1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”)
1873 – 1st Preakness Stakes: G. Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 at Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
1922 – Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1943 – -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1947 – PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1960 – Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1969 – Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
1977 – Benin adopts its constitution
1989 – 42nd Cannes Film Festival: “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” directed by Steven Soderbergh wins the Palme d’Or
2003 – NHL Eastern Conference Final: New Jersey Devils beat Ottawa Senators, 4 games to 3
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd May 2019
1892 – Dr Washington Sheffield invents the toothpaste tube
1906 – 10th anniversary Olympic games close in Athens, Greece
1926 – Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
1933 – World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
1960 – Tsunami strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM, severely damaging virtually all coastal towns between the 37th and 44th parallels
1963 – Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium’s facade
1971 – A British soldier is killed by members of the Official Irish Republican Army in Belfast
1973 – President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
1976 – St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR
1992 – India launches its Agni rocket
Historical Events for 21st May 2019
879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
1216 – French crown prince Louis enters England, having been invited by barons at war with King John.
1906 – Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1925 – Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens
1941 – Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1945 – Australian Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord’s by 6 wickets
1991 – Ethiopia’s Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1997 – Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
2012 – 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana’a, Yemen
Historical Events for 20th May 2019
1910 – Funeral for Britain’s King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty
1940 – German General Guderian’s tanks reach the English Channel (British expeditionary army)
1943 – French, British and US victory parade in Tunis, Tunisia
1959 – Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car “Falcon”
1960 – 13th Cannes Film Festival: “The Sweet Life” directed by Federico Fellini wins the Palme d’Or
1960 – Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
1961 – Mauritania adopts constitution
1967 – BBC bans the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” because of drug references
1974 – Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1992 – 36th European Cup: Barcelona beats Sampdoria 1-0 at London
Historical Events for 19th May 2019
1864 – Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
1878 – Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield
1935 – English Cardinal John Fisher and statesman Thomas More, executed by Henry VIII, cannonised by Pope Pius XI
1957 – Adone Zoli forms Italian government
1960 – Alan Freed and eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola
1967 – USSR ratifies treaty with Britain and US banning nuclear weapons in space
1972 – 25th Cannes Film Festival: “The Working Class Goes to Heaven” directed by Elio Petri and “The Mattei Affair” directed by Francesco Rosi jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1973 – “Daisy A Day” by Jud Strunk hits #14
1976 – Gold ownership legalized in Australia
1997 – “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore, premieres in the US
Historical Events for 18th May 2019
1935 – Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 mins on debut for Somerset
1945 – Tigers and A’s both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain
1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking
1949 – Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
1959 – “Russian Band Stand” by Spencer and Spencer hits #91
1967 – Tennessee Governor Ellington approves the repeal of the Butler Act or “Monkey Law”, upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
1973 – Soviet party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
1994 – 2nd UEFA Champions League Final: Milan beats Barcelona 4-0 at Athens
1994 – Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
2004 – Arizona Diamondbacks’ Randy Johnson becomes 16th pitcher to throw a perfect game (2-0 vs Atlanta)
Historical Events for 17th May 2019
1631 – Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
1814 – Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
1881 – 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
1911 – 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
1919 – UK War Department orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes
1940 – Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France
1975 – 10CC releases “I’m Not in Love”
1992 – LPGA Championship, Bethesda CC: Betsy King wins her 5th major title, 11 strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner, Liselotte Neumann and Karen Noble
1993 – Intel’s new Pentium processor is unveiled
2004 – Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
Historical Events for 16th May 2019
1872 – Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
1916 – 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1920 – Joan of Arc (Jeanne D’arc) canonized a saint
1920 – Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1925 – 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1945 – Violent battles around Sugar Loaf and Half Moon, Okinawa
1965 – 18th Cannes Film Festival: “The Knack…and How to Get It” directed by Richard Lester wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1982 – “Barnum” closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1997 – Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
2004 – Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine where during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians
Historical Events for 15th May 2019
1914 – Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1940 – Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
1958 – USSR launches Sputnik III
1961 – Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
1965 – 90th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
1969 – Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1975 – 11th Mayor’s Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1981 – SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television, debuts on NBC
1989 – “Chu Chem” closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
1994 – LPGA Championship, DuPont CC: Laura Davies of England wins her second major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Alice Ritzman
Historical Events for 14th May 2019
1853 – Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk
1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco
1921 – Mussolini’s fascists obtain 29 parliamentary seats in Italian elections
1925 – Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs Dalloway” is published by The Hogarth Press
1944 – General Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1950 – Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
1979 – “Kids Are All Right” rockumentary film featuring The Who premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
1983 – “She Blinded Me with Science” by Thomas Dolby hits #5
1984 – 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Lee Greenwood, and Janie Fricke win
1994 – Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617