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- !By Bruce T Goldman & Robert Braunwart
- !May events - Version 9.06
- B05--1562 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Deventer Holland, church music composer
- B05--1912 Ellen Müller-Preis, Austria, foils (Olympics, 1932-56)
- B05--1940 Deanna Lund, Chic Ill, actress (Land of the Giants, Detective)
- B05--1946 Andre the Giant, France, WWF wrestler
- B05--1963 Natasha Richardson, London Engld, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale)
- B05011493 Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)
- B05011672 Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
- B05011764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)
- B05011769 Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)
- B05011825 George Inness, US landscape painter ("Delaware Water Gap")
- B05011830 Mary Harris Jones, [Mother Jones], hell-raiser
- B05011839 Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
- B05011872 Hugo Alfvén, Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka)
- B05011881 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist
- B05011892 Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
- B05011895 Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
- B050119-- Art Fleming, Bronx NY, TV host (Jeopardy)
- B050119-- Bruno Ravel, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
- B050119-- Darius McCrary, actor (Edward Winslow-Family Matters)
- B050119-- Doug Barr, QB (NJ Generals, Denver Broncos)
- B050119-- John Diehl, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Det Zito-Miami Vice)
- B050119-- Johnny Colt, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
- B050119-- Louis Nye, Hartford Ct, comedian (Steve Allen, Happy Days)
- B050119-- Sharon Spelman, LA Calif, actress (Joyce-Angie)
- B05011900 Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread and Wine)
- B05011909 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) Phila Flyer good luck charm
- B05011910 Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
- B05011913 Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
- B05011916 Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway)
- B05011916 Jack Parr, Canton Ohio, TV host (Jack Paar Show)
- B05011917 Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling)
- B05011917 John Beradino, LA Calif, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital)
- B05011919 Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
- B05011923 Joseph Heller, novelist (1963 Arts & Letters Award)
- B05011925 Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila)
- B05011925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder, astronaut (Mercury 7 (Aurora 7))
- B05011927 Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
- B05011927 Harry Belefonte, calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song)
- B05011930 Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles)
- B05011933 Joan Hackett, East Harlem NYC, actress (Defenders, Another Day)
- B05011939 Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
- B05011939 Max Robinson, Richmond VA, black news anchor (ABC Evening News)
- B05011942 Stephen Macht, Phila Pa, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey)
- B05011944 Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higer & Higher, We're All Alone)
- B05011946 Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Serv)
- B05011946 Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956)
- B05011949 Douglas Barr, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Howie-The Fall Guy)
- B05011954 Ray Parker Jr, rocker (Ghostbusters theme)
- B05011956 Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren-St Elsewhere)
- B05011960 Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby)
- B05011967 Tawni Cable, Salem Oregon, playmate (Jun, 1989)
- B05011968 Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
- B0501197- Roy Rosello, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
- B05021660 Alessandro Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
- B05021729 Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia (1762-96)
- B05021740 Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found Amer Biblical Society
- B05021779 John Galt, Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)
- B05021810 Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
- B05021837 Gen Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
- B05021840 Theodor Herzl, founded Zionist movement
- B05021844 Elijah McCoy, famous African
- B05021860 Sir D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
- B05021887 Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's)
- B05021892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, [the Red Baron], German WW I ace
- B05021895 Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
- B050219-- Jo Ann Pflug, Atlanta Ga, actress (M*A*S*H, Candid Camera, Rituals)
- B050219-- Matt Thorr, rocker (Jailhouse-Alive in a Mad World)
- B05021902 Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez)
- B05021903 Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/author (Common Sense Book of Bay Care)
- B05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner/actor (Going My Way)
- B05021905 Alan Rawsthorne, Haslingden England, composer (Cortéges)
- B05021906 Aileen Riggin, US, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1920)
- B05021908 William Bakewell, LA Calif, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show)
- B05021915 Van Alexander, NYC, orch leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
- B05021919 Than Wyenn, NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
- B05021921 Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
- B05021924 Theodore Bikel, folk singer/actor (The Russians Are Coming)
- B05021925 Roscoe Lee Browne, Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
- B05021935 Faisal II, King of Iraq
- B05021936 Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
- B05021936 Quinn Redeker, Woodstock Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)
- B05021937 Lorenzo Music, Bkln NY, writer/actor (Carlton-Rhoda)
- B05021940 Roger Robinson, Seattle Wash, actor (Warren-Friends, Newman's Law)
- B05021945 Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias Jagger, Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wife
- B05021946 Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (cries at her own party)
- B05021948 Larry Gatlin, country singer (Gatlan Brothers)
- B05021949 Joey Phillips, percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
- B05021950 Lou Gramm, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
- B05021953 "Keith" Jamaal Wilkes, NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie of Yr 1975)
- B05021959 Brian Tochi, LA Calif, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades)
- B05021961 Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
- B05021962 Elizabeth Berridge, Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse)
- B05031469 Niccolò Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (The Prince)
- B05031844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
- B05031849 Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
- B05031873 Nikolay Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs (OS)
- B05031874 François Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
- B05031892 Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
- B05031892 Sir George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
- B05031897 V.K. Krishna Menon, India, nationalist/statesman
- B05031898 Golda Meir, Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
- B05031899 Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
- B050319-- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
- B050319-- Mark Thomas Miller, Louisville Ky, actor (Johnny-Misfits of Science)
- B05031902 Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
- B05031902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
- B05031903 Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas)
- B05031904 Charles (Red) Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
- B05031906 Mary Astor, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific)
- B05031907 Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
- B05031913 Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
- B05031919 Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)
- B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
- B05031920 Sugar Ray Robinson, middleweight/welterweight boxer (champ)
- B05031924 Mary Carver, LA Calif, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
- B05031925 Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
- B05031928 James Brown, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
- B05031928 Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
- B05031931 Alex Cord, actor (The Dead are Alive)
- B05031935 Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secreatary of Interior (1985-89)
- B05031936 Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India singer
- B05031937 Frankie Valli, Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
- B05031939 José Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
- B05031939 Samantha Eggar, England, actress (Collector)
- B05031941 Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78)
- B05031942 Vera Càslavskà-Odlozilova, Czech, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
- B05031946 Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (WFAN)
- B05031947 Doug Henning, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
- B05031950 Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
- B05031951 Christopher Cross, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
- B05031952 Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B05031957 Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps)
- B05041776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philospher/psychologist
- B05041796 Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools
- B05041820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
- B05041820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler
- B05041825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
- B05041826 Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
- B05041860 Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
- B050419-- Susan Brown, actress (General Hospital)
- B05041903 Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist)
- B05041905 Mátyás Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
- B05041906 Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
- B05041909 Howard Da Silva, Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
- B05041912 Lou Brown, Bkln, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
- B05041918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM convicted of bribe-taking
- B05041921 Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
- B05041924 Dennis Weaver, actor (McCloud)
- B05041928 Betsy Rawls, LPGA golfer (Hall of Fame, 4-time US Women Open champ)
- B05041928 Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
- B05041929 Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Bel (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
- B05041930 Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
- B05041931 Ed Cassidy, drumsmer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
- B05041931 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
- B05041934 Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
- B05041936 El Cordobés, Spanish bullfighter
- B05041938 William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
- B05041941 George F Will, political analyst (Night Line)
- B05041943 Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
- B05041944 Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
- B05041948 Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of the year (1984)
- B05041950 Hilly Hicks, LA Calif, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
- B05041951 Jackie (Sigmund) Jackson, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
- B05041954 Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty)
- B05041956 Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield Ohio, PhD/astronaut
- B05041956 Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt W Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B05041958 Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)
- B05041959 Randy Travis, country singer (Always & Forever)
- B05041961 Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Van Nuys Cal, actress (Erin-Waltons)
- B05041962 Tracy Vaccaro, Glendale Calif, playmate (October, 1983)
- B05041967 Matthew Crane, Kimberton Pa, actor (Matt Cory-Another World)
- B05051813 Sφren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher, founded Existentialism
- B05051818 Karl Marx, philospher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
- B05051832 H.H. Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of the Pacific States)
- B05051846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
- B05051849 Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
- B05051867 Nellie Bly, whose name became a synonym for female star reporter
- B05051869 Hans Erich Pfitzner, Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begrüs)
- B05051883 Charles Bender, only Americian Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
- B05051890 Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil)
- B05051899 Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy)
- B050519-- Lisa Eilbacher, Dharan Saudi Arabia, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
- B050519-- Melinda Culea, Western Springs Ill, actress (A-Team, Glitter)
- B050519-- Richard Schaal, Chicago Ill, actor (Leo-Phyllis, Trapper John MD)
- B05051900 Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924)
- B05051900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
- B05051903 James Beard, US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
- B05051904 Sir Gordon Richards, British jockey (winner of 4,870 races)
- B05051908 Rex Harrison, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Cleopatra)
- B05051912 Alice Faye, actress (Tail Spin, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
- B05051913 Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
- B05051915 Richard H Rovere, Jersey City, journalist (Goldwater Caper)
- B05051919 George London, Montreal Canada, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto)
- B05051919 Tony Canadeo, Chicago, NFL hall of fame halfback (Green Bay Packers)
- B05051922 Phil Gordon, Meridian Miss, actor/singer (Jasper-Bev Hillbillies)
- B05051924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child)
- B05051925 Monica Lewis, actress (Box Office)
- B05051926 Ann B Davis, Schenectady NY, actress (Bob Cummings Show, Brady Bunch)
- B05051927 Charles Rosen, NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
- B05051927 Pat Carroll, Shrevport La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
- B05051929 John S Ragin, Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
- B05051930 Michael J Adams, pilot (X-15)
- B05051932 Will Hutchins, Atwater Calif, actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord)
- B05051935 Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (Gen Hospital)
- B05051938 Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End)
- B05051941 Aleksandr Ragulin, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
- B05051941 Howie Komives, NBA star (NY Knicks, Buffalo Braves)
- B05051942 Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man)
- B05051943 Michael Palin, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
- B05051944 Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paris France, actor (Detective)
- B05051944 John Rhys Davies, Salisbury England, actor (Sir Edward-The Quest)
- B05051949 Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Agent 69)
- B05051949 Michael Murphy, LA Calif, actor (Dr Art Armstrong-2 Marriages)
- B05051953 Billy Burnette, Memphis Tn, rocker (Between Friends)
- B05051954 Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
- B05051955 Robert Feld, Nashville Tn, National Scrabble Champion (1990)
- B05051957 Thereza Bazaar, rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me)
- B05051959 Ian McCullough, rocker (Echo & The Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
- B05051962 Lori Singer, actress (Footloose, Summer Heat)
- B05051972 Wendy Kaye, Memphis Tenn, playmate (Jul, 1991)
- B05051973 Tina Yothers, Whittier Calif, actresss (Jennifer-Family Ties)
- B05051976 Sage Stallone, actor (Rocky V)
- B05051990 Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, NYC, daughter of Caroline
- B0506 973 Henry II, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24)
- B05061740 John Penn, signed Decl of Ind
- B05061758 Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
- B05061806 Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
- B05061812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, pioneer black nationalist
- B05061812 Martin Robinson Delaney, US, 1st black major in US Medical Corp
- B05061829 Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England
- B05061843 Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah
- B05061856 Robert Edward Peary, arctic explorer (North Pole-1909)
- B05061856 Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker, father of psychology
- B05061859 Luis María Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
- B05061868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Nobel-1924)
- B05061870 Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose Calif, founded Bank of America
- B05061870 John McClutcheon, cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
- B05061875 William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star adimiral/chief of staff (1949)
- B05061888 Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY)
- B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik/actor (The Eagle)
- B05061898 Daniel Gerber, Freemont Mi, beloved by babies at mealtime
- B050619-- Tony King, Canton Ohio, actor (Sgt John Webber-Bronk)
- B05061902 Harry Golden, Jewish humorist/writer (2¢ Plain, Only in America)
- B05061902 Max Ophüls, Saarland, dir/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman)
- B05061904 Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
- B05061905 Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
- B05061907 Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, NY Jets)
- B05061912 Bill Quinn, NYC, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family)
- B05061913 Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
- B05061915 George Perle, Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
- B05061915 Orson Welles, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds)
- B05061915 Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of the President)
- B05061922 Pat Harder, Milwaukee, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
- B05061923 Elizabeth Sellars, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
- B05061924 Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
- B05061926 Marguerite Piazza, New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway)
- B05061931 Willie Mays, baseball player, "Say Hey Kid" (660 HRs, NL MVP 1954)
- B05061934 Richard C Shelby, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1987- )
- B05061940 Murray Sidlin, Baltimore Maryland, conductor (Natl Symph 1973-77)
- B05061941 Ghena Dimitrova, actress (Nabucco)
- B05061945 Bob Seger, singer (Silver Bullet Band)
- B05061945 Richard Eyers, LA Calif, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)
- B05061946 Sydne Rome, Akron Ohio, actress (What?, Candy)
- B05061948 Richard Cox, NYC, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
- B05061949 David C Leestma, Muskegon Mich, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)
- B05061953 Lynn Whitfield, Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
- B05061959 Kate Collins, Boston Mass, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
- B05061960 Larry Steinbacheck, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
- B05061961 Clay O'Brien, Ray Az, actor (Weedy-The Cowboys)
- B05061964 Dana Hill, Van Nuys Calif, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
- B05061964 Roma Downey, Derry Ireland, actress (JoAnna-One Life to Live)
- B05061968 Linnea Marie Fayard, Shrevept La, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
- B05061976 Sage Stallone, Sylvestor's son, actor (Rocky 5)
- B05071574 Innocent X, 236th Roman Catholic pope (1644-55)
- B05071774 Sir Francis Beaufort, naval officer; devised wind force scale
- B05071812 Robert Browning, England, poet (The Pied Piper)
- B05071833 Johannes Brahms, composer, enjoys a good lullaby
- B05071840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer (1812 Overture)
- B05071847 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
- B05071861 Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel '13)
- B05071892 Archibald Macleish, US, political essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
- B05071892 Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
- B05071897 Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly 1920, 24) gold/2 silver/2 bronze
- B050719-- Kevin O'Connor, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
- B050719-- Michael E Knight, actor (Tad Martin-All My Children)
- B050719-- Peter Reckell, actor (Days of our Lifes)
- B050719-- Phil Campbell, rocker (Motorhead-No Remorse)
- B05071901 Gary Cooper, Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon)
- B05071901 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
- B05071908 Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
- B05071909 Edwin Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
- B05071919 Eva (Evita) Perón, Argentina, 1st lady/actress
- B05071922 Darren McGavin, Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
- B05071922 Gale Robbins, Chicago Ill, actress/singer (Hollywood House)
- B05071923 Anne Baxter, Mich City Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
- B05071926 Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
- B05071927 Jim Lowe, Springfield Mass, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
- B05071929 Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
- B05071931 Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
- B05071932 Pete Domeneci, (Sen-R-NM)
- B05071933 Johnny Unitas, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
- B05071938 Johnny Caldwell, Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1956)
- B05071939 Jimmy Ruffin, soloist (What Becomes of the Broken Hearted)
- B05071939 Marco St John, New Orleans La, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
- B05071943 Peter Horak, jetboat jumper
- B05071944 Sivi Aberg, actress (Batman TV show)
- B05071945 Robin Strasser, NYC, actress (One Life to Live, Another World)
- B05071946 Bill Danoff, Springfield Mass, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
- B05071951 Janis Ian, NYC, rocker (At 17)
- B05071951 Robert Hegyes, NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
- B05071959 Tamara E Jernigan, Chattoonaga Tennessee, PhD/astronaut (STS 40)
- B05071962 Robbie Knievel, daredevil, son of Evel
- B05071968 Traci Lords, [Nora L Kuzma], Steubenville Oh, porn actress (Cry Baby)
- B05071969 Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
- B05071987 Katie Danza, daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza
- B05081737 Edward Gibbon, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire)
- B05081753 Miguel Hidalgo, father of Mexican independence
- B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
- B05081824 William Walker, filibuster, president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
- B05081828 Jean Henri Dunant, Switzerland, founded Red Cross, YMCA (Nobel 1901)
- B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
- B05081846 Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
- B05081884 Harry S Truman, Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1949)
- B05081891 Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 100
- B05081892 Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
- B05081893 Francis Quimet, a Mass, shop assistant who won golf's US Open
- B05081895 Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
- B05081895 Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
- B05081895 José Gómez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
- B050819-- Eric Brittingham, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
- B050819-- Jeff Wincott, Toronto Canada, actor (Night Heat)
- B050819-- Mark Blankfield, Pasadena Tx, comedian (Fridays, Good & Evil)
- B050819-- Reid Smith, Burbank Calif, actor (Chase, Chisholms)
- B050819-- Stephen Furst, Norfolk Va, actor (Animal House, Elliot-St Elsewhere)
- B05081906 David Van Vactor, Plymouth Indiana, composer (Chaconne)
- B05081906 Roberto Rossellini, Italy, director (Open City)
- B05081911 Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of the Delta Blues Singer)
- B05081915 John Archer, Nebraska, actor (Destination: Moon)
- B05081920 Sloan Wilson, US, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal Suit)
- B05081926 Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
- B05081926 Richard F Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist (BBC)
- B05081928 Theodore Sorenson, pesidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
- B05081930 Doug Atkins, Humbolt Tn, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
- B05081930 Gary Snyder, beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
- B05081935 Salome Jens, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (From Here to Eternity)
- B05081937 Dennis DeConcini, (Sen-D-Az)
- B05081937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist (V)
- B05081940 Peter Benchley, author (Jaws, The Deep)
- B05081940 Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
- B05081942 Angel Cordero Jr, Santurce PR, jockey (Seattle Slew-1978 Ky Derby)
- B05081943 Paul Samwell-Smith, rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love)
- B05081943 Rick Samwell-Smith, rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love)
- B05081943 Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille)
- B05081944 Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd] England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
- B05081951 Chris Frantz, rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was)
- B05081951 Deborah Harmon, actress (Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us)
- B05081951 Philip Bailey, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
- B05081954 David Keith, Knoxville Tenn, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter)
- B05081955 Alex Van Halen, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
- B05081957 Deana Deardruff, US, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B05081959 Ronnie Lott, Albuquerque, NM, NFL defensive back (SF 49er)
- B05081964 Cheryl Richardson, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Jennie-General Hospital)
- B05081964 Melissa Gilbert Brinkman, LA, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
- B05081971 Chris Wolf, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
- B05091783 Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
- B05091785 James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
- B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
- B05091843 Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
- B05091860 Sir James Barrie, Scotland, author (Peter Pan, The Little Minister)
- B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen's tomb
- B05091882 Henry J Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
- B05091883 José Ortega y Gasset, Spain, philosopher (Revolt of the Masses)
- B050919-- Gregory Beecroft, actor (Guiding Light)
- B050919-- Jeanna Michaels, New London Ct, actress (Connie-Dallas, Gen Hospital)
- B05091906 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
- B05091910 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
- B05091911 Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show)
- B05091914 Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding)
- B05091914 Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices)
- B05091918 Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes)
- B05091918 Orville Freeman, Minneapolis, (Sen-D-Mn)/Sec of Agriculture (1961-69)
- B05091924 Connie Russell, NYC, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large)
- B05091928 Barbara Ann Scott, Canada, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
- B05091928 Richard A "Pancho" Gonzalez, LA Calif, tennis star (US 1948-49)
- B05091931 Vance DeVoe Brand, Longmont Co, astro (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35)
- B05091933 Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood
- B05091936 Albert Finney, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano)
- B05091936 Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
- B05091936 Terry Drinkwater, TV newsman (CBS)
- B05091937 Dave Prather, singer (Sam & Dave)
- B05091937 Sonny Curtis, guitarist (Crickets)
- B05091939 Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
- B05091940 James L Brooks, producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi)
- B05091942 John D Ashcroft, (Gov-MO)
- B05091942 Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
- B05091944 Richard Furay, rocker (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
- B05091945 Steve Katz, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die, Blues Project)
- B05091946 Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)
- B05091947 Anthony Corlan, Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone)
- B05091949 Billy Joel, Bronx, singer (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)
- B0509195- Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years)
- B05091955 Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science)
- B05091957 Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph
- B05091958 Esko Rechardt, Finland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B05091962 Dave Gahan, rocker (Depeche Mode-Strangelove, Pimf)
- B05091962 Paul Heaton, rocker (The Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
- B05091964 Miloslav Mecir, Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympic-gold-1988)
- B05091965 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)
- B05101730 George Ross, lawyer, signed Decl of Ind
- B05101770 Louis Nicholas Davout, French field marshall (defeated Prussians)
- B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer
- B05101813 Montgomery Blair, Franklin County Ky, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford)
- B05101838 John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
- B05101843 Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain, novelist (Fountain of Gold, Nazáarin)
- B05101843 Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian
- B05101850 Sir Thomas Lipton, tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
- B05101855 Anatol Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake)
- B05101878 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923) (Nobel 1926)
- B05101886 Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
- B05101888 Max(imilian Raoul Walter) Steiner, Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
- B05101894 Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
- B05101898 Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization)
- B05101898 Herbert Elwell, Minneapolis Minnesota, composer (Happy Hypocrite)
- B05101899 Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)
- B051019-- Larry Flash Jenkins, Long Island NY, actor (White Shadow)
- B051019-- Laurence Lau, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
- B051019-- Victoria Rowell, actress (Drucilla-Young and Restless)
- B05101902 David O Selznick, Pittsburgh Pa, producer (Gone With the Wind)
- B05101902 Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37)
- B05101908 Carl Albert, (D) speaker of the House
- B05101909 Maybelle Carter, Nickelsville Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
- B05101910 Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
- B05101914 Charles McGraw, NYC, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family)
- B05101918 Margo, singer (Golden Irish Favorites)
- B05101918 T Berry Brazelton, doctor (On Being a Father)
- B05101919 Ella Grasso, (Gov-D-Ct)
- B05101921 Nancy Walker, Phila, Bounty ads/actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife)
- B05101930 Pat Summerall, NFLer (NY Giants)/Sportscaster
- B05101936 Gary Owens, disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
- B05101938 Manuel Santana, tennis player (US Open 1965)
- B05101938 Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symph)
- B05101940 Taurean Blacque, actor (Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues)
- B05101943 Donovan (Leitch), Scotland, rock singer (Mellow Yellow)
- B05101944 Jackie Lomax, Liverpool, rocker (Is This What You Want)
- B05101944 Marie-France Pisier, Daclat Vietnam, actress (Scruples, Midnight)
- B05101946 Graham Gouldman, bassist (10cc)
- B05101947 Dave Mason, Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
- B05101947 Jay Ferguson, Burbank Calif, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
- B05101953 Aynsley Dunbar, rocker (Mothers of Invention-200 Motels, Retaliation)
- B05101955 Mark David Chapman, assassin of John Lennon
- B05101957 Phil Mahre, US Slalom skier (Olympics-silver-1980)
- B05101957 Sid Vicious, [John Beverly], bassist (Sex Pistols)
- B05101957 Steve Mahre, US, slalom skier (Olympic-silver-1984)
- B05101960 Bono Vox, aka Paul Hauson, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
- B05101961 Teri Copley, Arcadia Calif, actress (Mickey-We've Got it Made)
- B05101962 Garry Daley, keyboard (China Crisis-Christian)
- B05101969 Judson Mills, Purcellville Va, actor (Hutch-As The World Turns)
- B05101991 Emily McEnroe, daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe
- B05111722 Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
- B05111852 Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP (1905-09)
- B05111854 Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
- B05111888 Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temun, Russia, composer (White Xmas)
- B05111891 Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of the Treasury (1934-45)
- B05111892 Dame Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul)
- B05111894 Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
- B05111894 Martha Graham, Pitts, dnance teacher (Appalachian Spring)
- B05111895 William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
- B051119-- Darrow Igus, Newark NJ, comedian (Fridays, Roll Out)
- B051119-- Terry McGovern, Berkley Calif, actor (Jim-Charlie & Company)
- B05111901 Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyene Autumn)
- B05111902 Bidú Sayao, Niteroi Brazil, soprano (Mimia-La Bohéme)
- B05111903 Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers' 2nd baseman (1924-42)
- B05111904 Salvador Dalí, Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion)
- B05111906 Kent Taylor, [Louis Weiss], Iowa, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders)
- B05111911 Doodles Weaver, LA Calif, comedian (Doodles Weaver)
- B05111912 Foster Brooks, Louisville Ky, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy)
- B05111912 Phil Silvers, Bkln NY, comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
- B05111913 Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orch leader (Vic Damone Show)
- B05111916 Camilo José Cela, Spain, author (La Colmena-1951)
- B05111920 Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Code 3, Tammy, Doris Day Show)
- B05111924 Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United)
- B05111927 Mort Sahl, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party)
- B05111930 Stanley L Elkin, Bkln NY, writer/professor (The Living End)
- B05111933 Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black islam nation
- B05111935 Doug McClure, Glendale Calif, actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots)
- B05111938 Carla Bley, musician (Escalator Over the Hill)
- B05111938 Harvey Sollberger, Cedar Rapids Ia, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping)
- B05111941 Eric Burdon, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
- B05111943 Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & the Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
- B05111943 Nancy Greene, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
- B05111947 Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks, drummer (Allman Brothers)
- B05111948 Alfred Matt, Austria, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1968)
- B05111953 Boyd Gaines, Atlanta Ga, actor (Mark-One Day at a Time, Sure Thing)
- B05111956 Mark Herndon, rock drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
- B05111959 Martha Quinn, MTV vee-jay/actress (Bradys)
- B05111961 Cecile Licad, Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981)
- B05111961 Diana Lee, Seattle Wa, playmate (May, 1988)
- B05111962 Emilio Estevez, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns)
- B05111964 Katie Wagner, model/guest VJ (MTV)
- B05121804 Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish cabinet govt in Canada (or 1904)
- B05121806 J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
- B05121812 Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, writer of nonsense verse
- B05121820 Florence Nightingale, Florence, Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
- B05121828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite
- B05121842 Jules Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
- B05121845 Gabriel Urbain Fauré, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
- B05121868 Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
- B05121880 Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
- B051219-- Lisa Raggio, NYC, actress (Pvt Maria Gianelli-Pvt Benjamin)
- B051219-- Mark Evans, rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
- B051219-- Ray Gillen, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
- B05121903 Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)
- B05121910 Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
- B05121914 Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)
- B05121925 John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
- B05121925 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, NY Yankee catcher/coach/manager, Mets, Astros
- B05121929 Burt Bacharach, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
- B05121930 Patricia McCormick, US, platform/springboard diver (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
- B05121936 Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)
- B05121937 Beryl Burton, UK, won record (7) women's cycling titles
- B05121937 George Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash)
- B05121938 Millie Perkins, Passaic NJ, actress (Jane-Knots Landings)
- B05121939 Ronald Ziegler, press secretary (Nixon)
- B05121941 Anthony Newman, LA Calif, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb)
- B05121942 Susan Hampshire, London, actress (David Copperfield)
- B05121943 Billy Swan, rocker (I Can Help)
- B05121943 Linda Dano, LA Calif, actress (Felicia Gallant-Another World)
- B05121945 Linda Carlson, Knoxville Tn, actress (Bev-Newhart, Katie-Kaz)
- B05121948 Lindsay Ann Crouse, NYC, actress (Slapshot, Iceman, Places in Heart)
- B05121948 Steve Winwood, England, rocker (A Higher Love)
- B05121950 Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No)
- B05121950 Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King)
- B05121950 Shozo Fujii, judo champion
- B05121951 Gunnar Larrson, Sweden, 200m/400m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B05121958 Beth Maitland, actress (Traci-Young & Restless)
- B05121958 Christian Brando, son of Marlon/killed sisters boyfriend
- B05121959 Dave Christian, Minn, NHL right wing (Wash Caps, Olympic-gold-1980)
- B0512196- Jamie Luner, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Cindy-Just the 10 of Us)
- B05121961 Billy Duffy, rocker (The Cult-Hell's Kitchen)
- B05121962 Emilio Estevez, actor (Young Guns)
- B05121969 Kim Fields, LA Calif, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)
- B05121972 Paul Stout, Saugus Calif, actor (Phillip-Scarecrow & Mrs King)
- B05121973 Mackenzie Astin, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)
- B05121976 Matthew P Newmark, actor (Joseph Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
- B05131655 Innocent XIII, 244th Roman Catholic pope (1721-24)
- B05131717 Empress Maria Theresa, Austria (Wife of Napolean)
- B05131729 Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
- B05131730 Marquess of Rockingham, (Whig), British PM (1765-66, 1782)
- B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, London, England, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame
- B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
- B05131857 Sir Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
- B05131867 Sir Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
- B05131882 Georges F Broque, cubist painter (The Bike)
- B051319-- Leslie Winston, Auston Tx, actress (Cindy-Waltons)
- B05131907 Daphne du Maurier, novelist (Rebecca, The Parasites)
- B05131911 Robert Middleman, Cin Oh, actor (Barney-The Monroes)
- B05131914 Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
- B05131926 Beatrice Arthur, NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
- B05131927 Clive Barnes, NY Times drama critic
- B05131927 Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
- B05131930 Mike Gravel, (Sen-R-Alaska)
- B05131931 Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana
- B05131937 Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
- B05131937 Zohra Lampert, NYC, actress (Doctor's Hospital)
- B05131938 Buck Taylor, Hollywood Calif, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke)
- B05131940 Bruce Chatwin, England, writer (On the Black Hill)
- B05131941 Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
- B05131941 Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)
- B05131942 Vladimir A Dzhanibekov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 27/39/T6/T12/T13)
- B05131943 Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
- B05131949 Franklin Ajaye, comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
- B05131950 Peter Gabriel, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds)
- B05131950 Stevie Wonder, singer/songwriter (You are The Sunshine of My Love)
- B05131951 Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
- B05131957 Eloise Broady, Houston Tx, playmate (Apr, 1988)
- B05131963 Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
- B05141316 Charles IV, king of Bohemia (1346-78), emperor (1355-78)
- B05141686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Germany, inventor (thermometer) (or 0524)
- B05141771 Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
- B05141787 Thomas Gainsborough, baptized, England, artist (The Blue Boy)
- B05141881 Ed Walsh, pitcher, whose lifetime ERA of 182 is the lowest ever
- B05141883 Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
- B05141885 Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor (Das Ziel)
- B05141895 Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
- B051419-- Eric Peterson, rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
- B051419-- Meg Foster, Conn, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
- B051419-- Walter Olkewicz, Bayonne NJ, actor (Last Resort, Wizards & Warriors)
- B05141904 Billie Dove, NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
- B05141906 James Flavin, Portland Me, actor (Man With a Camera)
- B05141909 Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
- B05141917 Lou Harrison, Portland Oregon, composer (Rapunzel)
- B05141919 Heloise, & her helpful hints [or 04151921?]
- B05141923 Diane Arbus, NYC, photographer (Nudists)
- B05141925 Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
- B05141926 Eric Morecambe, London, comedian (Morecambe & Wise, Picadilly Palace)
- B05141929 Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
- B05141930 Edward V "Ned" Regan, Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978- )
- B05141936 Bobby Darin, Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
- B05141937 Dick Howser, shortstop (Kansas City A's), manager (KC Royals)
- B05141943 Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
- B05141944 Francesca Annis, actress (Cleopatra, Flipper's New Adventures)
- B05141944 George Lucas, director (Star Wars)
- B05141946 Robert Jarvik, inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
- B05141951 Jay Beckenstein, saxrophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
- B05141951 Season (Susan) Hubley, NYC, actress (PrettyKill, Vice Squad, Hardcore)
- B05141952 David Byrne, Dunbartin Scotand, rocker (Talking Heads-Psycho Killer)
- B05141952 Donald R McMonagle, Flint Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 39)
- B05141959 Mike Quick, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
- B05141962 C.C. Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
- B05141962 Ian Astbury, rocker (The Cult-Fire Woman)
- B05141966 Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)
- B05141969 David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
- B05141970 Natasha Ryan, LA Calif, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
- B05141973 Shanice Wilson, rocker (Discovery)
- B05151567 Claudio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
- B05151856 Lyman Frank Baum, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
- B05151859 Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
- B05151860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
- B05151862 Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
- B05151890 Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
- B05151891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist/short-story writer
- B051519-- Jim Phipps, rock drummer (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
- B051519-- Peggy Pope, Montclair NJ, actress (Billy, Mrs David-Soap)
- B05151902 Richard Daley, (Mayor-D-Chic)
- B05151904 Clifton Fadiman, Bkln NY, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids)
- B05151904 Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
- B05151905 Joseph Cotten, US, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
- B05151908 Lars-Erik Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
- B05151909 James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
- B05151910 Constance Cummings, US, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
- B05151910 Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65)
- B05151912 Alexis Nihon, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
- B05151912 Arthur Berger, NYC, composer (Ideas of Order)
- B05151915 Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
- B05151916 Bill Williams, Bkln NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels)
- B05151918 Eddy Arnold, country singer (Anytime)
- B05151918 Joseph Wiseman, Montréal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
- B05151921 Erroll Garner, Pittsburgh Pa, jazz pianist (Misty)
- B05151923 Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
- B05151924 Ursula Thiess, Hamburg, actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano)
- B05151926 Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
- B05151926 Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)
- B05151930 Jasper Johns, artist (Green Target)
- B05151936 Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, actress/singer (Cinderfella)
- B05151936 Paul Zindel, playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
- B05151937 Trini Lopez, singer (If I Had a Hammer)
- B05151938 Lenny Welch, Asbury Park NJ, (Breaking up is Hard to Do)
- B05151940 Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthτr's Court)
- B05151941 Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust)
- B05151942 Anthony W England, Indianapolis Indiana, PhD/astronaut (STS 51F)
- B05151944 Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
- B05151944 Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
- B05151948 Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, singer (On Land)
- B05151949 Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)
- B05151953 George Brett, WV, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)
- B05151953 Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
- B05151954 Andrea Gyarmati, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic, 1948-60)
- B05151955 Lee Horsley, Muleshoe Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
- B05151959 Andrew Eldritch, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
- B05151963 Grant Herslov, LA Calif, actor (Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof)
- B05151964 Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials (Olympic-gold-1968)
- B05151967 Omar Vizquel, Caracas Venezuela, shortstop (Seattle Mariners)
- B05151968 Todd Porter, NJ, actor (Hamilton-Whiz Kids)
- B05151973 Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
- B05151974 Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank
- B05151981 Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, 10th in succession to British throne
- B05161763 Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
- B05161801 William Henry Seward, Sec of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2¢/acre)
- B05161804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, founded 1st US kindergarten
- B05161824 Edmund Kirby-Smith, Fla, West Point grad/educator/soldier
- B05161824 Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
- B05161831 Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone)
- B051619-- Carolyn Conwell, actress (Mary-Young & Restless)
- B051619-- Ralph Tresvant, singer (New Editon)
- B051619-- Scott Reeves, actor (Ryan-Young & Restless)
- B05161904 Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
- B05161905 Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
- B05161907 Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdles (Olympic-gold-1932)
- B05161911 Margaret Sullavan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
- B05161912 Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud's Place, Working)
- B05161913 Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
- B05161917 George Gaynes, Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
- B05161919 Wladziu Valentino Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist
- B05161921 Harry Carey Jr, Saugus Calif, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
- B05161924 Frank F Mankiewicz, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
- B05161928 Billy Martin, baseball manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
- B05161929 Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters)
- B05161931 Donald Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
- B05161931 Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
- B05161931 Lowell Weicker, (Sen-R-Conn)
- B05161936 Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
- B05161937 Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
- B05161944 Billy Cobham, Panamá, jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
- B05161945 Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
- B05161946 Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
- B05161949 Rick Reuschel, pitcher (NY Yankees)
- B05161950 Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
- B05161951 Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
- B05161952 Pierce Brosnan, Israel, actor (Remington Steele)
- B05161953 Rick Rhoden, pitcher (NY Yankees)
- B05161955 Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
- B05161955 Jack Morris, St Paul Minn, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
- B05161955 Olga Korbut, Grodno USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
- B05161959 Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
- B05161961 Nina Arvesen, White Plains, NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
- B05161964 John Salley, NBA star (Detroit Pistons)
- B05161966 Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
- B05161969 Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
- B05161969 Tricia Cast, actress (Nina-The Young and Restless)
- B05161970 Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
- B05171444 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)
- B05171749 Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
- B05171836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discovered Helium/founded Nature magazine
- B05171866 Erik Satie, Honfleur France, composer (Mémoirs d'un Ambésique)
- B05171888 Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
- B05171889 Marcel Moyse, Saint-Amour, France, flutist (20 Exercises et études)
- B051719-- Audie Desbrow, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
- B051719-- Fiona Hutchison, actress (Gabrielle-One Life to Live)
- B051719-- Paige Turco, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light)
- B05171900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader
- B05171901 Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
- B05171907 Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
- B05171907 Ilona Elek, Hungary, foils (Olympic-gold-1948)
- B05171908 Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
- B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
- B05171912 Archibald Cox, 1st Watergate special prosecutor
- B05171912 Clarence (Ace) Parker, NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks)
- B05171920 Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
- B05171920 Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
- B05171921 Dennis Brain, London England, french-hornist (Serenade)
- B05171923 Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, soprano (Elektra)
- B05171923 Peter (Mennini) Mennin, Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick)
- B05171934 Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)
- B05171935 Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker
- B05171936 Dennis Hopper, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
- B05171938 Don Dolan, Staten Island NY, actor (Guy Lewis- General Hospital)
- B05171942 Taj Mahal, NYC, singer/songwriter (The Real Thing)
- B05171944 Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)
- B05171946 Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
- B05171950 Bill Bruford, drummer (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis)
- B05171950 Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)
- B05171953 Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)
- B05171956 "Sugar" Ray Leonard, welter/middle/light-heavyweight boxing champion
- B05171956 Bob Saget, comedian/actor (Danny-Full House, America's Home Videos)
- B05171962 Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
- B05171963 Brigitte Nielsen, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Domino)
- B05171970 Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
- B05181830 Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
- B05181836 Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
- B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist predicted existance of ionosphere
- B05181865 William Heinemann, England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental)
- B05181868 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar (1894-1917)
- B05181872 Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
- B05181883 Walter Gropius, architect (founded Bauhaus school of design)
- B05181885 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50)
- B05181891 Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist)
- B05181892 Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass (NY Met-South Pacific)
- B05181897 Frank Capra, movie director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace)
- B051819-- Gail Strickland, Birmingham Ala, actress (Alice West-Insiders)
- B051819-- Priscilla Pointer, NYC, actress (Rebecca-Dallas, Call to Glory)
- B051819-- Steve Delong, rocker (Sweet F.A.-Stick To Your Guns)
- B05181900 Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825)
- B05181901 Henri Sauguet, Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte)
- B05181902 Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)
- B05181904 Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY)
- B05181907 Clifford Curzon, London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal)
- B05181909 Fred Perry, Stockport England, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1934-36)
- B05181911 Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
- B05181912 Perry Como, singer/TV (Perry Como Show, What did Delaware?)
- B05181912 Richard Brooks, Phila, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood)
- B05181914 Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look")
- B05181918 Pope John Paul II, 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978- )
- B05181919 Dame Margot Fonteyn, England, ballerina (partner of Nureyev)
- B05181919 Margot Fonteyn, England, ballerina (Giselle)
- B05181922 Bill Macy, Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)
- B05181923 Liam Sullivan, Jacksonville Ill, actor (Mapoy-Monroes)
- B05181924 Jack Whitaker, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
- B05181928 Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)
- B05181930 Babara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)
- B05181930 Don L Lind, Midvale Utah, astronaut (STS 51B)
- B05181930 Pernell Roberts, actor (Adam Cartwright, Trapper John)
- B05181931 Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That's Life, Jack Frost)
- B05181934 Dwayne Hickman, LA, actor (Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini)
- B05181937 Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Oriole 3rd baseman (1955-77)
- B05181937 Ildikó Sagi-Retjö, Hung, foils (Oly-2 gold/3 silv/2 bronze-1960-76)
- B05181941 Diane McBain, Cleve Ohio, actress (Surfside Six, Spinout, Donner Pass)
- B05181946 Reggie Jackson, "Mr October" baseball rightfielder (Yankees, A's)
- B05181949 Rick Wakeman, rocker (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
- B05181950 Rodney Milburn Jr, USA, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B05181951 James Stephens, Mount Kisko NY, actor (Paper Chase, Devil's Island)
- B05181952 George Strait, country singer (Beyond the Blue Neon)
- B05181958 Toyah Wilcox, Birmingham England, rocker (I Want ti Be Free)
- B05181960 Yannick Noah, France, tennis player (French 1983)
- B05181969 Martika, [Marta Marrero], Cuba, singer (Toy Soldiers)
- B05191611 Innocent XI, 240th Roman Catholic pope (1676-89)
- B05191795 Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
- B05191864 Carl Ethan Akeley, US, naturalist, devoleped animal mount process
- B05191879 Lord Waldorf Astor, Eng, 2nd viscount (C)/publisher (London Observer)
- B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)
- B051919-- Marilyn Chris, actress (Wanda Wolek-One Life to Live)
- B051919-- Tim Waldrip, Spokane Wash, actor (Casey-American Dream)
- B05191904 Anthony Bushell, actor (Journey's End)
- B05191904 Sven Thofelt, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1928)
- B05191909 Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)
- B05191922 David McLean, Akron Oh, actor (Tate-Tate)
- B05191925 Malcolm X, Omaha NB, assassinated leader of black muslims
- B05191934 James Charles Lehrer, Wichita Ks, news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report)
- B05191935 David Hartman, Pawtucket RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)
- B05191936 Elisabeth Schwartz, Austria, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
- B05191939 Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
- B05191939 James Fox, England, actor (Greystoke)
- B05191940 Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
- B05191941 Nora Ephron, NY, writer (Heartburn)
- B05191945 Peter Townsend, singer (Who-Tommy)
- B05191946 Diedre Lenihan, Atlanta Ga, actress (Wendy-Needles & Pins)
- B05191947 Glenn Close, Greenwich Ct, actress (Fatal Attractions) (or 0319)
- B05191948 Grace Jones, [Mendoza], Spanishtown Jamacia, singer/actress (Vamp)
- B05191948 Tom Scott, LA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)
- B05191952 Joey Ramone, [Jeffrey Hyman], rock drummer (Ramones-Baby I Love You)
- B05191954 Rick Cerone, Newark NJ, catcher (Yankees/Red Sox/Mets)
- B05191955 Ed Whitson, pitcher (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
- B05191955 Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-36, sk:49)
- B05191956 Althea Gwyn, WBL center (NY Stars)
- B05191956 Steve Ford, actor (Young & Restless)/son of Pres Gerald Ford
- B05191957 Bill Laimbeer, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons)
- B05191963 Yazz, [Yasmin Evans], Mrs Simon La Bon/rocker (The One Way is Up)
- B05191965 Joshua Rifkind, actor (Marshall Chronicles)
- B05201537 Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)
- B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
- B05201759 William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
- B05201768 Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady
- B05201799 Honoré de Balzac, France, novelist (Pere Goriot)
- B05201806 John Stuart Mill, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
- B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co
- B05201822 Frédéric Passy, co-winner of 1st Nobel Peace Prize (1901)
- B05201841 Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
- B05201844 Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter (The Dream)
- B05201851 Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record)
- B05201851 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- B05201882 Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
- B05201890 Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
- B05201894 Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondant)
- B05201899 John M Harlan, Chicago, US supreme court justice (1955-71)
- B052019-- Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV)
- B052019-- Jay Schellen, rocker (Hurricane-I'm On To You)
- B052019-- Pete McClanahan, rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
- B05201901 Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
- B05201908 Jimmy Stewart, PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life)
- B05201912 Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
- B05201913 William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co
- B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/politician
- B05201919 George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)
- B05201921 John Marchi, (Rep-R-NY)
- B05201923 Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)
- B05201926 David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
- B05201927 Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
- B05201930 James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
- B05201931 Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
- B05201933 Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)
- B05201933 Danny Aiello, actor (Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing)
- B05201934 Alexei A Leonov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2, Apollo-Soyuz)
- B05201938 Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K spped skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B05201940 Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
- B05201942 Paula, aka Jill Jackson, Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
- B05201944 Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
- B05201944 David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, sk:STS-44)
- B05201944 Joe Cocker, England, rock musician (You are so Beautiful to me)
- B05201946 Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified
- B05201946 Cher Bono, Cal, rocker/actress (I got you babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)
- B05201948 John R McKernan Jr, (Gov-Maine)
- B05201951 Thomas D "Tom" Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, sk:49)
- B05201951 William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
- B05201958 Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
- B05201958 Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show)
- B05201959 Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
- B05201961 Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
- B05201961 Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
- B05201962 Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms. Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)
- B05201962 Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model
- B05201963 Brian Nash, Glendale Calif, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
- B05201964 Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
- B05201965 Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live)
- B05201966 Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
- B05201969 Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)
- B0521 427 -BC- Plato, (Aristocles), Athens(?)
- B05211471 Albrecht Dürer, Nürnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
- B05211527 Philip II, king of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
- B05211688 Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
- B05211780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
- B05211834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
- B05211851 Léon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
- B05211860 Willam Einthoven, inventor (electrocardiograph)
- B05211865 C.J. Thomsen, Denmark, archeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
- B05211872 Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
- B05211878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (the hydroplane)
- B05211898 Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
- B05211899 Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
- B052119-- Anthony Corder, rocker (Tora Tora-Walkin' Shoes)
- B052119-- Booth Savage, Frederickton NB Canada, actor (Jason West-Hot Shots)
- B052119-- John Ricco, rock guitarist (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
- B052119-- John Zee, NYC, actor (Bring 'em Back Alive)
- B052119-- Lynnie Greene, Boston Mass, actress (Maria-On Our Own)
- B052119-- Richard Libertini, Cambridge Mass, actor (Soap, Ghost)
- B05211901 Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon)
- B05211904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
- B05211904 Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
- B05211916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers)
- B05211916 Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
- B05211917 Dennis Day, NYC, actor/singer (Jack Benny Show)
- B05211917 Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
- B05211920 Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
- B05211921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
- B05211924 Peggy Cass, TV panelist, actress (To Tell the Truth)
- B05211924 Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
- B05211926 Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
- B05211926 Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (The Island)
- B05211927 Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
- B05211929 Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
- B05211933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (The Film Greats)
- B05211938 David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
- B05211941 Ronald Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
- B05211942 Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
- B05211945 Ernst Messersclmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
- B05211947 Richard Hatch, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
- B05211948 Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
- B05211952 Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor, (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
- B05211957 Judge Reinhold, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
- B05211959 Nick Cassavetés, actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
- B05211961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
- B05211963 Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
- B05211964 Annabel Schofield, Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
- B05221813 Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany,, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
- B05221828 Albrecht Gräfe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
- B05221844 Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
- B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
- B05221891 Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of Calif)
- B05221895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life)
- B052219-- Victoria Wyndham, actress (Rachel Cory-Another World)
- B05221902 Al Simmons, Milwaukee, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334
- B05221907 Lord Laurence Olivier, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)
- B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer; proposed steady-state theory of universe
- B05221922 Judith Crist, NY, movie critic (TV Guide)
- B05221924 Charles Aznavour, Paris France, singer (Monsieur Carnavel)
- B05221924 Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-O)
- B05221927 Michael Constantine, actor (Room 222, Don't Drink the Water)
- B05221928 T Boone Pickens, buys large companies (Shamrock)
- B05221933 John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956)
- B05221934 Peter Nero, NYC, pianist (A Sunday in NY)
- B05221938 Frank Converse, actor (It's About Time, Dr Cook's Garden, Movin' On)
- B05221938 Richard Benjamin, actor/director (Goodbye Columbus, He & She)
- B05221938 Susan Strasberg, NYC, actress (In Praise of Older Women, Manitou)
- B05221940 Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They)
- B05221941 Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn)
- B05221942 Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum)
- B05221943 Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger)
- B05221950 Bernie Taupin, musician, writes with Elton John
- B05221952 Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat
- B05221953 John Edward Stevens, NYC, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
- B05221954 Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-The Special)
- B05221956 Douglas Heyes Jr, LA Calif, actor (Captains & the Kings, Aspen)
- B05221959 (Patrick) Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody)
- B05221970 Naomi Campbell, London England, model/girlfriend of Mike Tyson
- B05221972 Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint
- B05231707 Carolus Linnæus, Sweden, biological classifier
- B05231734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)
- B05231810 Margaret Fuller, writer/critic 1st pro book review column (NY Trib)
- B05231820 James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
- B05231828 Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
- B05231844 'Abdu'l-Bahá, early Bahá'í leader ('Azamat 7, 1)
- B05231862 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
- B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers
- B05231891 Pär Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/poet/dramatist (Nobel 1951)
- B05231898 Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)
- B052319-- Bill McCutcheon, Russell Ky, actor (Dom Deluise Show, Ball Four)
- B052319-- Charles Pierce, SF, woman impersonnator (Judy Garland)
- B052319-- Charytin, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, TV entertainer (El Show de Charytin)
- B052319-- Lucia Galan, Argentina, singer (Pimpinera)
- B052319-- Mary Fickett, actress (Ruth Martin-All My Children)
- B052319-- Phil Allocco, rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
- B05231901 Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch)
- B05231903 Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
- B05231908 John Bardeen, physicist (Nobel 1956, 1972)
- B05231910 Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], bandleader (Come'on my House)
- B05231912 Jean Françaix, Le Mans France, composer (Le Rui Nu)
- B05231912 John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun)
- B05231912 Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)
- B05231914 Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)
- B05231919 Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family)
- B05231920 Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
- B05231920 Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
- B05231923 Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
- B05231928 Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Mucianus-Masada)
- B05231928 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/coronet paper towels spokeswoman
- B05231931 Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)
- B05231933 Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, The Bitch)
- B05231934 Robert Moog, inventor (the Moog Synthesizer)
- B05231943 John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1967, 70, 71)
- B05231945 Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)
- B05231949 Alan García Pérez, pres of Peru (1985- )
- B05231951 Anatoliy Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
- B05231952 "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
- B05231964 Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)
- B05241544 William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)
- B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist; inventor (thermometer)
- B05241743 Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist
- B05241753 Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington
- B05241810 Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
- B05241816 Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
- B05241819 Queen Victoria, England (1837-1901)
- B05241870 Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth & League of Nations
- B05241878 Lillian M Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)
- B05241886 Paul Paray, Le Tréport Normandy, conductor (Artemis Trouble)
- B05241895 Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
- B05241899 Suzanne Lenglen, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times)
- B052419-- Judy Kahan, Roslyn Heights NY, actress (Doc, Mary Hartman)
- B052419-- Rich Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
- B05241905 Mikhail Sholokhov, novelist (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965)
- B05241909 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)
- B05241913 Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)
- B05241914 Lilli Palmer, Germany, actress (The Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)
- B05241918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)
- B05241923 Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress (Saint Joan)
- B05241927 John Kelly Jr, US, sculls (Oly-gold-1956), brother of Grace Kelly
- B05241932 Elaine Malbin, opera singer
- B05241934 Jane Byrne, (Mayor-D-Chic)
- B05241938 Tommy Chong, Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong)
- B05241939 Dixie Carter, actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
- B05241940 Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987)
- B05241941 Andres Garcia, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, actor (Tiger Shark)
- B05241941 Bob Dylan, [Zimmerman], Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin' in Wind)
- B05241941 Tony Valentino, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
- B05241942 Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & the Dreamers)
- B05241942 Sarah Dash, Trenton, NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
- B05241943 Frank Oz, Muppeteer (Grover, Yoda)
- B05241943 Gary Burghoff, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H)
- B05241944 Patti LaBelle, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
- B05241945 Priscilla Presley, Bkln NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun)
- B05241946 Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There's the Rub, Locked In)
- B05241951 Pat Bradley, golfer (leader in the LPGA career earnings)
- B05241953 Nell Campbell, [Laura], Sydney Australia, actress (Rocky Horror)
- B05241955 Roseanne Cash, country singer (I Wonder)
- B05241956 Helen Terry, rocker (Now You're Mine)
- B05241963 Gene Anthony Ray, Harlem NY, actor (Leroy-Fame)
- B05241963 Joe Dumars, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
- B05241970 Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
- B05241970 Tommy Page, singer (I'll Be Your Everything)
- B05241982 ?, heaviest known viable baby, South Africa (10.2 kg)
- B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, US, essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)
- B05251845 William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL)
- B05251847 John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist
- B05251865 John Raleigh Mott, worked in intl church movements (Nobel 1946)
- B05251878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
- B05251886 Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
- B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
- B05251898 Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) panelist (What's My Line)
- B05251898 Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
- B052519-- Hillary Bailey Smith, actress (As the World Turns)
- B052519-- Klaus Meine, rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
- B052519-- Sue Simmons, news anchor (WNBC-TV)
- B05251905 Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster (Background)
- B05251908 Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind)
- B05251917 Theodore Hesburgh, ex-president of Notre Dame
- B05251918 Claude Akins, actor (BJ & the Bear, Movin' On, Lobo)
- B05251918 Peder Lunde, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-silver-1952)
- B05251919 Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski Tn, sportscaster (NY Mets)
- B05251921 Hal David, lyricist (Promises Promises-Grammy 1969)
- B05251923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places)
- B05251925 Jeanne Crain, Barstow Calif, actress (Man Without a Star)
- B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter; pioneered cool jazz (Porgy & Bess)
- B05251927 Robert Ludlum, spy novelist (Bourne Identity)
- B05251929 Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano
- B05251929 David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
- B05251932 Georgi M Grechko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
- B05251934 Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
- B05251935 Barbara Harris, US, actress (Family Plot, Plaza Suite)
- B05251936 Tom T Hall, Olive Hill Ky, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA)
- B05251938 Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
- B05251938 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season)
- B05251939 Dixie Carter, actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
- B05251939 Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)
- B05251943 Leslie Uggams, NYC, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots)
- B05251943 Sally Jesse Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
- B05251944 Frank Oz, Heresford England, puppeteer (Sesame St, Muppet Show)
- B05251945 Dave Lee Travis, DJ
- B05251946 Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner (1968 Olym Gold)
- B05251947 Jessi Colter, [Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa)
- B05251947 Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa Cal, actress (Room 222)
- B05251951 Clifford Archer, bassist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
- B05251954 Allison Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern
- B05251955 Connie Selleca, Bronx, actress (Hotel, Capt America II)
- B05251958 Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author (How the World Begun)
- B05251958 Paul Weller, guitar (Jam-This is the Modern World, Style Council)
- B05251965 Mark Knight, Calif, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
- B05251969 Matt Borlenghi, LA Calif, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children)
- B05251970 Lindsay Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
- B05251970 Sidney Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
- B05261667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem)
- B05261689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric
- B05261799 Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
- B05261835 Edward Porter Alexander, brigadier general of artillery
- B05261859 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
- B05261876 Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
- B05261877 Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
- B05261884 Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
- B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer/silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee)
- B05261893 Sir Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
- B052619-- Barbara Stock, Downers Grove Ill, actress (Susan-Spenser For Hire)
- B052619-- Robyn Bernard, singer/actress (General Hospital)
- B05261903 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn)
- B05261907 John Wayne, "Duke", [Marion Michael Morrison] actor (True Grit)
- B05261908 Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China)
- B05261910 Laurance S Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
- B05261913 Peter Cushing, England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
- B05261914 Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
- B05261920 Peggy Lee, Jamestown ND, singer (Is That All There Is?)
- B05261923 James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke, The Thing)
- B05261923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)
- B05261923 Roy Dotrice, Guernsey Channel Island, actor (The Wizard)
- B05261926 Miles Davis, Alton Ill, jazz artist (cool jazz)
- B05261927 Jacques Bergerac, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in the Sun)
- B05261938 Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto Canada, soprano
- B05261938 William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles)
- B05261939 Brent Musburger, sportscaster (CBS-TV)
- B05261942 Levon Helm, drummer/singer (Band)
- B05261942 Ray Ennis, England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
- B05261944 Verden "Phally" Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
- B05261946 Stevie Nicks, Phoenix Az, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna)
- B05261947 Sherry Bain, Calif, actress (Pipe Dreams)
- B05261949 Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders)
- B05261949 Dayle Haddon, Montréal Québec Canada, actress (Bedroom Eyes)
- B05261949 Hank Williams Jr, country singer (Honky Tonk)
- B05261949 Pam Grier, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough)
- B05261949 Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice)
- B05261951 Sally Kristen Ride, LA Calif, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G)
- B05261956 Joe Penny, actor (Jake & the Fatman)
- B05261957 Siouxsie, [Susan Ballion], (Siouxsie & the Bandshee-Wild Thing)
- B05261959 Wayne Hussey, rocker (The Mission-Lover for Life)
- B05261962 Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
- B05261962 Genie Francis, Englewood NJ, actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence)
- B05261963 Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)
- B05261966 Zola Budd, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics-1988)
- B05261976 Benji Gregory, Encino Calif, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf)
- B052619?? Candace L Collins, Dupo Illinois, playmate (Dec, 1979)
- B05271332 Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah)
- B05271626 William II, prince of Orange
- B05271794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
- B05271818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
- B05271819 Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
- B05271836 Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
- B05271837 Wild Bill Hickok, cowboy
- B05271867 Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
- B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
- B05271894 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, France, novelist (Journey to End of Night)
- B052719-- Beau Kazer, actor (Brock-Young and Restless)
- B052719-- Isabel Lascuray, Mexico, singer
- B052719-- Susan Foster, Torrance Calif, actress (Sierra)
- B05271907 Rachel Louise Carson, ecologist/writer (Silent Spring)
- B05271908 Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
- B05271911 Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1969 Pres candidate
- B05271911 Vincent Price, St Louis Mo, actor (The Fly, Laura)
- B05271912 John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
- B05271912 Sam Snead, Hot Springs Va, PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 52, 54)
- B05271915 Herman Wouk, US, author (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
- B05271918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese PM (1982-87)
- B05271919 Kam Fong, Honolulu Hawaii,actor (Hawaii Five-0)
- B05271921 Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got the death penalty (1960)
- B05271921 Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)
- B05271922 Christopher Lee, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
- B05271923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973)
- B05271925 Mai Zetterling, Sweden, actress (Only 2 Can Play, Quartet)
- B05271928 Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
- B05271930 John Barth, novelist (The Sot-Weed Factor)
- B05271930 William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI
- B05271931 Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
- B05271935 Lee Meriwether, LA Calif, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones)
- B05271935 Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
- B05271936 Louis Gossett Jr, Bkln NY, actor (An Officer & a Gentleman, The Deep)
- B05271941 Allan Carr, Ill, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire)
- B05271943 Bruce Weitz, Norwalk Ct, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold)
- B05271943 Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rocker (You're My World)
- B05271944 Christopher J Dodd, (Gov/Sen-D-Ct)
- B05271948 Pete Sears, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
- B05271954 Catherine Carr, US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972)
- B05271957 Susan Ballion, singer (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
- B05271958 Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress (Night of the Demons)
- B05271958 Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
- B05271961 Cathy Silvers, NYC, actress (Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square)
- B05271965 Pat Cash, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1987)
- B05271965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish)
- B05271969 Dondre Whitfield, Bkln NY, actor (Terence-All My Children)
- B05281371 John the Fearless, Burgundy France, warrior
- B05281660 George I, king of England (1714-27)
- B05281738 Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin, guess what he invented
- B05281759 William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
- B05281807 Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
- B05281818 Gen P.G.T. Beauregard, La, in charge of capture of Sumter
- B05281838 Basil W Duke, Kentucky, brigidare general
- B05281886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
- B05281888 Jim Thorpe, greatest US athlete of 1st half century
- B05281896 Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
- B052819-- John Karlen, Bkln NY, actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey)
- B05281906 Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
- B05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job (Goldfinger, Dr No)
- B05281910 T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
- B05281912 Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973)
- B05281915 Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor (Stage Door)
- B05281916 Walker Percy, Brimingham Ala, author (Adventures of a Bad Catholic)
- B05281917 Barry Commoner, Brooklyn NY, biologist (Science & Survival)
- B05281917 Marshall Reed, Englewood Calif, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup)
- B05281923 György Ligeti, Dicsöszentmartin Transylvania Hungary composer
- B05281923 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star/politician
- B05281925 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust)
- B05281931 Carroll Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
- B05281931 Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich)
- B05281934 Dionne quintuplets, (Annette, Cécile, Émilie, Marie, Yvonne)
- B05281938 Jerry West, W Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)
- B05281944 Billy Vera, musician (& the Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
- B05281944 Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of the Pips (Last train)
- B05281945 John Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- B05281946 Madeline LeRouix, Wyoming, actress
- B05281947 Beth Howland, Boston Mass, actress (Vera-Alice)
- B05281947 Sondra Locke, Shelbyville Tenn, actress (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
- B05281956 Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
- B05281956 Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate (March, 1988)
- B05281957 Kirk Gibson, Mich, outfield (Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP)
- B05281962 Roland Gift, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
- B05281968 Kylie Minogue, Australia, rocker (Locomotion)
- B05281970 Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate (Dec, 1990)
- B05281977 Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
- B05291630 Charles II, king of England (1660-85)
- B05291736 Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
- B05291826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
- B05291860 Isaac Albéniz, Spain, composer (Iberia)
- B05291874 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, journalist/novelist/poet/critic
- B05291880 Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of the West)
- B05291894 Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
- B05291897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta)
- B052919-- Aroya Megnot, Southfield Mich, actress (Ava-Loving)
- B052919-- Donna Jean Young, East McKeesport Pa, comedienne (Laugh-in)
- B052919-- Sandy Helberg, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Flatbush, 79 Park Ave)
- B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, Kent England, entertainer (famous profile)
- B05291905 Sebastian Shaw, London, actor (High Season, Spy in Black)
- B05291913 Iris Adrian, LA Calif, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
- B05291915 Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
- B05291917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)
- B05291921 Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
- B05291922 Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
- B05291926 Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love)
- B05291928 Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
- B05291936 Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs)
- B05291939 Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
- B05291942 Kevin Conway, NYC, actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels)
- B05291944 Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)
- B05291946 Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square)
- B05291948 Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital)
- B05291949 Francis Rossi, rocker (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man)
- B05291949 Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
- B05291950 Rebbie (Maureen) Jackson, singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
- B05291955 John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded Pres Reagan in 1981
- B05291956 Greg R, rocker (Bad)
- B05291956 La Toya Jackson, singer (posed in Playboy, Millipede)
- B05291956 Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
- B05291958 Annette Bening, actress (Bugsy, Valmont)
- B05291958 Ivar Sisniega, Mexico, pentathelete (Olympic-1980)
- B05291960 Mel Gaynor, drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
- B05291961 Rupert Everett, actor (Livin' the Life)
- B05291963 Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress (Blair-Facts of Life)
- B05291963 Tracey E Bregman Recht, actress (Young & Restless, Concrete Jungle)
- B05291965 Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze)
- B05291977 Danny Gerard, Mt Vernon NY, actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge)
- B05291989 Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
- B05291991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77
- B05301672 Peter I (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
- B05301757 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
- B05301835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
- B05301846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
- B05301847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
- B05301859 Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
- B05301867 Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
- B05301888 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
- B053019-- John Terlesky, actor (Dakota-Guns of Paradise)
- B053019-- Michel Langevin, Canada, rock drummer (Voivod-Angel Rat)
- B053019-- Scott Holmes, actor (Tom-As the World Turns)
- B053019-- Steve West, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
- B053019-- Ted McGinley, Newport Beach Calif, actor (Love Boat, Dynasty)
- B05301901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
- B05301902 Stepin Fetchit, actor (In Old Kentucky, Miracle in Harlem)
- B05301903 Countee Cullen, US, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
- B05301904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panamá (1956-60)
- B05301908 Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig
- B05301909 Benny Goodman, Chicago Ill, swinger/clarinetist, "King of Swing"
- B05301911 Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
- B05301914 Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)
- B05301916 Dr Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
- B05301920 George London, Montreal Canada, baritone (Dr Greenvil-La Traviata)
- B05301923 Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
- B05301924 Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
- B05301926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
- B05301926 Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
- B05301927 Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
- B05301927 Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
- B05301932 Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
- B05301934 Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II Soyuz 19)
- B05301936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
- B05301936 Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
- B05301939 Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne)
- B05301943 Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
- B05301945 Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)
- B05301955 Nicky "Topper" Headon, drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
- B05301958 Marie, Ostra-Ljuajak Sweden, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
- B05301958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
- B05301960 Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
- B05301961 Trey Parker, actor (Newsies)
- B05301962 Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
- B05301963 Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
- B05301964 Wynonna Judd, country singer (The Judds-Rockin' With Rhythm)
- B05301976 Omri Hairi Katz, LA Calif, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana)
- B05311469 Manuel I, king of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration
- B05311701 Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
- B05311819 Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
- B05311857 Pius XI, 259th Roman Catholic pope (1922-39)
- B05311872 William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
- B05311887 Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960)
- B05311889 Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
- B05311894 Fred Allen, radio comedian (Fred Allen Show)
- B05311897 Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society)
- B05311898 Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
- B053119-- Maeve Kinkead, actress (Guiding Light)
- B05311908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
- B05311909 Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
- B05311912 Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres)
- B05311912 Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)
- B05311916 Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare)
- B05311920 Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)
- B05311921 Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man)
- B05311922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat)
- B05311923 Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949- )
- B05311928 Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
- B05311929 Elaine Stewart, actress (Take the High Ground)
- B05311930 Clint Eastwood, SF Calif, actor (Dirty Harry), mayor (Carmel, Calif)
- B05311931 Shirley Verrett, New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens)
- B05311934 Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952)
- B05311934 Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
- B05311938 Peter Yarrow, NYC, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon)
- B05311939 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebaneese hostage
- B05311941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
- B05311941 Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln)
- B05311942 Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA)
- B05311943 Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), the $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
- B05311943 Sharon Gless, LA Calif, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey)
- B05311944 Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
- B05311948 John "Bonzo" Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
- B05311948 Rhea Perlman, Bkln NY, actress (Carla-Cheers, Zena-Taxi)
- B05311949 Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart)
- B05311950 Gregory Harrison, Catalina Calif, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)
- B05311950 Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
- B05311960 Norm Johnson, NFL placekicker (Seattle Seahawk)
- B05311961 Harry Enfield, comedian
- B05311961 Lea Thompson, actress (Casual Sex, Howard the Duck, Space Camp)
- B05311963 Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
- B05311964 Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
- B05311965 Brooke Shields, NYC, actress/model (Blue Lagoon, Endless Love)
- B05311990 Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam
- D05011171 Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish king of Leinster, dies
- D05011932 Paul Doumer, Pres of France, assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov
- D05011959 Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
- D05011965 Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
- D05011981 Dr Clarence A Bacote, historian & political scientist, dies at 75
- D05011982 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
- D05011984 Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73
- D05011988 Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer
- D05021519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
- D05021957 Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator, dies at 47
- D05021960 Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals
- D05021973 Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
- D05021982 Hugh Marlowe, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 71
- D05021984 Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
- D05021985 Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor, dies at 71 after cardiac surgery
- D05021990 David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (wizard), shoots himself at 38
- D05031916 Pádraic Pearse, executed by British firing squad
- D05031979 Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
- D05031982 Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
- D05031982 Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
- D05031983 Vaughn Taylor, actor, dies of a cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
- D05031986 Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
- D05031991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
- D05041891 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
- D05041965 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
- D05041970 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
- D05041984 Diana Dors, actress, dies at 52 of cancer
- D05041987 Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
- D05041991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
- D05051705 Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
- D05051951 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
- D05051969 Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
- D05051972 Rev Gary Davis, musician, dies
- D05051981 Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike
- D05051982 Helmut Dantine, actor, dies of a heart attack at 63
- D05051983 John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
- D05061882 Lord Cavendish, assassinated at Dublin, Ireland
- D05061910 Edward VII, king of England, dies
- D05061919 Lyman Frank Baum, author ("Wizard of Oz"), dies at 62
- D05061963 Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
- D05061987 William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
- D05061989 Guy Williams, actor (Zorro), dies at 65
- D05061990 Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
- D05061991 Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor (Peyton Place), dies at 87
- D05071617 David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
- D05071871 Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
- D05071985 Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
- D05071989 Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65
- D05081873 John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
- D05081891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
- D05081915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
- D05081951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40
- D05081961 James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
- D05081973 Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
- D05081985 Dolph Sweet, actor (Gimme a Break), dies of cancer at 64
- D05081985 Edmond O'Brien, actor, dies at 69 of Alzheimer's disease
- D05081987 Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) is killed off on Dallas
- D05081988 Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer, dies of heart failure at 80
- D05091952 Canada Lee, black actor, dies at 45 in NYC
- D05091958 Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
- D05091968 Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
- D05091970 Walter Reuther, UAW union leader, dies in a jet crash
- D05091985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight), dies at 69
- D05091986 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62
- D05091987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
- D05091990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84
- D05101566 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65
- D05101798 George Vancouver, British explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
- D05101863 Gen Stonewall Jackson, dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville
- D05101910 William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
- D05101923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
- D05101964 Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
- D05101973 Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62
- D05101984 Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56
- D05101990 Walker Percy, physician/novelist, dies of cancer at 74
- D05111871 John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
- D05111927 Gen Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
- D05111960 John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
- D05111976 Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78
- D05111979 Lester Flatt, of Flatt & Scruggs, dies at 64
- D05111981 Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies at 36 of brain & lung cancer
- D05111981 Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57
- D05111982 Leigh Snowden, actress, dies at 51 of cancer
- D05111985 Jorja Curtight, actress, dies of a heart attack
- D05121003 Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
- D05121864 J.E.B. Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
- D05121932 Lindbergh baby, found dead
- D05121951 Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
- D05121962 Dick Calkins, co-author of Buck Rogers, dies at 67
- D05121984 Doris May, actress, dies at 81 of heart failure
- D05121989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
- D05131961 Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor, dies at 60
- D05131962 Dr H Trendley Dean, introduced fluoridation into water
- D05131962 Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies at 60
- D05131967 Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
- D05131985 Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies at 91 in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC
- D05131985 Selma Diamond, actress, dies of cancer at 64
- D05131988 Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
- D05141947 John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
- D05141976 Keith Reif, guitarist, electrocuted tuning his guitar
- D05141982 Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
- D05141984 Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies
- D05141985 Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies at 64
- D05141987 Rita Hayworth, actress, dies at 68 of Alzheimer's disease
- D05141988 Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (1948-58), dies at 101
- D05151482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
- D05151886 Emily Dickinson, US poet, died
- D05151985 Jackie Curtis, playwright/actor, dies of a drug overdose at 38
- D05151987 John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
- D05151988 Andrew Duggan, actor, dies of cancer at 64
- D05161691 Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
- D05161892 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
- D05161955 James Agee, US author & critic, dies in NY
- D05161975 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
- D05161979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
- D05161984 Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies at 35 of cancer
- D05161985 Margaret Hamilton, actress, dies at 82 of a heart attack
- D05161988 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
- D05161990 Jim Henson, muppeteer, dies of pneumonia at 53
- D05161990 Sammy Davis Jr, entertainer, dies at 64 from throat cancer
- D05171981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies
- D05171985 Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
- D05171985 Hugh Burden, actor, dies at 72
- D05171987 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
- D05181848 William A Leidesdorf, black, dies at 38 in SF
- D05181955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
- D05181955 Mary McLeod Bethune, slave/educator, dies at 79
- D05181980 Ian Curtis, musician (Joy Division), dies
- D05181981 Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years), dies at 73
- D05181985 Tex Terry, actor, dies at 82
- D05181987 Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73
- D05181990 Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies at 54 of cancer
- D0519 804 Alcuin, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69
- D05191536 Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
- D05191935 T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash
- D05191958 Ronald Colman, British actor, dies at 67
- D05191961 Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
- D05191966 Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's king by Capt. Cook (1773), dies
- D05191971 Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68
- D05191989 Robert Weber, character actor, dies of Lou Gehrig Disease at 64
- D05201506 Christopher Colombus, explorer, dies in poverty in Spain at 55
- D05201834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
- D05201876 Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
- D05201939 Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59
- D05201972 Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75
- D05201984 Peter Bull, British actor, dies of a heart attack at 72
- D05201985 George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
- D05201989 Gilda Radner, comedienne (Sat Night Live), dies at 42 of cancer
- D05211935 Jane Addams, a founder of the ACLU, dies at 65
- D05211970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
- D05211973 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
- D05211984 Andrea Leeds, actress, dies of cancer at 70
- D05211987 Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
- D05211988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
- D05211990 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around the empire state bldg in 1930, dies
- D05211991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster, assassinated
- D05221948 Claude McKay, poet dies at 58 in Chicago
- D05221984 John Marley, actor, dies at 77 following heart surgery
- D05221988 Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
- D05221990 Rocky Graziano, boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure
- D05231498 Savonarola, Italian preacher tortured & executed in Florence
- D05231934 Bonnie & Clyde, bank robbers killed in shoot-out with police in La
- D05231937 John D Rockfeller, industrialist, dies in Ormond Beach Fla
- D05231945 Himmler, Nazi commits suicide while in prison at Luneburg, Germany
- D05231961 Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
- D05231966 Ruth Gates, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
- D05231968 Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
- D05231970 Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
- D05231973 Athena Lorde, actress (Judith-One Man's Family), dies at 57
- D05231981 George Jessel, comedian/America's toastmaster general, dies at 83
- D05231986 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
- D05231988 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73
- D05241543 Copernicus, allegedly sees 1st copy of De Revolutionibus &, dies
- D05241543 Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland
- D05241879 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73
- D05241959 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71
- D05241963 Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack
- D05241972 Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64
- D05241974 Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies at 75 of cancer
- D05241986 Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33
- D05241987 Hermione Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89
- D05251919 Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 52
- D05251971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
- D05251971 Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62
- D05251982 Larry J Blake, character actor, dies at 68
- D05251983 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
- D05251985 Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
- D05251990 Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies at 60 of a heart attack
- D05261851 Lincoln Ellsworth, explorer, dies at 71
- D05261933 Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
- D05261956 Al Simmons, Outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 54
- D05261959 Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher, dies at 78
- D05261959 Joe Kelly, TV host (Quiz Kids), dies at 57
- D05261971 John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70
- D05261977 William Powell, rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35
- D05271647 Achsah Young, becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (MA)
- D05271949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
- D05271958 Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
- D05271964 Jawaharlal Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies
- D05271969 Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43
- D05271975 Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion, dies at 53 in Chicago
- D05271976 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
- D05271988 Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies at 79 of a stroke
- D05271991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
- D05281843 Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84
- D05281898 Edward Bellamy, US author ("Looking Backward"), died
- D05281964 John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
- D05281971 Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), dies at 46
- D05281972 Duke of Windsor, who abdicated the throne, dies in Paris at 77
- D05281975 Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), dies at 75
- D05281981 Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
- D05281986 Lurene Tuttle, actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79
- D05291892 Bahá'u'lláh, Death of prophet (Ascension of Baha'Ullah-'Azamat 7, 49)
- D05291951 Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59
- D05291970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68
- D05291982 Romy Schneider, actress, dies of cardiac arrest at 43
- D05291984 Eric Morecambe, comedian (Morecambe & Wise), dies at 58
- D05291985 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match
- D05291985 Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93
- D05291991 Coral Browne, Australian actress, (Dreamchild), dies at 77
- D05301416 Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by the Church
- D05301431 Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by the English at Rouen at 19
- D05301744 Alexander Pope, poet, dies at 56
- D05301778 Voltaire, French philosopher, dies
- D05301960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
- D05301967 Claude Rains, dies at 77
- D05301969 John Cipollini, guitarist, dies at 45 of ephysema
- D05301973 Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
- D05301980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
- D05301981 Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
- D05301987 Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
- D05301989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
- D05311594 Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies (birth date unknown)
- D05311740 Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
- D05311809 Franz Josef Hayden, composer, dies in Wien (Vienna) Austria
- D05311910 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
- D05311942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
- D05311955 "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in the Indy 500
- D05311962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
- D05311976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att General John Mitchell, dies in NY
- D05311983 Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 87
- D05311989 Dr Charles A Hufnagel, artificial heart valve pioneer, dies at 72
- D05311989 Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondant, dies at 53 of cancer
- D05311991 HN "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 from a stroke
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- H0526 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
- H0526 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- H0527 [Afghánistán] Independence Day (1921)
- H0527 [Nicaragua] Army Day
- H0527 [Nigeria] Children's Day
- H0527 [Turkey] Freedom & Constitution Day (1960, 1961)
- H0527 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
- H0527 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- H0528 [Puerto Rico] Memorial Day
- H0528 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868]
- H0528 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- H0529 [England] Oak Apple Day/Nettle Day (1660)
- H0529 [Rhode Island] Ratification Day (1790)
- H0529 [Wisconsin] Admission Day (1848)
- H0529 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
- H0529 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- H0530 [Channel Is, England, N Ireland, Wales] Spring Holiday
- H0530 [Guam, Puerto Rico, US, US Virgin Islands] Memorial Day
- H0530 [Lincoln City, Indiana] Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day
- H0530 [US] The REAL Memorial Day (Decoration Day) (1868)
- H0530 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
- H0530 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- H0531 [Botswana] President's Day
- H0531 [Brunei] Royal Brunei Malay Regiment
- H0531 [Namibia, South Africa] Union Day (1910), Republic Day (1961)
- H0531 [Zimbabwe] Independence Day (1979)
- H0531 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868]
- H0531 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- I0500 [RC] Month of Mary
- I0501 [RC] Memorial of St Joseph the Workman, stepfather of Jesus (opt)
- I0501 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
- I0501 62 [Ang, Luth] Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles
- I050119941[Orthodox] Easter (4/18 OS)
- I050120001[Orthodox] Easter (4/17 OS)
- I0502 [Baha'i] Twelfth day of Ridvan-festival
- I0502 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
- I0502 373 [RC, Luth, Ang] Mem of St Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria/doctor
- I05021863 [Bahá'í] 12th day of Ridván (festival); Jamál 5, 20
- I050220003[Jewish] Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5760 AM)
- I0503 [Christian-Poland] Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa
- I0503 [RC] Commemoration of SS Alexander, Eventius & Theodulus, martyrs
- I0503 [RC] Commemoration of the Finding of the Cross
- I0503 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
- I0503 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
- I0503 62 [RC] Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles
- I0503 376 [RC] Commemoration of St Juvenal, bishop/confessor
- I0504 [Christian] Commemoration of St Florian, patron of firemen
- I0504 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
- I0504 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
- I0504 387 [Luth, old RC, Ang] Feast of St Monica, mom of St Augustine of Hippo
- I050419971[Jewish] Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5757 AM)
- I050419993[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5759 AM)
- I0505 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
- I0505 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
- I05051572 [old RC] Feast of St Pius V, pope (1566-72)
- I050519972[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0506 [Denmark] Prayer Day
- I0506 [RC] Commemoration of St John Before the Latin Gate
- I0506 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
- I0506 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
- I050619973[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0507 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
- I0507 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
- I05071079 [old RC] Feast of St Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, patron of Poland
- I050719963[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5756 AM)
- I050719974[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I050719985[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1419 AH)
- I0508 [Orthodox] Latest possible Orthodox Easter (4/25 OS)
- I0508 [RC] Commemoration of Apparition of St Michael the Archangel
- I0508 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
- I05081417 [Ang] Commemoration of Dame Julian of Norwich
- I050819975[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I050819975[Islam] calendar leap day (Dhûl-Hijjah 30, 1417 AH)
- I0509 [Christian] Feast of St Joan
- I0509 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
- I0509 389 [old RC, Ang] Comm St Gregory Nazianzen, bp of Constantinople/doctor
- I050919931[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5753 AM)
- I050919942[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I050919976[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1418 AH)
- I0510 [Denmark] Common Prayer Day
- I0510 [Denmark] Common Prayer Day
- I0510 [RC] Commemoration of SS Gordian & Epimachus, martyrs
- I05101459 [RC] Commemoration of St Antoninus, bishop of Florence, confessor
- I051019943[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I051019954[Moslem] 'Id al-Adha (Dhûl-Hijjah 10, 1415 AH)
- I051019992[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0511 62 [RC] Commemoration of SS Philip & James the Less, apostles
- I051119944[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I051119993[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I051120016[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day)
- I0512 [Bhuddist-Burma] Buddha's Birthday
- I0512 100 [RC] Commemoration of St Domitilla, martyr
- I0512 100 [RC] Memorial of SS Nereus, Achilleus martyrs (opt)
- I0512 304 [RC] Memorial of St Pancras, Roman martyr (opt)
- I051219945[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I051219994[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0513 [Bhuddist-Singapore] Buddha's Birthday
- I05131621 [RC] Comm of St Robert Bellarmine, bishop/confessor/doctor
- I051319962[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I051319995[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I0514 [Christian] St Matthias, apostle
- I0514 306 [RC] Commemoration of St Boniface, martyr
- I051419963[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I051419985[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5758 AM)
- I0515 [RC] Commemoration of St Dymphna, patron of the insane
- I05151170 [RC] Commemoration of Isidore the Farmer, patron of farmers
- I05151719 [old RC] Feast of St John Baptist de la Salle, confessor
- I051519964[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0516 [Unification Church] Day of Love of God
- I05161160 [RC] Commemoration of St Ubaldus, bishop/confessor
- I051619942[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments); Sivan 6, 5754 AM
- I051619965[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I0517 988 [RC] Comm of St Dunstan, archbp of Canterbury, patron of jewelers
- I05171592 [RC] Commemoration of St Paschal Baylon, lay brother
- I051719932[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0518 [Christian] St Eric of Sweden
- I0518 250 [RC] Commemoration of St Venantius, bishop, martyr
- I0518 526 [RC] Commemoration of St John I, pope & martyr (523-526)
- I05181160 [Luth] Commemoration of Erik, King of Sweden, martyr
- I051819933[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I051819955[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5755 AM)
- I051819971[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
- I051819971[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
- I051819971[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1418 AH)
- I051819982[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0519 [Christian] St Ives
- I0519 988 [Ang, Luth] Commemoration of St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury
- I05191296 [RC] Commemoration of St Peter Celestine, pope
- I051919934[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I051919961[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1417 AH)
- I051919972[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
- I051919983[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0520 804 [Ang] Commemoration of Alcuin, deacon & abbot of Tours
- I05201444 [RC] Memorial of St Bernardine of Siena, priest (opt)
- I052019935[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I052019984[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I0521 [Orthodox] Feast of SS Constantine & Helen
- I05211690 [Luth] Commemoration of John Eliot, missionary to the Indians
- I052119925[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5752 AM)
- I052119947[Moslem] 'Id al-Adha; end of Ramadân fast (Shawwâl 1, 1414 AH)
- I052119974[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052119985[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I052119996[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5759 AM)
- I0522 [RC] Commem of St Rita of Cascia, widow; invoked in desperate cases
- I05221096 [Orth] Translat of Relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (5/9 OS)
- I052219941[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
- I052219941[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
- I052219952[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I05231116 [Christ] Feast of St Ives of Chartres, patron of lawyers (or 0519?)
- I05231844 [Bahá'í] Declaration of Bab (festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
- I052319942[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
- I052319953[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I052319976[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052319991[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
- I052319991[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
- I052320003[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5760 AM)
- I0524 [RC] Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, help of Christians
- I0524 883 [Orth] Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius, evangelizers (5/11 OS)
- I05241543 [Luth] Commemoration of Copernicus, teacher
- I05241783 [Luth] Commemoration of Euler, teacher
- I05241870 [Ang] Commemoration of Jackson Kemper, 1st missionary bishop in US
- I052419954[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I052419966[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5756 AM)
- I052419977[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052419992[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
- I0525 [Anglican] Deposition of St Aldelmus, bishop/confessor
- I0525 230 [RC] Commemoration of St Urban I, pope (222-230), martyr
- I0525 563 -BC- [Buddhist-Hong Kong] Buddha's Birthday
- I0525 735 [Ang, RC] Mem of Bede the Venerable, priest, monk of Jarrow (opt)
- I05251085 [RC] Memorial of St Gregory VII, pope [1073-85], confessor (opt)
- I05251607 [RC] Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
- I05251865 [RC] Commemoration of St Madeleine Sophie Barat, virgin
- I052519922[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I052519944[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052519955[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I052519971[Christian] Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
- I0526 178 [RC] Commemoration of St Eleutherius, pope [175-178], martyr
- I0526 605 [RC, Ang] Mem Augustine, English Apostle, 1st abp of Canterbury (opt)
- I05261595 [RC] Memorial of St Philip Neri, priest
- I052619923[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I052619934[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments)(Sivan 6, 5753 AM)
- I052619961[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
- I052619961[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
- I052619994[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I0527 526 [old RC] Commemoration of St John I, pope, martyr
- I0527 735 [old RC] Feast of St Bede the Venerable, doctor, writer
- I05271564 [Luth] Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the church
- I052719924[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
- I052719946[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052719962[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
- I0528 604 [old RC] Feast of St Augustine, 1st achbp of Canterbury, confessor
- I05281081 [Christ] Comm of St Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers
- I052819925[Christian] Solemnity of the Ascension
- I052819947[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052819963[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1417 AH)
- I052819996[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052820012[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5761 AM)
- I0529 [Christian-Andorra] Our Lady of Canolic
- I05291607 [old RC] Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
- I05291637 [Luth] Commemoration of Jiri Tranovsky, hymn writer
- I05291892 [Bahá'í] Death (ascension) of prophet Bahá'u'lláh ('Azamat 7, 49)
- I052919941[Christian] Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
- I052919964[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I052919975[RC] Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
- I052919997[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I0530 273 [RC] Commemoration of St Felix I, pope [268-73], martyr
- I05301252 [RC] Commemor of St Ferdinand III, Spanish king/patron of engineers
- I05301431 [RC] Comm of St Jean d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, patroness of France
- I053019931[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
- I053019931[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
- I053019953[Islam] leap day (Dhûl-Hijjah 30, 1415 AH)
- I053019991[Christian] Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
- I0531 [Luth, Ang, RC] Feast of the Visitation [Queenship] of Mary
- I0531 [RC] Commemoration of St Aurelia Petronilla, virgin
- I05311540 [old RC] Feast of St Angela Merici, virgin
- I053119932[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
- I053119954[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1416 AH)
- I053119966[Ang, RC] Ember Day
- I053119981[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
- I053119981[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
- I053119981[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5758 AM)
- R0500 Correct Posture Month-National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
- R0500 Flower-Hawthorne & Lily of the Valley Gem-Emerald
- R0500 Good Car Keeping Month-National Bike Month-Better Sleep Month
- R0500 National Barbecue Month-National Photo Month
- R0500 National Photo-Car Maintainence-Foot Health Month
- R0500 National Tavern-Steelmark-Senior Citizen Month
- R0500 Sight Saving Month-Touring Theatre Month
- R0501 Baseball teams may resume negotiating with their own free agents
- R0501 May Day, International Workers Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day, Bird Day
- R0501 [Algonquin] Flower Moon
- R0501 [Ancient Rome] Kalendae Maiæ
- R0501 [Babylonia] Abu
- R0501 [England] Beltane-people light bonfires celebrating end of winter
- R0501 [Nunamiut Eskimos] Moon When the Ice Goes Out
- R0501 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
- R0501 1[World] Humane Sunday
- R0501 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
- R0501 7Kentucky Derby
- R05010506 Eta "May" Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius
- R05010520 Astrological sign: Taurus
- R0502 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
- R0502 1[World] Humane Sunday
- R0502 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
- R0502 7Kentucky Derby
- R0503 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
- R0503 1[World] Humane Sunday
- R0503 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
- R0503 7Kentucky Derby
- R0504 International Tuba Day
- R0504 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
- R0504 1[World] Humane Sunday
- R0504 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
- R0504 7Kentucky Derby
- R0505 [US] National Teacher's Day
- R0505 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
- R0505 1[World] Humane Sunday
- R0505 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
- R0505 7Kentucky Derby
- R0506 National Nurses Day
- R0506 [US] National Nurse's Day
- R0506 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
- R0506 1[World] Humane Sunday
- R0506 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
- R0506 7Kentucky Derby
- R0507 Beaufort Scale Day-measures wind force (scale 0 calm to 12 hurricane)
- R0507 Solar Summer-quarter of year with greatest sunshine in N Hemisphere
- R0507 [Ancient Rome] Nonæ Maiæ
- R0507 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
- R0507 1[World] Humane Sunday
- R0507 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
- R0507 7Kentucky Derby
- R0508 [Sweden] Ake name day
- R0508 [World] Red Cross Day
- R0508 [World] World Red Cross Day
- R0509 North Pole Flight Day (1926)
- R0509 Third Shift Workers Day
- R0509 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria; a d vij Id Maias
- R0510 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
- R05101994 Annular eclipse visible over the North America
- R0511 Spring Ghost Tales Day
- R0511 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria
- R0511 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
- R0512 Limerick Day
- R0512 National Hospital Day (1921)
- R0512 National Limerick Day
- R0512 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
- R0513 Leprechaun Day-no blarney!
- R0513 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria
- R0513 [US] National Astronomy Day
- R0513 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
- R0513 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
- R0514 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
- R0515 Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day-It may be waving at you
- R0515 Peace Officer's Memorial Day
- R0515 [Ancient Rome] Idus Maiæ
- R0515 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
- R0515 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
- R0515 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
- R0515 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
- R0516 1[US] I am an American Day
- R0516 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
- R0516 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
- R0516 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
- R0516 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
- R0517 Jumping Frog Jubilee
- R0517 [UN] World Telecommunications Day
- R0517 1[US] I am an American Day
- R0517 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
- R0517 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
- R0517 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
- R0518 International Museum Day
- R0518 Visit Your Relatives Day
- R0518 World Good-Will Day
- R0518 [Sweden] Erik name day in (most popular Swedish man's name)
- R0518 1[US] I am an American Day
- R0518 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
- R0518 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
- R0518 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
- R0519 1[US] I am an American Day
- R0519 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
- R0519 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
- R0519 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
- R0520 Eliza Doolittle Day, encourages proper use of language
- R0520 Weights & Measures Day
- R0520 1[US] I am an American Day
- R0520 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
- R0520 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
- R0520 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
- R0521 [Ancient Rome] Agonalia
- R0521 1[US] I am an American Day
- R0521 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
- R0521 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
- R0521 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
- R05210621 Astrological sign: Gemini
- R0522 National Maritime Day
- R0522 [Angel's Camp, Calif] Jumping Frog Jubilee Day
- R0522 [Indianapolis Indiana] Sportacular-honors US amateur athletes
- R0522 [World] World Trade Day/National Maritime Day (1819)
- R0523 [Ancient Rome] Tubilustrium
- R0524 [Ancient Rome] Quando Rex Comitiavit
- R0525 [White Sulphur Springs, WV] Dandelion Festival
- R0525 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
- R0526 [Mystic, Conn] Lobster Festival
- R0526 [Scottsboro Alabama] Catfish Festival
- R0526 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
- R0527 [US] American Merchant Marine Book Week
- R0527 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
- R0528 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
- R0529 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
- R0530 Eta Pegasid meteor shower, radiant in Pegasus
- R0530 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
- R0531 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
- S05-- 885 Pope Stephen V begins reign
- S05--1921 WJZ-AM in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
- S05--1979 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 Model II
- S05--1987 Pete Penseyres & Lon Haldeman cross US on a tandem bicycle in 7
- S05--1987Cdays, 14 hr., 44 min. from Huntington Beach, CA to Atlantic City, NJ
- S05--1990 Howard County, MD becomes 1st in US to make bicycle helmets mandatory
- S05--1991 Ride for Rain - 3 students ride 3,000 miles across Amazon River Basin
- S05011006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
- S05011682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
- S05011707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
- S05011751 1st American cricket match was played
- S05011776 Adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of Illuminati
- S05011786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premiers in Wien (Vienna)
- S05011840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
- S05011841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
- S05011850 John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
- S05011851 Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, with Crystal Palace
- S05011857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
- S05011863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
- S05011863 Beginning of 4-day Battle of Chancellorsville
- S05011863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
- S05011867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
- S05011869 "Folies-Bergère" opens in Paris
- S05011869 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, Ohio
- S05011873 1st US postal card issued
- S05011873 International Exhibition opens in Wien (Vienna)
- S05011883 Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
- S05011883 NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
- S05011884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
- S05011884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in the major league
- S05011889 1st International Workers Day, according to the 2nd International
- S05011892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
- S05011893 World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
- S05011898 George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"
- S05011898 US route Spanish fleet at Manila
- S05011900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
- S05011901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
- S05011901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in the American League
- S05011901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
- S05011906 Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
- S05011908 World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
- S05011915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
- S05011919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke
- S05011919Cthrough crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
- S05011920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
- S05011920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
- S05011923 Earl Sande, wins his 1st Kentucky Derby
- S05011925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
- S05011926 British coal-miners go on strike
- S05011926 Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
- S05011926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
- S05011927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
- S05011928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
- S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
- S05011928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
- S05011929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
- S05011931 Empire State Building opens in NYC
- S05011931 Norway claims Peter I Island
- S05011931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
- S05011934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
- S05011937 FDR signs act of neutrality
- S05011939 Batman Comics hit the street
- S05011941 "Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premiers in NY
- S05011944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
- S05011945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
- S05011946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"
- S05011947 Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
- S05011947 Vice Adm Roscoe Hillenkoeter becomes 1st director of the CIA
- S05011948 Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established
- S05011948 Eddie Arcaro (Citation) is 1st jockey to win Kentucky Derby 4 times
- S05011948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for
- S05011948Ctrying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
- S05011949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
- S05011951 Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
- S05011952 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3428
- S05011954 HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)
- S05011955 Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
- S05011955 Bobby Feller's 15th 1-hit or less game
- S05011957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
- S05011957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
- S05011960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
- S05011960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
- S05011960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
- S05011961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
- S05011961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
- S05011961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
- S05011962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter,k in his 4th start
- S05011962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
- S05011963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
- S05011964 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
- S05011965 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 4 for the Stanley Cup
- S05011965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
- S05011966 Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
- S05011966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
- S05011967 Priscilla & Elvis Presley wed
- S05011969 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
- S05011969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
- S05011969 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
- S05011971 Amtrak railroad begins operation
- S05011971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
- S05011975 Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs
- S05011975CFlyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
- S05011976 Jos Hermens, Netherlands sets record for 20,000 m, 57:24.2; at the
- S05011977 Empress Lilly dedicated
- S05011978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
- S05011979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
- S05011979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
- S05011979 Marshall Islands (in the Pacific) become self-governing
- S05011980 Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
- S05011981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
- S05011981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 13
- S05011982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
- S05011983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
- S05011984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
- S05011986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
- S05011987 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
- S05011989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public
- S05011989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
- S05011991 Astro Nolan Ryan no-hits Toronto, 3-0
- S05011991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
- S05011991 Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base
- S05011991 Tx Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
- S05011991Ccouples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
- S05011991CSkin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbain, homosexual & hetrosexual nude
- S05021668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution
- S05021670 Hudson Bay Company founded
- S05021776 France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
- S05021780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
- S05021808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
- S05021863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va
- S05021863CStonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
- S05021864 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #80 Sappho
- S05021865 Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
- S05021876 Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in the National League
- S05021878 US stops minting 20¢ coin
- S05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
- S05021885 Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
- S05021890 Territory of Oklahoma created
- S05021915 Old Fordham Road in the Bronx renamed Landing Road
- S05021916 2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore
- S05021916CAve; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named
- S05021917 Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn
- S05021917Cgives up 2 hits & a run in the 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
- S05021919 1st US air passenger service starts
- S05021925 Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens
- S05021928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
- S05021933 Germany forbids trade union
- S05021935 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1926 Demiddelaer
- S05021939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2
- S05021941 Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in the year he hit over .400
- S05021945 Russia takes Berlin
- S05021946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
- S05021952 1st commercial jet plane, BOAC Comet
- S05021953 Dark Star, noses out Native Dancer to win the Kentucky Derby
- S05021954 Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
- S05021956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
- S05021964 Beatles' "Beatles' Second album goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks
- S05021965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
- S05021967 Tor Maple Leafs beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05021968 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 2, for the NBA championship
- S05021968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
- S05021968 Israelli television begins transmitting
- S05021970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
- S05021972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
- S05021973 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2014 Vasilevskis
- S05021975 Apple records closes down
- S05021976 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2269 Efremiana, #2476 Andersen &
- S05021976C#2625 Jack London
- S05021978 Portland Trail Blazers won their only NBA championship, in 4 games
- S05021979 "Quadrophenia" premieres in London
- S05021979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs,
- S05021979C28 min., around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Columbia, Sri Lanka
- S05021980 Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
- S05021981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
- S05021984 Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
- S05021986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
- S05021987 Alysheba earned a record $618,600 by winning the Kentucky Derby
- S05021988 Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park
- S05031342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
- S05031494 Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
- S05031494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
- S05031512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- S05031661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
- S05031662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
- S05031715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
- S05031765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
- S05031808 Goya's "Executions of the 3rd of May"
- S05031810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont
- S05031822 Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France)
- S05031830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
- S05031845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Mass)
- S05031845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
- S05031851 San Francisco catches fire
- S05031863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
- S05031886 M.A. Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
- S05031888 A Charlois discovers asteroid #277 Elvira
- S05031898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
- S05031901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
- S05031906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
- S05031919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
- S05031922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
- S05031923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
- S05031926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
- S05031926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
- S05031932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
- S05031935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1356 Nyanza & #1638 Ruanda
- S05031936 Joe DiMaggio made his major-league debut, got 3 hits
- S05031941 Whirlaway won the Kentucky Derby by 8 lengths
- S05031944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
- S05031947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
- S05031949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
- S05031951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
- S05031951 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1952 Hesburgh
- S05031951 NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
- S05031952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
- S05031953 Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims "Freedom to Read"
- S05031956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
- S05031959 Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive home runs in a doubleheader
- S05031962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train
- S05031962Cand a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
- S05031963 Leslie Narum is the only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
- S05031965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite
- S05031965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
- S05031967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
- S05031968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
- S05031969 Unbeaten Majestic Prince wins the Kentucky Derby
- S05031971 National Public Radio begins programming
- S05031971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
- S05031973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out
- S05031973 KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
- S05031979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
- S05031980 Genuine Risk becomes the 2nd filly to win the Kentucky Derby
- S05031981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2411 Zellner, #2685 Masursky, #2844 Hess,
- S05031981C#2920 Automedon, #3208 Lunn & #3748
- S05031982 NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
- S05031983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
- S05031984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3325
- S05031984 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3616
- S05031986 Bill Shoemaker, 54, wins the Kentucky Derby
- S05031986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
- S05031991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
- S05031991C356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd
- S05031991Conly to Gunsmoke
- S05041493 Alexander VI divides non-Christian world between Spain & Portugal
- S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
- S05041715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
- S05041776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
- S05041780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded
- S05041783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
- S05041805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx
- S05041814 Bourbon reign restored in France
- S05041851 1st major SF fire
- S05041858 War of the Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
- S05041861 At Gretna, LA one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
- S05041863 Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
- S05041864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
- S05041866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public
- S05041871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players),
- S05041871C(Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
- S05041878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
- S05041886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
- S05041886 R Luther discovers asteroid #258 Tyche
- S05041896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #416 Vaticana
- S05041896 Grease fire ignites ½ ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
- S05041918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
- S05041919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
- S05041922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
- S05041924 8th modern Olympic games opens in Paris
- S05041926 General strike hits Britain
- S05041927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
- S05041927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
- S05041929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
- S05041938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
- S05041942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
- S05041942 Food 1st rationed in US
- S05041957 Bill Shoemaker misjudges finish & loses Derby to Iron Liege
- S05041961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
- S05041961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
- S05041961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
- S05041963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
- S05041964 "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
- S05041965 Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record HR
- S05041967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
- S05041968 Dancer's Image wins Kentucky Derby, but was disqualified for drugs
- S05041968 Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers in 1st ABA championship, 4 games to 2
- S05041969 Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup
- S05041970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State
- S05041973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
- S05041973 Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
- S05041973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
- S05041973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
- S05041975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
- S05041976 Kiss performs their 1st concert
- S05041979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
- S05041979 Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister of England
- S05041979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
- S05041981 T Furuta discovers asteroid #2478 Tokai
- S05041981 Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13
- S05041981Cstrikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
- S05041982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
- S05041984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
- S05041989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
- S05041989 US launches Magellan to Venus
- S05041989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched
- S05041990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
- S05041990 Latvia's parliment votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
- S05041990 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
- S05041991 Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
- S05041991 Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
- S05041991 Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
- S0505 553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
- S05051430 Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
- S05051494Christopher Columbus 1st sights Jamaica on his 2nd voyage
- S05051749 Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year" [?]
- S05051780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts &
- S05051780CSciences) forms (Boston)
- S05051814 British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
- S05051816 American Bible Society organized (NY)
- S05051842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
- S05051847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
- S05051853 R Luther discovers asteroid #26 Proserpina
- S05051861 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #70 Panopaea
- S05051862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
- S05051863 Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
- S05051864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
- S05051864 Battle of Wilderness begins
- S05051867 Battle of Puebla; Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
- S05051891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
- S05051904 Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia (3-0)
- S05051905 "Chicago Defender," begins publishing
- S05051907 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #638 Moira
- S05051908 Great White Fleet arrives in SF
- S05051912 5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm
- S05051912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
- S05051916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
- S05051917 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
- S05051922 Construction on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) begins
- S05051925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
- S05051925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
- S05051926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
- S05051930 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
- S05051935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1693 Hertzsprung
- S05051935 Jessie Owens of the US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8¼"
- S05051939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
- S05051942 US begins rationing sugar during WW II
- S05051945 Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
- S05051947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
- S05051948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
- S05051949 Council of Europe established
- S05051952 Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes
- S05051952Cout 27, as he no-hits the Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
- S05051955 Broadway musical "Damn Yankees" opens
- S05051955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
- S05051956 Jim Bailey (US) runs the mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif
- S05051956 World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
- S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
- S05051962 LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0
- S05051962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks
- S05051962Cwhich is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
- S05051965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
- S05051966 Mont Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05051969 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 3, for the NBA championship
- S05051971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
- S05051972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
- S05051973 Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby in record time (1:59.4)
- S05051978 Cin Red Pete Rose becomes the 14th player to get 3,000 hits
- S05051981 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge
- S05051981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2659 Millis & #3023 Heard
- S05051981C#3107 Weaver, #3375 Amy & #3689 Yeates
- S05051981CC Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2686 Linda Susan, #2748 Patrick Gene,
- S05051983 Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
- S05051987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
- S05051987 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win the AL East
- S05051989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
- S05051990 Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
- S05051990 Unbridled beats the 2 favorites in the 116th Kentucky Derby
- S05052000 conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
- S05061527 Imperial troops sack Rome; ending the Renaissance
- S05061626 Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24
- S05061753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
- S05061787 African Lodge # 459 organizes in Boston
- S05061794 Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
- S05061833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
- S05061840 1st postage stamps issued (Great Britain)
- S05061851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
- S05061851 SF Chamber of Commerce starts
- S05061853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
- S05061860 SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club founded
- S05061861 Arkansas becomes 9th state to secede from US
- S05061864 Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured
- S05061889 Eiffel Tower in Paris, completed
- S05061889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris
- S05061890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
- S05061896 M Wolf discovers asteroid #417 Suevia
- S05061902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (BG)
- S05061903 Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
- S05061906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St SF
- S05061910 England replaces King Edward VII stamp series with King George V
- S05061915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
- S05061917 St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
- S05061921 American Soccer League formed
- S05061929 NY to SF footrace begins
- S05061935 KTM-AM in Los Angeles Calif changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
- S05061937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
- S05061944 KJR-AM in Seattle Wash swaps calls with KOMO
- S05061950 Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
- S05061951 Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
- S05061953 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Phila A's, 6-0
- S05061954 Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
- S05061960 Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
- S05061960 Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones
- S05061962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
- S05061964 D McLeish discovers asteroid #2854
- S05061966 Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
- S05061967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
- S05061967 C U Cesco & A R Klemol discovers asteroids #1829 Dawson,
- S05061967C#1991 Darwin, #2308 Schilt & #2504 Gaviola
- S05061970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
- S05061973 1st WHA championshiphip, Winnipeg Jets win 4 games to 1
- S05061974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
- S05061974 Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
- S05061975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
- S05061975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
- S05061975C3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
- S05061977 "Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl," released in UK
- S05061978 Steve Cauthen & Affirmed wins Kentucky Derby en route to Triple Crown
- S05061979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
- S05061981 C Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2742 Gibson, #2773 & #2982 Muriel
- S05061982 Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games
- S05061984 Balt Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for the cycle
- S05061985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
- S05061987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
- S05061987 Mario Andretti sets the one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH
- S05061987 PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God
- S05061989 Sunday Silence wins upset victory at the Kentucky Derby
- S05061990 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in SC
- S05061991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
- S05062012 Transit of Venus
- S05071274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
- S05071429 English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
- S05071727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
- S05071771 Samuel Hearne explores the Copper Mine River of Canada
- S05071789 1st inaugurational ball (NYC)
- S05071792 Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
- S05071800 Indiana Territory organized
- S05071824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony performed for 1st time
- S05071840 Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 300
- S05071847 American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
- S05071862 Battle of Eltham's Landing, VA
- S05071864 Battle of Wilderness ends; total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500
- S05071867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
- S05071877 Cin Enquirer, 1st uses the term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
- S05071885 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
- S05071888 The opera "Le Roi D'ys" is produced (Paris)
- S05071902 L Carnera discovers asteroid #485 Genua
- S05071902 Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
- S05071904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
- S05071904 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #535 Montague
- S05071914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House
- S05071915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
- S05071920 USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
- S05071922 NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
- S05071925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
- S05071925 Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
- S05071927 SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
- S05071928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
- S05071929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1146 Biarmia
- S05071932 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1243 Pamela & #1321 Majuba
- S05071934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
- S05071934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
- S05071940 Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
- S05071941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
- S05071945 Gen Jodl surrenders to Gen Eisenhower
- S05071945 Germany signs unconditional surrender; WW II ends in Europe
- S05071946 William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
- S05071947 "Kraft Television Theater" premiers on NBC
- S05071953 Record 537-kg swordfish was caught by LE Marron, in Chile
- S05071954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dienbienphu
- S05071955 Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps, beats Eddie Arcaro on Nashua in Derby
- S05071957 Herb Score hit in the face by Gil McDougald's line drive
- S05071957 Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
- S05071958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
- S05071959 Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy
- S05071959CKoufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
- S05071960 Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR
- S05071960 Tal beat Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
- S05071963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
- S05071966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
- S05071966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
- S05071969 Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers in 2nd ABA championship, 4 games to 1
- S05071972 Lakers beat Knicks for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
- S05071975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
- S05071975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
- S05071977 Seattle Slew wins Kentucky Derby
- S05071979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
- S05071982 Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing
- S05071982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
- S05071982 Oakland Raiders to move to LA
- S05071983 August Hoffman perform record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
- S05071983 Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2
- S05071987 105° F, Sacramento, CA
- S05071987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
- S05071988 Winning Colors becomes 3rd filly to win the Kentucky Derby
- S05071989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
- S05071989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
- S0508 535 John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S0508 615 St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S0508 685 St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05081450 Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
- S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
- S05081784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
- S05081792 British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
- S05081794 US Post Office established
- S05081846 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
- S05081858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
- S05081862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell
- S05081863 Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
- S05081864 Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton
- S05081864 Initial fighting at Spotslyvania Court House
- S05081866 Australian Rules Football is created
- S05081878 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
- S05081878 Paul Hines made baseball's unassisted 1st triple play
- S05081885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
- S05081886 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
- S05081886 Coca-Cola 1st sold
- S05081886 Syrup for Coca Cola perfected (Dr John Styth Pemberton)
- S05081895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
- S05081902 Mt Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique
- S05081907 Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0
- S05081915 Regret becomes 1st of 3 fillys to win the Kentucky Derby
- S05081919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
- S05081926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
- S05081926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
- S05081929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
- S05081929 NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
- S05081936 Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead
- S05081936Cafter a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to the track
- S05081937 War Admiral wins Kentucky Derby on his way to the Triple Crown
- S05081942 Battle of Coral Sea ends
- S05081945 Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
- S05081945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe
- S05081946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
- S05081951 Dacron men's suits introduced
- S05081954 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA
- S05081958 Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
- S05081958 VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
- S05081959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers
- S05081959Cwho capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore
- S05081961 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport Texas
- S05081961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
- S05081965 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7")
- S05081967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
- S05081968 Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0)
- S05081970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album
- S05081970 Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99 for their 1st NBA championship
- S05081971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
- S05081973 Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
- S05081977 David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
- S05081978 ABC TV airs "The Stars Salute Israel at 30"
- S05081979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
- S05081980 Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
- S05081981 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3419
- S05081981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
- S05081982 Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
- S05081984 Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)
- S05081984 USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics
- S05081987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
- S05081988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC
- S05081988CAmateur referees work NJ Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL
- S05081988Creferees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by the Devils
- S05081989 Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
- S05081989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands
- S05091502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
- S05091754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or die"
- S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles
- S05091837 "Sherrod" burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
- S05091882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
- S05091901 Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
- S05091905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #565 Marbachia
- S05091905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #564 Dudu
- S05091913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
- S05091914 Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
- S05091915 German & French fight the Battle of Artois
- S05091917 R Schorr discovers asteroid #869 Mellena
- S05091925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
- S05091926 Robert Byrd makes 1st flight over the North Pole
- S05091927 Australian Parliament 1st convenes in new capital, Canberra
- S05091929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
- S05091932 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
- S05091936 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
- S05091937 Reds beat Phillies 21-10
- S05091944 1st eye bank opens (NYC)
- S05091944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
- S05091945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
- S05091946 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premiers
- S05091946 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premiers
- S05091946 King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
- S05091950 Robert Schuman announces the Schuman Plan for European integration
- S05091955 German Federal Republic joins NATO
- S05091958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
- S05091960 Nigeria becomes a member of the British Commonwealth
- S05091961 Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins
- S05091961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
- S05091962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
- S05091962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
- S05091964 Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
- S05091965 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
- S05091965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon. (fails)
- S05091971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
- S05091972 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1903 Adzhimushkaj & #1904 Massevitch
- S05091973 For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game
- S05091974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
- S05091975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
- S05091975?Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead
- S05091977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
- S05091978 Fee Waybill of the Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
- S05091981 Kazimiroff Blvd in the Bronx named for a Bronx historian
- S05091983 S Sei discovers asteroid #2909 Hoshi-no-ie
- S05091984 Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8)
- S05091984 White Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
- S05091987 Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
- S05091987 Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
- S05091988 Australia's new parliment house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
- S05091989 Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press
- S05091989 NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
- S05091990 NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
- S05091991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
- S05091991 Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
- S05091992 America Cup finals begin in San Diego
- S05101427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
- S05101503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
- S05101652 John Johnson, a free black granted 550 acres in Northampton Va
- S05101676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia govt begins
- S05101775 2nd Cont Congress convened in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time
- S05101775 Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
- S05101869 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR
- S05101870 Jem Mace & defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe
- S05101870CCoburn, it lasts 1 hr & 17 minutes, and neither was struck by a punch
- S05101872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
- S05101879 Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa
- S05101906 Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
- S05101908 1st Mother's Day held (Phila)
- S05101910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
- S05101910 Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
- S05101913 Long shot Donerail wins Kentucky Derby
- S05101913 Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
- S05101916 Disastrous fire in Ellendale, ND
- S05101917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
- S05101919 Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed
- S05101922 WHB-AM in Kansas City MO begins radio transmissions
- S05101924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI
- S05101924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1044 Teutonia
- S05101928 WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
- S05101930 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
- S05101931 Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington NJ
- S05101932 J Hartmann discovers asteroid #1254 Erfordia
- S05101934 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1753 Mieke
- S05101940 Local Defence Volunteers (Home Guard) formed in England
- S05101940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
- S05101941 England's House of Commons detroyed in a blitz
- S05101946 Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam
- S05101951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
- S05101957 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon
- S05101960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
- S05101963 Decca signs the Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
- S05101967 C U Cesco & A R Klemol discovers asteroid #1770 Schlesinger
- S05101967 Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
- S05101969 Turtles play the White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
- S05101970 Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup
- S05101971 US special delivery rates go from 45¢ to 60¢
- S05101972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into resevoir, killing 77
- S05101973 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4
- S05101973 Knicks beat Lakers for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
- S05101973 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05101974 NY Nets beats Utah Stars in 7th ABA championship, 4 games to 1
- S05101975 Brian Oldfield of the US put the shot 75,' an unofficial record
- S05101979 Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
- S05101979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28
- S05101979Cmin, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Columbia, Sri Lanka
- S05101980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2811
- S05101981 Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0
- S05101983 Lee Chin Yong did 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
- S05101983 Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
- S05101985 Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
- S05101986 Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Crüe marries Heather Locklear
- S05101992 Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
- S0511 330 Constantinople founded
- S05111421 Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
- S05111689 Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
- S05111751 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvannia Hospital)
- S05111752 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
- S05111792 Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray
- S05111812 Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it
- S05111812Cdisgusting & immoral. No wonder it caught on!
- S05111816 American Bible Society forms (NY)
- S05111818 Cincinatti Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0
- S05111833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
- S05111850 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #11 Parthenope
- S05111850 Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
- S05111858 Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
- S05111862 Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA
- S05111864 Gen J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
- S05111883 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #233 Asterope
- S05111894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
- S05111897 Wash Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
- S05111902 L Carnera discovers asteroid #486 Cremona
- S05111904 G H Peters discovers asteroid #536 Merapi
- S05111907 Bank of SF incorporated
- S05111910 Glacier National Park established
- S05111916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
- S05111917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
- S05111918 Exterminator wins Kentucky Derby
- S05111919 Yanks' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie
- S05111923 10 HRs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cards
- S05111925 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
- S05111926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
- S05111929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
- S05111940 New York World's Fair reopens
- S05111946 1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1)
- S05111947 BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh
- S05111947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
- S05111949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
- S05111949 Siam renames itself Thailand
- S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
- S05111953 Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)
- S05111959 Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
- S05111960 French liner "France" launched
- S05111960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
- S05111963 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats NY Giants, 8-0
- S05111965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
- S05111965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
- S05111968 Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup
- S05111968 Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"
- S05111970 Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
- S05111972 Boston Bruins beat NY Rangers 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05111972 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show
- S05111972 Willie Mays traded to NY Mets
- S05111974 Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
- S05111975 Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games
- S05111975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
- S05111977 Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game
- S05111981 Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks
- S05111982 Canucks 4-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
- S05111984 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
- S05111985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
- S05111985 Madonna's "Crazy For You," single goes #1
- S05111985CDave Concepcion becomes 4th Cin Red teammate to get 2,000 hits,
- S05111985Cthe others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno
- S05111988 Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
- S05111989 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
- S05111990 NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
- S0512 254 St Stephen I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05121780 Charleston, SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War)
- S05121789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
- S05121789Clater becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
- S05121832 The opera "L'Elisir D'Amore" is produced (Milan)
- S05121863 Battle of Raymond, Miss
- S05121864 Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
- S05121864 Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
- S05121865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
- S05121870 Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
- S05121872 J C Watson discovers asteroid #121 Hermione
- S05121874 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
- S05121875 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
- S05121881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate
- S05121885 Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
- S05121888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
- S05121890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
- S05121898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause"
- S05121898Cdesigned to eliminate black voters
- S05121901 Pres McKinley visits SF
- S05121907 A Kopff discovers asteroids #633 Zelima & #634 Ute
- S05121910 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
- S05121910 Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
- S05121915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of "Book Week"
- S05121917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #870 Manto
- S05121919 Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
- S05121921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
- S05121926 Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over the North Pole
- S05121932 Body of the Lindbergh baby found
- S05121936 George VI's coronation in Great Britain
- S05121940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
- S05121943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender
- S05121949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US-SVL Pandit, India
- S05121949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
- S05121952 Charlton Playground named in the Bronx
- S05121955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
- S05121956 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
- S05121956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
- S05121959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
- S05121960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
- S05121961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
- S05121963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
- S05121965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
- S05121966 Atlanta's Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 innings
- S05121966 Busch Stadium in St Louis opens
- S05121967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
- S05121967CNonviolent Coordinating Committee
- S05121969 Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
- S05121970 Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
- S05121970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on the Supreme Court
- S05121970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
- S05121971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall
- S05121972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
- S05121972 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
- S05121973 Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels in 6th ABA championship, 4 games to 3
- S05121973 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
- S05121974 Boston Celtics beat Mil Bucks for NBA championship, 4 games to 3
- S05121977 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
- S05121978 Commerce Dept announces that hurricane names will no longer be
- S05121978Cexclusively female
- S05121979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
- S05121980 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon
- S05121981 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
- S05121982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior
- S05121982Cto his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II
- S05121983 Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
- S05121984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
- S05121984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on the same hole
- S05121984 S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
- S05121984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
- S05121986 Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
- S05121986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
- S05121986CFred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph
- S05121986Con a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif
- S05121989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
- S05121990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
- S05121990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest
- S05121990CAndrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
- S0513 535 St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05131607 English colonists lands near the James River in VA
- S05131779 War of Bavarian Succession ends
- S05131820 The opera "Die Jägarsbraut" is completed
- S05131828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
- S05131835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii established
- S05131846 US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
- S05131864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca [or 0515]
- S05131874 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Greek-Ruthenian rite"
- S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
- S05131888 Brazil abolishes slavery
- S05131888 DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at the Bat"
- S05131909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #681 Gorgo
- S05131911 NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
- S05131912 Royal Flying Corps established in England
- S05131913 1st 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
- S05131916 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
- S05131917 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
- S05131918 1st US airmail stamps issued (24¢)
- S05131930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
- S05131930 Only known fatality due to hail
- S05131931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1194 Aletta
- S05131934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1320 Impala
- S05131934 Great dustbowl storm
- S05131940 Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
- S05131942 Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game
- S05131950 Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
- S05131952 Minor-league pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
- S05131954 Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires the next 27 men in a row
- S05131955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463'
- S05131958 Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation
- S05131958 Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuala
- S05131958 Stan Musial gets hit # 3000
- S05131960 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
- S05131960 Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
- S05131965 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
- S05131966 Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
- S05131967 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
- S05131967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
- S05131969 P Wild discovers asteroid #1775 Zimmerwald
- S05131970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premiers
- S05131971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
- S05131972 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)
- S05131972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
- S05131973 Tennis hustler Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in a
- S05131973CMother's Day match in California
- S05131975 Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3
- S05131975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tenn
- S05131976 NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets in 9th & final ABA championship, 4 to 2
- S05131978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)
- S05131978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
- S05131980 Cincinatti Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
- S05131981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
- S05131982 Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
- S05131982 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
- S05131982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
- S05131983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
- S05131985 Carlton Fisk becomes the 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
- S05131985 Phila Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11
- S05131989 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
- S05131989 Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes the 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
- S05131989 Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- S05131991 "Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness" goes on sale
- S05131991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
- S0514 649 Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05141264 Baron's War fought in England
- S05141509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
- S05141607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
- S05141796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
- S05141804 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast
- S05141811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
- S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk
- S05141862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents the chronograph
- S05141874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0
- S05141879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #196 Philomela
- S05141884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US
- S05141894 Fire in the Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
- S05141896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
- S05141903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
- S05141904 1st Olympics in the US are held (St Louis)
- S05141908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
- S05141914 Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
- S05141917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #871 Amneris
- S05141935 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
- S05141935 Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement
- S05141940 Netherlands surrender to Germany
- S05141942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) founded
- S05141948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
- S05141948 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
- S05141949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
- S05141955 Warsaw Pact formed
- S05141961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
- S05141962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Doon Juan Carlos of Spain
- S05141966 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
- S05141967 Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
- S05141967 Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
- S05141970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
- S05141970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to the Supreme Court
- S05141970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
- S05141972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats the SF Giants
- S05141972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1905 Ambartsumian
- S05141973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
- S05141973 Skylab launched, the 1st Space Station
- S05141974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
- S05141977 KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits the Texas Rangers, 6-0
- S05141977 Montreal Canadiens sweep the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup
- S05141980 Bucky Dent hits an inside the park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks
- S05141980Cincluding 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
- S05141981 Boston Celtics win their 14th NBA championship (beat Houston Rockets)
- S05141981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
- S05141983 Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
- S05141985 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3553 Mera
- S05141986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
- S05141988 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a
- S05141988Cbaseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to the Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
- S05141989 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
- S05141989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
- S05141989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
- S05141990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
- S0515 884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05151248 Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Köln cathedral
- S05151602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
- S05151618 Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
- S05151702 War of Spanish Succession, 1st Amer conflict between England & France
- S05151800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
- S05151829 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
- S05151836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
- S05151849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
- S05151856 2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
- S05151862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
- S05151862 Department of Agriculture created
- S05151862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
- S05151864 Battle of New Market, Virginia
- S05151864 Battle of Resaca, Georgia (or 05/13)
- S05151885 Canadian Méti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan
- S05151891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) established
- S05151896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
- S05151911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
- S05151911 Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act
- S05151912 Ty Cobb rushes a fan at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
- S05151915 A.T.&T. becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
- S05151918 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated
- S05151929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
- S05151930 Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
- S05151933 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
- S05151934 Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
- S05151935 Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
- S05151939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1506 Xosa
- S05151940 1st nylon stockings sold in US
- S05151941 1st British turbojet flies
- S05151941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks win 13-1
- S05151942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US
- S05151944 Cincinatti Reds Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
- S05151952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0
- S05151952 Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
- S05151955 Austrian state treaty signed making itself independent again
- S05151957 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
- S05151958 USSR launches Sputnik III
- S05151960 Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
- S05151960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
- S05151961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- S05151963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
- S05151967 Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
- S05151968 "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premiers at Cannes Film Festival
- S05151968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
- S05151968 Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote
- S05151968CApple records, Joe Garagiola is the substitute host
- S05151969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from Supreme Court
- S05151970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
- S05151972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
- S05151972 George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
- S05151972 Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
- S05151973 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
- S05151975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
- S05151977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2862 Vavilov
- S05151980 1st trans-US balloon crossing
- S05151980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
- S05151981 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
- S05151981 Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
- S05151981 Second City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
- S05151981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
- S05151982 16-year-old jockey wins the Preakness
- S05151982 Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #3344 Modena
- S05151983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
- S05151987 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
- S05151988 Soviets begin withdrawl in Afghanistan
- S05151989 Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
- S05151989 US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
- S05151989CMaxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite
- S05151989Cthreat of boycott by right to lifers
- S05151990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
- S05151990 Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
- S05151990 Miss Universe pageant
- S05151991 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panama"
- S05151992 Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
- S05161571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
- S05161763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
- S05161770 Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France
- S05161863 Battle of Champion's Hill, bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
- S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5¢ piece (replaces silver half-dime)
- S05161866 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #87 Sylvia
- S05161866 US Treasury Dept authorizes the nickel
- S05161868 President Johnson acquitted during Senate impeachment, by 1 vote
- S05161869 Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
- S05161872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
- S05161874 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
- S05161875 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
- S05161879 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
- S05161888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
- S05161888 J Palisa discovers asteroid #278 Paulina
- S05161891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #310 Margarita
- S05161894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
- S05161901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Priory School" (BG)
- S05161903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
- S05161914 American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City
- S05161914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
- S05161920 Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized in Rome
- S05161920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito was fatally gored fighting his last bull
- S05161924 108°F in Blitzen Oregon
- S05161925 1st network radiocast (WHAS) of Kentucky Derby, Flying Ebony wins
- S05161927 Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
- S05161929 1st Academy Awards (Film-Wings, Actor-E Jennings Actress-J Gaynor)
- S05161933 Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
- S05161937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1427 Ruvuma
- S05161938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
- S05161939 1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
- S05161948 Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
- S05161948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
- S05161948 Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
- S05161953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
- S05161954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game since breaking his collarbone
- S05161956 Kraft Theatre presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
- S05161957 Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
- S05161957 Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
- S05161958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
- S05161960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
- S05161963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
- S05161964 Northern Dancer wins the Preakness stakes by 2½ lengths
- S05161965 Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
- S05161966 A record of "Pets Sounds" is released
- S05161966 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #1796 Riga
- S05161966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
- S05161966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
- S05161969 Barbra Striesand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
- S05161969 The Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
- S05161969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
- S05161971 1st class postage now costs 8¢ (was 6¢)
- S05161972 Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits the Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
- S05161975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
- S05161975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
- S05161976 Mont Canadiens sweeps Phila Flyers for the Stanley Cup
- S05161977 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am bldg in NYC
- S05161980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses onstage with hepatitis
- S05161980 Los Angeles beats Phila 76ers, for the NBA championship
- S05161980 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
- S05161981 Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
- S05161981 Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
- S05161982 Canucks 1-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-0 (15-4)
- S05161982 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
- S05161983 Isles win 3rd Cup in row def Canucks in Vancouver 3-1 in game 4
- S05161984 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
- S05161986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
- S05161987 Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
- S05161988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
- S05161991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
- S0517 218 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- S0517 352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S0517 884 St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05171620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
- S05171630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
- S05171672 Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
- S05171756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
- S05171792 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
- S05171794 Hard frost in southern New England
- S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
- S05171809 Papal States annexed by France
- S05171814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
- S05171814CNorwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
- S05171864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
- S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated
- S05171875 1st Kentucky Derby run at Churchill Downs, Aristides wins
- S05171881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
- S05171887 J Palisa discovers asteroid #266 Aline
- S05171890 The opera "Rustic Chivalry" is produced (Rome)
- S05171898 Camp Merritt established in Presidio [see 0503]
- S05171906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
- S05171909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
- S05171915 National Baptist Convention chartered
- S05171918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #891 Gunhild
- S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
- S05171923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
- S05171927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
- S05171928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
- S05171932 Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
- S05171938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
- S05171939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
- S05171940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
- S05171954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education
- S05171954Creversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
- S05171957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
- S05171959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
- S05171960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
- S05171962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
- S05171963 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
- S05171964 Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
- S05171967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as the film "Don't Look Back"
- S05171968 European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
- S05171969 Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to the AFC in the NFL
- S05171969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
- S05171970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
- S05171970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra
- S05171972 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2400 Derevskaya, #3082 Dzhalil & #3146
- S05171973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
- S05171973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
- S05171975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
- S05171975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
- S05171979 -12° F (11° C), Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
- S05171980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
- S05171980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
- S05171980 VS Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on 1 foot for 33 hrs
- S05171981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
- S05171983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
- S05171983 Oilers 2-Isles 4-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5)
- S05171985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
- S05171987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
- S05171989 Nelson Mandela recieves a BA from U of S Africa
- S05171990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
- S05171990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
- S0518 526 St John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05181756 England declares war on France
- S05181804 Napoleon became Emperor of France
- S05181828 Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
- S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of
- S05181830Chis invention, the lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever
- S05181860 Abraham Lincoln nominated for president
- S05181895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #403 Cyane
- S05181896 Plessy v. Ferguson upholds "separate but equal" policy
- S05181897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
- S05181897 NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
- S05181899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
- S05181900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
- S05181910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
- S05181911 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #714 Ulula
- S05181912 H E Wood discovers asteroid #758 Mancunia
- S05181912 Phila A's beat Detroit Tigers 24-2
- S05181917 US passes Selective Service act
- S05181922 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #978 Aidamina
- S05181926 H E Wood discovers asteroid #2193 Jackson
- S05181927 "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapes
- S05181929 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16
- S05181933 TVA Act signed by FDR
- S05181941 An Egyptian steamer sinks
- S05181941 Jewish veterans honor their dead
- S05181942 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1601 Patry
- S05181942 NYC ends night baseball games for the rest of WW II
- S05181947 A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
- S05181949 Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc of America incorporates
- S05181950 Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
- S05181951 UN moves HQ to NYC
- S05181953 1st woman to break the sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
- S05181960 Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
- S05181964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on the BBC
- S05181965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt
- S05181967 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
- S05181969 Apollo 10 launched toward lunar orbit
- S05181971 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup
- S05181971 Pres Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
- S05181971 Utah Stars beat Ky Colonels in 4th ABA championship, 4 games to 3
- S05181971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
- S05181972 John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
- S05181974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2691
- S05181974 India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
- S05181977 E S Bus discovers asteroid #3598 Saucier
- S05181979 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2304 Slavia
- S05181980 Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State
- S05181985 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
- S05181986 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
- S05181986CChung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
- S05181990 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
- S05181991 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
- S0519 715 St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05191588 Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
- S05191749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
- S05191780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England
- S05191780Cto this day it's cause is still unexplained
- S05191851 J R Hind discovers asteroid #14 Irene
- S05191856 Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
- S05191862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
- S05191863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
- S05191864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
- S05191865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
- S05191874 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #138 Tolosa
- S05191878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
- S05191881 J Palisa discovers asteroid #220 Stephania
- S05191892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
- S05191893 A Charlois discovers asteroids #367 Amicitia & #368 Haidea
- S05191893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
- S05191898 Simplon Tunnel opens from Brig, Switzerland to Iselle, Italy
- S05191905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
- S05191906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
- S05191910 Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
- S05191911 Phila Athletics are 12½ games back in AL, & win the World Series
- S05191917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #875 Nymphe
- S05191919 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #913 Otila
- S05191921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
- S05191923 Zev wins the Kentucky Derby
- S05191928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
- S05191928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
- S05191929 Stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
- S05191934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1323 Tugela
- S05191934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who
- S05191934Csolved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
- S05191935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
- S05191950 NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
- S05191954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
- S05191958 South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
- S05191960 Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
- S05191960 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
- S05191964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret mics in the Moscow embassy
- S05191965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
- S05191967 USSR ratifies treaty with Engl & US banning nuclear weapons in space
- S05191968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
- S05191968 Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
- S05191971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
- S05191973 Secretariat wins Preakness, 2nd leg in the Triple Crown
- S05191974 Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05191975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66
- S05191975Cin truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
- S05191976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia
- S05191979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
- S05191979 O Pizarro & G Pizarro discovers asteroid #2567 Elba
- S05191979 Spectacular Bid wins the Preakness
- S05191979C#2596 Vainu Bappu & #3477
- S05191979CR M West discovers asteroids #2526 Alisary, #2595 Gudiachvili,
- S05191980 Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
- S05191981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper,
- S05191981Cthen retires the next 27 batters
- S05191983 NASA launches Intelsat V
- S05191984 Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
- S05191984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
- S05191984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
- S05191988 Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1
- S05191989 Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
- S05191989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
- S05191990 Summer Squall wins the 115th Preakness Stakes
- S05192161 Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
- S0520 325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicæa, Asia Minor
- S0520 526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
- S05201690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
- S05201774 Britain gives Québec, Labrador & territory north of the Ohio
- S05201775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain
- S05201830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
- S05201845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
- S05201861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
- S05201861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
- S05201861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
- S05201862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of the West
- S05201868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
- S05201874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz
- S05201875 Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
- S05201890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #293 Brasilia
- S05201900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
- S05201902 US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
- S05201903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #510 Mabella
- S05201916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
- S05201918 1st electrically propelled warship (the New Mexico)
- S05201926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
- S05201927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris
- S05201927 Great Britain via treaty grants Saudi Arabia's kingdom independent
- S05201930 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
- S05201930 University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention
- S05201930C& cure of athlete's foot
- S05201932 Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
- S05201939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger & air mail service
- S05201939C1st regular transatlantic airmail (NY to Marsseille France)
- S05201940 Trailing 7-1 in the 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
- S05201941 Archer's "The Christian Calendar & the Gregorian Reform" published
- S05201941 Germany invades Crete
- S05201956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
- S05201959 Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
- S05201960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
- S05201961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
- S05201964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Frazer to qualify for US Olympic team
- S05201965 Pakistani airliner crashed at Cairo Egypt, killing 120
- S05201967 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
- S05201970 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
- S05201970 2 die in a NYC subway accident
- S05201970 The Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premiers in UK
- S05201971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
- S05201972 Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets in 5th ABA championship, 4 games to 2
- S05201972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
- S05201974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
- S05201977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
- S05201978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
- S05201978 Affirmed wins the Preakness
- S05201978 US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
- S05201979 1st western pop star to tour the USSR-Elton John
- S05201980 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
- S05201980 In a referendum, 59.5% of Québec voters reject separatism
- S05201985 Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
- S05201985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
- S05201985 Larry Holmes wins a decision over Carl Williams
- S05201985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
- S05201988 Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place
- S05201989 China declares martial law in Beijing
- S05201989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top
- S05211602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
- S05211804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
- S05211832 1st Democratic party national convention
- S05211846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
- S05211856 Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
- S05211861 Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
- S05211863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
- S05211879 Battle of Iquiquw
- S05211879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #197 Arete
- S05211881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
- S05211881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association formed
- S05211897 Yerkes Obsrvatory 40" (1 m) refractor used for 1st time
- S05211898 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
- S05211901 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #480 Hansa
- S05211904 Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms
- S05211914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
- S05211916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
- S05211917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #872 Holda & #873 Mechthild
- S05211922 H E Wood discovers asteroid #982 Franklina
- S05211922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
- S05211924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
- S05211926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
- S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
- S05211928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1304 Arosa
- S05211929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
- S05211930 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
- S05211931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1196 Sheba
- S05211932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
- S05211933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
- S05211941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
- S05211943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
- S05211948 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for the cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
- S05211952 Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
- S05211955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
- S05211961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
- S05211964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations
- S05211968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
- S05211968 US sub Scorpion sinks off Azores, with all 99 crew lost
- S05211969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike
- S05211969CLum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the NY Mets
- S05211970 National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
- S05211971 National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
- S05211975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Comm
- S05211977 SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
- S05211977 Seattle Slew wins Preakness remaining undefeated
- S05211978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
- S05211979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in the USSR
- S05211979 Mont Canadiens beat NY Rangers 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
- S05211980 "Empire Strikes Back" premeirs
- S05211981 NY Islanders beat Minn North Stars 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
- S05211982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3018 Godiva
- S05211982 P Wild discovers asteroid #2731 Cucula
- S05211983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
- S05211983 David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
- S05211985 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3305
- S05211986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
- S05211987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
- S05211988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
- S05211989 Nancy Lopez wins her 3rd LPGA championship
- S05211990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
- S05211990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs
- S0522 12 -BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China
- S0522 760 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- S05221370 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
- S05221761 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila
- S05221807 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
- S05221856 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #41 Daphne
- S05221856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
- S05221858 Confederación Granadina (now Colombia) forms
- S05221863 War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
- S05221868 Great Train Robbery; 7 men make off with $98,000 in cash
- S05221872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
- S05221883 Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out
- S05221884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
- S05221893 Montreal Athletic Assn beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
- S05221900 Associated Press organized
- S05221900 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #455 Bruchsalia
- S05221906 10th anniversary of Olympics, celebration held in Athens
- S05221906 Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
- S05221909 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched
- S05221911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
- S05221915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
- S05221924 In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
- S05221927 Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
- S05221930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
- S05221930 Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
- S05221933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
- S05221939 Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
- S05221946 Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
- S05221947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
- S05221947 1st US ballistic missile fired
- S05221950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1580 Betulia
- S05221953 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4
- S05221954 Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
- S05221955 the oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finished 6th
- S05221960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly
- S05221960Cdamaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
- S05221962 Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600 m
- S05221962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
- S05221963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
- S05221965 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1
- S05221967 Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
- S05221967 Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
- S05221969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
- S05221970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
- S05221970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
- S05221972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
- S05221974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
- S05221975 Ky Colonels beats Ind Pacers in 8th ABA championship, 4 games to 1
- S05221976 NASA launches space vehicle S-179
- S05221977 Final European scheduled run of the Orient Express (94 years)
- S05221977 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
- S05221980 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
- S05221980C H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2590 Mourao, #2673, #2926 Caldeira,
- S05221980C#3138 & #3374
- S05221981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
- S05221985 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
- S05221990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
- S05221990 Final episode of "Newhart" airs
- S05221992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show
- S05231430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians, who sell her to English
- S05231533 King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
- S05231576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
- S05231618 Defenestration of Prague; the beginning of the 30 Years War
- S05231701 Capt Kidd hung in London after conviction of piracy & murder
- S05231785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
- S05231788 SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
- S05231844 Declaration of the Báb (Bahá'í festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
- S05231848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
- S05231853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
- S05231856 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #42 Isis
- S05231861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
- S05231862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia
- S05231864 Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
- S05231873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force established
- S05231873 Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
- S05231876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
- S05231878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
- S05231882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
- S05231883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players
- S05231887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
- S05231898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
- S052319-- B.J. & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary (on M*A*S*H)
- S05231901 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
- S05231903 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
- S05231903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
- S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
- S05231908 Part of the Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
- S05231911 NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
- S05231915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW I
- S05231921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
- S05231922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
- S05231922 Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
- S05231922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
- S05231926 Lebanese constitution established under French mandate
- S05231932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
- S05231935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinatti)
- S05231939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
- S05231939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
- S05231939 Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
- S05231943 In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkühn
- S05231943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
- S05231945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
- S05231948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
- S05231949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
- S05231956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
- S05231960 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
- S05231962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
- S05231962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
- S05231963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
- S05231965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
- S05231966 The Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
- S05231968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
- S05231969 The Who release the rock opera "Tommy"
- S05231970 Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of the US (England)
- S05231971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
- S05231979 "The Kids Are Alright" premiers
- S05231979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
- S05231981 NASA launches Intelsat V
- S05231982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
- S05231989 Lincoln Square in the Bronx named
- S05231990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
- S05231990 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minn Twins 12-0
- S05231991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
- S05241689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
- S05241738 Methodist Church established
- S05241822 At Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito
- S05241824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
- S05241829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for the pontificate
- S05241830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
- S05241844 Samual FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg)
- S05241846 Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
- S05241854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
- S05241861 Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
- S05241866 Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
- S05241870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
- S05241873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #131 Vala
- S05241878 1st American bicycle race held (Boston)
- S05241878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
- S05241881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario
- S05241883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
- S05241884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in the US
- S05241890 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
- S05241899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
- S05241918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
- S05241921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
- S05241921 British Legion formed
- S05241927 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1117 Reginita
- S05241929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
- S05241930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
- S05241931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
- S05241931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1195 Orangia
- S05241935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
- S05241935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1385 Gelria
- S05241936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record
- S05241936Cby reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2
- S05241940 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
- S05241940 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
- S05241941 HMS Hood sunk by German battleship Bismarck
- S05241944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
- S05241946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
- S05241951 Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal
- S05241951 Willie Mays begins playing for the NY Giants
- S05241954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
- S05241954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
- S05241957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
- S05241959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa
- S05241961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
- S05241961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
- S05241962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
- S05241963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
- S05241964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
- S05241964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
- S05241967 AFL grants a franchise to the Cincinatti Bengals
- S05241968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
- S05241968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
- S05241969 Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
- S05241970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
- S05241971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
- S05241975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
- S05241976 1st commerial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)
- S05241980 Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6)
- S05241980 Iran rejects a call to the World Court to release US hostages
- S05241980 NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05241981 Al Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
- S05241981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
- S05241984 Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
- S05241986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy
- S05241986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
- S05241986 Mont Canadiens beat Calgary Flames 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
- S05241986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hrs
- S05241987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
- S05241988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
- S05241989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premiers
- S05241989 NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito
- S05241989Cinnings before giving up his 1st run of the season
- S05241989CNY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3
- S05241990 Andre Dawson recieves a record 5 intentional walks in a game
- S05241990 Edmonton Oilers beat the Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
- S0525 585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
- S05251085 St Gregory VII, pope (1073-85), dies (birth date unknown)
- S05251721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
- S05251784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
- S05251787 Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding
- S05251810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Natl Day)
- S05251825 American Unitarian Assn founded
- S05251861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus
- S05251861Cit later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
- S05251870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec
- S05251876 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
- S05251900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
- S05251906 After 20 straight wins, Boston Red Sox lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
- S05251911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Diaz
- S05251914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
- S05251915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0
- S05251917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #874 Rotraut
- S05251924 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1030 Vitja
- S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
- S05251932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1244 Deira
- S05251935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
- S05251935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
- S05251936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1393 Sofala
- S05251937 1st airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
- S05251939 Carl Storck becomes the 2nd NFL president
- S05251940 Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
- S05251941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
- S05251943 Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
- S05251945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
- S05251946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
- S05251947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co.'s Mine #5 killing 111
- S05251948 SF receives its 1st telecast
- S05251950 Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
- S05251951 NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
- S05251953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
- S05251953 1st noncommercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
- S05251955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
- S05251961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon
- S05251961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
- S05251962 Isley Brother relase "Twist & Shout"
- S05251963 Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
- S05251963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
- S05251963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
- S05251965 Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
- S05251965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for HW boxing title
- S05251967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
- S05251968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
- S05251970 Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars in 3rd ABA championship, 4 games to 2
- S05251973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
- S05251973 Skylab 2 (US) launched
- S05251973 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
- S05251975 Warriors beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 0
- S05251977 "Beatles Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
- S05251978 "Star Wars" released
- S05251978 Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05251979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
- S05251979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
- S05251979 Raul Gonzáles of México completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
- S05251980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
- S05251981 Al Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
- S05251982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes the 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
- S05251982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
- S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
- S05251986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
- S05251989 Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens for the Stanley Cup
- S05251989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
- S05251992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"
- S05261328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
- S05261736 Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat the French
- S05261781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
- S05261788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain
- S05261790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
- S05261864 Territory of Montana organized
- S05261868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
- S05261876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
- S05261887 Legal betting at rece tracks begins
- S05261896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
- S05261896 Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted
- S05261896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
- S05261898 SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
- S05261903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Gables" (BG)
- S05261907 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game
- S05261913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
- S05261915 H.H. Asquith forms a coalition government in England
- S05261916 F Sy discovers asteroid #858 El Djezair
- S05261917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
- S05261918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
- S05261923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run
- S05261928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
- S05261930 Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Caraway
- S05261932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1245 Calvinia
- S05261933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for the cycle vs St Louis Cards
- S05261934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
- S05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
- S05261938 House on un-American Activities begins work
- S05261941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
- S05261943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
- S05261946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
- S05261948 South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy
- S05261956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
- S05261956 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter,
- S05261956Cbroken up with 2 outs in the 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
- S05261958 Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark
- S05261959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
- S05261961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
- S05261961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
- S05261963 Wes Stock becomes the only Balt Oriole to win a double header
- S05261965 Revised intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
- S05261966 British Guiana gains independence, takes the name Guyana
- S05261969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth
- S05261969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montrael)
- S05261973 Beatles' "The Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1
- S05261973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28)
- S05261974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
- S05261975 Tennis game in the Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
- S05261976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2426 Simonov
- S05261977 "Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
- S05261977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
- S05261977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts
- S05261978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
- S05261980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
- S05261980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
- S05261980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
- S05261981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
- S05261983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
- S05261983 LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws
- S05261983 NASA launches Exosat
- S05261984 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3317 Paris
- S05261984 Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla
- S05261984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
- S05261984 Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die
- S05261985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
- S05261989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 second silence, honoring radio
- S05261990 Phila Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20
- S05271647 1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass
- S05271813 Americans capture Fort George, Canada
- S05271844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
- S05271850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
- S05271854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to SF completed
- S05271857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #44 Nysa
- S05271873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
- S05271887 A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza
- S05271896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo)
- S05271896 Bay District Race Track closes
- S05271904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)
- S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
- S05271916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in the Bronx
- S05271917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
- S05271919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
- S05271920 Tatar ASSR established in Russian SFSR
- S05271921 After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty
- S05271931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
- S05271931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
- S05271931 Pressurized cabin in a balloon is 1st used
- S05271933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
- S05271933 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
- S05271933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
- S05271935 Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
- S05271936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
- S05271937 Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
- S05271941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency"
- S05271941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
- S05271951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
- S05271958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
- S05271958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
- S05271960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
- S05271961 Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon
- S05271961 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½"
- S05271963 3 NJ businessman purchase the NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval
- S05271963Cto move them to the NJ Meadowlands (Devils)
- S05271968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
- S05271968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
- S05271969 Walt Disney World construction begins
- S05271970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
- S05271975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
- S05271975 Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- S05271975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges
- S05271975CDibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
- S05271977 NYC fines George Willig 1¢ for each of 110 stories he climbed
- S05271979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
- S05271981 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #2434 Bateson
- S05271981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
- S05271981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but the ump says no
- S05271982 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3194 Dorsey
- S05271983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
- S05271984 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3671 Dionysius
- S05271984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
- S05271985 Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
- S05271986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
- S05271987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appears on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
- S05271987 Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher making 700th start (Young & Sutton)
- S05271990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
- S05271990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
- S0528 585 -BC- Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
- S0528 640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05281539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
- S05281664 1st Baptist Church organized (Boston)
- S05281742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
- S05281774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
- S05281830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
- S05281868 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #99 Dike
- S05281900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
- S05281905 P Gotz discovers asteroids #566 Stereoskopiab & #567 Eleutheria
- S05281907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy was 1st held
- S05281918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
- S05281926 Military coup in Portugal
- S05281926 US Customs Court created by congress
- S05281929 1st all color talking picture "On With The Show" exhibited, NYC
- S05281935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1712 Angola
- S05281940 Belgium surrenders to Germany
- S05281941 1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5)
- S05281946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
- S05281951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
- S05281953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
- S05281955 Nashua wins the Preakness
- S05281956 Carl Erskine becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games
- S05281957 NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast
- S05281959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
- S05281959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter
- S05281959Cmissile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
- S05281961 Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
- S05281961 Last trip on the Orient Express (after 78 years)
- S05281962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
- S05281962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
- S05281963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
- S05281963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
- S05281964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
- S05281965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
- S05281968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
- S05281971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
- S05281971 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
- S05281972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Nat'l HQ at Watergate
- S05281973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26)
- S05281974 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2050 Francis
- S05281977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
- S05281978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
- S05281980 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
- S05281980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
- S05281985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
- S05281987 Balt Oriole Mike Young hits 2 HRs in extra innings
- S05281987 Bob Milacki sets Southern league pitching record 11 1/3 no hit inns
- S05281987 Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
- S05281987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
- S05281987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
- S05281987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
- S05281989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Simon & Simon)
- S05281989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Indianapolis 500
- S0529 757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- S05291453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
- S05291660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
- S05291692 Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
- S05291721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
- S05291787 "Virginia Plan" proposed
- S05291790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifing Constitution
- S05291848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state
- S05291849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln
- S05291861 Asteroid 72, Feronia, discovered (name for Italian goddess of groves)
- S05291861 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia
- S05291864 Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
- S05291874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
- S05291889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #284 Amalia
- S05291900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
- S05291909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run
- S05291911 1st running of the Indianapolis 500
- S05291912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the
- S05291912C"Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
- S05291916 Official flag of president of US adopted
- S05291916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
- S05291919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
- S05291922 Ecuador becomes independent
- S05291922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a
- S05291922Cbusiness and thus not subject to antitrust laws
- S05291928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
- S05291951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
- S05291953 Edmund P Hillary 1st reached the summit of Everest
- S05291953 Hillary & Tenzing become 1st humans to reach top of Mt Everest
- S05291954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married
- S05291960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
- S05291962 Barbra Striesand appears on "The Garry Moore Show"
- S05291965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium
- S05291967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19
- S05291971 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2127 Tanya
- S05291973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif
- S05291973C $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
- S05291973CColumbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating
- S05291977 A.J. Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time
- S05291977CJanet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in the Indy 500
- S05291977CSue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one
- S05291978 1st class postage now 15¢ (13¢ for 3 years)
- S05291979 1st rock n roll radio network begins-The Source
- S05291979 Radio's 1st rock network "The Source" premiers
- S05291980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban Leag pres
- S05291980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
- S05291983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
- S05291984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)
- S05291985 35 die in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer
- S05291987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent
- S05291987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
- S05291987 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
- S05291989 Student protesters in China construct a replic of Statue of Liberty
- S05291990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
- S05291990 NY Mets file manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson
- S05301416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by the Church
- S05301527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded
- S05301814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
- S05301822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
- S05301848 William Young patents ice cream freezer
- S05301854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
- S05301854 Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
- S05301858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
- S05301862 Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth, Miss
- S05301866 The opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premiers (Prague)
- S05301868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi
- S05301868Cplaced flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
- S05301889 The brasierre is invented
- S05301894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
- S05301901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
- S05301901 Memorial Day 1st observed in US
- S05301903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #511 Davida
- S05301904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
- S05301908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
- S05301908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
- S05301908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
- S05301911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 75 MPH (120 KPH)
- S05301912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
- S05301913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
- S05301913 Conclusion of the 1st Balkan War
- S05301913 New country of Albania, formed
- S05301922 Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during the middle
- S05301922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated
- S05301922Cof the doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
- S05301924 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1032 Pafuri
- S05301925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
- S05301932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
- S05301933 Patent on invisible glass installation
- S05301935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
- S05301937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
- S05301937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
- S05301938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
- S05301946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport
- S05301953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
- S05301956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
- S05301961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
- S05301962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
- S05301964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
- S05301964 Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
- S05301965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
- S05301966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
- S05301967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
- S05301967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
- S05301968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles"
- S05301971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
- S05301971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
- S05301972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lydda airport
- S05301974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
- S05301975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
- S05301976 Bobby Unser sets world record for the fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
- S05301977 Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0
- S05301979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
- S05301979 Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
- S05301980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
- S05301981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
- S05301982 Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
- S05301982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
- S05301985 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
- S05301986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
- S05301986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in the Indianapolis 500
- S05301989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
- S05301990 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
- S05301990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
- S05311678 Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry
- S05311790 US copyright law enacted
- S05311837 New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in US
- S05311853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard the Advance
- S05311861 Mint at New Orleans closes
- S05311862 Battle of Fair Oaks, Va; North defeats South
- S05311868 Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, a 2-km
- S05311868Cvelocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
- S05311870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
- S05311879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
- S05311879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors
- S05311889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
- S05311899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
- S05311900 US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion
- S05311902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
- S05311909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
- S05311910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of the Union of South Africa
- S05311913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
- S05311914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
- S05311915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
- S05311916 During WW I British & German fleets fight Battle of Jutland
- S05311917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
- S05311918 M Wolf discovers asteroids #892 Seeligeria & #893 Leopoldina
- S05311919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
- S05311921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
- S05311926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
- S05311927 Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
- S05311928 1st aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland
- S05311929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
- S05311929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter
- S05311935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
- S05311937 Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
- S05311938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1466 Mundleria
- S05311947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
- S05311950 Due to rain, Johnny Parson wins Indy 500 in 345 miles
- S05311951 S Arend discovers asteroid #1591 Baize
- S05311955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
- S05311955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
- S05311956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
- S05311958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
- S05311961 Dominican Republic president Trujillo assassinated
- S05311961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
- S05311961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves the Commonwealth
- S05311964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
- S05311964 SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
- S05311965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy
- S05311969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
- S05311969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
- S05311970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by earthquake. (50-70,000 die)
- S05311974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
- S05311975 Fred Newman made 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
- S05311976 Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
- S05311979 J Kveton discovers asteroid #2672 Pisek
- S05311979 Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
- S05311979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
- S05311983 Phila 76ers sweep Lakers for NBA championship in 4 games
- S05311985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
- S05311987 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup
- S05311987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
- S05311989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
- S05311989 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
- S05311989 Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigns
- S05311990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
