

1933 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

1934 - Nazi-Germany begins People's court

1936 - "Peter & Wolf" premieres in Moscow

1936 - 62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6

1936 - Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia

1938 - Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"

1938 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)

1939 - Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2

1941 - FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1

1941 - Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy

1941 - Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists

1941 - Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400

1942 - 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4

1942 - Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma

1943 - German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia

1944 - WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast

1945 - Allies occupy Wismar

1945 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen

1945 - German Army in Italy surrenders

1945 - Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders

1945 - Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste

1946 - Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die

1946 - The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.

1947 - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," premieres in NYC

1949 - Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"

1949 - Bolivian state of siege proclaimed

1949 - Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0

1950 - Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan

1950 - Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration

1950 - Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR

1952 - 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"

1952 - 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet

1952 - Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers

1953 - 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02

1953 - Feisal II installed as king of Iraq

1953 - Hussein I installed as king of Jordan

1954 - Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader

1955 - India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable

1955 - Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)

1955 - WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1956 - US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus

1956 - US Methodist church disallows race separation

1958 - Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into NYC

1959 - 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2

1960 - Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance

1960 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)

1960 - "American Bandstand's" ***** Clark

1960 - House investigating committee, looking into payola questions

1962 - Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I

1962 - OAS strikes in Algeria

1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1962 - WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast

1964 - 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00

1964 - Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks

1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ

1964 - First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.

1965 - "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances

1965 - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational

1965 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open

1966 - Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)

1967 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2

1968 - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony

1968 - 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2

1968 - Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London

1968 - Israeli television begins transmitting

1969 - British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY

1970 - 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)

1970 - 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4

1970 - KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast

1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1972 - Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)

1972 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1974 - Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred

1975 - Apple records closes down

1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic

1977 - "King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances

1978 - NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games

1979 - "Quadrophenia" premieres in London

1979 - -May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka

1979 - 14th Academy of Country music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell

1980 - Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder

1980 - Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in S Africa

1980 - Pope John Paul II begins African tour

1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 - 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02

1981 - Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes

1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic

1982 - Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

1983 - 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif

1984 - "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth NYC for 604 perfs

1984 - Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn)

1984 - Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid

1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1986 - Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II

1986 - Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC

1987 - 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4

1988 - Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park

1988 - David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," premieres in NYC

1988 - Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000

1988 - Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump

1990 - "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 perfs

1990 - South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid

1991 - Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus

1992 - "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs

1992 - 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03

1992 - Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian Pres Alija Izetbegovic

1993 - "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 445 perfs

1993 - "Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances

1993 - "Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 perfs

1993 - "Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances

1993 - Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic

1993 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament

1994 - Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed

1994 - Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides

1994 - Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"

1994 - in Poland bus disaster 32 people died.

1995 - "Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances

1995 - Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning

1995 - Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six

1997 - Donald Trump & Marla Maples announce they are separating

1997 - Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber

1997 - Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy

1997 - Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders

1998 - 124th Kentucky Derby

1998 - The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.

1999 - Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.

2000 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.

2000 - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.

2002 - Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.

2004 - Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.

2008 - Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.

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Births

1469 Niccoló Machiavelli, Italian politician

1860 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist

1898 Golda Meir, Russian-born Israeli prime minister

1920 Sugar Ray Robinson, US boxer

1923 Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist

1933 James Brown, US singer

1934 Henry Cooper, English boxer

Deaths

1703 Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter

1845 Thomas Hood, English poet

1958 Henry Cornelius, South African-born film director

1969 Karl Freund, Czech-born US film cameraman and photographer

Events

1381 The weavers of Ghent, led by Philip van Artevelde, took Bruges; other Flemish towns revolted.

1493 Pope Alexander VI published the first bull Inter cetera dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.

1497 A rising broke out in Cornwall, provoked by taxation; James Tutchet, Lord Audley, led an army of 15,000 from Taunton through the southern counties to attack London.

1747 The Battle of Cape Finisterre took place, at which the British defeated the French.

1808 A duel was fought from two hot-air balloons over Paris, the first of its kind.

1841 New Zealand was declared a British colony.

1898 Bread riots in Milan were put down with heavy loss of life.

1906 The Sinai Peninsula became Egyptian territory after Turkey renounced its claims.

1951 King George VI opened the Festival of Britain.

1958 US President Eisenhower proposed demilitarization of Antarctica, subsequently accepted by the countries concerned.

1982 Israeli Prime Minister Begin announced that Israel would assert sovereignty over occupied West Bank.

1989 The centre-right coalition government under Ruud Lubbers in Holland resigned over an environmental issue.

1995 Republican protesters, many of whom were reportedly Sinn Fein members, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, clashed with police.

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Births

1825 Thomas Huxley, English naturalist

1827 John Speke, English explorer who discovered the source of the Nile

1852 Alice Liddell, the girl for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland

1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette

1923 Eric Sykes, English comedian

1929 Audrey Hepburn, Dutch-born US film actress

Deaths

1879 William Froude, English engineer and mathematician

1955 Georges Enesco, Romanian composer

1969 Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, English author

1980 Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian soldier and president

1984 Diana Dors, English film actress

Events

1471 The Battle of Tewkesbury, the last battle in the Wars of the Roses, took place; the Yorkists defeated the lancastrians.

1780 The first Derby was run at Epsom; the winner was Diomed.

1896 The first issue of the Daily Mail was published in London.

1904 Work began on the Panama Canal.

1926 The General Strike began in Britain, with almost half of the country's 6,000,000 trade-union members participating; it continued until 12 May.

1973 The world's tallest building, Sears Tower, Chicago, was completed.

1979 Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of Britain.

1982 Argentine missiles sank the British destroyer HMS Sheffield; 20 were killed.

1983 President Reagan declared support for the aim of the Nicaraguan Contras to overthrow the Sandinista government.

1994 Israel and the PLO sign an agreement giving Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

1997 Peace talks between Zaire's President Mobutu and rebel leader Laurent Kabila, hosted by South African President Mandela, ended with some degree of hope that a diplomatic solution to Zaire's civil war would be found.

1997 More than 100 Rwandan Hutu refugees making their way back to their homeland from camps in Zaire suffocated or were crushed to death on an overcrowded narrow-gauge train.

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On This Day Over The Years

1291 Egypt's Mamelukes captured Acre, last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.

1525 The Peasants' Revolt in south Germany was suppressed and the Anabaptist preacher Thomas Mu¨nzer was hanged a few days later.

1751 Portuguese foreign secretary Sebastiaï Pombal curbed the power of the Inquisition in Portugal by decreeing that no auto da fé should take place without government approval.

1762 The Treaty of St Petersburg was signed between Russia and Prussia, whereby Russia restored all territory taken and formed an alliance with Prussia.

1818 Father of communism Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Germany, the son of a Jewish lawyer.

1821 Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St Helena.

1879 Isaac Butt, barrister and politician, died.

1916 John McBride, second in command of the Jacob's garrison during the Easter Rising, executed at Kilmainham Gaol.

1930 Amy Johnson left England in Gypsy Moth 'Jason' to become the first female to fly solo to Australia, arriving on May 24.

1941 Emperor Haile Selaisse returned to Ethiopia from exile.

1967 Flower power anthem San Francisco, by Scott Mackenzie, entered the US singles chart.

1980 The SAS stormed the terrorist-occupied Iranian Embassy in Knightsbridge, killing four gunmen and rescuing 19 hostages.

1981 Bobby Sands MP died on the 65th day of his hunger strike in Long Kesh.

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On This Day Over The Years

1576 The Fifth War of Religion in France ended; the Huguenots were granted freedom of worship in all places except Paris.

1626 Dutchman Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from local Indians for trinkets worth $25.

1758 Maximillian François Robespierre, French revolutionary leader, born.

1840 The first postage stamp — the Penny Black — was issued by the British Post Office.

1851 American inventor Linus Yale patented the lock which bears his name.

1856 Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was born in Freiberg, Moravia.

1882 Fenians murdered Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and Under Secretary T H Burke, in Phoenix Park.

1895 Rudolph Valentino, Italian heart-throb of the silent screen, was born in Castellaneta.

1937 The German airship Hindenburg exploded at its moorings in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 of the 97 people aboard.

1954 Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile on the Iffley Road track in Oxford, in 3 minutes 59·4 seconds.

1959 The Cod War between Britain and Iceland over fishing rights intensified when Icelandic gunboats fired at British trawlers.

1966 Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors murderers, were found guilty in an English Court and sentenced to life imprisonment.

1992 Marlene Dietrich, German-born singer and actress, died.

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On This Day Over The Years

1711 David Hume, Scottish philosopher was born.

1812 Poet Robert Browning was born in London.

1832 Greece became an independent kingdom.

1833 Johannes Brahms, German composer, was born in Hamburg.

1840 Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, was born in Kamso-Votkinsk.

1848 Polish rebels surrendered after Prussian troops put down an insurrection in Warsaw.

1865 Major John MacBride, revolutionary, born in Westport, Co Mayo.

His son, Seán Mac Bride, grew up to win the Lenin and Nobel Peace Prizes.

1888 George Eastman patented his Kodak box camera.

1915 The Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off Ireland and sank in 18 minutes with the loss of 1,198 lives.

Among the notable dead were art collector Sir Hugh Lane and preacher and writer BW Maturin.

1919 Marie 'Evita' Peron was born near Buenos Aires, the illegitimate daughter of a cook.

1926 Women's suffrage in Britain was reduced from the age of 30 to 21.

1932 Paul Doumer, French president, assassinated.

1945 Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaced Marshal Voroshilov as President of the USSR.

1973 The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for the work of reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in exposing the Watergate scandal.

1992 Dr Eamonn Casey, Bishop of Galway, resigned and left the country.

It later emerged that he had had a secret relationship and fathered a son with American divorcée Annie Murphy.

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On This Day Over The Years

1462 Palla Strozzi, founder of the first public library in Florence, died.

1701 Captain Kidd went on trial at the Old Bailey for piracy.

He was hanged on May 23.

1828 Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross, was born in Geneva.

1873 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, died.

1892 A ban was imposed on natives of the Congo, prohibiting them from collecting rubber and ivory other than for the state.

1902 Mount Pelee erupted on Martinique, destroying the town of St Pierre and killing more than 30,000 people in just three minutes.

1916 Seán Heuston, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Eamonn Ceannt were executed for their part in the Easter Rising.

1933 In the US, the first execution by gas chamber was carried out in the state of Nevada.

1945 VE Day.

The Second World War in Europe officially ended at one minute past midnight.

1950 Douglas MacArthur appointed commander of UN forces in Korea.

1956 John Osborne's Look Back In Anger was first performed, at London's Royal Court Theatre.

1958 J F Dulles stated in Berlin House of Representatives that an attack on Berlin would be regarded as an attack on the Allies.

1961 George Blake, a former British diplomat, was jailed for 42 years for spying for Russia.

He escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966.

1962 Trolley buses ran for the last time in London.

1970 The Beatles' final album, Let It Be, was released.

1987 Eight Provisional IRA members died after an SAS ambush as the IRA members attacked Loughgall RUC Station in Co Armagh.

This incident was the biggest loss off life by the IRA since 1921.

1990 Cardinal Tomás O´ Fiach, Archbishop of Armagh, died suddenly while on a trip to Lourdes.

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Events

1386 The Treaty of Windsor, between kings Richard and John, made a perpetual alliance between England and Portugal.

1695 The Scottish Parliament met and enquired into the massacre of Glencoe.

1828 The British Test and Corporation Acts were repealed so that Catholic and Protestant Nonconformists could hold public office in Britain.

1939 British prime minister Winston Churchill urged military alliance with USSR.

1940 RAF began night bombing of Germany.

1940 Romania placed itself under German protection.

1945 Russian troops took Prague.

1946 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated and Umberto II proclaimed himself king.

1955 West Germany was admitted as a member of NATO.

1978 Aldo Moro was found dead in Rome after the Italian government refused to make concessions to his captors.

1996 The Bulgarian national currency, the levy, collapsed after the Bulgarian national bank announced a rise in its interest rate from 67% to 108%.

1996 The British House of Commons voted to maintain the Ministry of Defence ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces.

2004 Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov was killed in a landmine bomb blast during a World War II memorial victory parade in Chechnya.

Births

1741 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer

1773 Jean Sismondi, Swiss historian and economist

1800 John Brown, US abolitionist

1860 J M Barrie, Scottish writer

1873 Howard Carter, British Egyptologist

1930 Joan Sims, English actress

1934 Alan Bennett, English actor and playwright

1936 Glenda Jackson, English actress

Deaths

1618 James Lancaster, English navigator

1657 William Bradford, English-born American colonist

1707 Dietrich Buxtheude, Danish organist and composer

1850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist

1891 Helena Blavatsky, Russian founder of the Theosophical Society

1944 Ethel Smyth, English composer and suffragette

1986 Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa

1993 Freya Stark, English traveller, mountaineer, and writer

2004 Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president

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Events

994

The Danes devastated Anglesey in Wales.

1768

John Wilkes was imprisoned for writing an severely criticizing King George III provoking rioting in London.

1774

Louis XVI became King of France.

1824

National Gallery in London opened to the public.

1857

William Pitt the younger, British prime minister, returned to office.

1857

A revolt of Sepoys at Meerut began the Indian Mutiny against British rule.

1893

Natal, in S Africa, was granted self-government.

1910

The British House of Commons resolved that the maximum lifetime of Parliament be reduced from seven to five years.

1916

Ernest Shackleton and companions reached South Georgia after sailing 1,300 km/800 mi in 16 days in an open boat to seek help for the remaining members of their party, marooned on Elephant Island, Antarctica.

1941

The House of Commons was destroyed in London's heaviest air raid.

1981

François Mitterrand became the first Socialist President of France with 51.7% of vote to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's 48.3%.

1988

Chirac resigned as French Prime Minister and was replaced by Michel Rocard (Socialist).

1994

Nelson Mandela inaugurated as president of South Africa.

1995

Terry Lynn Nichols, a material witness in the April car-bombing attack on a federal office building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was formally charged in the bombing.

1995

More than 100 workers died in one of the worst mine disasters in South Africa's history. The disaster occurred at Anglo-American Corp's Vaal Reefs gold mine near Orkney, 112 mi/180 km SW of Johannesburg, when an underground train fell into a shaft and crashed on top of an elevator.

1995

Michael Ancram, the government minister for Northern Ireland, in Belfast met with representatives of Sinn Fein in the first public encounter between a government minister and Sinn Fein since 1973.

Births

1754

Sir John Sinclair, Scottish politician and agriculturalist

1795

Augustin Thierry, French historian

1838

James Bryce, British politician and diplomat

1845

Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist and playwright

1886

Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author

1899

Fred Astaire, US dancer

1902

David O Selznick, US film producer

1966

Jonathan Edwards, British world record breaking athlete

Deaths

1566

Leonhard Fuchs, German physician and botanist

1696

Jean de la Bruyère, French writer

1774

King Louis XV of France

1818

Paul Revere, American hero

1849

Katsushuka Hokusai, Japanese artist

1897

Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)

1904

Henry Morton Stanley, US journalist and explorer

1950

Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist

1977

Joan Crawford, US film actress