1568 – The Netherlands declares independence from Spain
1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan
1901 – US captures leader of Filipino rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1911 – NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
1953 – WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 – Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1980 – ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1988 – 41st Cannes Film Festival: “Pelle erobreren” directed by Bille August wins the Palme d’Or
1995 – 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
2010 – NHL Western Conference Finals: Chicago Black Hawks beat San Jose Sharks, 4 games to 0
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd May 2021
1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage to survey Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
1863 – General Ulysses S. Grant begins siege on Vicksburg
1962 – Netherlands telephone network becomes completely automated
1972 – Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
1990 – North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
2001 – NHL Eastern Conference Final: New Jersey Devils beat Pittsburgh Penguins, 4 games to 1
2002 – Mike Babcock is named head coach of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks
2002 – The remains of missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.
2010 – UEFA Champions League Final, Madrid: Internazionale beats Bayern Munich, 2-0; Inter’s 3rd title and first treble (Italian Serie A and Cup)
2012 – 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
Historical Events for 21st May 2021
879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state
1758 – Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War
1904 – France recalls its ambassador to the Vatican to protest the Pope’s attempt to discipline two French bishops; this is yet another incident driving France and the Catholic Church apart
1942 – Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia
1950 – Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1953 – French government of René Mayer resigns
1972 – “Heathen!” opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1977 – San Diego Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1998 – Indonesian president Suharto resigns after 31 years in power
2018 – Truckers begin a 10 strike in Brazil, blocking roads in protest at the price of diesel leading to country-wide shortages
Historical Events for 20th May 2021
1217 – Second Battle of Lincoln fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
1784 – Britain and Netherlands sign peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
1862 – US President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres by 1900)
1867 – British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills’ proposals on women’s suffrage
1911 – Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts v Sussex
1941 – White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games
1956 – Jordan government of Samir resigns
1972 – Republic of Cameroon declared as its constitution is ratified
1991 – Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save
2007 – 53rd British Academy Television Awards: “That Mitchell and Webb Look” Best Comedy, “The Street” Best Drama
Historical Events for 19th May 2021
1515 – George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
1643 – Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England
1896 – 1st auto (Karl Benz) arrives in Netherlands
1906 – Portugal’s King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
1923 – KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1959 – Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1962 – “Bravo, Giovanni” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1990 – 115th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6
1993 – Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
2009 – Sri Lanka announces victory in its 25-year war against the terrorist organisation, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Historical Events for 18th May 2021
1642 – Ville-Marie (later Montreal), Canada, founded by the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal
1851 – Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
1869 – Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan
1933 – Around 5,000 forced deportees in the Soviet Union arrive on Nazino Island; within thirteen weeks most of them will be dead due to disease, cannibalism and violence
1971 – Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
1974 – India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb
1980 – People’s Republic of China launches 1st intercontinental rocket
1991 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1993 – Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola
1996 – 41st Eurovision Song Contest: Eimear Quinn for Ireland wins singing “The Voice” in Oslo
Historical Events for 17th May 2021
1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only 4 survive
1849 – Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis, Missouri
1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway
1943 – Millionaire Howard Hughes crashes into Lake Mead, while test flying his Sikorsky S-43, killing CAA inspector Ceco Cline and Richard Felt
1952 – 77th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
1953 – Yanks and Browns use record 41 players in a game
1964 – Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
1975 – Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
2000 – In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
2019 – Brooks Koepka fires a 65 (-5) to set new record for lowest 36-hole score in a golf major at the PGA Championship at Bethpage State Park; 7 stroke lead is a 36-hole tournament record
Historical Events for 16th May 2021
1811 – Peninsular War: Allies defeat French at Albuera
1815 – The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains
1864 – Battle of Bermuda Hundred, Virginia
1888 – CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia
1938 – 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1946 – Irving Berlin, Dorothy and Herbert Fields’ musical “Annie Get Your Gun” starring Ethel Merman and featuring “There’s No Business Like Show Business” opens at Imperial Theater, NYC
1958 – Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico
1964 – 89th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
1969 – Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
1980 – 34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2
Historical Events for 15th May 2021
1817 – Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority (modern Indonesia), under Thomas Matulesia (aka Kapitan Pattimura)
1891 – Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
1912 – Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game and is suspended
1944 – Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
1951 – Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum
1972 – The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1976 – Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91
1976 – The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks
1991 – Red Sox and White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
2018 – Flyover collapses in Varanasi, India, killing at least 18
Historical Events for 14th May 2021
1607 – English colonists establish the 1st permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown. Unknown to them they have landed amidst the worst drought in 800 years.
1942 – US Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1949 – “Love Life” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances
1957 – “New Girl in Town” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
1972 – A 13 year old Catholic girl is shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in Ballymurphy, Belfast
1980 – Department of Health and Human Services begins operation
1986 – NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Calgary Flames beat St. Louis Blues, 4 games to 3
1988 – Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
1991 – Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun