1791 – Constitution of May 3 is proclaimed by the Great Sejm (Parliament) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, becoming the 1st modern constitution in Europe
1863 – Battle of Salem Church, Virginia
1919 – Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1948 – 1st broadcast of “CBS Evening News” – longest running network news show in the US
1976 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt’s Gift)
1986 – NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
1995 – “My Thing of Love” opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
1995 – David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus and Buddy)
2014 – 61st National Film Awards (India): “Ship of Theseus” wins the Golden Lotus
2018 – Bollywood actors both posthumously recognized at India’s National Film Awards; Sridevi Kapoor Best Actress for “Mum” and Vinod Khanna recieves Dadasaheb Phalke award.
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd May 2019
1917 – Cin Fred Tooney and Chic’s Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits and a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
1923 – Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
1942 – Japanese troops occupy Mandalay, Burma
1949 – Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0
1952 – 1st performance of John Cage’s “Water Music”
1958 – Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into NYC
1962 – OAS strikes in Algeria
1986 – Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
1991 – Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on Centesimus annus
1993 – “Tango Passion” closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
Historical Events for 1st May 2019
1625 – Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1822 – John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1915 – German submarine torpedoes US tanker Gulflight
1928 – Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1940 – 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1946 – Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named “American Mother of Year”
1978 – 1st African American mayor of New Orleans, Ernest Nathan Morial, inaugurated
1984 – Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1988 – “Romance/Romance” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 performances
2009 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed British Poet Laureate – first Scot and woman Laureate
Historical Events for 30th April 2019
1492 – Spain announces it will expel all Jews
1852 – Anton Rubinsteins opera “Dmitri Donskoi” premieres in St Petersburg
1863 – Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1900 – The “Hawaiian Organic Act” is enacted by US Congress making Hawaii a US territory
1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative
1973 – Paul McCartney releases “Red Rose Speedway” including “My Love”
1988 – NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
1988 – 33rd Eurovision Song Contest: Celine Dion for Switzerland wins singing “Ne partez pas sans moi” in Dublin
2008 – Heidi Klum launches her clothing line for Jordache
2013 – Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna is declared “The First Superstar of Indian cinema” at the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards
Historical Events for 29th April 2019
1905 – 2″ rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, Texas
1910 – Ex-US President Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
1927 – Construction of Spirit of St Louis (the monoplane which Charles Lindburgh was to fly across the Atlantic) is completed
1943 – Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” premieres in London
1945 – US Army liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany
1955 – Giovanni Gronchi elected third President of Italy
1971 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 – NFL Draft: South Carolina running back George Rogers first pick by New Orleans Saints
1987 – Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle
1995 – Longest sausage ever, at 28.77 miles, made in Kitchener, Ontario
Historical Events for 28th April 2019
1901 – Cleveland’s Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
1920 – Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
1957 – 4th National Film Awards (India): “Kabuliwala” wins the Golden Lotus
1959 – 6th National Film Awards (India): “Sagar Sangamey” wins the Golden Lotus
1966 – Cleve ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
1967 – The Douglas Aircraft Company behind schedule with deliveries of the DC-8 and DC-9 and close to bankruptcy agrees to merge with the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to form McDonnell Douglas
1971 – Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy
1988 – NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
1988 – Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1990 – Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
Historical Events for 27th April 2019
1296 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army.
1694 – Frederik August I “the Strong” becomes monarch of Saksen
1924 – Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
1959 – “Today” show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
1963 – Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1971 – Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark
1972 – Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10
Historical Events for 26th April 2019
1655 – Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant’s desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1835 – Frederic Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise Brillante” premieres in Paris
1907 – Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens
1925 – Artist Diego Rivera resigns from the Mexican Communist Party
1937 – German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1971 – San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1974 – Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw
1976 – Pan Am begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo
1981 – “Copperfield” closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
1992 – NFL Draft: University of Washington defensive end Steve Emtman from first pick by Indianapolis Colts
Historical Events for 25th April 2019
1678 – French troops conquer Ypres
1707 – Battle of Almansa; Franco-Spanish forces defeat British and Portuguese
1792 – “La Marseillaise”, later the national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg
1945 – Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1947 – Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title
1956 – Noel Coward’s musical “South Sea Bubble” premieres in London
1975 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1988 – “Nightline” goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
1991 – Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
1994 – Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
Historical Events for 24th April 2019
1897 – 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House
1944 – 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China “over the Hump”
1946 – 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1954 – 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1956 – AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1994 – “Flowering Peach” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1995 – Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime
2015 – Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire