1771 – “Armida”, an operatic ‘dramma per musica’ by Antonio Salieri debuts at the Vienna Burgtheater
1875 – James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1902 – British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno
1975 – First recorded snowfall in London in June
1986 – NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1989 – Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
1990 – “Turtle Power” by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1992 – Wilson Phillips release their second album “Shadows and Light”
2018 – Socialist Pedro Sánchez is sworn in as Spanish Prime Minister
2020 – New outbreak of Ebola has killed five people in city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st June 2021
1283 – Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria
1813 – Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto “Don’t give up the ship”
1908 – John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1936 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins his 2nd French title; beats Englishman Fred Perry 6-0, 2-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-0
1939 – British submarine “Thetis” sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939 – Retired German Colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1953 – KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1977 – Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed
1979 – NBA Championship, Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland: Seattle Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 97-93 for a 4-1 series victory; Seattle’s first major pro sports championship win
Historical Events for 31st May 2021
1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually mines fools gold, famously used to pave the streets of London.
1621 – Sir Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London for 1 night
1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca
1910 – Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
1938 – Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord’s
1948 – Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose wins in 4:10:23.286 (192.822 km/h)
1967 – Bayern Munchen of West Germany wins 7th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Rangers of Scotland 1-0 in Nuremberg
1972 – 16th European Cup: Ajax beats Internazionale 2-0 at Rotterdam
1985 – New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
2014 – Psy’s “Gangnam Style” becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube
Historical Events for 30th May 2021
1908 – 1st federal workmen’s compensation law approved
1940 – Indianapolis 500: Wilbur Shaw wins in 4:22:31.201 (183.911 km/h)
1964 – French Championships Women’s Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia wins her second French singles crown; beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 5-7, 6-1, 6-2
1976 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Pine Ridge GC: Betty Burfeindt wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Judy Rankin
1978 – 31st Cannes Film Festival: “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” directed by Ermanno Olmi wins the Palme d’Or
1979 – Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1984 – 28th European Cup: Liverpool beats Roma (1-1, 4-2 on penalties) at Rome
1990 – Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56
2000 – 35th Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw win
2019 – Two new studies find eating processed foods leads to an early death and ill health published in “British Medical Journal”
Historical Events for 29th May 2021
1692 – Royal Hospital Chelsea Founder’s Day first celebrated in London
1886 – American chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola
1909 – Frank “Home Run” Baker’s 1st career home run for Philadelphia Athletics
1914 – Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence River; 1,024 die
1954 – Pope Pius XII issues holy declaration
1960 – Everly Brothers “Cathy’s Clown” hits #1
1979 – Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe’s 1st black Prime Minister
1989 – Philadelphia Phillies 12-time All Star 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt retires from MLB at 39
2010 – Philadelphia Phillies’ Roy Halladay becomes 20th pitcher to throw a perfect game (1-0 vs Florida Marlins), in Miami
2012 – Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray’s controversial painting The Spear
Historical Events for 28th May 2021
1608 – Claudio Monteverdi’s “Arianna” premieres in Mantua
1731 – All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1742 – 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman’s Fields, London)
1926 – US Customs Court created by congress
1955 – 80th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6
1967 – Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
1990 – Eugenia Charles’ Dominican Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
1995 – Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become Prime Minister of Iraq’s interim government
2018 – Coco-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink – Lemon-Do on island of Kyushu, Japan
Historical Events for 27th May 2021
1849 – Opening of the Great Hall at Euston station in London
1920 – Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1941 – German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 – Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1970 – British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal, 10th highest mountain
1981 – 25th European Cup: Liverpool beats Real Madrid 1-0 at Paris
1986 – Norway Showcase groundbreaking
1990 – Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1997 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
2020 – Spain begins 10 days of mourning for victims of COVID-19 with death toll just under 27,000
Historical Events for 26th May 2021
1328 – William of Ockham [Occam] forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
1874 – 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56.5
1972 – US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT accord
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31
1982 – 35th Cannes Film Festival: “Missing” directed by Costa Gavras and “Yol” directed by Serif Goren and Yilmaz Güney jointly awarded the Palme d’Or
1987 – William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA
1993 – 1st UEFA Champions League Final: Marseille beats Milan 1-0 at Munich
2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2012 – A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvinkaa kills 2, wounds 7
Historical Events for 25th May 2021
1720 – The Ship “Le Grand St Antoine” reaches Marseille, bringing Europe’s last major plague outbreak. Kills around 100,000
1944 – Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1961 – NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
1972 – Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
1977 – Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1983 – France performs nuclear test
1986 – KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1989 – Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
1997 – Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett’s uniform #
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people
Historical Events for 24th May 2021
1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral
1660 – English king Charles II visits Netherlands
1861 – Union Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves “contraband of war”
1905 – 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08
1909 – Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1916 – French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
1981 – Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser crosses finish line ahead of Mario Andretti; Unser disqualified for pit lane infraction, later reinstated for his 3rd race victory
1993 – NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Montreal Canadians beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1
2018 – Record US fentanyl seizure of 120lbs (54kg) confirmed by police in Nebraska in April, enough to kill 26 million people, one of largest drug busts in US history
2018 – US President Donald Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson for racially orientated criminal conviction – transporting a white woman across state lines