1784 – Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist
1958 – French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1967 – Curt Flood’s record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1985 – STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
1987 – American hurdler Edwin Moses’ 122 race winning streak which extends to nearly 10 years ends when he is beaten by countryman Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain
1990 – NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
2012 – US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
2018 – US President Donald Trump tweets “I have the absolute right to PARDON myself”
2021 – Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country’s devastating COVID-19 second wave, reporting nearly 9,000 daily cases late May