1274 – 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens, convened by Pope Gregory X
1917 – Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1919 – A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans
1927 – Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
1970 – “Long and Winding Road” becomes Beatles’ last American release
1982 – IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1992 – Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial average and SandP 500 set record highs
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 6th May 2020
1529 – Battle at Gogra: Mughal Emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals
1882 – Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
1904 – American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
1944 – KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO
1974 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns amidst controversy over his aide Günter Guillaume’s ties with the Stasi (East German secret service)
1982 – NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Vancouver Canucks beat Chicago Black Hawks, 4 games to 1
1984 – Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
1987 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1995 – 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2
2014 – Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, releases a 57 minute video boasting about abducting schoolgirls in Nigeria
Historical Events for 5th May 2020
1855 – New York City regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
1912 – Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1927 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
1941 – First modern perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel
1966 – Borussia Dortmund of West Germany win 6th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Liverpool of England 2-1 in Glasgow
1972 – Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1979 – Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
1984 – 29th Eurovision Song Contest: Herreys for Sweden wins singing “Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley” in Luxembourg
1994 – Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
2000 – Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon
Historical Events for 4th May 2020
1535 – Five Carthusian monks from London Charterhouse monastery hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
1897 – Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1898 – 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1927 – 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Illinois)
1942 – Battle of Coral Sea begins (1st naval battle fought solely in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces
1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
1973 – Longest baseball game in Veterans’ Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
1994 – Arsenal of England win 34th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Parma of Italy 1-0 in Copenhagen
1996 – Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
2001 – The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
Historical Events for 3rd May 2020
1715 – Edmond Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon “Baily’s Beads”
1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
1851 – Sixth major fire in San Francisco destroys 1500-2000 buildings
1916 – Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising
1932 – 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland)
1956 – Frank Loesser’s musical “Most Happy Fella” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1959 – Tiger’s Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
1980 – Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR
1981 – “Moony, Shapiro Songbook” opens and closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1992 – NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRs
Historical Events for 2nd May 2020
1776 – France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1876 – Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
1943 – German troops vacate Jefna, Tunisia
1947 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Moon for the Misbegotten” premieres in NYC
1967 – Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Terry Sawchuk makes 40 saves as Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-1 in Game 6 to take title, 4-2
1983 – 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
1997 – Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
2002 – Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala
2011 – The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2019 – Drone delivers a kidney for transplant surgery in Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time
Historical Events for 1st May 2020
1751 – The New York Gazette carries the first public report of a cricket match played in America (New York)
1863 – Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled first opens its doors
1883 – Bob Rogers is acknowledged as the first American pro sports trainer when he is hired by the NY Athletic Club
1909 – Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1961 – Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1976 – 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr wins aboard Bold Forbes, the second of 3 Derby successes
1989 – 135 acre Disney’s MGM studio officially opens to public
1994 – “Rise and Fall of Little Voice” opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 performances
2000 – President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares existence of “a state of rebellion”, after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at height of EDSA III rebellion
2008 – The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
Historical Events for 30th April 2020
1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1725 – Emperor Charles VI and King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
1939 – New York World’s Fair opens
1969 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney records his third MLB no-hitter in 10-0 rout of Houston Astros
1976 – Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1985 – Last edition of Brink Daily Mail and Sunday Express in South Africa
1986 – Bill Elliott sets all-time NASCAR qualifying record, winning pole for the Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway; 212.809 mph (342.483 km/h; 44.998 seconds)
1989 – US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 – As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
1997 – “London Assurance” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances
Historical Events for 29th April 2020
1648 – Beginning of the 18 day battle of Zhovti Vody in Ukraine – Polish King Casimir eventually defeated by Cossacks
1888 – Old Kavallison, Congo: Henry Morton Stanley meets Emin Pasha
1943 – US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1945 – First food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland (Operation Manna)
1967 – “Respect” single released by Aretha Franklin (Billboard Song of the Year 1967)
1982 – American mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski murders pharmacist Paul Hoffman by beating him with a tire iron
1985 – Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1997 – Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlaws production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories
2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation
2018 – Sweden’s official Twitter account confirms Swedish meatballs actually originated in Turkey
Historical Events for 28th April 2020
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.
1253 – -May 7th) Utrecht destroyed by fire
1829 – Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
1914 – 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
1951 – Mohammad Mosaddegh elected Prime Minister of Iran by the Parliament of Iran (Majlis)
1969 – 4th Academy of Country Music Awards: Glen Campbell and Cathie Taylor win
1975 – South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1986 – Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event
2013 – 8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan
2018 – Shaquem Griffin is the first one-handed person to be drafted into the NFL, for the Seattle Seahawks