1912 – Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain
1915 – US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to ‘pacify exited public opinion’, according to Bryan
1933 – 58th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02
1934 – Great dustbowl storm sweeps across US prairies
1944 – 69th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2
1973 – “Cyrano” opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances
1992 – Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
1993 – CBS’ soap opera “Knots Landing” ends 14 year-run with 334th show in Netherlands and US
2019 – Former President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is charged in connection with the deaths of protesters the previous month
2020 – Every African country now has cases of COVID-19 as Lesotho becomes the last county on the continent to record a case
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th May 2021
1525 – Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers
1640 – Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1909 – 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
1934 – 59th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2
1943 – German troops in Tunisia, North Africa, surrender
1970 – Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
1979 – Chris Evert’s 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
1996 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, DuPont CC: England’s Laura Davies wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Julie Piers
1997 – Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
2001 – 46th Eurovision Song Contest: Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL for Estonia wins singing “Everybody” in Copenhagen
Historical Events for 11th May 2021
1745 – Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
1800 – French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck give a lecture first outlining his theories of evolution at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris, France
1820 – Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that would later take a young Charles Darwin on his famous scientific voyage
1888 – 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49
1931 – “M” Fritz Lang’s first sound film starring Peter Lorre premieres in Berlin
1960 – Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1962 – US sends troops to Thailand
1963 – “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2
1995 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
2013 – 43 people are killed in two car bombings in Reyhanlı, Turkey
Historical Events for 10th May 2021
1534 – French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
1862 – Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee
1941 – 66th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro wins aboard Whirlaway, 2nd leg of successful Triple Crown
1945 – Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1950 – 1st Netherlands-US telex sent
1956 – French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
1970 – Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Bobby Orr scores famous OT winner as Boston beats St. Louis Blues, 4-3 for 4-0 series sweep; Bruins its first title since 1941
1972 – An Irish Republican Army bomb starts a fire that destroys the Belfast Co-operative store
1985 – Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 – “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco hits #1 on UK pop chart
Historical Events for 9th May 2021
1726 – Three men arrested during a February raid on Mother Clap’s molly-house (a coffee house catering to homosexuals) in London are executed by hanging at Tyburn, England
1738 – Britain sends fleet to the Mediterranean Sea and West Indies
1862 – Battle of Farmington, Mississippi
1882 – Telegraph Hill RR Co (Cable Cars) in San Francisco organized
1944 – Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
1950 – French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1967 – Gijs van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam
1992 – Final episode of “Golden Girls” airs on NBC-TV
2012 – United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same-sex marriage
Historical Events for 8th May 2021
1871 – British-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
1895 – China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1899 – Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation (Alpha and Beta Particles)
1942 – German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1957 – South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm, arrives in the United States on a state visit
1974 – 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1994 – Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
2013 – Sir Alex Ferguson announces his retirement as Manchester United’s manager at the end of the season
2019 – Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp signs new abortion law, the so-called “heart-beat bill” (comes into effect Jan 2020)
2019 – Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that Facebook should be split up and regulated in “New York Times” Op-Ed essay
Historical Events for 7th May 2021
1873 – US marines attack Panama
1957 – Indians’ pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
1961 – “Young Abe Lincoln” closes at Eugene O’Neill NYC after 27 performances
1963 – SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1974 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1979 – Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
1982 – IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1992 – 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge, Long Island, for selling cocaine
2015 – British General Elections: Conservative Party win outright majority and David Cameron returns as Prime Minister
2017 – MTV becomes 1st major awards show to adopt gender-neutral categories – Emma Watson best film actor, Millie Bobby Brown best TV actor
Historical Events for 6th May 2021
1672 – Brandenburg monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
1851 – New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
1902 – Zulu assault at Holkrantz, South Africa
1951 – Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
1957 – Italian government of Antonio Segni resigns
1965 – Lawry and Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies
1975 – Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
1989 – 34th Eurovision Song Contest: Riva for Yugoslavia wins singing “Rock Me” in Lausanne
1996 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford CT on WCCC 106.9 FM
2017 – France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory
Historical Events for 5th May 2021
553 – 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
1792 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre commissioned to measure the meridian between Dunkerque to Rodez to calculate accurate length of the metre
1861 – Alexandria, Virginia – Confederate troops abandon the city
1951 – 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6
1952 – Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate’s Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
1955 – “Damn Yankees” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
1958 – Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for Death in the Family
1969 – Milwaukee Bucks sign #1 NBA Draft pick, star UCLA center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after Salvadoran man is shot by police
2012 – 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
Historical Events for 4th May 2021
1634 – Johan van Walbeeck’s fleet departs to West Indies
1864 – General Ulysses S. Grant’s Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee’s Confederates at Rappahannock River
1898 – 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1942 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1945 – German forces in Bavaria surrender unconditionally to American commander Jacob L. Devers
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man and The Sea”
1959 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1973 – Wings release “Red Rose Speedway” in UK
1989 – US space shuttle STS-30 launched
1993 – “Angels in America-Millennium Approaches” opens at Kerr for 367 performances