1783 – William Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1858 – War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1866 – Woodward’s Gardens opens to the public in San Francisco
1931 – Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1964 – Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to Richard Hofstadter for “Anti-intellectualism”
1970 – Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to Erik H. Erikson for “Gandhi’s Truth”
1972 – “The Don’t Make A Wave Committee,” a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the “Greenpeace Foundation”
1973 – Wings release “Red Rose Speedway” in UK
1990 – Latvia’s parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
2013 – Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd May 2024
1822 – Society for the Propagation of the Faith founded in Lyon, France
1921 – Northern Ireland is created under the UK Government of Ireland Act partitioning off six north eastern counties with a Protestant majority
1943 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair for his novel “Dragon’s Teeth” about the Nazi rise to power
1946 – International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1959 – Tiger’s Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
1965 – KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1967 – African American students seize finance building at Northwestern University
1973 – Chicago’s Sears Tower, world’s tallest building (443 m), tops out
1980 – 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
1997 – 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
Historical Events for 2nd May 2024
1345 – “Quaden Maendach” in Ghent: battles between fullers and weavers
1536 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, is arrested and taken to the Tower of London
1703 – Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
1783 – Architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant is promoted by brevet to Major of Engineers in recognition of his service to American liberty
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
1926 – US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1967 – Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Terry Sawchuk makes 40 saves as Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-1 in Game 6 to take title, 4-2
1968 – Roger Sessions’ 8th Symphony premiers in New York City with William Steinberg conducting the New York Philharmonic
1972 – 126 killed in an electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine, Kellogg, Idaho
2018 – E. coli outbreak linked to Romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, reports the first fatality with 121 cases across 25 US states
Historical Events for 1st May 2024
1776 – Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1864 – -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
1912 – The Beverly Hills Hotel opens on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California
1940 – Summer Olympics (scheduled for Helsinki) are cancelled by the Finnish OC because of WWII
1945 – About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army
1950 – Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1979 – Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1982 – 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye wins aboard Gato Del Sol, the first of consecutive Derby victories (1983 Sunny’s Halo)
1984 – Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1992 – Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th MLB career base in A’s 7-6 win at Detroit
Historical Events for 30th April 2024
1695 – William Congreve’s Restoration comedy “Love for Love” premieres in London
1808 – 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1897 – English physicist and head of the Cavendish laboratory J. J. Thomson announces his discovery of the electron in a lecture to the Royal Institution
1911 – Portugal approves female suffrage
1978 – British film “The Stud” starring Joan Collins, based on the book by her sister Jackie Collins premieres in UK
1980 – Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
1986 – Bill Elliott sets all-time NASCAR qualifying record, winning pole for the Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway; 212.809 mph (342.483 km/h; 44.998 seconds)
1989 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
2013 – Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years, following the abdication of his mother, Queen Beatrix
2020 – South Korea reports no new domestic cases of COVID-19 for 1st time, their virus cases peaked Feb 29
Historical Events for 29th April 2024
1540 – Emperor Charles declares all privileges of Ghent ended
1670 – Clemens X [Emilio Bonaventura Altieri] elected Pope
1864 – -30] Skirmish at Jenkins’ Ferry, Arkansas
1903 – Limestone slide at Turtle Mountain drops 30 million cubic metres (82 million tons) on to town of Frank, Alberta, Canada, kills 70-90 residents
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV
1982 – 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Merle Haggard, and Barbara Mandrell win
1985 – 17th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-B): Challenger 7 launches
1995 – Longest sausage ever, at 28.77 miles, made in Kitchener, Ontario
2015 – German Measles is declared eradicated from North and South America – 1st world region to do so
2016 – Iranian run-off elections give moderates and reforms a majority in parliament
Historical Events for 28th April 2024
1901 – Cleveland’s Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
1919 – American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above US the Army Air Service’s McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio
1955 – WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, Alabama (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 – WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 – Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
1993 – Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1997 – Ringo Starr’s fourth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Peter Frampton, Jack Bruce, Gary Brooker, Simon Kirke, and Mark Rivera
2007 – ICC Men’s Cricket ODI World Cup, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados: Australia 3-peat with 53 run win over Sri Lanka; Player of the Match: Adam Gilchrist (AUS) 149 (104) and 2 catches
2018 – Shaquem Griffin is the first one-handed person to be drafted into the NFL; selected by Seattle Seahawks
Historical Events for 27th April 2024
1509 – Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1861 – US President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil War)
1875 – The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC), the world’s 1st such agency is incorporated
1905 – World Exposition opens in Liège
1945 – 2nd Republic of Austria forms
1953 – 1st general elections in British Guiana, won by the People’s Progressive Party with Cheddi Jagan first person of Indian descent to be elected head of government outside South Asia
1956 – Burma Premier U Nu’s Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1999 – Nevada State Museum discovers the oldest mummy in North America – on the shelves of their own museum, after the Spirit Cave Mummy radiocarbon dates to over 9,400 years old
2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France
2018 – Mass protests across Spain after 5 men convicted of sexual abuse but not rape of teenage girl during Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona
Historical Events for 26th April 2024
1912 – 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
1928 – Madame Tussaud’s waxwork exhibition reopens in London after a fire
1935 – Frank Boucher is given NHL’s Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
1956 – First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1966 – International Olympic Committee votes to award German city of Munich the right to host the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
1971 – San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1992 – Revival of Henrik Ibsen’s stage drama “The Master Builder”, directed by Tony Randall, closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 45 performances
1995 – Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
2018 – Serial killer “Golden State Killer” identified after 40 years as a former police officer, responsible for 12 killings, 50 rapes in California
2021 – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces Turkey will go into full lockdown till May 17 to a curb COVID-19 surge and world’s 4th highest caseload
Historical Events for 25th April 2024
1862 – After the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Union forces under Flag Officer David Farragut request the surrender New Orleans, LA, despite being largely defenseless armed mobs reuse
1961 – Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
1962 – Cleve sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
1962 – Lion and Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio)
1971 – About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington, D.C.
1976 – Portugal adopts new constitution
1977 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1988 – American news program “Nightline” goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
1994 – King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
2009 – Elijah Wood is honored with the Midnight Award by the San Francisco International Film Festival