33 BC Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.
395 Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
629 Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1522 Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
1539 Re-founding of the city of Bogotα, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastiαn de Belalcαzar.
1565 Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1578 Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1595 The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world.
1650 The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1777 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1805 First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).
1813 War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
1861 American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1865 The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
1906 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
1909 Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1911 Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1927 Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
1936 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1941 World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.
1945 World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
1945 World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1953 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
1960 Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
1961 Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
1967 Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1974 Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1978 Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1978 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1986 The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
1987 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the USA, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1989 The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
2005 Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.
2006 Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
2007 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2011 The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2012 At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
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224 The Battle of Hormozdgān is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
357 Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1503 The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1887 A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelι is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
1910 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1920 Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1923 Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
1930 The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
1941 The Ustae massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
1944 World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
1949 The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
1952 The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
1952 The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1967 Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1973 The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US charts, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
1975 General Cao Văn Viκn, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
1977 The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1978 President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1986 High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1988 Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
2004 CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
2011 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1980 relating to Ivorian crisis is adopted.
2015 The National Football League announces it is giving up its tax-exempt status.
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1091 Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
1386 Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
1429 Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orlιans.
1483 Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
1521 Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Vδsterεs.
1770 James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
1781 American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
1834 Charles Darwin during the second survey voyage of HMS Beagle, ascended the Bell mountain, Cerro La Campana on 17 August 1834, his visit being commemorated by a memorial plaque.[1]
1861 American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
1862 American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
1864 Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
1903 A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
1910 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
1911 Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
1916 World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1916 Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
1944 World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
1945 World War II: The German army in Italy surrenders to the Allies.
1945 World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
1945 World War II: The Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
1945 World War II: Fόhrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dφnitz as his successor; Hitler and Braun both commit suicide the following day.
1945 Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1945 The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
1951 Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
1953 The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1965 Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
1967 After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968 The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1974 Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1975 Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
1986 A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1986 Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
1991 A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
1991 The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
1992 Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
2011 The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
2013 A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
2015 A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
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311 The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
313 Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
642 Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.
1315 Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
1492 Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1513 Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
1557 Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
1598 Juan de Oρate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mιxico.
1598 Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1636 Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
1671 Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1789 On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1803 Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1812 The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1838 Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1863 A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarσn, Mexico.
1871 The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1885 Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
1897 J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.[1]
1900 Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1904 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
1905 Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
1925 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1927 The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
1927 Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1937 The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1938 The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
1939 The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.
1939 NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1943 World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
1945 World War II: Fόhrerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1945 World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.
1947 In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
1948 In Bogotα, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
1956 Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
1957 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
1961 K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1963 The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
1966 The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco
1973 Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
1975 Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
1980 Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
1980 The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
1982 The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.
1993 CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
1994 Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
1997 Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay. Her sitcom, Ellen, became one of first major television shows featuring an openly gay main character.
2000 Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
2004 U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2008 Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
2009 Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
2012 An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
2013 Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
2014 A bomb blast in άrόmqi kills three people and injures 79 others.
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475 BC Roman consul Publius Valerius Poplicola celebrates a Roman triumph for his victory over Veii and the Sabines.
305 Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
524 King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orlιans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.
880 The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
1169 Norman mercenaries land at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
1328 Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of EdinburghNorthampton the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1455 Battle of Arkinholm, Royal forces end the Black Douglas hegemony in Scotland.
1576 Stephen Bαthory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
1707 The Act of Union joining the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain takes effect.
1753 Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1759 Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
1776 Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
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1778 American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
1785 Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaiʻi, defeats Kalanikūpule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
1786 In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
1794 War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
1820 Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators
1840 The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1844 Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
1846 The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
1851 Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
1856 The Province of Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of Queen Isabela II.
1862 American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.
1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1865 The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
1866 The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1869 The Folies Bergθre opens in Paris.
1875 Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
1884 Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1884 Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
1885 The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
1886 Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
1893 The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
1898 SpanishAmerican War: Battle of Manila Bay: The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first major battle of the war.
1900 The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
1915 The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
1919 German troops enter Munich to squash the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
1925 The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
1927 The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
1929 The 7.2 Mw Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the IranTurkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
1930 The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1941 World War II: German forces launch a major attack during the siege of Tobruk.
1944 World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
1945 World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1945 World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Fόhrerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
1945 World War II: Forces of the Soviet Red Army liberate Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Stalag Luft I near Barth, Germany.
1945 World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
1945 World War II: Yugoslav Partisans liberate Trieste.
1946 Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
1947 Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
1948 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
1950 Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
1956 The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1956 A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
1957 Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
1960 Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
1960 Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961 The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1965 Cross-Strait relations: Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
1967 Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
1970 Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
1971 Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
1974 The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perσn.
1977 Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1978 Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1982 Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
1983 The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1989 Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1990 The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
1993 Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion
1994 Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident whilst leading the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
1995 Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.
1999 The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
1999 SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards.
2001 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2002 OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.
2003 Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
2004 Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2009 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2011 War on Terror: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is shot and killed by U.S. Navy seals.
2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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1194 King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1230 William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
1335 Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559 John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1611 The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1670 King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
1672 John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
1808 Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
1812 The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under Josι Marνa Morelos y Pavσn abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Fιlix Marνa Calleja.
1816 Marriage of Lιopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
1829 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
1863 American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
1866 Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1876 The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
1879 The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
1885 Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
1889 Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
1906 Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
1918 General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1920 The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
1933 Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front.
1941 Following the coup d'ιtat against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
1945 World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.
1945 World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes into effect, by which German troops in Italy cease fighting.
1945 World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wφbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
1945 World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners.
1952 The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
1955 Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1963 Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1964 Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and
returned to service less than seven months later.
1964 First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
1969 The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1972 In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers.
1982 Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1986 Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
1989 Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
1994 A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
1995 During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
1998 The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
1999 Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
2000 President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2004 The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd.
2008 Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
2008 Chaitιn Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
2011 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2011 An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2011 The 41st Canadian federal election is held, in which the governing Conservative Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper, increases their number of seats from a minority to a majority.
2012 A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
2014 Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
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752 Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico assumes the throne.
1294 John II becomes Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg.
1481 The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1491 Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Joγo I.
1616 Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war.
1715 A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy.
1791 The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Prνncipe Pνo hill.
1815 Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1837 The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
1848 The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 184849.
1855 American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
1860 Charles XV of SwedenNorway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1901 The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1913 Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1921 West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
1921 The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
1937 Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
1942 World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lόbeck Bay.
1947 New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
1951 The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
1952 Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1952 The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
1960 The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1960 The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1963 The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement.
1973 The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
1978 The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1986 Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1999 The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17.
2007 The 4-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
2015 Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
2016 Eighty-eight thousand people were evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire ripped through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.
2018 - Basque separatist terrorist band ETA announces its dissolution and ceasing of all activities.
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