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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 7th May 2020
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
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.