1874 – Pope Pius IX encyclical “On Greek-Ruthenian rite”
1965 – Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1967 – Zakir Husain is elected the third President of India
1977 – Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY
1992 – Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People’s Republic of China.
1992 – Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
1995 – 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
1996 – O.J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1999 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is elected 10th President of Italy
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 2019
1897 – 1800-1900 year old fossil of “girl of Yde” found in Drente, Netherlands
1913 – Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2)
1926 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad
1938 – Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1941 – British forces march into Alexandria
1956 – Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine’s 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
1964 – Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO
1967 – H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
1981 – “Lena Horne: Lady, Music” opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 performances
1986 – Fred Markham (US), unpaced and unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California
Historical Events for 11th May 2019
1910 – Montana’s Glacier National Park forms
1918 – 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8
1924 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1943 – US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
1949 – Siam renames itself Thailand
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1972 – Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Wayne Cashman scores twice as Boston Bruins beat NY Rangers, 3-0 to take title, 4-2
1996 – Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
2010 – David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after forming a coalition government between the Liberal Democrats and his own Conservative Party
2013 – Bayern Munich set a new Bundesliga points record of 91
Historical Events for 10th May 2019
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize authority of English King Edward I
1796 – Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge
1823 – 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling
1864 – Skirmish at Ny River, Virginia
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US presidency by Equal Rights Party at Apollo Hall, NYC
1932 – Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France
1969 – In an interview with the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill states: “if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, … They will refuse to have 18 children”
1978 – “Angel” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1996 – 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US and British war games
2002 – Anaheim Angels crush the Chicago White Sox 19-0. The Angels join the 1923 Indians, 1939 Yankees and 1950 Red Sox as the only teams to beat two opponents by 19 or more runs in the same season
Historical Events for 9th May 2019
1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day becomes the Independence Day of Romania.
1927 – 52nd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
1931 – 56th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59
1946 – 1st hour long entertainment TV show, “NBC’s Hour Glass” premieres
1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a “vast wasteland”
1965 – Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1971 – 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton win
1977 – Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1980 – 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1992 – 37th Eurovision Song Contest: Linda Martin for Ireland wins singing “Why Me” in Malmo
Historical Events for 8th May 2019
1624 – Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor and Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1784 – Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough, South Carolina)
1885 – Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge in Bristol, England
1902 – Mount Pelée on the French overseas island of Martinique erupts, wiping out the city of Saint-Pierre, killing 30,000 and leaving only two survivors
1941 – German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
1942 – Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea
1945 – German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin
1961 – Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1994 – Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge.
1999 – Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
Historical Events for 7th May 2019
1718 – The city of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
1891 – Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Muslim rebellion, 300 killed
1921 – 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
1925 – Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
1925 – Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1960 – “From A to Z” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
1961 – “Young Abe Lincoln” closes at Eugene O’Neill NYC after 27 performances
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1973 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist’s Daughter)
1986 – 30th European Cup: Steaua Bucuresti beats Barcelona (0-0, 2-0 on penalties) at Seville
Historical Events for 6th May 2019
1896 – 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75
1902 – Zulu assault at Holkrantz, South Africa
1933 – 59th Kentucky Derby: Don Meade aboard Brokers Tip wins in 2:06.8
1945 – General Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1966 – Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
1967 – 93rd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Ussery on Proud Clarion wins in 2:00.6
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order
1974 – Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
1974 – A’s pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Balt ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Historical Events for 5th May 2019
1814 – British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York
1861 – Alexandria, Virginia – Confederate troops abandon the city
1924 – Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
1926 – Geldrop soccer team forms
1955 – West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1964 – Separatists riot in Quebec
1971 – Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
2001 – 127th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Chavez aboard Monarchos wins in 1:59.97
2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army
2012 – 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
Historical Events for 4th May 2019
1634 – Johan van Walbeeck’s fleet departs to West Indies
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1863 – End of Chancellorsville – Beaten Union army withdraws
1916 – At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man and The Sea”
1963 – Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1985 – 30th Eurovision Song Contest: Bobbysocks! for Norway wins singing “La det swinge” in Gothenburg
1990 – Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
1994 – Arsenal of England win 34th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Parma of Italy 1-0 in Copenhagen
2008 – Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep “Family Guy” and “American Dad” on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world’s highest paid television writer