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)
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 13th May 2019
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
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