455 – King Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome – Rome looted for 14 days
1916 – German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1924 – President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens
1934 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins 1st of 2 French titles; beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-4, 7-9, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
1943 – German assault on Sebastopol, Crimea, begins
1971 – 15th European Cup: Ajax beats Panathinaikos 2-0 at London
1975 – First recorded snowfall in London in June
1985 – 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win
1994 – Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
1998 – The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st June 2019
1495 – First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
1533 – Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England
1880 – The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven, Connecticut
1938 – Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1940 – Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1947 – The development of photosensitive glass, which had occurred ten years previously, is announced publicly
1965 – Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1975 – LPGA Championship, Pine Ridge GC: Kathy Whitworth wins her 3rd LPGA C’ship by 1 stroke from Sandra Haynie
1976 – Great Britain and Iceland end the “cod war”
1990 – Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Historical Events for 31st May 2019
1744 – French troops conquer Kortrijk
1910 – Union of South Africa declares its independence from the United Kingdom
1940 – Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany
1943 – 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month
1947 – 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6
1962 – “Tell It To Groucho” last airs on CBS-TV
1967 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt wins in 3:18:24.211 (243.344 km/h)
1972 – 16th European Cup: Ajax beats Internazionale 2-0 at Rotterdam
1989 – 1st presentation of rock ‘n’ roll Elvis awards
2014 – Psy’s “Gangnam Style” becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube
Historical Events for 30th May 2019
1793 – Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1908 – Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 – Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1910 – 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1927 – Indianapolis 500: George Souders wins in 5:07:33.022 (156.983 km/h)
1937 – 42nd Women’s French Championships: Hilde Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-2, 6-4)
1964 – 63rd Men’s French Championships: Manuel Santana beats Nicola Pietrangeli (6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5)
1971 – 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1976 – Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1996 – 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
Historical Events for 29th May 2019
1453 – Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Muhammad II; ends the Byzantine Empire
1790 – Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying US Constitution
1940 – In WWII, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France
1949 – 1st British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): “The Best Years of Our Lives” Best Film
1968 – 12th European Cup: Manchester United beats Benfica 4-1 at London
1972 – The Official IRA announce a ceasefire
1977 – NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
1979 – Radio’s 1st rock network “Source” premieres
1997 – 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule
Historical Events for 28th May 2019
1858 – Dion Boucicault’s “Foul Play” premieres in London
1900 – In China, rioters provoked by Boxers burn the Fengtai Railway Station, where many Belgians work
1912 – Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia v South Africa
1929 – 1st all color talking picture “On With the Show” exhibited (NYC)
1940 – British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway
1946 – 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
1955 – 80th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6
1960 – 59th Women’s French Championships: Darlene Hard beats Yola Ramirez (6-3, 6-4)
1963 – Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
2014 – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt
Historical Events for 27th May 2019
1904 – NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)
1931 – Swiss Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon from Augsburg, Germany
1942 – Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1985 – Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
1986 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1988 – Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
1990 – 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
1993 – Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs
2006 – “Pan’s Labyrinth” fantasy film on the Spanish Civil War written and directed by Guillermo del Toro debuts at Cannes
2016 – 3 ships in 3 days sink carrying immigrants across the Mediterraneann, drowning over 700 people
Historical Events for 26th May 2019
1781 – Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia
1805 – Lewis and Clark first sight the Rocky Mountains
1896 – Last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1948 – South Africa elects a nationalist government under D. F. Malan with an apartheid policy
1964 – “Fade Out-Fade In” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
1973 – Bahrain adopts its constitution
1982 – British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters and destroyer HMS Coventry hit in Falkland war: 39 crew members die
2002 – Indianapolis 500: Hélio Castroneves wins in 3:00:10.871 (267.954 km/h)
2003 – Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
2013 – The Mumbai Indians defeat the Chennai Super Kings to win the Indian 20/20 Premier League
Historical Events for 25th May 2019
1632 – Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1720 – The Ship “Le Grand St Antoine” reaches Marseille, bringing Europe’s last major plague outbreak. Kills around 100,000
1950 – Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1953 – 1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
1956 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
1965 – Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 – Cleve’s Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A’s 6-0
1989 – Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson
1997 – Todd and Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father and son to win 100 games
Historical Events for 24th May 2019
1844 – Samuel Morse taps out “What hath God wrought” in the world’s first telegraph message
1909 – Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1930 – Babe Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1940 – German tanks reach Atrecht, France
1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha’s Parinibbāna
1959 – Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in Great Britain
1970 – Peter Green quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
1976 – Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title in Munich
1981 – Bobby Unser wins, loses, and wins a controversial Indy 500
2018 – At least 14 children reported mauled to death by wild dogs near Khairabad, India after closure of slaughterhouses