1745 – Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
1800 – French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck give a lecture first outlining his theories of evolution at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris, France
1820 – Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that would later take a young Charles Darwin on his famous scientific voyage
1888 – 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49
1931 – “M” Fritz Lang’s first sound film starring Peter Lorre premieres in Berlin
1960 – Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1962 – US sends troops to Thailand
1963 – “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2
1995 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
2013 – 43 people are killed in two car bombings in Reyhanlı, Turkey