1814 – British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York
1917 – Eugene Bullard gains his pilot’s license from Aéro-Club de France and becomes the 1st African-American military pilot (French Air Service)
1951 – “Out of This World” closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
1958 – KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 – The Kinks release “Waterloo Sunset” as a single; peaks at #2 on the British charts
1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1980 – Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building
1984 – 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4
1992 – American country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
2002 – Jacques Chirac wins the French Presidential election for a second term defeating Jean-Marie Le Pen leader of the far-right National Front
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 4th May 2022
1626 – Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
1814 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism
1922 – KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1949 – Plane carrying the entire Torino Serie A soccer squad crashes on the outskirts of Turin, Italy; 31 killed; Torino awarded League title at the request of their rivals
1957 – Alan Freed hosts “Rock n’ Roll Show” 1st prime-time network rock show
1961 – 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1986 – President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1991 – NY Mets M Sasser and Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
2019 – Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez unifies a trio of middleweight world titles in a close, unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV
Historical Events for 3rd May 2022
1864 – 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1917 – Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo” premieres in Carnegie Hall, NYC
1917 – 1st performance of Ernest Bloch’s symphony “Israel”
1936 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With The Wind”
1945 – 1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany
1966 – WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
2002 – A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors
2021 – US Environmental Protection Agency takes first significant step against climate change by announcing new limits on hydrofluorocarbons (-85% over 15 years)
Historical Events for 2nd May 2022
1598 – France and Spain sign Peace of Vervins
1900 – George Bernard Shaw’s play “You Never Can Tell” premieres in London
1905 – French newspapers publish lists of Jules Verne’s unpublished work
1952 – 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Comet from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1998 – Battle of Hogwarts: fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1998 – 124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02.20
2015 – Toulon win the 2015 European Rugby Champions Cup final at Twickenham
2018 – Kanye West widely criticized for saying “slavery is a choice” in TMZ interview
2018 – Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709,000 years ago
2019 – US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi accuses Attorney General William Barr of lying to Congress over the Mueller Report
Historical Events for 1st May 2022
1930 – Cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 236 for Australia v Worcestershire in his first 1st class innings in England
1946 – Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1961 – Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1962 – JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
1977 – American golfer Gene Littler wins the Houston Open, his 29th and final PGA title
1983 – “My One and Only” opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances
1993 – 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey wins aboard Sea Hero, the first of 2 Derby victories (1996 on Grindstone)
2013 – Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand
2018 – Chinese authorities label British cartoon “Peppa Pig” subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website
2021 – India is the first country to record more than 400,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day (401,993)
Historical Events for 30th April 2022
311 – Roman Emperor Galerius issues Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
1772 – John Clais patents 1st scale
1889 – 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington’s inauguration
1935 – World Congress for Women’s Rights concludes in Istanbul
1945 – Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
1962 – NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1971 – 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games
1976 – The Betsy Ross Bridge, spanning the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pennsauken, New Jersey opens
1982 – Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
2021 – 45 killed and 150 injured in a crush of people at the Israeli Lag B’Omer festival at Mount Meron
Historical Events for 29th April 2022
1930 – 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1931 – Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
1945 – German armies in Italy sign an unconditional surrender to the Western Allies to be carried out on 2 May
1964 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 – Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador
1992 – Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in “Man of LaMancha”
2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office
2018 – Sweden’s official Twitter account confirms Swedish meatballs actually originated in Turkey
2020 – Fire at an Icheon warehouse, South Korea, kills 38
2021 – World’s longest pedestrian bridge at 516 metres (1,700 feet) opens inside northern Portugal’s Arouca Geopark
Historical Events for 28th April 2022
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1770 – British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1965 – Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA
1965 – Lindsey Nelson broadcasts baseball game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
1966 – OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
1967 – Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title
1983 – Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
1993 – Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1997 – “Jekyll and Hyde” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
2020 – US confirmed cases of COVID-19 pass 1 million, while death toll of 58,365 surpasses that of US soldiers killed in Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins)
Historical Events for 27th April 2022
1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel’s “Music For The Royal Fireworks”in Green Park, London
1859 – “Pomona” sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1904 – The Australian Labor Party under Prime Minister Chris Watson becomes the first Labor government in the world
1940 – Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1942 – Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300
1943 – Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust
1963 – Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1965 – RC Duncan patents “Pampers” disposable diaper
1968 – The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) hold a rally to protest the banning of a Republican Easter parade
2019 – Shooter opens fire in a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one and injuring three
Historical Events for 26th April 2022
1564 – William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
1942 – Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko, Manchuria
1962 – 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent, Uzbekistan
1966 – International Olympic Committee votes to award German city of Munich the right to host the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
1974 – Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw
1983 – San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
1993 – “Shakespeare for My Father” opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 performances
2018 – Serial killer “Golden State Killer” identified after 40 years as a former police officer, responsible for 12 killings, 50 rapes in California
2019 – “No religion” tops survey of American religious identity for the first time at 23.1% edging out Catholics 23.0% and evangelicals 22.5%, in long-running General Social Survey