328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria
1588 – Duke Henri de Guise’s troops occupy Paris
1864 – Battle of Cloyd’s Mt, and Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery’s Bluff, Fort Darling)
1929 – WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
1949 – Britain’s 1st launderette opens in Queensway, London
1965 – Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1978 – American publishing heiress Patty Hearst returns to jail, after legal appeals to her bank robbery conviction fail
1989 – NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
1992 – 37th Eurovision Song Contest: Linda Martin for Ireland wins singing “Why Me” in Malmo
2006 – George Preca is canonized as the first Maltese saint in history
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 8th May 2023
1877 – 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1907 – Boston Doves pitcher “Big Jeff” Pfeffer no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 6-0 at South End Grounds, Boston
1929 – Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1956 – John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” premieres in London
1994 – Jim Cartwright’s play “The Rise and Fall of Little Voice” closes at Neil Simon Theater, NYC after 9 performances
2018 – Largest-ever wave at 23.8m recorded in the South Hemisphere at Campbell Island by New Zealand scientists
2018 – Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths
2019 – Singapore passes sweeping “anti-fake news” laws bill
2021 – Bombings outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, kill at least 50 people, mostly teenage girls, amid growing fears about US military withdrawal
2021 – Indian Medical Association calls for a national lockdown, criticizing President Modi’s government’s response as recorded COVID-19 deaths pass 4,000 a day
Historical Events for 7th May 2023
1867 – Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1910 – 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
1924 – Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1951 – International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
2007 – Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University announces he has discovered the tomb of Herod the Great at Herodium, West Bank
2008 – Dmitry Medvedev is sworn in as the 3rd President of the Russian Federation
2012 – NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan’s Badghis Province
2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial average and SandP 500 set record highs
2014 – Fighting between pro-Russian and Kiev forces continue amid fears internationally of a civil war in Ukraine
2017 – “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” becomes the highest grossing Indian box office film ever earning $120 million
Historical Events for 6th May 2023
1626 – Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods, believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape
1853 – 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
1913 – King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, northern Albania
1921 – Teams from the National Association Football League and the Southern New England Soccer League merge to form the American Soccer League (ASL); collapses 1933
1937 – German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground
1953 – MLB St. Louis Browns Alva “Bobo” Holloman, in his first start game as starting pitcher, no-hits visiting Philadelphia A’s, 6-0
1956 – WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
2002 – Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX
2006 – 132nd Kentucky Derby: Edgar Prado aboard Barbaro wins in front of 157,532 fans
2019 – World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Judd Trump wins his first world crown beating John Higgins of Scotland, 18-9
Historical Events for 5th May 2023
1874 – Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1915 – German U-20 captures and sinks Britsih schooner Earl of Lathom
1948 – 1st squadron of jet aircraft aboard a carrier
1952 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk for this novel “The Caine Mutiny”
1955 – West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1964 – Separatists riot in Quebec
1987 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
2008 – American/Columbia Records releases “Home Before Dark”, the twenty-seventh studio album by Neil Diamond; tops charts in US, UK and NZ
2018 – Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product
2022 – WHO study of excess deaths worldwide says 15 million more people have died than normal, far above the official COVID-19 death toll of 6 million
Historical Events for 4th May 2023
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam ends the Siege of Seringapatam when the city is assaulted and the Sultan of Mysore Tipu Sultan is killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris
1917 – A flotilla of US destroyer ships arrive in Queenstown, Ireland, to aid in convoying ships to England
1942 – Battle of Coral Sea begins (1st naval battle fought solely in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces
1963 – Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1973 – 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
1982 – British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.
1986 – President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1990 – Latvia’s parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
2013 – Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Robert Guerrero to retain his WBC Welterweight title
2013 – Juventus F.C. win their 29th Serie A football title
Historical Events for 3rd May 2023
1624 – Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
1815 – Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats King Joachim of Naples
1900 – 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25
1923 – 1st nonstop north American transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
1942 – German Luftwaffe again bombs Exeter, destroying its town centre
1945 – Allies arrest German physicist Werner Heisenberg
1948 – Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams
1952 – 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
2021 – World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Mark Selby wins his 4th world title with an 18-15 win over countryman Shaun Murphy
Historical Events for 2nd May 2023
1668 – Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1st peace of Aachen: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in The Netherlands
1672 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
1907 – Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government
1969 – British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on maiden voyage to NY
1970 – KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1979 – -May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1987 – 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4
1994 – Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1995 – Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
2019 – A clean-up on Mt Everest has removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks
Historical Events for 1st May 2023
1682 – Louis XIV and his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
1920 – Longest MLB game by innings – Brooklyn Robins tie the Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1957 – Flevo Boys Football Club is established in Emmeloord, the Netherlands
1959 – West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1960 – 7th National Film Awards (India): “Apur Sansar” wins the Golden Lotus
1961 – Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1991 – Angolan civil war ends
1995 – Montreal Canadiens lose 2-0 at Buffalo to miss Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 25 years
2010 – 136th Kentucky Derby: Calvin Borel wins aboard Super Saver, his third Derby success in 4 years
2012 – Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion
Historical Events for 30th April 2023
1483 – Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune’s orbit until July 23, 1503
1598 – 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1888 – 1888 Moradabad hailstorm: hail stones allegedly as big as oranges kill 246 people and some 1600 sheep and cattle in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
1920 – The British Government ends military conscription
1934 – Austria gets “Austrian fascist” constitution
1982 – Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador
1986 – Ashrita Furman performs 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
1987 – Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President
2008 – David Blaine sets a new Guinness World Record for holding his breath underwater for 17 minutes 4-1/2 seconds on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”
2012 – Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River, India, killing 103 people