1881 – World’s 1st electric tram enters service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1933 – Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1947 – Billie Holiday is arrested in her New York apartment for possession of narcotics
1965 – Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer’s pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 and homers
1970 – Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
1971 – Benjamin Britten’s opera “Owen Wingrave” premieres in Aldwych, London
1979 – FC Barcelona of Spain wins 19th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Fortuna Düsseldorf of West Germany 4-3 in Basel
1980 – Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1984 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1991 – Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (fictional Superman character)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th May 2022
1572 – Louis van Nassau and huguenots occupy Valenciennes
1648 – Treaty of Munster ratified by Spain and Netherlands
1902 – “Bailundo Revolt” begins after Ovimbundu kingdom and allies revolt against Portuguese Empire in Benguela Highlands, central Portuguese Angola
1911 – British House of Commons accept Parliament Bill
1916 – Claiming that the USA must act to quell dangerous disorder, the government orders US Marines to land in Santo Domingo; the American occupation will continue until 1924
1941 – Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1
1970 – International Olympic Committee votes to expel South Africa
1990 – “Portrait of Doctor Gachet” by Vincent Van Gogh sells for $82.5 million
1995 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state’s own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
Historical Events for 14th May 2022
1832 – Felix Mendelssohn’s concert overture “Hebrides” premieres in London
1897 – Great Britain signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1939 – Lina Medina of Peru becomes the world’s youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five
1944 – 91 German bombers harass Bristol
1955 – Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
1965 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta
1986 – Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.
2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun
2013 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel “Americanah” is published
Historical Events for 13th May 2022
1878 – Danvers State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, opens—later serves as inspiration for Arkham Sanitorium in the work of H.P. Lovecraft, which in turn inspired Arkham Asylum of the D.C. Batman universe
1912 – Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain
1936 – Quiroga government takes office in Spain
1940 – Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
1966 – US Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1984 – Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff”s last competitive match
1991 – Yankee Stadium fans sing “Like a Virgin” to Jose Canseco
2011 – Romania officially leaves the recession after 2 years following economic growth of an annualised 1.6% in the first quarter
2012 – Manchester City beats QPR 3-2 at City of Manchester Stadium to win English Premier League title on goal difference from Manchester United; Citizens recover from 2–1 down with 2 stoppage-time goals; first EPL title decided on goal difference
2016 – Chance the Rapper releases his third mixtape “Coloring Book” on Apple Music – first album to chart on Billboard Top 100 based only on streams (Grammy for Best Rap Album)
Historical Events for 12th May 2022
1057 – The Ostromir Gospel, now the oldest surviving Russian manuscript is recorded completed by its scribe Deacon Grigory
1797 – Nore Mutiny: British Royal Navy sailors mutiny on the Thames, England and blockade London
1864 – Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, fought in Chesterfield County, Virginia (Peninsula Campaign), Confederate victory (US Civil War)
1917 – 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
1928 – Benito Mussolini announces moves to end women’s suffrage in a speech to the Senate in Italy
1942 – Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1975 – US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
1982 – Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1984 – France performs nuclear test
2019 – British TV Awards (Baftas): “Killing Eve” Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch win
Historical Events for 11th May 2022
1310 – Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics
1772 – Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed, in Amsterdam, Northern Netherlands
1900 – James J. Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavyweight boxing title
1931 – Credit-Anstalt, Austria’s largest bank, fails, beginning financial collapse of Central Europe
1943 – US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
1965 – 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed
1993 – 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Mary Chapin Carpenter win
1994 – “Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult” released in France
2008 – PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Sergio García of Spain claims the biggest win of his career to date in a sudden-death playoff over American Paul Goydos
Historical Events for 10th May 2022
1823 – 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public in its temporary home in a townhouse on Pall Mall
1917 – Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1929 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Walter Hagen wins 4th Open title, by 6 strokes from fellow American Johnny Farrell
1953 – KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 – “Beyond the Fringe” premieres in London
1967 – Rolling Stones Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – “Angel” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1989 – General Manuel Noriega’s Panama government nullifies country’s elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin
Historical Events for 9th May 2022
1450 – ‘Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated
1588 – Duke Henri de Guise’s troops occupy Paris
1788 – British parliament accepts abolition of slave trade
1901 – The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne, though the first working session will not be until 21 May
1925 – Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem, laid
1949 – Britain’s 1st launderette opens in Queensway, London
1978 – “Ain’t Misbehavin'” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 performances
1984 – Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 innings (started 5/8)
1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War
1997 – 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
Historical Events for 8th May 2022
1624 – Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor and Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1847 – Scot Robert Thompson patents rubber tyre
1878 – 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
1952 – “Of Thee I Sing” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1966 – Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore’s Memorial Park, by Oriole OF Frank Robinson
1973 – Indians holding South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
1984 – Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
2008 – Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Chris Botti, Feist, Roberto Alagna, and Natalie Clein
2013 – Sir Alex Ferguson announces his retirement as Manchester United’s manager at the end of the season
2014 – World’s oldest astrolabe (mariner’s navigator tool) c. 1498 from Portuguese shipwreck of explorer Vasco da Gama found near Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman
Historical Events for 7th May 2022
1355 – 1,200 Jews of Toledo, Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1775 – Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1848 – Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1919 – A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans
1941 – British House of Commons votes for Winston Churchill (477-3)
1947 – Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
1947 – “Kraft Television Theater” premieres on NBC
1956 – Pulitzer Prize for Drama awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for their play “The Diary of Anne Frank”
1965 – WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1979 – Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)