1382 - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
1430 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
1494 - On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
1640 - English Short Parliament unites
1646 - King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
1789 - French States-General meet for first time since 1614 together
1809 - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
1809 - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1814 - British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
1842 - City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
1847 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1854 - English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast
1855 - NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
1861 - Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city
1862 - Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia begins
1862 - Cinco de Mayo Battle of Puebla a national holiday in Mexico. [H]
1862 - Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS
1864 - Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 - Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 - Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1877 - Sitting Bull leads his people into Canada [H]
1881 - Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
1891 - Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
1893 - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
1900 - "The Billboard" began weekly publication
1904 - Denton True "Cy" Young pitched baseball's first perfect game.
1908 - Great White Fleet arrives in SF
1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing
1914 - Cannonball's Run: Erwin "Cannonball" Baker began the cross-continental motorcycle trip on his V-twin 1000cc Stutz Indian motorcycle
1915 - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1920 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1922 - Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)
1925 - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1926 - Sinclair Lewis refuses Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1927 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1935 - Jessie Owens of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8¬"
1936 - Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
1940 - Norwegian government in exile forms in London
1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1941 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1942 - US begins rationing sugar during WW II
1943 - Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1944 - Gandhi freed from prison
1944 - Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
1945 - Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
1945 - Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945 - Six Killed in Oregon by Japanese Bomb delivered by balloon [H]
1945 - Uprising against SS-occupation troops in Prague
1947 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1948 - 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
1949 - Council of Europe established.
1952 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1954 - Military coup by General Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
1955 - "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
1955 - Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
1955 - West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
1958 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1961 - Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1962 - West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1964 - Separatists riot in Quebec
1965 - 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1969 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1971 - Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
1972 - Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1975 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1979 - Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1980 - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building
1987 - Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1992 - Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
1994 - Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
2000 - Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
1352 - Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king
1635 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret)
1657 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
1680 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer
1800 - Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette)
1813 - Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism)
1815 - Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright
1818 - Karl Marx (socialist writer: Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto; founder of communism)
1823 - James Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1876
1832 - H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States)
1842 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
1846 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
1848 - Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer
1867 - Nelly Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) (courageous journalist, writing about taboo subjects of her time: divorce, poverty, capital punishment, insanity) name became a synonym for female star reporter.
1890 - Christopher Morley (writer: New York Evening Post, Saturday Review; novelist: Kitty Foyle, Thunder on the Left)
1899 - Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
1900 - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
1903 - James Beard, US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
1908 - Jacques Massu, French general (Algeria)
1908 - Rex Harrison, [Reginald Carey], Engld, actor (My Fair Lady, Cleopatra)
1913 - Duane Carter (auto racer)
1914 - Tyrone Power (actor: Tom Brown of Culver, The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, This Above All, The Eddie Duchin Story, The Long Gray Line, Witness for the Prosecution)
1915 - Alice Faye (Leppert) (actress: In Old Chicago, Lillian Russell, Rose of Washington Square, Tin Pan Alley, State Fair)
1915 - Richard H Rovere, Jersey City, journalist (Goldwater Caper)
1919 - George London, Montreal Canada, bass-baritone (The Flying Dutchman, Wotan, Scarpia. Rigoleto)
1926 - Ann B. (Bradford) Davis (Emmy Award-winning actress: The Bob Cummings Show [1957, 1958-59]; The Brady Bunch, Lover Come Back, A Very Brady Christmas)
1927 - Art Pollard (auto racer)
1927 - Pat Carroll (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Caesar's Hour [1956], The Ted Knight Show, With Six You Get Eggroll, Brothers O'Toole)
1934 - Ace Cannon (saxophonist: Tuff, Blues (Stay Away From Me)
1935 - Jose Pagan (baseball)
1937 - Sandy Baron (Beresofsky) (comedian, actor: Leprechaun 2, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Motorama, Birdy)
1941 - Tommy Helms (baseball: Rookie of the Year: Cincinnati Reds 3rd baseman [1966])
1942 - Tammy Wynette (Pugh) Redbay Alabama, (Grammy Award-winning country singer: I Don't Wanna Play House [1967] Stand By Your Man [1969]; D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Near You, Apartment #9)
1943 - Michael Palin (comedian, actor: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Life of Brian, Brazil, A Fish Called Wanda, American Friends)
1944 - John Rhys-Davies, Salisbury England, actor (Sir Edward-Quest, Sliders)
1946 - Herman (Junior) Gilliam (baseball: LA Dodgers)
1947 - Larry Hisle (baseball)
1948 - John Hummer (basketball)
1951 - Nick Bebout (football)
1973 - Tina Yothers (actress: Family Ties)
0311 - Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50
1194 - Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies
1504 - Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82
1553 - Erasmus Alberus, Germ theologist (Barfesser Munche), dies at about 52
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71
1705 - Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte, died as a
British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the
southern Atlantic Ocean.
1837 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85
1840 - Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76
1892 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80
1902 - Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65
1945 - Elsie Mitchell, Edward Engen, Sherman Shoemaker, Jay Gifford,
Richard Patzke and Ethel Patzke, the first and only known American civilians to
be killed in the continental United States during World War II. (Japanese Bomb delivered by balloon)
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1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies
1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80
1981 - Imprisoned Irish-Catholic militant, Irish IRA-terrorist, Bobby Sands,
dies after hunger strike
