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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 23rd May 2019
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
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