1544 – Scot Earl Matthew Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1921 – Belgian and Luxembourg sign customs union
1927 – U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
1937 – Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain’s premier
1940 – Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France
1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School to develop the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer).
1944 – Chinese and US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1958 – Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
1990 – The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong designed by I. M. Pei opens as the first supertall skyscraper outside the US
2015 – Canada defeats Russia to win gold at the 2015 IIHF World Championship
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 16th May 2020
1527 – Florence becomes a republic
1922 – White Star Liner Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage
1952 – “New Faces (of 1952)” opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1969 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 – Helmut Schmidt becomes West German Chancellor
1985 – Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1997 – Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
2002 – “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones” directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman opens in cinemas
2006 – A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand
2013 – Pope Francis calls for ethical financial reform to fight speculation
Historical Events for 15th May 2020
1213 – King John of England names Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury
1911 – Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1916 – Asiago, Italy, falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
1943 – Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1960 – Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
1971 – Irish Republican Army member William ‘Billy’ Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast
1989 – US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
1991 – Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is “CIA’s man in Panama”
2005 – Laureus World Sports Awards, Casino Estoril, Portugal: Sportsman: Roger Federer; Sportswoman: Kelly Holmes; Team: Greece Men’s National Football team
2011 – “The Artist” directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo premieres at the Cannes Film festival (Best Picture 2012)
Historical Events for 14th May 2020
1767 – British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1888 – 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00
1907 – Sweden adopts universal suffrage for elections to its lower house and proportional representation for both houses
1919 – Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
1950 – Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
1972 – In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
1991 – Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
1996 – NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0
2000 – 46th British Academy Television Awards: “The League of Gentlemen” Best Comedy, “The Cops” Best Drama
2005 – Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood
Historical Events for 13th May 2020
1643 – Battle of Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1941 – Willy Lewis’ US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1946 – Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey
1946 – US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1949 – 1st British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1958 – Stan Musial is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1958 – Jordan and Iraq form Arab Federation
1989 – Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1995 – Team New Zealand beats Team Dennis Conner 5-0 to win the America’s Cup for the first time
2012 – 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
Historical Events for 12th May 2020
1082 – Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr
1525 – Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers
1588 – Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris
1875 – 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1916 – James Connolly and Sean McDermott are executed following their involvement in the Easter Rising in Dublin
1941 – Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Adolf Hitler’s deputy
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin
1967 – 1st quadraphonic concert by Pink Floyd at the Games for May concert in London
1990 – NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26
Historical Events for 11th May 2020
1752 – 1st US fire insurance policy issued in Philadelphia
1919 – Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0
1928 – General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
1967 – Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark apply for membership of the EEC
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 – 56 die and at least 265 are injured at Bradford City football ground in the worst fire in English football history
2000 – India’s population officially reaches 1 billion – Astha Arora named India’s billionth baby
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão
2018 – Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself
Historical Events for 10th May 2020
1427 – Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America (1st US foreign war)
1861 – Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, Missouri
1893 – 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25
1910 – 36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4
1933 – Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
1978 – “Angel” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1982 – WABC joins ABC’s All Talk radio network
1995 – Real Zaragoza of Spain win 35th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Arsenal of England 2-1 in Paris
2015 – PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Rickie Fowler wins beating Kevin Kisner and Sergio García by 1 stroke in a playoff
Historical Events for 9th May 2020
1816 – Lady Caroline Lamb publishes the Gothic novel “Glenarvon”, a thinly disguised account of her affair with Lord Byron which also depicts her husband William Lamb
1874 – London’s Victoria Embankment opens
1882 – Telegraph Hill RR Co (Cable Cars) in San Francisco organized
1925 – Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem, laid
1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day
1945 – World War II: Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army
1945 – Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1992 – Salem Village Witchcraft Victims’ Memorial dedicated in Danvers (formally Salem Village) to mark 300 year anniversary of trials
1995 – Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
2001 – Accra Sports Stadium Disaster: 129 Ghanian football fans die in a stampede caused by the firing of teargas by police following a decision by the referee in a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko
Historical Events for 8th May 2020
1521 – Parliament of Worms installs edict against Martin Luther
1879 – George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1901 – A British appointed commission estimates today that some 1,250,000 Indians have died after a severe drought, lasting since 1899
1945 – Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
1945 – German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin
1954 – 1st shot-put over 60′ (18.29 m)-Parry O’Brien, Los Angeles, CA
1973 – Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs managerr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, technically becoming baseball’s 1st African American manager
1974 – 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1985 – 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, George Strait, and Reba McEntire win
2018 – Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths