0366 -
Procopius dies (b. 0326). Roman usurper.
0735 -
Bede dies (b. 0672 or 0673). English historian and theologian.
0866 -
Ordoño I dies (b. 0831). King of Asturias.
- 1039 - Dirk III, Count of Holland dies.
- 1120 - Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death.
- 1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1498 - Vasco da Gama descobre o caminho marítimo para as Índias. Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail from Europe, round Africa, to India. He landed in Southwest India, on the 27th or 28th of May, 1498, just north of the then prosperous port of Calicut.
1564 -
John Calvin dies (b. 1509). French religious reformer.
1601 -
Antoine Daniel was born (d. 1648). Jesuit missionary and martyr.
1623 -
William Petty was born (d. 1687). English scientist and philosopher.
1647 - The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
- 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham was born (d. 1796). American politician.
1818 -
Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born (d. 30 Dec 1894). Women’s rights advocate and social reformer; newspaper publisher: The Lily; social reformer; led cause for more sensible dress for women: bloomer panties named after her.
1823 - Sublevação militar dirigida pelo infante D. Miguel, filho de D. João VI, conhecida pela Vila-Francada. Terminou com a primeira experiência liberal portuguesa, iniciada com a Revolução de 1820.
1834 - D. Pedro IV é apupado no Teatro de S. Carlos, quando assistia à representação do Il Pirata, de Belini, devido à amnistia proclamada pela Concessão de Évora-Monte. Terá um ataque de hemoptises e adoecerá. Morrerá em Setembro seguinte.
1835 - João Carlos Gregório Domingues assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
1836 -
Jay Gould was born (d. 1892). American financier.
- 1837 - Ivan Kramskoi was born (d. 1887). Russian painter.
1837 -
Wild Bill Hickok was born. American frontiersman, marksman, and law enforcement officer.
1871 -
Georges Rouault was born (d. 1958). French painter and graphic artist.
1878 -
Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco (d. 14 Sep 1927). Dancer. Revolutionized the concept of dance: changing ballet into interpretive dance; killed in freak accident [strangled when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of a Bugatti sports car she was riding in]
1883 - Wolfgang Ostwald was born (d. 22 Nov 1943). German
chemist who devoted his life as a teacher, researcher, editor and one of the founders of
colloid chemistry. He was the second child of 1909 Nobel Laureate Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald.
1884 -
Max Brod was born (d. 1968). Austrian author.
1887 -
Kasimir Fajans was born. Polish-born American chemist and physicist.
1888 -
Louis Durey was born (d. 1979). French composer.
1893 -
Hermann Dörnemann was born (d. 2 Mar 2005). German WW1 veteran and supercenetarian.
1897 - Sir
John Douglas Cockcroft was born (d. 18 Sep 1967). British
physicist, joint winner (with Ernest T.S. Walton of Ireland) of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for
pioneering the use of particle accelerators in studying the atomic nucleus.
- 1900 - Uładzimir Zylka was born (d. 1933). Belarusian poet.
- 1901 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
1910 -
Robert Koch dies (b. 11 Dec 1843). German
physician, a founder of the science of bacteriology, who
discovered the tubercle bacillus (1882) and the cholera bacillus (1883). Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1905, "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."
1911 - Aprovação do primeiro Código da Estrada português.
- 1911 - Teddy Kollek was born (d. 2007). Austrian-born Israeli politician.
- 1911 - Vincent Price was born in Saint Louis, Missouri (d. 1993). American actor.
- 1912 - John Cheever was born (d. 1982). American author.
1912 -
Sam Snead was born (d. 2002). American golfer champion.
1912 -
Terry Moore was born (d. 1995). American baseball player.
1913 -
Wols was born (d. 1951). German painter.
1918 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
1928 - Portugal ganha ao Chile por 4-2 no Estadio Olímpico de Amsterdam, no primeiro jogo dos Jogos Olímpicos de 1928. Aos 16 minutos de jogo Portugal perdia por 2-0.
1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall
Chrysler Building in
New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
1933 -
Ted Rogers was born. Canadian entrepreneur.
- 1934 - Harlan Ellison was born. American science fiction author.
1934 - World Football Championship begins in Italy / Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol realizado na Itália
- 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1935 -
Mal Evans was born. British Beatles assistant
- 1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage.
- 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
- 1937 - Allan Carr was born (d. 1999). American film producer and writer.
- 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
- 1939 - Socratis Kokkalis was born. Greek businessman, owner of Olympiacos
- 1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
1942 -
Lee Baca was born. American law enforcement official.
1943 -
Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) was born. English singer:
You’re My World1943 -
Bruce Weitz was born. American actor: Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold, The Liar’s Club, The O.J. Simpson Story, Molly and Gina.
- 1947 - Branko Oblak was born. Slovenian football player.
- 1947 - Ed Konetchy dies (b. 1885). American baseball player.
- 1948 - Wubbo de Boer was born. Dutch civil servant.
- 1949 - Robert Ripley dies (b. 1890). American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!).
- 1950 - Indonésia passa a ser membro da UNESCO.
- 1951 - Juan Domingo Peron is elected President of Argentina.
1951 -
Ana Belén was born. Spanish singer and actress.
1955 -
Eric Bischoff was born. American professional wrestling promoter.
- 1956 - Alianza Lima supera a Universitario por 2 goles a 1 y se proclama campeon de Peru en fútbol.
- 1956 - Cynthia McFadden was born. American television anchor.
- 1957 - Toronto's 1050 CHUM AM becomes Canada's first radio station to only broadcast. top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
- 1957 - Duncan Goodhew was born. English Olympic Games gold medalist swimmer.
- 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux was born. English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees ").
- 1961 - Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup Winners Cup in Florence.
1962 -
Ray Borner was born. Australian basketball player.
- 1962 - Steven Brill was born. American film writer and director.
- 1963 - Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta is elected as Kenya's first prime minister, he will be inaugurated on 1 June.
1963 -
Aquilino Ribeiro dies (b. 13 Sep 1885 at Sernancelhe). Portuguese writer.
- 1964 - Adam Carolla was born. American comedian, radio and television personality.
- 1964 - Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office (b. 1889).
- 1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Champions Cup in Vienna beating RealMadrid 3 -1
1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Champions Cup in Milan beating Benfica 1-0
- 1965 - Pat Cash was born. Australian tennis player.
- 1965 - Todd Bridges was born. American actor.
- 1966 - Rafael Paasio assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
- 1967 - Australians vote in favour of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians, and to count them in the national census.
- 1967 - The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
- 1967 - Paul Gascoigne was born. British footballer.
- 1967 - Ernst Niekisch dies (b. 1889). German politician.
- 1968 - the meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (national Union of the students of France), most outstanding of the events of May 1968, proceeds and gathers 30.000 to 50.000 people in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
- 1968 - Future American president George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.
1970 -
Joseph Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. English actor.
1970 - Estudiantes de La Plata se proclama tricampeón de Copa Libertadores al igualar sin goles frente a Peñarol, en Montevideo. En el partido de ida, había vencido por 1 gol a 0
1971 - President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt signs a 15-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.
1971 -
Glenn Ross was born. Northern Irish strongman.
1971 -
Wayne Carey was born. Australian rules footballer.
1972 -
Ivete Sangalo was born in Juazeiro, Bahia. Brazilian singer.
- 1972 - Todd Demsey was born. American golfer.
- 1973 - Jack McBrayer was born. American actor and comedian.
- 1973 - Ilona Kabos dies (b. 1898). Hungarian pianist.
1973 -
P.Ramlee dies (b. 1922). Malaysian actor,singer and songwriter.
1974 - É fixado em decreto o primeiro salário mínimo nacional, Esc. 3.300$00 mensais.
1975 -
Jamie Oliver was born. British chef and television personality.
1975 - Elijah Mudenda assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Zâmbia.
1976 -
RJD2 was born. American hip-hop producer.
1977 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582.
1978 -
Adin Brown was born. American soccer player.
1980 - É restabelecida, em Coimbra, a tradicional festa da Queima das Fitas. A festa tinha deixado de se realizar em 1969.
- 1984 - Kalle Spjuth was born. Swedish bandy player.
1986 -
Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi dies (b. 1921). Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar.
1987 -
John Howard Northrop dies (b. 5 Jul 1891). American biochemist,
Nobel Prize for Chemistry-1946 laureate (with James B. Sumner and Wendell M. Stanley) for successfully purifying and crystallizing certain enzymes, thus enabling him to determine their chemical nature.
1987 - FC Porto win their first European Champions Cup, beating 2-1 Bayern München , in Prater Stadium,Wien, with goals scored by Madjer (famous goal) and Juary.
1988 - Ernst (August Friedrich) Ruska dies (b. 25 Dec 1906). German
electrical engineer who
invented the
electron microscope. For "his fundamental work in electron optics and for the design of the first electron microscope" he was
awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 (with Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig).
1990 - Portugal: Jorge Sampaio is reelected General-Secretary of Socialist Party at the end of the IX Congress.
1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die.
1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to live in his native Russia after 20 years in exile.
1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
2000 -
Kazimierz Leski dies (b. 1912). Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer.
2006 -
Alex Toth dies (b. 1928). American cartoonist.
- 2006 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan dies (b. 1944). Indian actor.
- 2007 - Izumi Sakai dies (b. 1967). Japanese singer.
- 2007 - Ed Yost dies (b. 1919). American inventor.
- 2007 - Gretchen Wyler dies (b. 1932). American actress.
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